News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

A new invention of English origin Is
an incsn1escent lamp in which the MA
ment is coated with O. layer OF silicon.
IT, is claimed that the degree of vacuum
roonired inside the bulb will be thus les
sened.
An odd conception, manufactured at
tho SUGGESTION of New York lady, Is
an enameled orange which opens ana
disc1oses a watch in one-half, and
purse in the other The exterior OF TINS
nnioue article is exceedingly realistic.
London is giving her electric traction
service a boom. Before very long d
line of omnibuses run by electricity Is
70 he started. They will be driven by
storage batteries, and each bus Is to
have a seating capacity of twenty-sH
passengers.
SPANS population has grown incredl-
bly, during the last decade, There mas
been an increase of about one million
people during thirteen years, inns as
tonishing growth is attributed In d
oreat measure to the success that mas
attended the changes in the hygienlc
condition of the large cities and towns.
The Duke of Northumberland is no
doubt the greatest landowner IN Ing
land He owns more than 200, OOO acres
and has a rent roll of 1915, 600 a year.
He is 81 years of age and all his lie mas
been great reader.
of 2,759 duels fought in Italy during
eleven wears, !, al terminated by lnslg-
nifcant wounds, 1,4OO by wounds
sneedilv healed, and so only by wounds
subsequently producing death. 1t is
shown that nearly all the duels take
Mace in the hot months and in the very
early morning hours.
Perhaps Jenner did not discover vac
cination In graveyard OF Worth,
Dorsetshire, there is Il tomb with this in
scription: Benjamin Jestey, of Down
shay, died April IS, 1916, aged 70. He
was born at Yetminster, in this county,
and was an upright, honest man, par
ticularly noted for having been the first
person known that introduced the COW
box by incubation, and who, for his
great strength of mind, made the ex
neriment from the cow on his wife anc
two sons in the yc IA"
Wordsworths cottage at Grasmere il
one of the most beautiful spots IN tina
lovely district. 1t deserves to be saved
and Stopford Brooke and his brother
with Professor Knight, of st. Andrew s
and others, are making an appeal tina
If should be secured with the orchar'
| and garden for the modest sum of 9650
The promoters aim to raise that sun
by small subscriptions, so that ever.
lover of the poet may contribute ant
J thus make the monument a nationa
memorial to Wordsworth.
The efficacy of hot water in Shawn
, is more fully appreciated by the peopl
of that remarkably advanced country
Japan, than in the younger civilization
of the west. japanese BARRIERS shaw
nearly all of the exposed surfaces OF
mans head. They shave the ears, tn
outside and inside of the nose, the eye
brows and a portion of the scalp. N
lather is used, but keen edge is KEY
constantly on the razor by dipping
into hot water
A remarkable occurrence is reporte
l. by a native japanese newspapel
t Scientists assign its cause to vacuum
L due to atmospheric changes, while til
{ villagers think it to be the work of de-
L lis. The circumstances are as follow:
Il A man suddenly falls down while wall
5. ing in the open air or in a hous
{ when a slit in the flesh from OF
y inch to one inch and half in lengt
and about an inch in depth is foun'
II the place principally attacked being tt
5. legs. At the time not much pain
q felt, but half an hour afterward tt
v pain increases as the blood begins
j flow. The wounds are said to very di
Il ficuIt TO cure