News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
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Pie sociabies are the rage in parts
of Iowa. The pie is a power in the
land, Notwithstanding scientific ex-
plantations ofits dysreptic effect.
The national encampment of the
O. A. r. is to be held in Milwaukee
the last week in August, and one of
the novel features for the entertain
ment of visitors will be a naval battle
in the harbor.
A Boston inventor is going to en-
able us to circumvent the ice man next
summer. By a certain combination
of che micals placed in sna2 tin box
he can reduce the temperature of a
refrigerator to the freezing point.
The box once charged will last two or
three years.
Mr. P. F. McClur re, in an article on
1'Dakota" in Harper's Magazine for
February, just out, says that the rap
id development of the Territory is due
to the enterprise of the railway COM
panies in pushing ahead their lines in
advance of settlements. The largest
city, Sioux Falls, has IL 900 inhabit-
ants Ten years ago it had but 997.
The average death rate Of the vet
Grams of the war is 5000 year. In
the light of this melancholy fact the
nation cannot afford for its own good
name to pursue a cheese pairing poll
cy in the matter of pensions. Some
day in the far future the country can
have no prouder reflection than that
it once had such vaiOrous self-sacrifc-
ing sons and that the government
properly recognized their inestImable
services out of bountiful treasury.
Tampa, Fla, was one of the towns
in which the yellow fever was official
]y epidemic during the last summer
and autumn, but the local paper re-
ports that the whole number of deaths
in Tampa for the year 1888 from all
causes, was only Is. As Tampa's
population is between 1000 and 5000,
the death rate was less than three to
the thousand. One of two things is
true. Either yellow fever epidemic
~ is a preservative of life, or else the
country boards of health get into a
panic easily.
A Bangor man tells of novel Incl
dent. One day while travelling he
found in book he bought q letter
that had been accidentally bound in
with the leaves. 1t was from a young
lady in Chicago to a young man in
LewisEurg, Penn. 1t was sent to its
destination, having been a number
of months on the way. The Lewis
burg young man, who supposed the
young lady had wearied of him and
his letters, promptly answered it, and
the rest of the story goes in the regu-
lar paper covered novel way.
When commercial fertilizers were!
introduced in Georgia an agent at
Greensboro induced a young farmer
to buy a few sacks. The granger
piled them in his wagon and started
for home. A short way from town he
pitched every one of the sacks into
gully, and reaching home wrote the
agent as follows: you'll find your
old guano in gully near the depot.
/ wouldn't receive it, for when it got
here the durn stuff was spilled so bad
a man could't get in half mile of it.
Representative Hires, of New Jer-
sey, has introduced in the House a
bill to secure recognition and protec-
ton to hoEorably discharged soldiers
and sailors. 1t proposes to amend
the statutes relative TO the employ
ment Of discharged soldiers so as to
include al; honorably discharged SOL
diers and sailors, whether discharged
for wounds or otherwise. when found |
competent and otherwise qualified,
any thing in the civil service law and
other statutes to the contrary notwith- |
stsnding, and providing for fine aud |
deprivation of his Office of any Of |
Tending officer.