The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-05-28
ryns oy rursrRsr.

A Kansas weekly publishes fourteen
rules to be observed during tornado.s
Only one is necessary. Be somewhere
else.
In the United States 100, 900 bushels
Of hemp seed are annually consumed
for bird food alone. Much of It is i'm.
ported.
Engineering states that speeds of over
sixty miles an hour are now common
with many of the express trains In Great
Britain.
The people Of Leadville stand agbast
at the boldness OF woman lot Jumper,
who has been asserting her claims in
that vicinity in that manner.
An examination has been made of the
original Declaration OF Independence,
now among the archives of the state de-
pertinent at Washington, and it is found
in such shape as to suggest that, unless
something is done TO restore IL, it will
soon be unintelligible.
Ladies who wear sealskin sacks are
very liable not to wear them, for in
Belgium rabbit skins are successfully
prepared to resemble sealskin, and thou
sands of rabbits are annually killed in
England whose pelts go to Belgium,
and leave that country as genuine seal
skins.
A counterfeit one hundred-dollar note
on the Pittsburg National Bank of Com
mcrce was detected recently. 1t is the
most dangerous counterfeit which has
yet appeared on any national banknote.
Country editors will do well to be on
their guard for this follow. - Waterloo
Observer.
Let the next spelling reform conven-
tion he held in Maine and adopt meas
ures to reform the spelling of the lakes
OF that State. Some of the lakes there
only q quarter of mile In length have
names half mile long. The REFORM
ers might wrestle with Lake Magogue-
hunkittchogncmusquitamackinogue to
begin with. .-Norristoso Herald.
Holland boasts of house in which
lives family of six persons, which in
cludes one widow, two husbands and
their wives, two sisters, two aunts, one
son, two cousins, one son-in-law, one
daughter-in-law, two daughters, two
nieces, one half-brother, one half-sister,
one stepmother, two mothers, one
father, one father-in-law and three chill
dren.
The property of pine pollen to fioa
for long time in the air, and to be car
ried by storms to very distant localities,
is well known. DIR. Engleman has
found in The streets of st. Louis, after a
rain storm from the south, when no
pines north of Louisiana were in bloom,
pine-pollen, which must have come
from the forest of T. Australis, on Red
river, distance of about 400 miles in a
direct line.
Thousands of tons of Limburger
cheese arc produced every season, mostly
in the States Of New York and Wiscon-
sin, at cost of less than half that of
The imported article. II finds its mar
kct and is consumed by the German
American population. 1t is more profit
able to the farmer and maker than any
other kind of cheese, because from a
given quantity of milk more weight is
obtained and better prices are realized.
A good way to get rid of rats is to put
pounded potash in their holes. The
potash gets into their coats and irritates
their skin, and the rats desert the pace.
To prevent their dying in their holes
and becoming offensive. poison them by
mixing half pound of barStes with n
quarter of pound of lard. 1t produces
great thirst, the rats leave their holes
todrink and are unable to return.