News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

In Victoria, B. c., no mason or
will work on building
where Chinese help is employed.
The Canadian labor unions have
recommended the government to es-
tablish a scheme of compulsory in
surance for the working classes.
A 5-year-old child in Lafayette, N;
J.. was SO deeply affected by the death
last week of his grandmother that he
cried almost continually for four days,
when he burst a blood vessel and
died before medical assistance arrived.
The famous diamond cutting estab-
lishments at Amsterdam are closing
one after another, owing to a rise in
the price of raw diamonds. Ten thou
sand Jews were employed in this in
dustry, and 2, 600 are now out of work.
The secretary of the English mis-
sion to lepers i'll India iItends visiting
India shortly, with view to promot-
ing the establishment there of asylums
for lepers, as well as of homes for the
children of leprous parents, that they
may be early separated from the dam
ger of contagion.
The most fashionable street of Ber-
lin, the famous Unter den Linden, Is
said to be now the best lighted thor
oughfare in the world. 1t has three
lines of electric arc lamps, which are
separated by two rows of lime trees.
The wires which convey the electricity
are underground.
To give vividness to /, 900, 600 years,
Darwin in ''Origin of Species, page
269, gives this: ''Take a narrow strip
of paper, SO feet 4 inches in length,
and stretch it along the wall of large
hall; then mark off at one end the
tenth of an inch This tenth of an
inch will represent 100 years, and en-
tire strip 100000 years.
President Henry Rice of the United
Hebrew Charities says that %, 900 He
brews have come to this country an
nually for the last four or five years.
Of these 1900 or 5000 came from
Russia, and only 600 or 700 from Ger
many. Not many of them were
skilled mechanics and very few en-
: tered lines of business
, A petition is being circulated among
1 the students of the Georgia State uni
o versitv. the object of which is to
+ change the custom of making Satur-
f dav half holiday and carry on the
D regular recitations through that day
q and make Monday holiday instead.
s AS it is now, students are compelled
e to study on Sunday in order to pre-,
Il pare for their Mondays recitations
S A ADutch retired captain named Tin
y dal has presented to the chamber
n memorial calling attention to the peril
Gus position of the Hague in case of
n war. 1t is so near the coast that 1T
er could easily be bombarded by fleet.
d The Hague, which is an open town,
D. contains the ministry of war, cannon
d, foundry and garrison of 10, 900 men.
The Portuguese government has
T. ordered by a decree that saccharin,
whether alone or mixed with any other
product, shall be sold by chemists only
- on the prescription of a legally quail
:, fed medical man. Every contraven-
~ ton of this enactment, as well as the
70 employment of saccharin in the manu-
:, facture of sweetmeats and drinks, is
q made punishable by definite penalties.
rs A new departure in the salmon
ly trade is reported from the Pacific
ry coast, where a German firm has con-
ey tracted for forty carloads of salted
of salmon for shipment to Europe. The
r. fish will be treated with just enough
e, salt to keep it in condition during
he transit. On arrival in Germany il
We will be freshened, and then packed in
he tins for sale on the continent.
10 Those VINO find it difficult to keer
IA polished hardwood floors spotless are
er advised to keep number of broom
* covers handy. These covers are made
10 of outing cloth or canton flannel
H. rough side out, and are simply bags &
IN, little longer than the sweeping part o.
'ut the broom and slipped over it and TIED
IL IN with draw string snugly about Tho
as handle. A ruffle, both for looks anC
as dust catcher, is set in across thu
bottom.
m A woman missionary on the Cong'
70 writes that the Sunday service last
,o;- from two to three hours and the lttl
tbe children, getting tired, run outside u
zen play, disturbing the worshlpers ant
oc- cultivating irreverence. One OF tn
COS royal princes at Mandalay, befor
Nd Theebaw's downfall, would know hoy
lar to sympathize with these little blacl
mic folks. He was asked what he though
his of church dedication he had beel
no induced to attend. 'Well," he re
M piled. II wish they had cut it in two
1t was very long time to be withou
cheroot."
rim A conference held in Berlin has dc
res. cided that in Germany children shal
ical not be employed under IL years Q
he age, and then only for SIX hours da
up to fourteen. Women and childre
like are not to be employed in mines, an
cue working on Sunday is to be prohibit
ed for women and children. 1t
probable that the continental wor
neople of both sexes will be great
IS benefited as result of the confer
usi ence.
49, The most northerly railway in til
~ world is that one now building b.
~, tween Sweden and Norway. 1t run
vhp from Lulea, little town at the to
,nos of the Gulf of Bothnia, to Elvegaar'
10 fort on the Atlantic in the ford {
ta., Ofoten. The works are frequentl
estp stopped on account of the severity {
- the climate, but it is hoped that IL
his line will be opened in 1891. 1t is
,,ad British enterprise, owned and col
-''N' structed by British capitalists.
Lucky Number.
ome Mother (to young son VINO mas Oe
wear dining with the helshporsl-Ilau 70