Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-05-16
Items OF Interest.

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Guatemala.
Maple-sugar is twelve cents q pound
in Minnesota.
A MICHIGAN log yielded ten thousand
feet of lumber.
A DOCTOR says that hazel-eyed people
live to be 100 years old.
THERE are said to have been 926 earth
quakes since the year 1900.
THE famine at Teheran, Persia, is
growing worse and worse.
MASSACHUSETTS, has 160 savings banks,
containing deposits amounting to $780,
59S, 100.
ABOLITION of purchase in the British
army provokes much discomfort among
the officers.
Iowa has 100000 inhabitants, but
her largest city has scarcely $4,000 OF
the number.
THERE is great scarcity Of good sea-
men at the principal ports Of Great Bri-
tain at the present time.
Ten cents bushel is thought to be a
high price for lemons and orangeSin Bra
I'll. Native fruits are drug.
THE gross receipts of the Boston Ho-
meopathic Hospital Fair were about
$S5, 900, and the net profit $500
A LOON, shot on the wing in Madison,
Wis, fell into the face Of baby in its
mothers arms and nearly killed it.
Two members of the National Demo-
cratic Committee of thirty-seven have
died since its appointment in 1868.
The Goldfish taken this season are OF
unusually large size, many of them
weighing from fifty to sixty pounds,
The majority of Erie shareholders here
have entered into a combination for max
ing Thomas Scott president OF the road.
Gov. REID, of Florida, has been ac-
quilted and discharged by the High
Court of Impeachment, and restored to
Office.
OF the Carlist forces in Navarro, 100
have surrendered to the government
troops, and the remainder have dis
persed.
Miss EMMA G.. HAYES has been voted
pair of gold bracelets rs the most pop
ular lady of Salmon Falls, New Hamp-
shire.
IT appears that the Jesuits own twelve
monastic establishments in Germany,
and the order is growing rapidly in
Rhenish Prussia.
The savings banks of the United
States contain deposits of 81, 100000, =
600, mainly the surplus earnings of me-
chaHics and laboring men.
The friends of Don Carlos in Paris
claim that he has from 1000 to 5000
men in Biscay, fully equipped and well
supplied with provisions.
FROM G3 to 100 deaths per week, by
smallpox in London, is now considered
a matter of especial note, and the same
remark applies to Paris and Berlin.
IT is stated that the Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania, Cutlery Manufacturing
Company have oontracted for 600 China
men for six years at 30 cents per day.
PROF. MORSE left property valued at
nearly half million of dollars, and by
the provisions of his last will and tesla
ment he bequeathed to his wife the whole
amount
The expense of taking care of the
Island of Manhattan, amounts to 500,
900 per day, or little over 500 per min
ute, or at the rate of $33 per man for
every man, woman and child within its
limits.
IT is said that a second stratum of
valuable block coal underies all the Bra,
iii coal fields, Indiana, and that this de-
post is much more free from sulphur
than the upper stratum.
The trial of Libbie Garrabrant for the
murder of Ransom f. Burroughs, was
concluded in the Passaic (NJ.) County
Court of Oyer and Terminer, and ver-
dict of murder in the first degree found
against the prisoner.
AN Illinois man who was lately ar
rested for obtaining money under false
pretences, was discharged on his show,
ing a receipt proving that he had paid
his newspaper subscription in advance
for thirty.six years.
A BOY of fourteen in Manitowoc, Wis,
was lately captured for numbering an
old Indian, when his sole reason for the
deed according to his own statement,
was that DO might steal his money anG
traps more safely.
One of the best games of baseball
ever played took place on the Unior
Groudds, Brooklyn, between the Bos
ton Red Stockings and the Mutuals, OF
New York, which was won by the Bos
tons, by score Of 8 to 2.
The American Accumulation Society
have received and set free large number
Of English robin redbreasts, with the
intention of introducing this bird in New
York familiarly known IN Europe, bu
which is entirely distinct from the Amer
lean robin.
WoRKMEN underground on the Eas
River bridge have thirty-seven pounds
pressure of condensed air to contend
with. This is twenty-five pounds in ex
cess Of the normal pressure. The resul
is, severe neuralgia affects nearly al
of them, with death occasionally.
IsoENsED by the report that the jew
: of Smyrna in their religious rites hat
, sacrificed an infant, the Greek citizen
attacked them in the street, and DIES
perate conflict ensued. Several person
, were killed and more wounded. Troop
had, at the last accounts, been ordere'
7 to occupy the city.
> The laborers on the East River caissol
! have struck for an advance from so. A
: for four and half hours labor, to s.
S for four hours labor. At the presen
} depth they are working-seventy- Ugh
: feet-very few are able to stand tn