Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

mere arc % agricultural Soc1etleS IN
the SO counties of Iowa.
One hundred ships of different grades
are in process of building on the lakes.
Except Quito, Ecuador, Georgetown,
Col, is the highest town in the world.
Ice has formed this month on pond
in Cheshire, England. ~
Six thousand men and boys a day
patronize the New York public baths.
Eighty acres in the suburbs of Indi-
annapolis sold, the other day, 100000 |
The Benton Harbor Packing Company,
of Michigan put up 10000 cans of
strawberries this season.
The New York Times has started sub
scriptions for organizing excursions for
poor children.
There was sharp frost at Elko, Ne
vada, the 18th, and ice formed an inch
thick.
The Nashville Union estimates the
peanut crop in middle Tennessee for
1872 at ii, 100000 bushels.
The prairies near Ellsworth, Kansas,
are enlivened by the presence of about
10000 head of Texas cattle.
Antioch, since the late earthquake,
following the example of the patriarchs,
has dwelt in tents.
A merchant in Springfield, ILL.,, has
lost $4,000 by signing his name on a
bill with a pencil instead of a pen.
An enthusiastic clergyman calls for
a worlds prayer-meeting to be held in
the Coliseum for three days.
The family of Gen. Sherman are at
the Weldon House, st. Adams, and are
expected to remain for the season.
In and around Biddeford, Maine, there
is colony of 1900 Canadians, and
more are constantly arriving.
According to the last census, there are
in the United States five million of chill
dren, of school age, who never attend
school,
The largest immigration to Southern
Minnesota ever known is now settling
in the frontier counties. 1t far exceeds
the immense immi grafton of 1866.
Wheat in Minnesota and Northwest
ern Wisconsin is reported as being first
class. The potato crop is good. Corn
is not as good as usual
A young man named Veverias was
killed by lightning on Friday last near
st. Andrews, P. O., through taking
shelter under tree.
A society for the encouragement Of
} young men desiring to marry is organ
) izing among the young ladies at Rond.
out, New York.
, Capt. Pindar, of Southern Florida, has
ten acres of pine apples; he expects tc
realize for the patch this year the snug
sum of $4,000.
School Marshal Longman reports ovel
l 1000 children under five years of age il
| Sacramento, and estimates the total pop
. ulation of the city at L., 900.
e Lieut.. Fred Grant and Robert Lincolr
represented Young America in the gal
lery of the House of Lords during tn
debate, Monday night.
= Of the six states east of the Hudson
n River, Vermont is the nearest to raising
its own bread-producing 454 900 bush
5 els of wheat in 1869, or bushel and
6 peck to each inhabltant.
Not so bad as it might be 1t is no
very hot; but we have not reache,
that state in which 1.-The crows drop Of
: the trees from sheer exhaustion" as the
k do in India.
/, Dolly Warden was not success i
n London. mo lady," says the Queen
! the ladies' newspaper evil hereafte
'0 disfgure herself by wearing one of thes
re now vulgar costumes"
l. Some conception of the immense iro
lie demand in the United States may be il
le ferred from the fact that it requires flu
ly one-half of all the American iro
. produced to build our railroads and kee
io them in repair.
'e 1t is estimated that the Columbus, Ga
manufactures will consume this season
5000 bales of cotton, worth 20 cen
v per pound, or 500 per bale, 100000
in raw, and more than Sl,200,000
the manufactured state.
The Andes are said to be gradual
sinking at least later measurements
distinctive mountains fall short of Il
old ones and travellers who wish
make the ascent of the highest mou
tains in the world should start quick
In many places in New England, a
ders are springing up in the pasture
young pines appear in the ancient mo1
70 ing fields, and the feathered birches wa
where once the farmers turned their Ri
burrows.
L. The American Journal of Pharma
says that 100000 infants are killed e
of cry year by the opium contained in t
various kinds of soothing syrups viii
they are allowed, or rather forced
drink.
- One of the Washington papers havi
denied the existence of small pox
. that city, another retorts that. if this
So it is rather hard on those who ha
m been buried recently under the idea til
they died of that disease.
:, About 1000 acres of woodland W
~ burned over near Centertown. Southe
OF New Jersey, causing $4,000 damas
and $4,000 worth of woods burn
near Islip, Long Island, a week a
;st Saturday and Sunday nights.
~ Josh Billings says: I'VE have re
- that Esaw sold his birthright for SO,
Cd and many wondered at his extravaganc
os- but Esaw discovered arly what many
man has since, that it is hard to live
,q.. pedigree.
Texas ownes 81, 66O,346 acres of l
no appropriated public lands, which
Governor estimates at 25 cents per acl
and tharn arn othor millions Of On