News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

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A broken finger will thrive away all
recollections of an empty chair.
The time when woman has no mercy
is when she gets a mouse in a trap.
Vienna has its Lazy club, no member
of which does anything for living.
Nothing holds more divine inspiration
for an author than generous check.
Naphtha is good for cleaning kid
gloves, but keep it away from the fire.
: Compressed air is to be used for run
ming the street cars in Leavenworth,
Kan.
Shelley's first marriage was unfortu-
nate, but his second was model of hap
piness.
excellent quality of paper can be made
from sagebrush.
Rev. H. F. Tozer has discovered GER
tain underground rock hewn churches
in southern Italy.
Over $3.50 worth of gold was collected
in 1885 from the SCOT of the chimney in
the London mint.
1t is estimated that about 80, 900 horses
were ousted from street car service last
year by electricity.
Love never picks out two cent piece
from a purse full of gold coins to put in
the collection basket
Ordinary sticking plaster makes a
good remedy for corns, as it keeps them
soft and prevents the rubbing.
A Cincinnati court has decided that it
is libelous to call man who neglects to
pay his tailor's bill "a delinquent"
One of the millionaires of New York
| city, Mr.. Fl. q. Marquand, has a bill
| lard table which is stated to have cost
| $4,000.
Baron Hirsch is said to be worth $780,
| 900, 900, which he has made chiefly out
| of his contracts for building Turkish
railroads.
Firefies, it is said, are employed in
some of the West Indies for lighting
purposes, being confined in glass Ian
terms for that object.
After eating heartily of hailstones
which fell on Saturday, a Scottsburg
| Qnd.) girl was taken violently sick and
died soon after. The doctors say she
was poisoned. and the hailstones prob
ably killed her.
Chicago has a cooperative bakery.
Self respect is the cornerstone of all
! virtue.
New friends and new faces are not
like those of the old.
A horsefy will live for hours after the
head has been pinched off.
There are 10, 900 organized brass bands
in the state of Pennsylvania.
A first class steamship of one of the
great lines costs nearly $2,OO0,OOO.
There are 100000 acres of land in
Great Britain devoted to orchards.
Ammonia as motive power is COM
ing into use ON various street car lines.
General U. S. Grant, when young
man, canvassed for ''Irving's Column
bus"
Try taking your cod liver oil in to-
mato catchupif you want to make it pal
atable.
For slight burns dip the part in cold
water; if the skin is destroyed cover
with varnish.
| Thales, the wise man, showed the true
cause Of the moons eclipse about the
year 600 B. c.
J Printing was invented at Mentz, by
Gutenberg, in 1850; introduced into
England in 1471.
Actors were so much admired by the
late DR.. Morell Mackenzie that he never
charged them for medical advice.
Michael Shea, of indianapolis, had
been nearly ninety years at the forge
| when 1892 came. He was 40 years old
Oct. %, 1891.
The word "mews," meaning a sort OF
alleyway, is common in London. 1t is
seen only once in New York-in Uni
versity place, just north of Washington
square.
There is in the yard of P. Peek, Oh
First street, at Palatka, Fla, quite q
curiosity in the shape of an orange tree
only seven inches in height, but contain
ing perfect orange.
Great Britain has 100000 wage
earners.
Wordsworth, Dickens and Longfellow
were immense pedestrians.
Pickles may be greened with cabbage
leaves. Never use coloring.
A pillow exhibited in 1891 at Fryeburg,
Me-, had been in use 115 years.
1t is said that preachers boys are
worse than anybody else's boys.
For poison oak, battle in cream and
gunpowder twice day till cured.
At one crossing in Chicago 1856 loco
motives pass every twenty-four hours.
That leisure is wasted which is not
made to yield improvement of some
sort.
The first contract for lighting the
Worlds fair grounds calls for $500 arc
lamps.
Chinese boatmen in dead calm set pa
per boats afloat in order to secure a
breeze.
Remember that shipshape means a
place for everything, and everything in
its right place.
Arrangements are being made to lay a
cable from Nassau to Jupiter inlet, on
the coast of Florida.
In February, 1892, Aunt Jennie
Alden had lived 100 years in the Cutler
| place at Morristown, N. j.
Hickory Jim, 1.-The oldest race horse
in the world" was running at Gutten-
! burg in 1892, aged about o.
Connecticut last year took out more
patents in proportion to population than
any other state in the Union
Norfolk is said to be the center of the
worlds peanut industry, which amounts
to millions of dollars annually.
How many are careful to distinguish
between a healthy, vigorous imagina-
ton from mere reverie or dreamy rehec-
ton?
A pendulum stops when it gets to one
end of its swing and starts to return.
but the time of the stoppage is infinitely
short.
To make pies or biscuit nice color,
moisten the top of them with little
sweet milk just before they are put into
| the oven.
The longest bridge in America is II
trestle work over portion of Lake
| Pontchartrain. 1t is nearly twenty-five
miles long.