News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-04
ODDS N ENDS.

An English member of parliament
has patented an invention in which
electricity is made use of for improving
the extraction of gold.
The circulation of the Salvation
Army journals is over 600, 600 copies
weekly.
A colored woman was so frightened
during a thunder storm that, as she
expressed it, she ''trembled like an
ashpan."
Aside from the Morosini collection
the handsomest diamonds in Saratoga
are those worn by the wife of ex-Mayor
Grace, of New York.
''Should we keep our vests in the
vestry2' asked Gilroy. eyes" replied
Larkin; land our coats in the coterie,
and likewise our trousers in the pantry"
DR.. Calling, of Hartford, Conn, the
inventor of the famous gun, is a com
pa~ratively Did man, but still keeps
busily at work with his plans and con
ceptions.
Life has its compensations for most
people, but for his compensation the
undertaken has to wait for death.
The Duke of Edinburgh and Bis
marck are hobnobbing and drinking
water at Kissingen, and the Prince OF
Wales and Chauncey NJ. Depew are
shopping stories at Homburg.
A grand turning cupola eight meters
in diameter is to be erected in the
Vatican garden for covering the pho.
tographic equatorial instrument which
is to be used in connection with map
ping out the stars.
Manslaughter in the first degree is
punishable by Imprisonment for moi
less than five Or more than twenty
years. Murder in the first degree, and
arson in the first degree accompanied
by homicide, are punishable by death.
The Babylonians embalmed theil
dead in honey, and discountenanced
cremation, which they believed to be
nothing but a sacrilege to the sun.
At the end of the Bulgarians' Palm
Sunday feast at the cemeteries they
will not eat the remnants, but leave
them on the graves for the dead who
are expected during the night.
The late Duke of Portland used tt
shelter himself from observation while
walking in his park by hiding under
huge umbrella. The back of his Lon
don residence was guarded by a wall Sc
high that the neighbors could not see
the dukes house, much less its inmate
when he was walking in the yard.
A well known lawyer of Toronto
who is about to be married ordered hi
wedding suit, whereupon it was at
tached by a lady to whom he owed 81
the payment of which he had sys
tematically evaded. His wedding gar
ments are now in the hands of a cour1
official, and will be put up at auction
if the matter is not settled.
The accomplishment of the man who
could speak four different language:
with his hands tied behind him is sur
passed by a Quaker gentleman of whom
a western paper says that not desiring
to see the terrible pictures of battle.
and bloodshed in a popular magazine
he tread the magazine clear through
with his eyes shut"
There has recently been current
story t. the effect that the venerable
mother of Lieut.. Gushing, the hero O
the blowing up of the rebel ram Abe
marie, is a pauper, dependent upor
charity. in Boston. This is declared t.
be a baseless falsehood. Mrs. Cushing
is living at st. Louis in easy circum
stances.
One of the latest proposals is to lay
a pipe line for supplying New YorE
with milk, as Pittsburg and some othel
cities are supplied with natural gas o.
oil from the wells. The tactical supply
of course, cannot be got by boring, bu
it is to be collected at various point
and sent along the pipef for distribution
in New York. 1t is said a company i
being formed with a capital of abou
$3.50, 900 20 carry out the scheme.