News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-31
ODDS AND ENDS.

Sixty thousand blue gum trees have
been planted this year on one ranch in
Los Angeles county, Cal.
Women have recently been admitted
into Greenwich observatory, and four
have joined the staff of the astronomer
royal. Their duties will require at
tendance at all hours of the night.
If all the persons whose names are
in the new government blue book were
to form a line four abreast it would
take ten hours for the procession to
pass the White House
Georgia has plenty of room for immi-
grants There are in Pierce county
400, 9S7 acres of land, of which only
12,11S are improved; Ware contains
III, 903 acres, of which 10, 087 are i'm
proved; Wayne 249, 600 and 1897 i'm
proved; Appling 357, 075 and 13, 352 i'm
proved. Other counties make a SINH
lar showing.
The government statistician of New
South Wales, T. A. Coghlan, has esti-
mated the population of Australia at
the beginning of the current year to be
8, 7S6, 1893. This is an increase during
1889 of 113, 995, or $40 per cent. The
population of New Zealand is now &c.
279, an increase during the year Of
1880.
According to the East Asiatic Lloyd
there are 1905 foreigners and 474 for
eign business firms in Chinese ports.
Great Britain has there 1926 citizens
and 300 firms; Germany 500 citizens
and 70 firms; the United States 1,061
citizens and 81 firms; France 551 citi-
zens and 20 firms.
Coffee is brewed by electricity in a
Berlin cafe. In the center of the room
are several large glass jars through
which passes platinum wire in spiral
form. The electricity, on heating the
wire, speedily raises the temperature of
the water in the jars to the boiling
point, and prepares the coffee in the
sight of everybody. Lastly, a small
electric railway transmits the coffee to
the various tables, so that the guests
may help themselves to their liking.
An eight wheeled railway church has
been finished at Tiflis, in the factory OF
the Transcaucasian Railway company,
for use along the line. 1t is surmount-
ed by cross at one end, and at the
other there is handsome belfry with
| three balls. Besides the church proper,
it has apartments for the priest. 1t can
comfortably seat seventy persons. The
altar is made of carved oak, end the
| church furniture was made in st. Pc
tersburg.
An enthusiastic ento1nologist is re-
ceiving daily from the local ineman
| the moths which find their way into
| the arc lamp globe in an adjacent street
during the night Birds are fearlessly
building their nests in the hoods of the
lamps, and we are told that an electric
light superintendent in Nashville re-
ceived a unique present from a colored
workman in the form of a sack full OF
honey bees. The swarm was found in
the hood of an electric lamp, where il
had settled the day before.
Billy, the goat, mascot on the United
States steamer Galena, has been trans
ferred to the flagship Baltimore, along
with whatever goes with an able sea
man. Billy left the Galena most I'm
willingly, and it looked for a time as i
the drill known as abandon ship
would have to be ordered as the only
means of getting him over the side
Billy was especially skilled in this evo
luton, and he always fearlessly leape(
into the cutter when the signal TO
abandon ship was given.
A state grant of 5000, 900 marks ha
just been made for the extension of tn
telegraph and telephone lines in the
German empire. Of this 3, 099, $50 mark
are to be devoted to the town tele
phones already existing, COG, 600 mark
to the erection of new ones, 1, 92S, 0OC
marks to new telegraph lines, princi
pally in the country; 761, 900 marks fol-
improvements in and 81, 500 for extern
sions of the pneumatic postal service
in Berlin and Hamburg.
At Dion convict under a sentenc
of twenty years penal servitude wa
permitted to leave his prison and MARI
his sweetheart. He returned to prisol
after the ceremony, and in two year.
time his wife will be able to join hiI
in New Caledonia