Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-15

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Mr.. Gladstone is famous for his long
walks, and, like many other Englishmen,
thinks little of performing pedestrian
feat of ten miles, or even twenty. on &C.
casions.
The dam of the famous trotting horse
Goldsmith Maid, is doing duty in
milk wagon near Port Jervis, n. Y,
while her daughter is queen of the turf
in America.
A man in Newbury, N. c., cut his
hand in opening a box of sardines the
other day, and the result was that his
hand and arm began to swell and he
finally died.
Two students of Knox University,
Galesburg, ILL.,, have been expelled for
participation in recent outrage of pour
ing kerosene over a dog and then setting
fire to the poor brute.
Senator Sumner is said to have recent
ly remarked that in twenty years he had |
not seen the SHOWS of his native New |
England. His duties have kept him
every winter in Washington
A boy, fourteen years of age, commit
ted suicide, by hanging, at the village |
of Middleton, Wis, the other day. 1t
is supposed the boy was driven to the
sad fate by the action of adrunken father.
John Bullock, of Bristol R. l.. lob
years old in June next, and whose hair
has been white for nearly half a century,
now actually finds his hair turning dark,
some of the new growth being quite black.
Rochefort is said to be in the deepest
distress at his melancholy fate. Presi-
dent Theirs has notified him once for all
that, as long as he is President of the
French Republic, he must remain in
prison.
A paste made of wheat -four or corn
starch is more satisfactory than mucil-
age for scrap books. A little spirits of
camphor or diluted carbolic acid will
keep it long time from moulding or
souring.
The heaviest Judge of the Supreme
Court is Judge Clifford of Maine. He
weighs 3O5 pounds, while Judge Davis
of Illinois, the candidate of the Labor
Reformers for President, weighs 2S5
pounds only.
A factory is being erected at Fairfield.
Conn, in which carriages are to be built
consisting entirely of India rubber. with
the exception of the axles and tires-this
material being claimed to possess decided
superiority over wood.
The railroad ticket agent in West
Philadelphia who pretended to have been
knocked down and robbed of SI,7O0
attempted suicide on being suspected, but
!, failed, confessed to have stolen the mon
!, ey himself, and gave it up.
Four years did an Indiana wife expend
in the manufacture of patch quilt.
Five minutes did her drunken husband
take to destroy the same. He ought to
be sent to the penitentiary until such
time as she has made another.
France is in bad way. To liquidate
the balance of its arrears to Germany
it must pay 100000 a day for eight
Years and four months, or $500, 600 per
day for two years and one month. There
is not anything cheerful in war.
o A Boston paper makes the surprising
assertion that whipping post, set up in
the Common. would find plenty of use,
if all the respectable Boston gentle
men who habitually insult ladies receiv.
: ed few lashes for their impudence.
Gen. Sherman has carried his old way
d of doing business, into Africa. He il
carrying all things before him in Egypt
+ and the Khedive and his supporter, the
Sultan, received the American General
e with such honors as they rarely pay tc
:. visitors.
J, An inventive Michigan genius is SAID
: to have succeeded in bringing out al
eight-legged steam walking machine that
n can hitch to and walk off any amount o.
: tonnage that wheels can roll. The in
ventor has gone to Washington to secure
patent.
a Remains, supposed to be those of LEIGH
ardt, the Australian explorer, have re
Gently been discovered In the interior
= about thirteen hundred miles from Bris
bane. Leichardt's exploring expedition
started in 1913, and was never heard O
l. afterwards.
The subscription books for monu
ment to Gen. Thomas will be opened
> May lst. 1t is proposed to raise Slo0,
600, or $4,000 from each of twenty
States. The monument will be at Wash
II ington, West Point, or New York Cen
D trail Park.
# The great pyramid of Egypt weigh
= l2,760,000, 900 tons, and according Il
Herodotus it took the labor of l00,00t
men twenty years to build it. DIR. Lard
p ner aflirms that 430 tons of coal, will
~ an engine and hosting machine, woult
lie have raised every stone to its position.
Sir Chas. Dix is not without strength
! There are over seventy well organizes
IF Republican clubs in England; the ag
gregate number of members has alread,
reached nearly forty thousand. and
- still increasing. One of these fine day
- English Royalty will find itself in bat
way.
= The number of stars visible to the ma
- ked eye. in the entire circuit of the heav
N ems, has been usually estimated at abou
. 5000; an ordinary opera-glass will ex
hibit something like ten times that mum
i e Der; comparatively small telescope ca
~ silly shows 100000; while there are tel
10 escapes in existence with which, Their,
is reason to believe, not less than 20.
Of 100000 stars are visible.
= Marie Van MORT, beautiful young
girl, fourteen years of age, living il
North Main street, Paterson, n. j., was
D. buried Saturday April 9Th, her deatl
! having been the result of excessive in
l. diligence in dumping the rope" With