News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-13
WINGED MISSILES.

Emile lola does most of his work after
midnight. He might better be sleeping
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is very
much hurt because he has not had the grip.
Engagement rings are in danger. The
paddock bracelets are trying to supplant
them.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain boasts that
she is more in debt than any woman in
Europe.
John Thompson, of Williamsport, suffer
ed from an attack Of hiccoughs which last
ed for week.
Prince Bismarck has q presentiment
that he will reach the age Of the late
Emperor William.
The Welsh for beer is cwrw. Patti does
not speak Welsh. but they say she can say
''cwrw'' very sweetly.
The Marquis of Lorne has written a
novel which he calls "a Canadian Story"
The critics say it is stupid.
If Benjamin F. Buffers good taste were
as great as the bitterness of his tongue he
would be a more popular man.
There are 100000 telephones in this
country. Rents are high and dividends
are large. Success is success.
The Russian Imperial Academy Of Fine
Arts has decided that Jews shall no longer
be admitted among its members.
They tell of man out in California who
has green whiskers. In his case, and his
only, dying would be permissible.
There are said to be more than 400 iron
furnaces in the Southwest A quarter of
century ago there were none. 1--WE growp
Mary Anderson is at Nice, France. She
spends part of the day in resting and the
remainder in denying that she is engaged
While digging in his ear with a pin
Charles Mowers of Shippensburg, Pa, did
himself an injury which resulted in lock-
jaw
King William of Germany is not to be
forgotten. Thirty monuments will be
erected TO him in various parts of the en-
pire.
In money matters Lolita is always sue
cessful She has the money making talent
Her hotel in Boston is the best paying one
there.
Leopold Arends invented the system of
shorthand known by his name. A monu-
ment has just been erected to his memory
in Berlin.
If Henry Chadwick the father of base
ball should die he would probably get a
monument before the one to grant is finish
ed in New York
English syndicates come here and Amer
lean syndicates go abroad. All of the ia.
maica railways have been taken by an
American syndicate.
New York Is going to have a new hotel
ten stories high People who like TO sleep
ahO no haia ~ =
can be accommodated.
Senator Stanford has his millions, but he
is one OF the plainest and most unassuming
OF men. However, he knows where and
how to make money talk.
The Pope has changed his habits. He
now devotes the time between half-past
five and ten at night for the ardent perusal
of newspapers of all nations.
There are fifty manufactures OF imita-
ton butter in Germany. A factory in
Mannheim produces daily 5000 pounds
from preparation Of cocoanuts.
1t is said that the Prince of Wales likes
the Duke OF Fife. This is satisfactory.
| The prince has been obliged to give up his
toots and so finds relief in Fife.
For the first time in its history the Brit.
have established regular recruiting party
similar to that used for the army.
The suburban palace of the king of the
Belgians having been destroyed by fire, he
will probably go out on the farm and board
with his wife's relatives next summer.
Antrim, N. H., with population Of
about 1900 boasts of four nonogenarians
and twenty-five octogenarians. Twenty
one Of these twenty nine old people are
| women.
There would seem TO be no excuse for one
being without q Bible on the ground of
scarcity OF the article. The Bible House
of New York has issued since last April
TBS, 600 Bibles.
Richard Brown, a well known iron man
of Youngstown, o., has discovered two
forged notes bearing his signature, one foI
s., 900 and one for $4,000. He has no idea
| of the forger's identity.
Iennyson recently wrote IN a letter to &
! New York friend: 81 think it wisest in a
man to do his work in the world as quietly
and as well as he can, without much heed
ing the praise or dispraise.
The moral philosophy of the Philadelphia
Inquirer offers this definition: ''rhe moral
coward is a man who cannot do anything
original without asking the worlds pardon
for running off the track"
The Atchison Daily Champion says that
cob pipes made into breastpins are becom-
ing fashionable among Atchisons young
women. The next fashion will probably be
plug Of oxidized tobacco for shoe buckles.
There is great boom in phosphate
lands in southern Florida, and many poor
men have become rich by the sale of their
farms to spectators. One man is reported
to have refused $2,0O0,U01 for tract OF
land held by him.
They had banquet at Spokane
Falls the other night. It was not 'dry
banquet" The reporter who attended
closed his account of the affair by saying,
ut is not distinctly remembered who
made the last speech"
1t is claimed that phosphate is found in
only three places throughout the United
States-South Carolina, New Mexico and
Florida III New Mexico it is about ex-
hausted, while in Florida it is more extern
sive than in South Carolina and assays IS
per cent more.
According to Consul Pettus, strikes
never occur in China, and labor unions
would have a sickly development, as NO
laborer is permitted to seek employment
outside his own district. Carpenters
worry along on % cents day and black
smiths on So month.
MAJ O'RelI admires the Irish. Being
askdd if he had written book on the Irish
he replied: Il like to write about the
faults of the people. The people of Ire
lard have no faults. Did 1 try to find
theml Yes, l spent week or more in the
land that has sent so many sons here"
ST. Paul comes up with the statement
that in 1889 it spent 10 million dollars for
new houses. Now that St Paul is on
record, Minneapolis will claim to have ex-
pended IL million dollars The Twin city
that makes the first statement is the one
that always gets left Rivalry may make
fioures lie.