News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-10-18
OF REAL INTEREST.

Oriental physicians practiced :acci-
nation over 1000 years ago. !,
The Tarta alphabet contains 9O2
letters, being the longest in he
world
A Vienna scientist has written a
learned article to prove that dogs
laugh.
Danish lighthouses are supplied with
oil to pump on the waves during a
storm.
In the United States 100000 cubic
feet of pine is used annually in max
ing matches.
The price of fuel at Shanghai, Chi
ma. is seldom more than about $40
per ton for foreign coal.
When a chameleon is blindfolded it
loses all power of changing it's color,
and its entire body remains of a uni
form tint.
There is a rosary in the British
museum made of the vertebrate of
snakes backbone Another is COM
posed OF rats teeth.
German production of pig iron in
the first half of the current year was
100000 tons, against 100000 in the
same time in 1898.
Of the vatican's 1000 rooms, Pope
Leo has reserved for his personal use
only three-a small parlor, little
dining room and bedroom.
At a recent meeting of the Russian
Academy Of Sciences, Prof. Dills adj
vocated the use of English as a uni
versal language for men of science.
American farmers own cows to the
value of 1859, 239 1893, a sum equal to
more than one-half of the capital Of
all the national banks in the United
States.
A shellfsh known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curious
power of spinning a viscid silk, which
is made in Italy into regular fabric.
Jerusalem is now nothing but a
shadow of the magnificent city of an
cient times. It is about three miles in
circumference. and is situated on
rocky mountain.
The spruce gum crop of Maine, the
largest in the States history, in the
neighborhood of thirty tons, worth
about 500 000 has been harvested and
sent to market.
1t is now proposed to construct
canal connecting Germany with Euro
pean Turkey. The financial success
of the Kiel canal has given rise to
this project.
The art of self-defense is inculcated
early among some of the wilder tribes
of the Caucasus, who instruct their
children as soon as they can walk in
the Use of the dagger.
An enterprising western firm Is
making arrangements to set up mod
eru American sawmill in China where
lumber is still sawed by the primitive
methods of century ago. !!
Peter A. Porter, of Niagara Falls,
N. Y, claims to have proved by care
full study that 1t was Champlain and
not Cartier who made the first refer
ence to Niagara Falls in literature.
The authorities in Algeria gave $40,-
900 toward fighting the grasshoppers.
In one section 5000 camels were en-
ployed to carry the material for burn
ing over the places where eggs had
been deposited.
The Italian statistician, Luigi Be-
do, reports in the Gionale Degli Econ
omists that the Italian railways car
ried in 1897 nearly 12,500,00 foreign
passengers, of whom 6,219,S13 trav-
eled first class, 5,6SS444 second and
only $4,000 third
In Nelson New ZealandJ If you use
the telephone you must not give the
number; you must name the party
you want, and the exchange girl will
cheerfully tell you whether he is in or
out; If the latter, where he is and
when he will be back.
A German officer has invented an
acetylene searchlight which can be
carried by one man and which will IL
illuminate everything within a dis
lance Of 100 yeards. 1t is expected
to be of great use in searching for
the wounded after battle and In
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