The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-10-13
NEWS ITE MS.

New York consumes 500 pounds of
frogs daily.
Harry Meigs Of California is called
worth sia 900 600.
An Indianapolis man h4s been fined
$500 for an attempt to bribe jury
The Floridians iced themselves. their
dogs, and their mules on turtles eggs.
Somc of the smartest canal. boat cap.
tains at Alexandra, Va, are women.
Columbia county, Pa, has a winter.
green distilery.
.u,. noss, ,a.uer ul the lost boy, has
become insane.
The Boston Globe is mt lit "scart"
of General Butler
Gerrit Smith believes in furnishing the
man who gets drunk.
The good Of a mans lite cannot be
measured by the length Of his funeral procession.
Sorghum.making is the chief employ.
ment just now in many places in southern Hin
dis
A Wisconsin man has invented a new
oar by which person can sit facing the bow
while rowing.
A Lafayette Ind. man has just sold
for $4,000 herd of Texas cattle that he gave
$50, 900 for last fall.
Baltimore has woman resident 70
years old, who made n balloon ascension from that
city alone, in 1897.
One.quarter of the children 10 the
state Of New York between the ages OF and Is
attend no school Of any kind.
According to a recent German author.
ity, America was discovered by party Of Budd-
hist priests in the fifth century.
The Secretary of the Treasury will soon
issue circular determining the value Of certain
foreign coins.
The collection Of the tax Of $500 on
the places Of amusement In New York is being
contested this year
A Dartmouth college student is said to
support himself by acting as barber for his fellow.
collegians.
An issue in the Georgia State election
is whether the libraries of professional men shall
be exempt from taxation.
There were 33'640 pension certificates
issued during the last fiscal year Of which, how
ever, only 1883 were original certificates.
The secret service force will be reduced
from 60 to 10 men, the latter to be selected from
the best members Of the old force and outside de-
teetive talent.
A Hardin county (ky.) negro. so
years DID, has turned perfectly white, with the ex-
ceptiOn of n few dark spots abb Ut his face aud
neck
A spruce young man at Bay City,
Mich,' walked into drug store, the other day.
with his sweetheart on his arm, and wanted to
buy two glasses of soda for seven cents.
While digging a well in Mill City, Ma.
some time ago, the workmon came upon the ske-
eton Of some marine monster, incased in a bed Of
cement so hard that it had to be blasted
Several citizens 81 Columbus, Miss,
among them the postmaster, applied for admis-
sion TO a negro ballroom, several nights siueo
but were refused on the ground that they were
white
Last year, England imported more than
500 900, 900 eggs from France The reason the
English hens do not lay bottor il il said 20 bo be-
cause there il m absolute dearth 81 .lleN in the
soil.
A white man was murdered II Meridian
Miss, week ago by being pushed backward into
a deep we'll by a negro woman whom be had
knocked down once or twice, while under the in
N"NHNN - 'IuNis
The Troy ies COMPANIES have IL sur.
plus stock Of 20, 900 tons left their hands the
high price demanded the past summer, having
made the people extraordinarily careful and econ
omical in the use Of the costly article
The Seamen's protective association
has resolved to resist the oxaction Of blood money
from sailors by the shipping masters, boarding
house keepers and ship captains, and will endeay-
or to obtain legislation at Albany this winter
A youth Of sixteen has Just been or.
rested Ia New York city for abandoning his wife,
who is seven years his s-nior The unfaithful
fellow found one year Of welded bliss enough for
hun.
At an anti.mouopoly convention in
Iowa, recently. some fellow bawied at the door:
Candidates are requested TO step down stairs a
few minutes" Then everybody went down stairs
except deaf old fellow who wanted to run for
jailer.
feddo, Japan, supports eighteen news
papers, OF which some daily aud others APP
pearing every fifth day. The three which have
the largest circulation are the NsohasA.ai ishi a
daily sheet Of which an average Of 500 copies
are issued; the I5konich.nieh Schimbsm, a daily
paper with 500 circulation; aud tho ch.nbansssAi,
a daily with the same. OF the other fifteen some
appear daily, and each furnishes about 400 copies.
A Japane.e Pg7s. has also been commenced