Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

bottle has been picked up near Dunbar,
Scotland, containing paper on which the fol-
lowing is written 1.-The ship Csrrondelet,
middle of the German ocean, Aug. 2, 1872
This ship is sinking fast. If ever this gets to
shore, whoever fnds It will please to let it be
known this sunk with twenty-one hands on board.
She is going now. Herr Inglsn, native Of
Hamburg
The sale Of explosive cigars mas recommended
in the streets Of Paris in spite Of all the precsu
tons taken by the police to prevent these dan
gcrous articles from being offered to the public.
The cigars in question appear genuine to the
purchaser, but contain = minute Equib or crack
er, which when the cigar has been consumed to
certain extent, explodes, the cigar itself flying
to come distance from the mouth Of the smoker
These cigars are capable Of severely BOunding
those who smoke them.
The Ottawa. CEnsds, Cifi=ea, says that as
two men were rowing Ski # over the bank of
saw dust and other TefuEe accumulated from the
mills on the river, an explosion occurred in the
fermenting msterisT below, which swSmped the
bost and came rear drowning the men.
4 AtelegrGphic message Of twenty words can
now be cent from London to Queensland, in
Australia, for fifty dollars gold, and it will be
forwarded to Port Darwin by cable, and thence
&C its destination by horse express and tele-
sTGph. The Whcle distance which such mes
sage will travel will be some 14,000 miles, and
it will reach its destination in sbout thirty hours
Going from London to Lands End on land
wires. ii will enter tie sea and reappeAr At Al
exandria, psss over Egypt, re-enter the ssa st
Suez, 81 sgsiu sppesr st Port Darwin.
dittinguishtd engineer, who is connected
with some of the most honorable families in
Italy, has Just been arrested at Florence, charged
with attempting to murder on ? wholesale scale
1t sppesrs he was involved in financial troubles,
and, with 4 view TO extrioate himself By means
Of the property ofhis friends, which be expected
10 inherit, the vTetched man tried to poison, by
morphine, 10 fewer than eighteen individuals,
among whom we're his father, brother, wife and
his own children. The GqgiOis says thsi he is
plsiuly mad, ss ii is net possible to believe any
man endowed with reason would try TO accom-
plish such crime
The SAiut Public. of Lyons, states thGt M
tionsl subscription is shortly to be opened in
that city, and all ever France, under tie patron
age Of the 60 socie,e des Sciences inlustrislles''
with the object Of proving to the world that
BlrtLel5my Tuimonnier, born - Arbresle
(RhoEe) in 1893, is the real inventor Of ;Le
mechanical sewing machine; Llto, II order to
collect the fuHts necessary fer The publication Of
his biography, together with a complete history
of the implemens ; and, finally, to erect 9
statue to his memory in oDs Of the public squares
CT Lyons.
Everybody eIts oys.erg, oi cJurle, except the
unfor turste few who do not Ike them but
uussels are much less commonly ea,en, in this
country at least, and nc, one oyster eater in ten
knows the flavor Of the .Nyiilu5 edEiis, as the
scientists ca. the thsil fish. Fer all such rare
pleasure il yet to come. King Louis XVIII.
had an especial liking for these biyslyes, ste
thei- cnca wetk. snd took the trouble to IL
slrUct TslleyIsuj il the art Of cooking them.
Musselg are found as natives ali over the world,
their flvorite hsua's being es.usTies, in which
the fresh snl szli Na.ers are mixed 20 their
rather epicureen tss;e. But cultivation hss
done much fer the improvement Of their favor.
particularly il France where great deal Of at
teudou has been pail TO the matter Stakes are
plsced near the mouth Of sn estusry, 80 that the
ebbsag sni l9Wiac Of thc tide shall alternately
slbmerce sud ezpole the greater psr: Of theig
length. On there the y4u1E muss-ls fasten
Themselves, and here they are allowed to stay
for about twelve months At the expiration Of
thr tine they Sre removed and ;hr0an on wicker
shelves, 20 placed that they will sylln be alter
us;ely submerged sni exposed. Here they re
main for hEe length Of time, after which they
are th-oSn on other wicker shelves, pSced en-
tirely above tie wN;er. Af,er few years resi-
ience here they ere deemed ready '9r use, snl
src taken iissstly TO the market.