News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-25
A Little of Everything.

nels.
China has many stone bridges 1000
years old.
The coast survey of the United
States was begun in 1917.
The black diamond is so hard that
it cannot be polished.
Every gem known to jewelers. has
been found in the United States.
A man in Evansville, Ind, who Is
suing for divorce is the father Of "a
daughters.
A Galveston artesian we'll was
sunk 5000 feet without encountering
either rock or water.
The tomb of Mahomet is covered
with diamonds, sapphires and rubies
valued at S10,000,000.
Some of the Comstock mines are
so deep that no means have yet been
devised to overcome the excessive
heat.
Taking the earth all over into con-
sderation, the amount of rain that
falls on its surface comes to about
five feet annually.
A number of workmen who we're
1 drilling an artesian well at Centre
vile, Ia, tapped a subterranean cav
ity at n depth of nearly 600 feet that
was completely filed with live bats
of the common gray species and of
extraordinary size.
The best example of stone bridge
in the United States isthe high bridge
of the Croton aqueduct. Its length
| is 1860 feet, the top of parapet 116
feet above high water; there are 10
arches, 8 of which have an SO-foot
! span.
The salaries of the British ambass-
adors are: To this country S35 900
a year; France, $45, 900; to Austria,
100000; to Turkey, $4,000; t.
Russia, $50 900; to Germany, S37 -
| 800 to Italy, $35 900: TO Spain
$27, 500. The British nmbnssndors
$ have also Official residences.
Two negroes i'm cutting a great tree
i'm a swamp near Snow Hill, Me, the
other day, came upon an old cannon
ball completely imbedded i'm the
trunk. The tree measured three feet
in diameter, and much of it's growth
had taken place since the ball found
lodgment in the trunk. There has
been no artillery firing in that region
since the Revolutionary war.
Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead
fame, says; "Over $270,O00 worth
of material has been dumped into the
river which has been spoiled in eXper-
imenting in making ingots, and over
| 81 100000 worth of machinery has
been destroyed by this unskilled la
bor This is n great deal Of money
for even a Carnegie to lose. Besides
this he lost all the big jobs given him
by the government, aud his old men
are getting them out in o'her mills.
As another result of his trouble Mr..
Carnegie has given up his space at
the Worlds Fair.
A Hungarian inventor claims to
be able to spin ordinary wood pulp
or cellulose into yarn, from which all
sorts of textile tissues can be made
in the ordinary way, equaling in du-
rability, appearance and iastness of
color the best cotton goods. III his
scheme is practicable il will revolu-
tionize the textile industry. Ii il
claimed the method is applicable not
only to cellulose, but to every sort
of short fibrous material, rags, scraps
of cotton and linen goods and the
like, and the fiber can be dyed before
being spun into yarn.
The latest issue of the American
Newspaper directory shows that
there is list of 10000 American
publications, which is n gain of j ,292
over that of 1892. OF this number
932 are published i'm New York city,
comprising dailies, weeklies, month
lies, magazines and organs devoted
to almost every trade industry or
profession. There is no better evil
dence that New York is a great cos
mopolitan city than n study of the
papers that are published in thatcity
in foreign languages. The list is as
follows: Spanish, ?, Hebrew, 3, l
daily; French, 6, daily; Italian, 4,
2 dailies Scandinavian, 4 Bohem-
ian, 3, daily; Polish, 3, l daily;
Russian, 2; Portuguese, 2; and one
each in the following languages: Ar
menian, Slavonic, Nolapuk and Ara
bic.
The best way to get rid of rats and
| nice Is uOb 10 pOlsOu lHeils bub W
make them thoroughly tired of the
locality and so induce them TO leave.
They are generally too smart TO eat
poison, even when it is prepared for
their benefit in the most seductive
fashion, but they are not particular
about tartar emetic. When a little
of this is mixed with any favorite
food they will eat as greedily as
though the physic were not there,
but in two or three hours there will
be the most discouraged lot of rats
about the place that anybody ever
saw. The tartar will not kill them,
it only makes them deathly sick. II
you put your ear to their holes, you
can hear them trying to vomit; some
times they will crawl out and walk
about like a seasick man, so i'll that
they do not seem to care what be-
comes of them. But it disgusts them
with the whole vicinity, and, as soon
as they are able to travel, they march
i | off and Won see Them no more