News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-10-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

New York IS reputed to eat 6O,OOO
bushels of huckleberries every season.
Some watches now made are guaran.
teed to keep time to within ten seconds
a month.
A Newark gentleman advertises for
wife "who is pretty, but entirely igno.
rant of the fact"
Georgia has a hooking bird which
can not only talk, but whistle almost
any tune it hears.
An English paper asserts that ,OO0,-
600 bonnets were sold in London during
one week recently.
Marshal Augereau was the son of n
grocer, and left that business to enlist
as a private soldier.
An electric cycle, which was guaran-
teed to run twenty-eight miles without
recharging, cost $500.
Tireless industry, so cultivated as to
become a sustained habit of life, is an
evidence of character.
If the garden spiders break and de-
stroy their webs and creep away expect
rain or showery weather.
The tallest man living today is said to
be Chang Tu Ling, the Chinese giant.
His height Is feet 3 iuchcs.
During a lifetime of observation one
sees many changes in the customs and
sentiments of people and nations.
A few drops of sweet oil will greatly
help the running of the carpet sweeper,
sewing machine and clothes wringer.
A Geneva matchmaker has invented
talking clock that can be so adjusted
that it will invite the counting young
man to stay to breakfast.
John N. Hutchinson, of Richmond,
Ind, has met with twenty-five accidents
in the last ten years. Both of his arms
have been broken, several ribs fractured,
his head crushed and one of his legs
broken.
Never dispute woman or coax a man.
The electrotype was the work of Spen-
Ger in 1887.
A rainbow in the morning is the shep-
herds warning.
The father of George Frederick Han
del was a country doctor.
If bats hutter and beetles fly about,
there will be fine weather.
There is no motion of progression so
| delightful as riding on horseback.
A paste made Of equal parts of lard
and powdered chalk will cure corns.
1t is asserted that the oldest building
in the world is the Tower of London.
While slicing ham lady in Pottstown,
Pa, found a silver thimble embedded
| therein.
The drive well, one of the simplest OF
inventions, has yielded its inventor
$4,000, 900 in royalties.
For the earache, drop one drop OF
sweet oil up in the ear and place piece
of cotton in the outer ear.
Experts say that dalmatian powder
shaken over flower beds will drive away
nearly all kinds of insects.
Herod the Great was the first Hebrew
king who imported into his realm Ro
man modes of ''society life"
At an ordinary temperature mercury
in an equal quantity in bulk weighs
about two-thirds more than gold.
Emerson "made every man give hin
of his best" Montague declared that
! listening is the better half of CONVEX
sation."
The Indian exhibit at the Worlds fail
will include representatives of every
| tribe from the extreme north to Terra
del Fuego.
A semaphore post on which three mel
were at work in England was pulled
over by q locomotive that came along
and became entangled in the wire stays
/ One of the men was killed and the other,
were mortally hurt.
Socrates was the son of day laborer
Women love to believe the lies mer
tell them.
Shoemaking machines were invented
by Gallahue in 1853.
A tree which supplies butter grows il
Ashantee, western Africa.
For every foot of stature man should
weigh twenty-six pounds.
The father of the great Tintoretto wa!
a matchmaker and jeweler.
The circular saw was devised by Bent
ham, an Englishman, in 1890.
The rent of land in England 300 year
ago was about shilling an acre.
If green blinds are dingy and fadeC
wash and rub on little sweet oil.
The French eat frogs, snails and tn
larvae of several species of caterpillars.
There are $50 mountains in the UniteC
States, that exceed 10000 feet in height
If there be many falling stars on
clear evening in the summer there vii
be thunder.
A person naturalized under an as
sumed name can give title to propert.
in that name.
Strawberries one foot in circumference
are claimed to be quite common nea
Colville, Wash.
However witty you may be, neve
pun upon any name but your own, AM
seldom upon that.
Macaulay was forty-seven when h
began the brilliant fragment known a
the History of England"
Rather more than five matches pc
head for the whole population are use'
daily in the United States.
The father of Collins was a halter
who used often to reprove his son TO
lack of attention to business.
Poplar trees are being cut down IL
Fresno county, Cal, because they draw
too much on the fertility of the soil.
In California peach stones are foun'
to burn as well as the best coal, an'
weight for weight to give out more heat
A tribal law in Mashena, centra
Africa, DEGREES the death by drowning
of twin babies Immediately after they
are born.
| Girls nisIike to BE PatrOniZed.