News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

gin on large scale in the Crimea, where
the roses grow in great profusion in the
mountains.
At White Haven gunner fired fourteen
shots at a duck before he found out that it
was a decoy placed on the water by two
school boys.
Nearly ninety members of the present
congress were in tle Confederate army in
stations ranging from private soldier to
major-g general.
1t is said that one of the English novel
lists is able to repeat from memory every
word he has written, and he is the author
of many books.
Babies born with teeth are becoming
numerous in Ohio A New Lisbon mother
has a babe that had two front teeth before
it Was a day old.
The Kentucky university this year
opened its doors to female students, and
now the names of twenty young women are
entered upon its rolls.
Recently compiled statistics show that
during the last ten years to every forty
nine marriages performed in New Jersey
there has been one divorce
The scientists at Harvard University
are engaged in experiments which they are
confident will result in determining the eX-
act location of the north pole.
Minneapolis has an anti treating society
The badge is white collar button worn on
the lapel of the coat. Usually the badge is
of few days and full of trouble.
A west Virginia girl has saved money
enough to buy herself gold watch by
trapping musk-rats, skunks and other
animals and selling their hides.
There is in Windsor Castle gold punch
bowl and ladle for which George ". paid
1000 guineas, but in which there has
never been drop of punch made.
Professor John S. Newberry, in a lecture
at Columbia college, Saturday, on the
Geological History of Man, said there
are signs that man lived 5000 years ago.
You cannot depend altogether on the
good. George Eliot says: 1.-The blessed
work of helping the world forward happily
does not wait to be done by perfect men,"
The girls will be sorry to hear that the
spruce gum supply of northern Maine is
giving out, and that in regions usually pro-
liic it cannot now be bought at any price
Last year Germany granted only 8, 1921
pensions, against England's 9,779 and the
United States 90 42O. The number granted
in Germany has fallen off 927 in five years.
William Harrocks, Philadelphia brake
man, was killed by the cars a few days
ago. Three nights before his death one Of
his neighbors dreamed that he had been
killed.
Ed. Howe has discovered that ait is hard
to distinguish the man who is working you
from the man who admires you" 1t
usually takes little time to make the dis
covery.
One hundred and sixty seven bears were
killed in Maine during tle year. The state
has paid out $50, or So per head bounty.
Over $1,000 will be paid as bounty for kill
ing crows.
A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone, has had it
rugged up on q dumb-waiter arrangement
so that he can answer call from any
part of the house.
The Presidential responsibilities bear
lightly upon Harrison. " hen they come
too thick he 'procures his towling piece"
and goes duck hunting. This is better than
having the dumps.
Roadmaster Molloy, of the Central Pacific
was attacked by wild cat near
Winnemucca recently. The cat had two
kittens and Mr.. Molloy happened upon
them unexpectedly.
The Sandwich Islanders pipe is made of
virgin cork lined With meersnaum and is
curious by reason of the pattern on the cork
made by The insects tnat feed on trees. It
is like delicate lace work.
For several years the receipts from the
sales of public lands in Canada have not
been sufficient to cover the expense of sur
yeying and management Last year there
was deficiency of more than $4,000
The latest and most unique invention is
machine for buttering breI I'd. 1t is used in
with great patent bread-cutter
and is intended for use in prisons, work
houses and other reformatory institutions,
Major Wissman with force of men and
several steamers has gone to meet an attack
of 1000 Arabs on Pangeni. The Arabs at
tackled a German detachment few days
ago, wounding an officer and killing a num-
Der of men.
A professor up in Northwestern New
York has discovered another new comet.
There seems to be great many heavenly
bodies over that state, Judging from the fire.
quent announcements made by local astron-
omers of New York.
Here are a few definitions given by pu-
pills of the Gardiner Me, grammar school
at a recent examination: "Exile, a part of
wagon; byword, word that has gone by:
a kind of maid turmoil, kind
Of oil; repast, 10 pass by"
Mrs. G. T. Huntington, the wife of the
railroad millionaire, for good luck wears
pair of yellow garters bpclled with fine
topaz, set with diamonds. If money is q
blessing she has it most abundantly. 1t did
not come by luck, however.
The British boat Brisk has given tho
most conclusive proof that a torpedo may
be effective She fired one of hers at
buoy which had been lowed out as a target
by her steam cutter, and, missing the buoy.
hit the cutter and sank her.
In Georgia, when you ask a man how far
it is to the next plantation, he will answer
that it is "a peek and right smart
He means that it is as far as you
can see from where you stand and then as
much farther as strong voice can be
heard.
Mrs. Libby Phillips, the last survivor of
the Pequot tribe of Connecticut Indians, and
dead, turned up at Birmingham,
Conn, recently, alive and told nor friends
that she proposes to live Il long while vet,
now seventy years old and wan
ders from town 10 town.
An Allentown hotelkeepcr, while working
in his barn, disturbed colony of rats.
Aided by his hostler, he began making war
on them. One of the big rodents ran uu
the gentleman's leg, inside his pantaloors,
and before he could be expelled bit and
lacerated thclimb terribly.
To show the capacity of his stomach a
visitor at the Ncvcrsnli Fire House at
ate mixture composed of pound
Of figs fifty raw oysters, and pound of
sugar and topped off tho mess with pound
of lard He said on wager he would eat
D box of wagon grouse, but the spectators
would let him go no further.
Says Henry Labouchere in London
Truth: "Of all the living empe-ors. now
that Dom Pedro has been retired from the
business, the emperor of Austria is tho
best He is decent, VOL meaning man.
whose chief merit is that he has shared
power with his subjects and uuieted
Hungary by giving it home rule" At the
same. time he ought to be abolished,