News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

SAMUEL w. DowD, who recently died
in Madison, Conn, ut the age of eighty,
was one of a family of five whose com
bined ages were 4S3 years. Some years
ago the family moved from the old Dowd
homestead to q new honse, and they
took with them fire from the old fire
place, transferred 1t to the new, and it
has never been allowed to go out.
DIR. DoNNET, of Bord eaux, France,
who, with DR.. Marandon, of Dion, has
been making q scientific investigation
of the diseases of wine-tasters, states
that these persons suffer from disturb
ances similar to alcoholism, although
the wine is not swallowed, but, on the
contrary, rejected and the mouth rinsed
afterward with water
IT IS said that the only herd of buf-
falo on this continent belonged to Major
Bedson, of Winnipeg, who has sold them
to a prominent Kansas cattle dealer for
$1S, 600. The Canadian Government, it
is said, is anxious to keep the herd in
that country, and is trying to induce
Bedson not to ship the animals to Kan
sas.
SIR Lyon PLAYFAIR, says that during
seventeen years service as a Member of
Parliament ne came in contact with the
most eminent medical men of England,
and he put the question to most of them:
''Did you in your extensive practice,
ever know a patient who was afraid to
die ?" With two exceptions they an
swered "No."
THERE was a cotton-picking bee on
George Truths farm, near La Change,
~ H. l. - A. 49,
near breaking the record. One man
picked 558 pounds, another SGT, anoth-
er GAG, and an old negro oma picked
312 pounds, besides milking the cows in
the morning and at night.
A MICHIGAN man who decided to set
tie in Jasrer, Ala, shipped his goods
there by rail, and then, with his wife and
two children, drove'the whole distance,
one thousand miles. They had q splen-
did time, and saw more of the country
and the people than years of railroad
travel would have permitted.
A WRITER in the american Register of
Paris, says that the king of Italy having
been told by his physician that his
health was being injured by the use of
cigars, of which he is very fond, said:
"From this day forth I will not smoke
another cigar, or anything in the shape
of tobacco"
A HEN flew on the cow-catcher of O
rapidly-moving engine Oh the Maine
Central railroad and rode five miles,
when it was discovered by the fireman.
The chicken was between the tracks,
and bnt for getting on the catcher would
undoubtedly have been killed.
ONE of the curious features of social
life in Hannibal, Mo-, is a craze for pie
parties. Formal invitations are sent out
by the host. When the guests assemble
q supply of pies is produced, and the
evening is spent III eating and converse
ton.
Ir is estimated that there are 6, 800
women in the United States who hold
diplomas from medical colleges, either
American or foreign. DR.. Elizabeth
Blackwell, who graduated in 1949, is
said to be the first woman doctor.
ONE of the horses used on the stage
line heal Albany has q heavy mustache.
People who have examined the horse
and the remarkable growth of hair on it's
upper lip say they never saw anything
to equal it.
TIE Censor of the press recently mp
pointed inTurkey has forbidden the pub
l~ication of serial articles and stories. He
says that 'the notice to be continued in
our next causes uncomfortable tension
of mind"
Mr.. ALBERT CoRDEs, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, mounted on a sorrel horse, rode 20
miles in 8 hours and minute. This in.
Guided stops. The actual time was 2
hours and 80 minutes.