News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-07
ODDS AND ENDS.
Oyster white is n new tint.

Langulnlte Is Il new metal.
The ruby and the diamond are always
IN fashion.
Spiders are seven times stronger in
proportion than lions.
AS the cook said to the dough, This
IS my hour of knead."
Modern pessimism is ancient Calvin
ism with God left out.
OF the Gj7 existing kinds of reptiles
DO species are harmless.
The buildings for the Worlds fair will
occupy t~wenty-nine acres.
Senator Plumb subscribed to every
newspaper published in Kansas.
We find happiness while we are pur-
suing it and lose it after we reach it.
Nicholson has calculated the velocity
of light to be ls6, 800 miles per second.
Many a woman makes "A man perfectly
wretched because she loves him so much.
Moore's wife was one of the noblest
creatures, and he tired of singing
her praises.
Griefs are ever coming to us with the
coming hours, and Our little strength is
only rs the day.
a few weeks agoa trapper near Blaine,
Neb., caught a beaver weighing nearly
a hundred pounds.
The dog that bays the moon is wiser
than the one that bays a bigger dog that
is viciously inclined.
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while lying in bed wrapped up to the
ears in the ~bedcovers.
If the hair is very greasy, try washing
it in warm water in which a pinch of
borax has been dissolved.
Chronographs are now being made
that are capable of measuring to the
ten-thousandth part of a second.
A wild grapevine was cut down in
Iowa that had a trunk fifteen inches in
circumference one foot above the ground.
Improved engine practice has caused
the adoption of a mechanical device for
constant feeding Of fuel to the furnaces.
A little sugar added to beets. corn.
squash, peas, etc, during or after cook
ing will improve them, particularly if
poor.
Monroe county Miss farmers have
265 acres planted in peppermint this
season. 1t is said to yield n handsome
profit.
Wuthapesatuchqussu u
is the word the Apostle Eliot had to use
to designate the act Of kneeling to the
Indians.
At a church fair in High Bridge, n. j.,
oyster soup was served to a lady. After
supping a few spoonfuls she found a val
liable pearl in her mouth. The oyster
of which the soup had been made has
not yet been discovered.
Bees W. store up honey where it is
light.
Petersburg. Ind, hasn't a vacant
house.
A good dinner brings out all the softer
side of a man.
Love is the axle grease that makes the
wheels go round.
The first condition of Il full develop
ment of woman is health.
The population of Boston is said to in
crease by 10000 every year.
That half a teaspoonful Of sugar gives
. fine flavor to brown gravy.
A German countess is the cook in a
New York restaurant kitchen.
There are many things in most mems
lives that had best be forgotten.
To cleanse white zephyr shawls rub
well with dry flour and hang in the wind.
Don't fatty refuse to pay a bill and
fondly cherish the belief that that set
ties it.
Tolstoi's lean and cadaverous look at
tracted much attention while he was in
Paris recently.
Wasps, bees and ants have social and
political organizations quite rs complex
Us those of men.
A procession of black ants is said to be
a presage of a funeral in all but one or
two of the West Indies.
The giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome during the reign Of
Claudius Caesar, was ten feet high.
Inc new remedy lof cOhsuinptlNe pa
tents, called chlophenol, is said to have
shown remarkably good results in Italian
hospitals.
A miniature model of the Brooklyn
bridge is to be built across the main
driveway in Golden Gate park. San
Francisco.
The department of public works Of
New York city laid 800, 14S square yards
of granite pavement and 15l, l02 of
asphalt last year.