The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-11
GENERAL NE us.


What holds all the snuff in the
world mo one nose.
Daniel Webster's library is to he sold
at auction In Boston soon.
Philadelphia produced two hundred
and nineteen twins during 1874.
Connecticut is to have State Asso-
citation for the protection of game.
A colored citizen in Alabama has
named his child Heterogeneous"
Prince Edwards Island is now one
grand, gigantic, magnificent snow
bank.
Hunt up your old almanacs and see
whnt happened one hundred years ago
to day.
An Indiana Jury recently returned
written verdict of "Blode to pieces by
q biler busting"
A fashion critic says that the new
bonnets are the old ones sat down on
for half an hour or so.
The beet has its admirers, and there
be those who uphold the merits of the
cabbage bit all agree that the onion
is soup herb production.
The designs for the alteration of st.
Paul's Cathedral, London, have been
completed. The sum of 5000, 900 Is said
to be available for the proposed chang
es.
A Chicago doctor wouldn't get up at
night to prescribe for sick child, but
when he heard there was a chance to
saw a mans leg off he slid out of bed
like a shot.
An applicant for pair of boots at a
shoe shop was asked what number he
wore. and replied, as soon as he could
recover FROM his surprise, why, TWO,
of course w
There was large sale of short horn
cattle at Decatur, ILL.,, April q.
Twenty-three head were sold for $780,
$50, the average on bulls being S2,450,
on cows, 81 ,0S5. One bull sold for
So, 100.
Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut Luz
cretia Borgia, who gave just thimble-
full to her relatives and friends, is a
most exemplary inmate of the State
Prison. She says if it hadn't been for
arsenic, there wouldn't have been any
trouble.
There is actually prospect of
school of journalism in Great Britain.
DIR. Shaw, Fellow of Trinity College,
Dublin, proposes the establishment OF
such school in Dublin University and
the idea is considered one which will
receive practical attention.
II say landlord" said a Yankee,
a ;,,, al for N fn y.inq
on" Landlord, with look of amaze
particular. Sixty or seventy of my
boarders have wiped on that towel this
ntu 'huIt.
1t is stated that the Italian Govern.
ment, following the course it has al
ready adopted on previous occasions,
will gratuitously distribute this year
five thousand plants of the "Eucalyp-
tus Plobulus," for cultivation in the
Agro Romano, especially in the spot
infested by malaria.
There is a walnut tree at Bonvilliers
a village at the foot of the Vandois Jura,
the age of which is estimated at from
three to four hundred years, and it is
still in good condition. The trunk
measures over twenty feet in circum-
ference, and it yielded over fifty BUSH
els of nuts last year.
Statistical reports lately published
show that the people of Ireland are the
healthiest and most moral in Great
Britain, but the most ignorant. Scot
land is the best educated of the three
countries, and England second scot
land has the greatest number of ilegiti-
a hirf hS aud Trnlan1 fla Iaosf
The anticipated trouble at the install
laton of the Prince of Wales as Grand
Master of Masons in a lbert Hall, Lon
don, did not occur, owing TO the fact
that the nonMasonc stockholders
found that whereas their interest en-
titled them to enter the hall upon all
public occasions, the event in question
was private meeting,
The Chinese tailors of San francisco
have struck, and have posted bills
throughout the Chinese quarter offer
ing reward of $500 for the killing OF
any boss tail or who manifests a disin-
clinatiOn to pay the rate of remunera-
ton demanded, and an additional re-
ward of $500 for the killing of any tailor
who consents TO work for less than the
rate so fixed.
In the twenty-one years from 1854 tc
1874, inclusive, California has grown tc
lead all the other States in wool grow.
ing. The export for 1874 amounted to
36,0SS, 70l pounds, the value being So.
$4,000. The exports i'm 1854 We're It's,
600 pounds valued at Sl4 600 The in.
crease has been very steady. The rails
ing of thoroughbred sheep is becoming
an important California industry.
Some poultry raiser, in order to de.
termine the comparative fecundity Of
ducks and hens, selected three of each,
all hatched in February and suitably
fed. In the following autumn the
ducks laid 225 eggs, the hens none. II
February the laying seasons began ,anC
up to August the total number of egg.
laid by the hens was 257, or Sc each
and 1893, or l9l each for the ducks.
All the old women's letters and
young women's letters now publishing
relating to the Concord Centennial
simply indicate weakness that certain
Americans have for desiring on grea
occasions to be at the head of the pro
cession, instead of falling into lin,
where they belong. Judge Hoar, whose
gallantry is well known, couldn't pos
sibly have two hundred ladies on eacl
arm.
ShakspeariaD revivals are very sue
cessful in England, although the grea
poets works receive but Indifferent
justice, the element contributing to sue
cess being the scenery. An English
letter-writer says: 1--WE can do it'll,
Shakespeare our tragic talent is dead
Euripides Is dead, and ristophanc.
wears the laurels; but we can do on
stage carpentry as nobody ever did i
before"
AT Zinnwald, Germany, recently, ,
fascinating young widow, one hundred
and three years of age, was married t.
boyish widower of sixty-nine. Their,
was some objection TO the match among
the friends of the lady, hut as her ONLY
son, a child Of eighty thought himsei
too young to interfere in the affairs o
his mother, the rest of the family con
cluded to stand aloof and let the matte
go by default.