The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-03-10

the hide Of the sea-hon.
Cincinnati has given $4,000 bushels
Of coal 10 its poor tins winter
Garabaldi has sent his photograph
aud autograph to Wendell Phillips.
An abundant crop Of peaches is
for the coming season.
An observatory is to be created on
the 81 m nit Of Mount Blanc, 1900 feet
above the level Of the sea.
A new tunnel. which is to be put
under the Thames, will be constructed
Of cast iron, and cost at the rate OF
$500, 900 per mile,
Since New Years, 1907 emigrants
have arrived in this country. The com
Of emigration have received
$33, 1856, and disbursed $99,822.
An Indianna man, whose brother
disappeared nineteen years ago, has
Just heard of him prospecting Tor gold
in Patagonia.
"A little boy after undergoing the
Job of vaccination exclaimed Now |
won't have to be baptized, will 2"
NO smoking allowed here, said
the steward of Steamboat to an Irish
man. II am not smoking aloud" was
the reply.
The St Paul Press estimates that
the amount of wheat now i'll Minneso-
ia awaiting shipment is 3,l75,000 bush
els.
1t is now proposed to supply Lon
don with water by building an aque-
duet ITO miles long, extending from
the outskirts OF the city to the hills of
Wales.
w. S. Hutchins, the tightening cal
culator, formerly of Barnum's museum,
has invented new air ship which some
Of the greatest aeronauts pronounce
wonderful.
1t is said that the rent of the new
st. James Hotel, Boston, which is to
be opened in March, will be fifty thou
sand dollars per annum, aside from
the interest on the furniture.
Miss Jane Proctor, who was captur-
ed by the Cheyenne Indians twenty
years ago, is now stopping near Empo-
ria, Kansas. She escaped only a short
time since.
"A G llafornia correspondent writing
from San francisco, Feb. s, says 'neie
is no sharp andbitter weather. A little
frost and a little ice, but the roses defy
b 9TH, and bloom on the year round. To-
day is bright and golden day"
"A young farmer of Fairbuilt, Mimi,
won charming maid and took her to
Mendoza, where they were to be mar
ried shortly He left Mendoza on bnsi
ness, leaving 81 100 with the girl, and
was gone twenty-four hours. When
he returned she had departed with the
money and another man.
The first attempt to resort to bills
of credit was made by the Netherlands
in the latter half of the sixteenth cen
tury, during their desperate struggle
with the Spanish crown for indepen-
dence They issued money of paper,
or leatL er, and of many other materials. :"
When the Emperor of Germany
asked witty marquis why it was once
the fashion for Kings to have fools at
court, it was replied Similar minds
seek similar society" The reply cost
the courtier the hatred of the King and
the impairing of his own fortunes.
Rats cannot live in Alaska, because
their holes freeze up solid as fast as the
rats dig them Naturally the rats get
discouraged. At ST Thomas the earth
quakes turn their holes wrong side out
fory-three times minute. This sur
prises the rats, and they leave on the
first steamer.
The winter has been one Of the
hardest known in other countries as
we'll as this. In Algiers the suffering
has been very great In Russia, as we
learn from letter in Paris paper
the cold has been intense. Coachmen
were frozen upon their seats, the z, 8
refused to burn, and the dogs howled
most piteously Men on horseback
went through the streets Of ST. Peters
burg and Moscow, carrying aid to the
unfortunate, and TIE nobility distribut-
ed hot tea in front Of their palaces.
"A Boston lady entering a railroad
car, while since, was politely offered a
seat by its occupant, who arose to give
it to her As there we're unoccupied
seats in the car, the lady declined the
officious offer, and requested the man
to allow her to pass but, at the same
moment, extending her hand to him,
she said, But first give me my wallet r
The theft, taken by surprise, put the
wallet into the extended hand, and
skunk out Of the car
William Cole. who died in Hartford
Sunday night, at the age Of 10, held
his long life as a here ditary possession,
bis father having died at 112, a power
full man TO the last. Cole retained bis
yigor remarkably. could see as well as
at so, and never used spectacles. He
had never habitually drank liquors, but
used tea and coffee and in his later years
little tobaocoin pipe. He was mar
ried three times and bad 10 children.
He felt the failure Of bis system, and
told his wife on Saturday that be would