News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

year ba his pen. Pugilist John L. Sullivan
pays about that sum annually for gloves
and cigars"
In heft the evolution of the locomotive
has been more than sevenfold. In Stephen
sons time it weighed about seven tons.
Now the weight of the average locomotive
is about fifty tons.
They find ice on Mount Mcclellan, Cal,
which they suppose to be $1,000 years old.
A geologist said recently that there were
evidences that man had been on earth for
that period Of time.
Save your stamps. Every letter that
goes to Tennyson asking for his autograph
is thrown into the fire. Autograph people
and tuft hunters have never had much sue
cess with the laureate.
Dan Slute, the Dan" of "Innocents
Abroad" has failed in the blank book bust
ness in New York. Perhaps it was Mark
Twain's scrap. book which stuck him
Mark never sticks himself.
An aged woman in Elmwood, near Gin
cinnati, being taken i'll while out driving,
request her driver to take her to the office of
an undertaken whom she knew well. He did
so, and she died few minutes after her
arrival
William Han4rnond, % wilkeabarr~
Heights, aged seventy-nine, has worked
continuously in coal mines for over seventy
years, having commenced with his father
in Wales when he was eight years old. He
is hale yet.
Perhaps no more significant evidence of
the onward march of civilization could be
afforded than the lighting by electricity Of
the palace of the Guicowar of Baroda in
India, and that, too, on scale of unstint-
ing splendor.
West Australia now wants legislative
autonomy, and a number of delegates have
been sent to Interview the home govern
ment ON the subject or course John Bull
will see the propriety of granting to Aus
tralia what he refuses to Ireland.
Miss Kate Sanborne has an original idea.
Once a week she is going to lecture to the
busy society women of Boston on the chief
points current in the intellectual world,
giving them the gist of what is going on in
the magazines and newspapers, both foreign
and domestic.
Although the Yellowstone Park is full OF
springs and streams they contain no ish.
This is explained by the abundance OF lava
which obliterated life when it was forced
out and has since kept the fishes out by the
lava which has produced waterfall in
every stream.
AJapanese surgeon advertises as follows:
Surgery and bone setting have been prac-
ticed successfully by my ancestors for the
past seven generations. Indeed, I may
claim to a certain amount of their accumu-
lated experience transmitted to me in writ
ings and otherwise"
The late Thomas Parker, of Washington,
became 80 attached to a cane which he had
carried for years that he kept it in bed with
him all during his Illness, and before dying
expressed wish that the favorite stick be
buried with him. His wish was carried
out, the cane being put in the coffin.
A French electrical journal estimates
that the total length of the telegraph wires
dncluding submarine cables) of the world
in use at the present time exceeds half a
million miles Four-fifths Of the land wires
are in Europe and America. All the sub
marine cables together give length of 80,
$50 miles.
Astronomy is one of the exact sciences.
When Sir. J. Herschel was defending the
character of astronomical science in view
of an error of nearly million miles in
| estimating the SUMS distance, the correc-
ton was shown to apply to an error obser-
walton so small an to be equivalent to the
apparent breadth of q human hair at a dis
lance of 125 feet.
A peculiarly about the blind is that
there is seldom one of them who smokes.
Soldiers and sailors accustomed to smok
ing, and who have lost their sight in action,
continue to smoke for short while, but
soon give up the habit. They say that II
gives them no pleasure when they cannot
see the smoke, and some have said that
they cannot taste the smoke unless they
see it.
Medicinal rings were at one time very
seriously believed in. Physicians were
won't TO wear finger rings in which stones
were set, and these stones were credited
with the possession Of many virtues. Some
times the patient was simply touched with
the ring; sometimes he put it on his finger
for awhile. Many patient has worn such
a ring to stop hemorrhage. Ii the desired
result followed, the ring was unreservedly
regarded as the healing agent; II tho 'ure
did not follow, we are told nothing about
it.
A peculiar result Of the drinking of Ice
cold water from spring in Stonlngtop,
Conn, is reported. The water flows from
crack In nlgn rOcK, anu Lnc FolhS VI q
man who drinks from it begin to swell, and
he looks and feels as though he were about
to burst for the next ten minutes. Tho
swelling gradually Subsidies and no serious
effect is felt, except slight buzzipg in the
ears. 1t is the talk of the ucighborhood,
and everybody is eager TO try the effect OF
the water. A specimen has been sent to
Boston for analysis.
A very useful invention, tending to lessen
the possibility OF accidents in factories, is
now being extensively adopted in England
The breaking of glass, which is adjusted
against the wall of every room in tho
mill, will at once stop the engine, an
electric current being established be
tween the room and the throttle valve OF
the engine, shutting of tho steam in an
instant. BY this means the engine was
stopped at one of the mills recently In q
| few seconds, and ayOung girl, whose clothes
had become eutangled in an upright shaft
was released uuinjursd.