News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-18
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Commissioner Blount has ben ap-
pointed minister resident to Hawaii.
With Worlds Columbian exposi-
ton at one end of the town and a
cinnamon bear hunt at the other,
Chicago is preserving its reputation
for vivacity and variety.
The tenth anniversary of the open
ing of Brooklyn bridge will be cele-
brated on the 24th of this month. |
The bridge was fifteen years in build |
ing and is now used by 100000 !
people annually.
Warm Vermont maple sugar is to
be served at the worlds fair, under
direction of Supt. Whitman. How
the lips of the al en- multi ude will
smack when moistened by that de- |
locus substance direct from Yer
mont.
EX-Secretary Fairchild declines to
serve on the commission to investi- |
gate the New York custOm-hOuse. |
MIR. Fairchild states that his business
engagements will not permit him to |
accept the position rendered by Sec !
rotary Carlisle.
Reports from thirty of the sixty |
two internal revenue districts giving |
the number of Chinese who have |
registered, which has been received at |
the treasury department, show that |
3,043 Chinese have complied with the
law.
The wealth of he United States
was never so great as it is to-day. |
The resources at the command of the |
United States Gov, rnment are prac-
tically unlimited There is no reason |
why any American citizen should be |
disturbed by the clamOr of alarmists. |
The new leather trust is reported |
as having a capital variously esti-
mated from $120, 100000 to $780,
900. 900. Whatev r the figures, it is
one of the biggest combines ever or
ganized. And rigi:t in the face of
Democratic dmiListratiOn and its
professed hostility to trusts!
The Philadelphia Centennial expo
sition opened just thirteen years ago,
and the total number of admissions
at the gates during the season were
100000. The receipts wer 50 ,S13,
| 1913. The question is how far the
show at Chicago is going to surpass
this in point of patronage. 1t has
got to DO a great deal peter in order
to begin to pay the expenses.
The new Cunarder Campania ar
rived last week from New York, max
ing the passage in five days II hours
and 40 minutes, the quhEest east
ward passage on record. The best
previous eastward record was held
by the City of New York and was five
days and 10 hours and 81 minutes.
A Wyoming editor has patented a
plan for a railroad which ne claims
will work easier, sWifter, with less
noise and less dust, than any system
make a hundred miles an hour on it.
This is another proof of the wisdom
of the remark that what a newspaper
man can't turn his hand to isn't
worth considering by ordinary NOR
| tails.
May 81 has been set apart as
wheelman's day" at the Worlds
Fair. There will be a parade by BIZ
cyclists through the grounds from
| 10 to 11:30 a. M, and from $50 to
10 p. m. All bicyclers, whether be-
longing to clubs or not, will be allow
ed to take part. 1t is expected that
there will be nearly 10000 wheelmen
in line.
Nearly half of the village of Spring
Lake on the Detroit Grand Haven
and Milwaukee railroad and on the
Grand river. two miles above Grand
Haven, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day. Two churches, the residences of
William Gee, James Emery and fifty
smaller houses were burned Eighty
families are without a home. The
loss will foot up 100000.
Kansas has solved the tramp ques-
ton. Women justices of the peace in
that state sentence a lazy, dirty,
good-for-nothing tramp to thirty
days Imprisonment for vagrancy
and two baths a day. This settles
him, for the genuine tramp hates
water as much as a cat does. WOm-
ans wit is equal to most emergencies
and by means of it the tramp nui-
sance is fast bein e washed out of
Kansas.
1t is estimated that the ''shrinkag
in values" in Wall street since the re-
cent excitement is over 100000, 900.
This is more apparent than real,
however. The shrinkage is on paper.
The properties represented are about
as valuable as before. Booming
fancy stocks for speculative purposes
adds nothing to the actual posses
| siOns of the country, and when the
air is let out of the balloon no BARN
is done except to those foolish enough
to invest in such shaky property.
E. A. MACEDONIA d of Toronto, Cana
da, who has been in New York for a
few weeks, has, it is said, organized a
syndicate to construct an aqueduc t
from Georgian Bay to Toronto, 60
miles, to supply Toronto with domes-
tic water and motive power. The
plan also involves the construction
of the ship and canal projected over
40 years ago by the late Mr.. Capreol
and others, to shorten the route 40
miles between Chicago and New York
The plan contemplates the ex pendi-
ture of over $50,000,000.
Amateur photogra pliers do not
fare well at the worlds fair Only
small hand cameras are admitted to
the grounds, and these only on the
payment of two dollars per day.
The exposition managers are running
the photographing business them
selves, and do not propose to have
their profits reduced by competition,
even of the amateur kind. Another
cause of complaint is that their
charges resemble those of the expo
sitiOn restaurants, but the visitors
can get along without pictures, while
they must have food.