News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
ODDS AND ENDS

Black coffee is now suggested as a
cure for consumption.
The gold of the world in com ana
wares is II, 600 tous, worth 81, foO,ooO'-
O0O The annual loss is two tons; the
mines yield yearly 121 tons.
At St. Malo, France, between D ana
d o'clock in the afternoon, many per-
fectly reputable inhabitants ST" three
suns, all in a row, above the western
horizon. The sky was very clear at
the time.
To buv q mine for bad debt OF $50
and sell it within dozen years Tor
$1,000, 900 sounds like story OF the
old bonanza days. 1t is the fortune
which came to the Montana man who
owned the Lexington mine.
An electric railway in Siam has been
incorporated and will be built at once
from Bangkok to Paknam, distance
of thirty miles. This road IS to cost
$500. 900, and Siamese capital VIII
alone be used. An electric light com
nanv has also been organized and the
plant ordered for Bangkok.
A new miners electric lamp, weigh
mo only three and one-haH pounds
and capable of giving one and one
half candle power light for ten hours,
has been made by an English inventor.
The accumulation of four cells is con-
tanned in a wooden box five and one
half inches high, in front of which, IN
a strong glass dome, is the lamp bulb
and a reflector.
A New York philanthropist has in
vestigated $50 complaints against gas
companies, all charging chicanery or
dishonesty, and he reports that he did
not find one single instance where a
company willfully sought to defraud.
He adds that no business in the world
is conducted on more straightforward
principles.
4 young Chicago man whose firm
sent him to Louisville to look after
their interests after the recent cyclone
there returned last week In his eX-
pense account was an item that read
like this: Carriage, $45." The young
gentleman felt embarrassed when q
member of the firm asked: "What did
YOU do with the carriage? Did you
fetch it home with you?"
The trunk of a rose bush growing at
Ventura, Cal, is said to be three feet
in circumference and the first branch
it throws out is twenty-one inches IL
circumference. 1t runs over lattice
work, and though more than wagon
load of boughs have been removed ii
covers a space of about 1,2OO square
feet. It yields thousands of flowers
and is IA years old.
Some experiments by Professor
Baeckel, of Marseilles, show that kols
is a drug of extraordinary power O
! stimulation. The colonel of a regl
ment at Perpignan, dosed with kola
| made the ascent of the Canlgon noun
tain, 9,137 feet, and felt quite fresf
after his climb, which lasted twelve
hours. He only halted once, and fol
twenty minutes, and ate nothing.
Justice Stephen J. Field is the poor,
| S-~
s11nreme bench, and yet he is several
removes from being hard up. HIS resi-
dence is one of the finest IN Washing
! ton.
Ladies' cooking schools are the rage
all over England, at tuition prices o.
from $50 to 800 per twenty lessons
according to the grade of cooking
which the pupil desires to learn. LIZ
Scotland the craze has assumed popu
lar form and lessons are given by the
dozen as low as fifty cents to one dollar
Marshal MacMahon is in favor OF
retaining the red trousers OF the
French soldiers. He says that the fuss
made about them is altogether toe
great, because future fighting must be
at long range, and red is a color which
/ Ks lost sight of at a comparatively short
| distance.
The custom of lifting the hat had it!
origin when it was customary fol
knights never to appear in public ex
cept in full arnor. 1t became the Gus
tom, however, for a knight, upon en-
tering an assembly of friends, to remove
his helmet, signifying, II am safe il
the presence of my friends"
H. P. Hopkins, of New York, aver
that every time he churns unripe crear
he loses He says: when cream is
trife acid it is sufficiently ripened.
prefer a conclusion churn to the frictio
churn. White specks in butter com
from coagulation of the milk, which sci
ties to the bottom of the cans. The
should be washed out properly"
lie leaves OF the pawpaw tree ar
employed by the negroes in washin
linen, as a substitute for soap. The
have also the property of rendering
meat wrapped in them tender, owini
to the alkalOid papain which they con
tain, and which acts as a solvent.
A French company has been forme
for the purpose of setting up secon
Monte Carlo on the BospOrus at Set
tart. which will be paved, beautitie
and electric lighted. The sultan ha
ALWAYS. in response to diplomatic pre-:
SIRE. refused to allow gaming tables g
COnStantlnOple, DuG IHeTe eAloIo hOP
that lie will relent for the other side
the Bosporus.
One of DR.. Talmage's Converts.
: The captain of the Iroquois and tn
purser of the same steamer are bot
Brooklyn men. The former, Capt. I
w. Pennington, is an enthusiastic &C
nirer of DR.. Talmage and q membe
of his congregation. Tallnage calls hill