The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-08
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world that jeff. Davis is getting fat.
Mark Twain has been proposed as a
candidate for mayor of Hartford, Conn.
The best physicians are DR.. Diet, DR.,
Quiet and DR.. Merryman.
The coral gatherers of Naples fished
up 81 100000 worth of coral last year
1t is estimated that ia Yeddo there
are 5000 persons studying the English
language.
1t is estimated that tho quantity OF
Holsters taken in the Canadian fisheries
amounts TO about 5000, 900 cans annu-
ally.
The indianapolis Sentinel claims
that there is more actual work in rail
road building now i'll progress In lndi-
ana than in any other state.
A little girl about nine years old was
recently brought before a New Orleans
court for stealing a flower from the
prosecutors garden.
H~ydrophobia is reported as "epidem-
ic" in Denmark and Finland. Not
only dogs, but horses and other animals
are the victims.
Dt AOIlllllOIl NOulilll " Eiitib
have passed an order That all the doors
i'm the school houses in that city shall
open outward.
His Excellency Minister Washburne
and Mrs. Washburne have taken a
summer residence at Mont Morency,
neal Paris.
Spiritualism is on the top wave Of
popularity in Russia just now. and sew
eral scientific professors have avOwed
their belief in it.
London market gardeners pay 5000
per acre yearly rent for the land they
cultivate, and their average profits are
$500 per acre.
The grand masonic dedication at New
York, last Wednesday, called out from
10000 to $4,000 in procession. 1t was
said to have been a brilliant pageant.
1t is estimated by the Boston Tran
script that Daniel Webster, during his
public life, received over 81 900, coo in
gifts from his friends and admirers.
One good result of the miners strike
is said to have been the utilization of
the enormous piles of waste which had
accumulated in the mining districts.
''The poet of the S%ierras,n Joaquin
Miller, is i'm town, shorn of his long
locks, and looking like what he affects
AN Anglicized American Boston
News.
The South Australian wheat report
shows that there will be 204 600 tons of
surplus wheat. About 45 600 have been
already exported, and the balance is
ready for shipment.
Charles X. Lands, who shot Uri
Carruth at Nineland, was brought be-
fore the Supreme Court, last Wednes-
day, ON habe-s corpus, and released on
$50, 600 bail.
The Grand Commandery, X. r., OF
Pennsylvania, has invited the Grand
Encampment of the United States to
meet in Philadelphia in 1876 and re-
main there II week.
Said a saucy Rochester beauty to q
fOppish fellow, who bored her with his
compliments: Your presence and
conversation are vastly agreeable, and
what is remarkable, your attractiveness
doesn't seem to depend upon brains at
all.n
We haven't heard yet of the young
ladies of the graduating class of any
school following the excellent example
of those of the Adams School in voting
TO appear in inexpensive dresses on ex-
hibition day. What school will he the
first to follow?
A lawyer of Louisville n. few days
ago IOuIiu that IL Uuuk uil OF valuable
promissory notes which had been
slowed away for some years had been
50 gnawed by rats that the signatures
had all been destroyed, while the re-
manning parts were uniniurcd.
A reviewer in the New York Tri-
bune defines a real poet as "a singer
whose verses haunt your twilights."
This definition is undeniably a good
one, and il accepted, at once places the
mosquito in the front rank.-St. Louis
Republican.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Greeley, Colo
RADIO, gives a discouraging account OF
the ravages of the grasshoppeis in that
region. He says the total destruction
of crops between the Rocky Mountains
and the Mississippi is appalling.
A citizen of Pittsburg, Pa, has Of
iered TO furnish an excellent band OF
music at his W expense to perform
every afternoon and evening i'm some
of the prominent parks of the city on
condition that he be granted the mo-
nopoly of the ice cream business OH the
premises. a cool proposition.
The students of Michigan University
had a crush" with the Ann Harbor
High School boys last Monday night,
during which one freshman had q ten
don nf hia chopIIar ,nptnrad arI an
other received n fracture of the collar
bone. Both will probably be laid up
for two or three months.
When Governor CASTOR and his
Councillors see fit, they propose to take
some action i'm the case of the Pomeroy
boy. 1t is said that they do not pro-
pose to be driven by public opinion
and yet they cannot ignore the senti'
ment of the people. No one counsels
haste, but everybody demands ACTION
within a reasonable periOd.-[Boston
journal
The Postmaster General has hit upon
a very effective way of bursting lottery
bubbles before any one loses money OF
them. He instructs the postmaster il
the city where the lottery is drawn mo-
10 pay the manager any money ordel
or denver 10 nm any registered lettel
that may he sent 10 him. AS lotteries
are supported by outside parties, this
idea of the Postmaster General winds
them up.
When our newspapers talk abouI
Paul Boyton having been obliged to &c
To Europe in order TO have justice don,
To his life-saving suit they forget tina
he went over there by accident, ant
that the trial was to have been mad,
upon II own coast, but was prevented
10y the captain of the steamship, wht
would not allow Boyton TO jump owe
board as he intended when about 20'
miles from land.
A citizen of Des. Are, Arkansas
while at work in the forest the otheI
day, observed the initials ~. c." Gu
= in IA tree, and in the ground near by
depression. Thinking the two circum
stances meant something, he went I,
digging, and a jar containing near thre'