News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-01
ODDS AND ENDS.

A Russian lady proposes, in Ss1e col
umns of a Russian newspaper, that
women of Russia and France should
join in forming a corps of amazons to
| fight the amazons of Dahomey.
A leading English scientist states
that women have better eyesight than
men, and that in all his experience he
! has never met woman who was color
| blind.
An Athens, Ga, IA year old boy
has made a complete dynamo, capable
of lighting one large arc light, run
by a treadle. He has also made a COM
plete telephone with an improvement
in the transmitter, which is said by
electricians to work perfectly and to
be much simpler than the one now in
use.
Near Tuscon, in Arizona, a very
large cave has been discovered, which
is as yet unexplored, and from which
ranchmen in the neighborhood have
obtained beautiful specimens of lime
carbonates.
During the recent floods at Ana
helm, Cal, every hummock was
swarming with hares and rabbits that
were driven from the plains. They
were slaughtered by thousands by
boys and men, who used sticks, and
when tired of the sport would run the
poor beasts off their dry places into
the raging waters.
The pet names of the four baby
states are as follows: North Dakota is
the "F'lickertaiI state" South Dakota
is the ''Swinge Cat state" Washing
ton is the Chinook state, and Mon
tana is the "Stubbed Toe state"
The royal mail steamer Polynesian
had a queer experience. The steamer
ran into an electric storm, the masts,
yards and rigging being brilliantly il
Illuminated with balls of fire. The first
officer saysi it was a grand sight, many
of the passengers coming up on deck
to see it.
Two thousand ammunition carts,
baggage wagons and other military
transport vehicles, built in Warsaw,
have been shipped by the Russian war
department to Batoum. They are in
tended for Central Asia.
One of the finest pieces of work
ever turned out at Mare Island navy
yard, San Francisco, is a whaleboat
built for King Malietoa, of Samoa, to
be presented to him by the United
States government as token of es-
TEEN for his l1indness to American Off
GERS and sailors at the wreck Of the
Trenton and Vandalia.
There is a dog in St. Louis that is
regular funeral goer. While driving
out the road to Bellefontaine with
funeral he was seen to get up and trot
along beside the hearse. No more was
thought of him until the grave was
reached, and there the big brindle was
seen hanging on the outskirts of the
crowd, just as much interested as any
one. From that time on he has been
a regular mourner, and he goes to
every funeral that takes place.
A gentleman has offered 5000 to
any university in New England that
will send physicist to witness Keely's
experiments, who will bind himself
not to give an opinion until the nature
of Keely's discoveries have been made
known to him, and he has seen the
demonstrations which Kelly is ready
to make in proof of his claims as dis
coverer, not as an inventor.
One of the most extraordinary of
African trees is that known as the ba-
obab. 1t is almost forest in itself,
and serves as a complete sylvan palace
on the largest scale. Rarely growing
more than seventy feet high, its
branches extend horizontally, support
ed by a trunk which has a girth great
er, it is believed, than that of any other
known tree One of these extraordin-
airy trees was found on measurement
to be forty feet in diameter The age
of another, counting the cOncentric
rings, was found to be 5000 years at
the very least.
1t is now believed that the mann
moth abOunded to as great an extent
upon the east as on the west coast of
Behring sea In fact, mammoths have
already been discovered in Alaska,
and news comes that a syndicate has
been formed for the purpose of procur-
ing their ivory tusks, which are now
of great value and which will undoubt-
eddy continue to become more valu-
able as the elephant is being extermi-
mated.