News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

The roller skating mania has again
broken out in London.
The postponement of the Columbian
fair from 1892 to 1898 involves also the
postponement of the Catholic congress.
The old Romans studied kissing as
an art, but relegated the salute to the
cheek or forehead To kiss on the
mouth was considered vulgar.
The little Princess Wilhemina, the
Dutch heir apparent, is now 10 years
old. She has an English governess and
speaks English as well as she does her
native tongue.
Five factories make the little cap
sules in which nauseating medicines are
concealed. The largest of them is at
Detroit, where quantities of the little
gelatine boxes are manufactured.
John Boyle O'Reilly once said that he
had found the true fraternal spirit to
exist at its hest in convicts. soldiers and
JOURNALISTS.
A coffin of wicker work is sometimes
used when the body is to be cremated,
and undertakers are endeavoring to in
troduce caskets covered with 4)ale pink,
blue and heliotrope velvet or plush.
New York city has the most efficient
force of truant officers in its history.
Officers are stationed at the ferries to
keep Brooklyn and Jersey City children
from getting into the city schools
Do ;o1,
will shortly visit the United States to
consult with the president concerning
her fathers murder She is now with
her mother at Oaxaca, Mexico.
1t is reported that three nails of the
true cross have been found in a very
singular place, namely, in the ruins of
the theatre at Zurich which was burned
down. They were in a little ivory
casket of admirable workmanship, to-
gether with a manuscript of parchment,
and were bricked up within a little
cavity of the sub-structure 1t is pre-
sumed that these relics were hidden by
monks during the reformation.
Always remember that the more
genuine curio appears the better its
chance with a good collector. A hum
dred years ago a mania arose among
European collectors to have their pict-
ures recanvassed. Ask any art dealer
now what he thinks of the process.
There are $50 members of the Hair
Dressers' academy in London, all men,
females not being admitted, as being
inferior artists. The academy meets
once a week for lessons upon living
models, though new members practice
upon block head A few women
with fine heads of hair serve as models,
but better field for practice is pro-
vided by scanty haired women, upon
whose heads the true ingenuity and re-
sources of the hair dresser can find the
fullest opportunity for producing
grand effect with little material
1t is proposed TO put 500 to 1000
steel tubular frame eight wheeled
wagons fitted with automatic brakes,
/ on the government railways in Natal.
and that they shall be paid for by
| one-haf the annual savings made by
using them in moving freight, as com
pared with the cost of moving an equal
quantity on ordinary wagons.
p. T. Barnum always takes tea and
coffee mixed at regular hourly intervals
during the day and night.
Jacobs well and the plot of ground
surrounding it have been sold by the
Turkish government to the Greek
church for "a, 900.
Salt and water. quite strong, and
used persistently for a time, will pre-
vent the hair from falling out.
Londoners consume 10000, 900 gal
Ions of milk-or what is sold as milk
per annum, and pay ESQ, 900 for it.
If a cucumber is cut into strips and
the pieces put into places where ants
are found it will surely drive them
away.
Just now it would seem that the
orange blossom leads in the choice of a
national flower
He who would timber his tongue
should repeat fifteen times as fast as
possible the sentence, ''Shoe the shrew
and beshrew the SHOE"
Mere than one-ffth of the land OF
the world has no outlet for drainage to
the sea, and in all that area evapora-
ton is greater than precipitation
Word comes from West Virginia that
a live bat has recently been found i'm
bedded in solid rock in one of the
quarries near Wheeling.
The number of sentences of penal
servitude passed by ordinary courts in
England and Wales in 1889 was 91S.
The lowest number on record is 910.
Tests in Germany of a new electric
ally controlled steering apparatus show
that the captain can control the rudder
from the bridge or from any point
about the deck.
1t is the opinion of local authorities
that nothing can save the beautiful
birds of India from complete destruc-
ton but prohibitive tax upon the ex-
port of their skins and feathers.
Electricity applied to locomotive
headlights is among the safeguards pro-
posed for railway travel and a recent
simplified apparatus is thought to be
the most satisfactory so far introduced.
A great scheme is on foot in Japan
for the emigration of japanese labor
ers to Mexico, where they are wanted
to work on railways. Two Mexican
agents are promoting the scheme.
Nothing is easier than fault finding
No talent, no self denial, no brains, no
character are required to set up in n
grumbling business. But those who
are moved by a genuine desire to do
good have little time for murmuring OF
complaint.
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