News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-16
News and Citizen
WINGED MISSILES.

electrical exhibition
Thirty thousand tons of coal per day is
displaced by natural gas.
Jay Gould predicts that 1890 will be a
booming year to railroads.
Engineers are now laying out a line Of
railroad in the Congo region of Africa.
The Chinese Government will soon be
able TO send ironclads to New York harbor.
A tunnel is to be built under Lake Erie
at Cleveland; it will be ~ feet in diameter
Mexico is coming up; banks are starting,
crops are good, foreign commerce is increas-
ing.
The Shenango Valley iron men propose
to combine and erect an immense steel
mill
Reading has a silent barber who has
large number of customers. He IS deaf
and dumb.
A spring Of petroleum discovered in the
Wisconsin iron range has been tested and
proved genuine.
A railroad is projected by the Russian
government through Siberia 1t viii be
1000 miles long.
Railroad companies are ordering all the
freight cars they can get builders to
take contracts for.
1t is little early to sound the alarm, but
Canada's chief quarantine officer expects
cholera next season
Money and taste csn make an impression.
Vice President Morton is the best dressed
man in " ashington.
Some Lynn boot and shoe manufacturers
are looking up sites in Norfolk. Va, and
elsewhere in the south
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the problem Of reducing cost OF steam
-engine work 20 per cent.
Cathedral glass is to be made at F'indlay,
Ohio. "A large glass factory is to be re-
moved to Sheffield, Ala.
The Gar has learned a diversion that
will save him from ennuL He has become
interested in American poker.
The coal miners in the anthracite region
are unable to get ahead. There are more
diggers than there is work for
Boston is both cultured and modest
Puck says in this city lovers take off their
specks that they may not see each other.
There are some drugs which are said to
be worth $1,000 a bottle, and the druggists
say they don't make much on them either
The King of Siam is very enterprising
man and doesn't care for expenses. He
wives.
The RussiGa government gets about
thirty-six hundred pounds of pure gold
every year from the mines of eastern ST.
IBERIA.
A Carmelite friar has been caught play
ing poker in California, and ordered to do
penance by staying in the woods u hours
a day.
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wager, ate twenty-four pumpkin pies, a
dozen doughnuts, and drank three gallons |
of cider.
The National Wool Growers have effeceed |
the strongest possible organization, and |
now feel that their industry cannot be
damaged
Gounod has promised to write mass for
the opening of the new organ at St Peters.
Four thousand singers will take part in the
ceremonies.
Margaret Deland has not been so great
success in her picture as in her novel,
John W ard, Preacher" which has reach
ed its fftieth thousand.
A highly electrical young man in
Alliance, Ohio has only to rub his fingers
when small coin and other metallic valua-
bles stick to them as if by magic.
Down in Georgia cotton mill operatives
do eleven hours work, as it requires one
hour per day longer to do days work
there than it does in Northern mills.
Frank Crone, a rich merchant of Erie.
County, Ohio was married the other day
to his sisters granddaughter. The groom
is sixty-five and the bride twenty-four.
A plague of monkeys affiicts Tanjore, in
Southern INDIA The creatures do so much
mischief than an Official monkey catcher
receives rupee for each monkey captured.
Somebody figures out that 100000 peo-
pie walk about Londons streets daily, and
that in so doing they wear away ton of
leather particles from their boots and I
shoes.
The center of population is moving out
west So is the center of political in1u-
ence; it used to be in Virginia, thence it {
moved to Ohio and now it is located in In
diana.
Mary Anderson has become satiated with !
England and the English. She will for a
time, and perhaps permanently, live in
Rome. " hat will become of her castle in
Indiana!
A Chambersburg, Pa, youth thought he
ought to try some Of his girls cooking be-
fore marriage. He ate dinner which she
prepared with her own hands and hasn't
been to see her since
The business interest of the country are
not suffering. Every branch OF trade and
manufacture is booming; yet there are
tens of Thousands who are barely able to
live on their low wages.
Talmage is not wiser than his generation.
In Pompeii be paid $40 piece for medal
lions. his wife has informed him that the
l. a
in Brooklyn for Is cents apiece.
To be Hoosier these days is an honor In
population and wealth Indiana claims to be
the sixth state in the union and the first in
educational facilities. OF course officially
speaking the state leads all others
A family at West Bethel Me. consists
of couple of eighty five and eighty years
OF age respectively, who live alone and dc
most their work. But.they do not lack for
music or excitement-they keep fifteen pet
cats.
Thirteen mills are turning out $50 tons of
wood pulp daily. 1t requires machinery oil
Is, 00O horse power to run these mills. When
all the wood pulp mills now building are
completed, loo cords Of wood win be turn
ed into paper daily.
Within the next ten years some of the
kEduOCSG pieces VI CASAnCCAAu5 ofCi COn- |
ceived will be started. Bridges will be
which il talked of now would
be regarded as chimerical. Houses Is to %
stories high will be built
In discussing lager beer a German critic
insists that there is in the German vocabu- |
larry no such word as lager, which he be-
lieves to be purely q Viennese expression
There is also very little lager about great | ;
deal of beer that is put out
Soap bubbles blown with newly general
ed hydrogen gas have been found to act as [
electrical condensers, the liquid of which, | {
when broken, exhibited negative charge. | !
IL IL suggested that this fact explains the
so-cslled FIRE balls sometimes seen during
t
A New Yorker says: "Men marry their
and typewriters so often in the
business world of New York that there is
now no novelty at all about the perform I
ance have known dozens of such cases.
In our house alone four men have married
typewriters or women clerks in the past
twelve months"
A peculiarly shaped rock was picked up !
by workmen on the foundation of a building
near Morgantown. w. Va. 1t almest ex
actly resembles a moccasined foot, and for !
a time it was supposed to be the petrifed ,
pedal extremity of some giant Indian who
chased buffaloes and tomahawked his enc t
mics in prehistoric ages.