News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-12-24
ODDS AND ENCS.
Germany has 1O2, 900 socialist votes.

Uefldny has luz, UOO SOcIdIlSO NOVo''
Colorado has 20, 900 square miles OF
coal.
Eight Epglishmen, each worth over
81, 900, 900, died last year.
Two hundred and twenty women are
now in the Harvard annex.
1t is said that four-fifths of all the
hailstorms occur in the daytime.
The first strike in this country was
le sailors strike of New York in 1902.
Versailles, Mo-, claims a vein of coal
eighty feet thick.-the thickest vein on
earth
Beautiful silver candlesticks, eighteen
inches high, are shown in Corinthian
columns.
A dealer in artificial limbs estimates
that 80, 900 Britons have lost one or
both legs.
Rosa Bonheur is at work on her
painting of Buffalo Bits Indians and
| buffaloes.
Even a good woman is morS
| ated at realizing that sh11
| than that she loves,
Harvard cals
has graduated II,
more than half of N
In a Kansas City chufcn~
held between workingmen and capiSll.
lists on economic questions of the day.
AS long as the devil can make sin
seem to be profitable he won't have
much trouble in getting recruits for his
army.
1t is reported from Augsburg that DIR.
Lehner, a chemist, has invented an ar
tificial silk which will be manufactured
on a large scale.
While Londoner has to pay twenty
pounds year for the use of telephone,
in Edinburgh the same facilities can be
had for half that amount.
The king of Greece is about thirty
five years old. He has a complexion
as clear as a babys and speaks with
fuency dozen languages.
A new naphtha spring Of immense
capacity was recently opened in Bakoo,
Russia If it continues with the same
power as at present it will be the rich
est naphtha fountain in the world.
Trees Near the House.
A reliable authority on matters re-
lating to the aspect and surroundings
of a house considers that no single
tree should stand within some feet of
it, no garden within several yards and
no woodland, with its carpet of decay
ing leaves, within at least half mile.
This last estimate might well, it is
thought, be reduced by one-half, and
perhaps twelve to fifteen feet might be
taken as the smallest distance which
should intervene between tree and
house. With this qualification the
proximity of trees to dwelling house
is distinctly beneficial. To insure a
pure and fragrant atmosphere, ''you
must" says a writer on the subject,
'accept from nature those tall, green
chimneys called trees which imbibe
and carry aloft into the air those hurt
full gases which, if admitted to the
lungs and brain, might disease the for
mer and obstruct the delicate move
ments of the latter"
AT various points in the country may
be observed houses which, in spite of
faulty situation, are yet generally
healthy, chiefly because they are en-
vironed with trees which shelter them
from the cold winds of winter and
spring and in summer prevent that
sudden and rapid evaporation which
after heavy rains may generate disease.
A most striking example of the use of
trees in preserving and promoting
health occurred some years ago. AS
the story goes, man, along the ex-
tremity of whose garden ran ditch,
received no injury from its proximity,
till, in an unfortunate hour, thick
row of elders which grew upon the
brink was cut down. Almost imme-
diately low fever attacked the family,
and not only reduced them to state
of great weakness, but returned at
short intervals, till they removed to
another locality. Eagle.