News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-24

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Amovement has at last started against
the gates and bars which are still put
across some London streets by the adj
| iacent landholders. The select com
mittee of the house of commons ap-
pointed for its consideration has passed
the preamble of the bill promoted by
the London county council for the re-
moval of certain gates and bars on the
estate of the Duke of Bedford.
Pound Keeper Finn, of New York,
estimates the dog population of that
city at from 25, 900 to 80, 900. During
the past year the dog eatchers caught
7,46S dogs, 800 of which were redeemed
by their owners paying So fine, the re-
mainder being asphyxiated.
In 1904 there were thirty-five trans
lations of the Scriptures in existence :;
since the formation of the British and
Foreign Bible society in that year ten
millions of money has been expended
in the work of circulating the Bible,
and there are now nearly 800 transla-
lions of the Scriptures.
In a letter written by Thomas Jeffer-
son in 1771 to a friend in London there
| is an order for '1-2 doz. pr. India cot
| ton stockings for myself at los q pair :"
Ten shillings is an equivalent of 81. so
"a big price for pair of cotton stock
ings. Owing to knitting machines,
cheaper cotton, etc., they now cost
about that sum per dozen.
The present year is the tercentenary
of the discovery of the microscope,
which in its crude form was due to
Jansen, a spectacle maker of Middle
burg, Holland. The occasion is to be
celebrated by an International micro
scopic exhibition, which is to be shortly
held at Antwerp, when an endeavor
will be made to bring together a col
lection of instruments which will fairly
show the progress of the microscope,
from its simple original form to that of
the present day.
A somewhat unusual deposit was
made with the Notre Dame Savings
bank in Montreal some time ago for
safe keeping. 1t consisted of Bible
221 years old. The work is said to be
in good state of preservation and to
be a Lutheran Bible, published in
Amsterdam in 1869 by S. Des Marets,
professor of theology in one of the uni
versities of Holland, and his son, who
styles himself "a minister of the Cos
pei" 1t is a French version of the
Scriptures and illustrated.
The great wall of China, extending
for twelve hundred English miles along
frontier of the Chinese empire-from
twenty to twenty-five feet high, wide
enough for six horsee, t-A-rpaIl abreast
and furnished with a suitable number
of gates and bastions-cOntains, it has
been carefully estimated, more material
than all the buildings of the British
empire put together
A four-in-hand coach race lately took
place from Vienna to Presburg The
participants were among the elite of
Austrian aristocracy. Count Wimpfels
team was the winner, covering the dis
lance in three hours. The first prize
was 1, 600 gulden and gold medal;
gold medal was the second prize. vi
emma and Presburg society turned out
almost en- masse to see the race, and
the roads between the two cities were
thronged with sightseers.
1t is not twenty years since the Jap
anese began to reform their institu-
tons, and during that time nothing has
more clearly shown their adaptability
and intelligence than the progress which
they have made in education. Out of
6,740, 920 children of school age in the
empire $500, 900 are enrolled in the
public schools, while universities, COM
mercial schools, schools of fine art and
of music, schools for the deaf, dumb
and blind, law courses in German,
French and English, libraries and mu-
seums all form part of thorough and
progressive system.
Cock fighting in this country never
produced such big affair as recent
international cock fight at Roubale,
Belgium, in the beginning of April.
Thirty-eight Belgian and French
sporting societies made entries. The
bird of the Society La Pate Cassee,
from Emilghen, Flanders, won the
first prize of 1000 francs 1t was the
seventh victory of his career. The bird
of the Society Salembier, from Belle
gagn, won the second prize of 500
francs and three other Belgian societies
won 225 francs.
A passenger car on the Louisville
and Wadiey railroad performed a
new feat in railroad running by run
ming on two tracks at one and the
same time. While drilling the train
the front trucks Jumped the switch
and took the right track, while the
rear trucks failed to jump and took
the wrong track and continued on the
main turnout until both ends of the
car were nearly even. When the con-
ductor called halt he found his car
Ill rather an awkward position.
The subjects of the King of Daho-
mey are bigoted and superstitious peo-
pie, and all over the country there are
innumerable 'fetiches" consecrated to
some pagan deity. individuals who
desecrate these ''fetiches" by touch
ing them are invariably put to death,
but before they are executed they have
to undergo the most painful fortunes
at the hands of the Amazons, those fe-
rocious female warriors who consti-
tute the nucleus of the kings army.
The vapor of glycerine has recently
been used by French physicians when
ever a distressing or frequent cough
has had to be alleviated The remedy
is very simple in application. About
fifty or sixty grammes of glycerine
are heated in a porcelain capsule by
means of a spirit lamp; large volume
of vapor is thereby disengaged, and
should be breathed by the sufferer.
Glycerine in which carbolic acid has
been dissolved may also be employed.
DRUNKENNEss-LIQUoR uABIT.-ln all the
world there is but one cure. DR.. Haines' Gold
en- Specifc-lt can be given in a cup of tea
or coffee without the knowledge of the person
taking it, efectng speedy and permanent
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