News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-12-12
STATE ITEMS.

"The round schoolhcuse of Brool line.
which has an interest for mary Ncwfane
| teachers for its age and associations. was
| probably built Z years ago. 1t is said that
there is but Que other round school house in
the state.
Tho fifth reported incendiary fire in Bran
don IN a few months occurred Sunday when
the barn of Dr.. D. W. Primes in Rossiter
| Place was burned This is the second barn
of Dr.. Prmos' that Las been destroyed.
There has been no Iublic Investigate, as
! yet.
Hardwi,k was the first town to take ad-
vantage of the new state library law. d lay
! ing the oreauiz alton of it's library awhile
| to enable it 10 claim the states donation.
| Books for the library have now arrived and
will be ready tor public use as soon as they
can be catalogued.
The state Sunday school association of
! Vermont recently adopted strong reso lutions
on temperance and called upon all Sunday
school workers, pastors, nId teachers to use
| every mea in their power to raise up from
these under heir teaching u temper auce army
who shall speak for tenn eraIce iparleselv,
vote for it always, pray for it tervenlly, and
! fight for it stubbornly
Damon War of North Troy killed pig
! last week, but only after a struggle which lett
! him bruised bloody and angry. The pOrcine
| victim resisted Warmers attack ard in the
struggle Warner was thrown down. He
struck piee Of wood in his fall, smashed
his nose, 81 lit his Up and Knocked out a
tooth. The pig was killed alter Warren had
! repaired his own damages.
! The New York World last Sunday had an
iustI ated ar icle, four columns in length, on
/ the life and experience of Victoria N rosini,
he daughter Of the New York banker VINO
clipped with her fat hers cOaclman, nine years
, a o, afterwards went on the stage, and then
| dssal peared. According to the World she is
living as boarder in the convent Of the
Sisters OF st. Joseph's, in Rutlal d.
| Otis Barrett, a student in the University of
/ Vermont, class of 90, has curious erua-
ment in his room which indicates much plug
! ging." 1t is a roll OF paper containing the
words for imam" in 700 languages. Three
hundred OF the 700 are African He also has
the numerals of PAT languages up to 10 ex-
cfpting "a few which have but five umel ais.
I his is all original work. accomplished in
| spare moments
! N. P. Leach, chairman of the committee of
the introduction of new kinds of game into
! the state, has received a lot of Monaghan
| pheasants. These game birds will he kept in
confinement and their Eggs distributed to
different parts of the state, where The eggs
will be set under the ordinary domestic hens
: al u Jne young DlruS released 10 SGOcK our
forests. The committee has en- route a lot of
West Virginia quail and sharp ia gr use, etc
The Eighth Annual Report of the Vermont
Experiment Station has ju been issued from
| the pre- s The book contains 200 pages in
GLIDING several illustrations al articles upon
bovine tuberculosis, commercial feItiliz rs,
| big feeding, spraying potatoes and orchards,
| prevention OF potato scab il srcts and insecti-
cides, experiments in Bookkeeping, and upon
mi ceIlaneous dairy hu jets, including iced
ing tests with ensillge corn fodder, corn sto-
yer, fodder corn Robertson mkt re roots
etc. and tests Of dairy apparatus. Bulletin
| AZ will also be issued in t e near future. II
j treats upon gluten feeds and meals, their
source composition, and feeding value. 1t is
the most complete description OF these mate
rails that has yet been published in this state
! There is undoubtedly much information of
value to the farmer in both these publica-
tions. They may be obtained free OF charge
on apr licatiOn to the Ext efment Station,
! Burlington, Vt.
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