News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-10
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A new and popular development OF
electrical science is this electrical hair
curler 1t is said to be equal to the
most exacting demands of the feminine
coiffure, and the beard or mustache
can be curled in any style in two min
utes.
The British census will be taken in
1891. The cost of the census Of Great
Britain in 1881 was f172, 600 for pop
ulation of 26,000,0C0. For England
and Wales the cost per 1000 of the
population was f4 15s. sd in 1861, ris-
ing to f5 IS. I'd. in 1871, and 96 12s.
ed. in 1881
During the Franco-German war the
ladies in England were busy making
paper cushions, which they sent to
France to be used for the wounded in
the hospitals. Hundreds of thousands
of these cushions were sent and were of
great service.
Damaskeening is producing upon
steel u blue tinee and ornamental flgy
ures, sometimes inlaid with gold and
silver, as in Damascus blades. 1t is so
called from Damascus, which was cele-
brated in the middle ages for this class
of ornamental art
A very ancient Egyptian papyrus re-
Gently discovered at Kahun was evil
IDENTIFY part of a medical treatise and
contained this prescription: Treat
ment of woman who is panied in her
legs and in all her limbs, as one who is
beaten. Do with regard to her thus:
Let her eat grease until she is cured"
AT the celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the invention of the post
age stamp, held recently in England, a
stamp was shown worth 100 guineas.
1t was from the British Guiana collec-
ton and showed a rude postmark on
pink paper.
In 1914, when the Thames was frozen,
a printing establishment was set ND
and many collectors rejoice over a little
volume entitled 'Frostiana; or, His
tory of the River Thames in Frozen
State. London: Printed on the Ice in
the River Thames, 1914"
A well digger living in Talbottom,
Ga, was hired to clean out a well.
When he came out of the well in the
evening it was noticed that his let
black hair had changed its color from
black to a bright yellow or golden
shade. The cause is unknown.
The annual production of India rub
ber balls in different countries Gin doz-
ens) is: Germany, 1850, 900; France,
800, 900; Russia, $50, 900; England,
$50, 900; Austria, 500, America,
100000; Italy, 100000; total, say,
$500, 900 dozen. The demand for Ger
man balls is increasing yearly. Ger
many now exports to England about
$4,000 dozen and to America about
900, 600 dozen.
A necklace of great antiquity was
found some time ago in the course of
some excavations on Lord Homes
property at Dundee, Scotland This
necklace was claimed by the crown as
treasure trove. but tho treasury aftor-
much deIiberatfOn has returned ft TO
Lord Home on condition that he pre-
sents it to the museum of antiquaries
at Edinburgh.
The discoveries made by Stanley
show that the Nile is the longest river
in the world, being at least A, 100 miles
in length. Were the Mississippi regard
ed merely as tributary to the Mis-
souri,, as some geographers contend, the
latter would surpass the African water
course, having length of 4, 500 miles.
1t will be seen how dangerous it may
be for untidy children to scratch eacE
other through the report of seventy
eight examinations of the impurities un-
der finger nails recently made in the
meteorological Laboratories of Vienna.
The cultivation produced showed
''thirty-six kinds of micrococci, eigh-
teen bacilli, three sarcine and various
varieties; the spores of common mold
were very frequently present"
Trackmen grading for the Delaware
and Hudson's new double track, while
excavating on the northwest corner of
Broadway and Van Dorm street, Sara
toga, few days ago, uncovered the
old kellogg well, a relic of the early
settlement of the upper village" 1t
was covered over about a quarter of
century ago. 1t was located in Van
Dorm street and had pump in it until
a fracas concerning the custody of the
pump handle caused the death of Off
Ger w. w. Mitchell while endeavoring
to serve a legal process on the party
having it.
Sung at the Holy Sepulcher.
Recently the Duke of Norfolk wrote