News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-11-12
ODDS AND ENDS.
Paris has 1871, 900 foreigners.

Paris has 181, 900 foreigners.
England has ~, 1913 Irish soldiers.
Colorado bids fair to rival California
in fruit growing.
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with a sour stomach.
Lake Erie produces more fish to the
square mile than any body of water in
the world
VI the immigrants to this country
Germany sends more than twice as
many as Ireland
Africa is now completely encircled
by submarine cables, which make up
altogether a length of 1900 miles.
The man who invariably whistles
does little thinking. But he keeps
other people thinking, just the same.
The shoes worn by Luther at the diet
OF Worms are preserved with reverent
care in the Historical museum at ORES
! den.
a temperature of 220 degrees below
zero has been produced by bath Of
carbon bisulphfde and liquid nitrous
acid
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pa
triot, has just entered his ninetieth
year. He is in fair health in his Italian
home
Nelson Oleson, a rich Swede living
near Monet, Mo, killed himself be-
cause his wife wouldn't make bread to
suit him.
Auctioneers' fees in this country and
in England are paid by the seller. In
France and Holland the purchaser
pays them.
japanese artists produce colors of ex
quisite beauty, as we'll as great Inallea-
bility, by addi~s to their ornamental
bronzes a little gold.
The first steel car for postal purposes
was run 270, 900 miles and went through
five smashups at a cost for repairs of
only forty-two dollars.
Recent researches in medicine show
that persons having a tendency to
equity troubles generally improve more
rapidly when they eat no fruit.
For blind staggers in horses the proc
ess of bleeding at the mouth has been
superseded by that of applying am,
monia to the nostrils by means of a
sponge or cloth.
The Countess of Dudley was a shop
girl.
Wellesley college opened this year
with 700 students.
The power plant at the Worlds fail
will be equal to "a, 000 horse power.
Murray hill girls drink vichy or lemon
phosphate at the soda fountain.
The United States imports more gum
| for making varnish than any other
country.
More than 50, 900, 900 of English cap
ital has been invested in the tin mine
of South Dakota.
The price of aluminium has fallen
during the last three years from -four
dollars to less than one dollar pei
pound.
The half thoughts of the foolish, put
into words, are often the levers that
move the wise to think in silence and
then act
Cheapside street, London, is trav-
ersed by Is, 000 and Mansion House
street by about %, 900 vehicle daily.
Books remained very scarce and ex-
pensive until after the introduction OF
paper made from linen and. the inven
ton of printing.
Clear summer sunlight is said to pen
citrate the Mediterranean sea to a depth
0f 200 feet; winter sunlight to only
600 feet.
In the United States the losses by
bankruptcy are increasing by leaps and
bounds. In NS89 they were 1913, 292,
975 and last ."r e1r3,18e;f15.
Berlin's - ity for the Homeless last
year provided shelter for 100, 900 mer
and $1,000 women. In the clever
years of its existence it has furnished
lodgings, food and medical care tc
| 1920. 900 persons.