Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
DECEMBER IL, 1878.
Items OF Interest.

A BIRTH occurs in London every six minutes,
and death every eight.
THE unprecedented total of 4,593OOo hogs were
packed last year in Chicago alone
Ten million dozen eggs have been received in
the Cincinnati market during the year
PRINCETON College has received 100000 in
contributions under the presidency OF DR. McCosh.
THE Hartford life insurance companies are said
to have lost more than 500, oOoby the yellow fever
THERE have been 1900 deaths from yellow
fever in the Southern States, out Of a total Of
30 600 cases.
Ir costs the people of Great Britain and Ireland
S13 800, 600 per year to support and maintain its
royal family.
| The California wine crop this year will prob
ably exceed 1000 900 gallons or two-thrds what
It was in 1876.
| ALBANY is the oldest town in the original thir-
teen states, having been settled by the Neither
landers in 1914.
| THERE are six hundred railroad companies in
Great Britain eighty OF which are in Scotland and
eighty five in Ireland.
NJ. LEssErs, OF Suez canal celebrity, estimates
that the mercantile marine OF the entire world
consists of 81 600 vessels.
THE VOLCANOES of Izaco and Santa Anna in South
America are in tremendous activity. The inhab-
itants have fled in terror
EIGHT young Cinnamon are attending school at
Phillips Academy in Audover, In the same
school there are twenty-five Of ministers and
four of missionaries
The drinking places in New York, set in one
street would extend seventeen miles; those in
London seventy three miles
Mr.. WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT is estimated to
have nearly $1,000 invested in horsefesh, and
S250,0 in pictures and works ofart.
THE annual value of silk ribbons exported by
Switzerland to the United States has fallen off in
the past five years from 2O,OoOoOO to 100000
francs
NEARLY one hundred and twenty thousand
Parsians and provincials have visited the EXPOSE
ton grounds since the show closed, not knowing
but that it was still open.
Is 1850 the United States produced less than
800 600 600 bushels of corn, while in 1878 the total
corn crop will exceed 800, 100000 bushels. This
, indicates the growth of American agriculture.
ALL the shoes for the use Of our army are now
made at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, by military convicts, with the aid Of mod
ern machines. Last year 80, $50 pairs were made.
SOLID silver spoon, on which is the crest of
the franklin family of England was brought to
Hartford last week by the captain of a whaling
schooner, who obtained it from an EsquimauI
Indian.
7 GUY CARLTON. n robust Wyoming IN w far
mer Of seventv.fve wears. has not only bought his
, coffin but has also had monument cut in the
shape of house, and got it patented, so that no
Lana ann IpV.1 fnata
Tpr largest landowner in the state of Nebraska
is Adam Smith. Of Boone county He owns 90
q 600 acres Of land and he pro,oses IN make nd.
dtiops to it so that the big farms of California will
, seem like vegetable gardens in comparison.
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