The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lnere are oo,OOO suicides in Europe
yearly.
A hunter in Georgia killed four deer
Mt one shot
Cutting a swell-Lancing boil.-
Rome Sentinel.
Turning points in life Street
corners. Toronto GRIP.
Fly time-When you hear her fathers
heavy cane humping along the hall.
The Buffalo Courier says: He is not
brute, nowadays, who gives his lady
love IN belt"
Those who put their money into tele-
phone stock made n sound Investment.
-Mertien Recorder.
An eight-year-old blind boy near Ma
rion, Ala, can play any tune he ever
heard, on the violin.
A new church, built as a memorial OF
Bishop Wilberforce, has been dedicated
in Coburg road, England.
A Rockland man called his wife
green iruit because she never agrees
with him. .-Rocktand Courier.
-. The largest gem SO far found in the
Siam sapphire mines weighed $40 carats
in the rough, and III when cut.
The population Of Leadville. Colorado.
is estimated mt from 25. 200 to 3O. COG. and
IL has nearly doubled in year.
The Inventor ofa new telephone. lust
tried at Mans, France. says that it will
convey sound across the Atlantic.
Oh, for the sound of voice that is
still, sings Tennyson. Why didn't he
marry n deaf and dumb woman P-Salea1
Sunbeam.
No one was injured when the First
Nj. +. Church. of Greensburg. Ind was
struck by lightning, but the frescoing
was ruined.
Childhood often holds truth with
It's feeble fingers, which the grasp of
manhood cannot retain, which it is the
pride oil utmost age to recover.
Many persons sigh for death when It
seems far of, but the inclination
vanishes when the boat upsets, or the
locomotive luns off the track or The
measles set in.
A Denver man has had horse stolen.
and, in business-like manner, offers
three rewards-S50 for the thief, SIOO
for the horse and thief, and 5000 for the
dead body of the thief.
Looking. glasses were first made in
Venice in the year 1900. Venetian artists
came to England and manufactured
them in 1878; and afterward the French
began to excel them.
Tobacco was first discovered at st.
Domingo in the year 1896, and was used
freely by the Spaniards, in Yucatan. in
1920. 1t was introduced into England
in 1865, by Sir John Hawkins.
There is contained in the corn-cobs
raised in the United Stat6s from lI5,
0O0, 600 to 100, 900 O0O pounds of carbon
ate OF potash, which is the third most
valuable article required in agriculture.
OF the discoverer, and conquerors of
the New World, Columbus died broken
hearted, Roldin and Bobadilla were
drowned, Balboa was beheaded, Cortcz
was dishonored, and Pizarro was muir
dered
Our edition of Webster does not con-
tain the words which the tir, d editor
utters when, as he is about to go home,
the devil protrudes his head into the edi-
toria room and yells out More
copyr'
The discouraged collector again pre-
sented that little matter. "Wen," saws
his friend, you are around againP"
Yes" ays the fellow, with the nc
count in his hand, but l want to get
square"
Chemah. he twenty-fve-inch high
Chinese dwarf, Low exhibiting in Lon
don, sings only three verses of n native
love song about his swccthearta mt home.
but the other ninoty-siX verses may be
had on payment.
1t is wonderful how the modest citi-
zen, who objects TO seeing his name in
the paper Will want TO whip thu entire
establishment if it should happeh to get
in PRINT with ore letter left out.-Hip-
Ston (N. CO. Ledlcr.
Tea was first known in Europe-being
brought from India by the Nutch-in
1910. In Englan it was not introduced
until 1866, when it was brought from,
Holland and sold for sixty shilines per
pound.
The japanese students of Harvard are
very popular both in college and in Bos-
ton society. Their facility in assimilat-
ing themselves To the habits and GUS
.oms of new country is much COM
nented on.
II is said that the deepest gorge in the
world has been discovered in Colorado.
We always had the impression that the
biggest gorge in this country might he
Witnessed mt the railway station where
the train stops five minutes for din
ncr. ."-Norrtstown Herald.
young lauy VINO has Sluuleu all the
"o!ogies," wants to know if the crack
of Il rille is where they put the powder
in.-BOSion Transcript.
Very encouraging accounts are pub
.ished of the success OF the Carlisle (Pa }
Indian training school, where l76 pu
pills are now receiving educational and
industrial instruction. In addition to
the schools there are carpenter, ,tinsmith,
blacksmith, shoemaker, and saddler
saops, at which Indian boys are rapidly
learning trades, and helping to support
their comrades. The tribes represented
include the Sioux, Cheyennes, Massa-
hoes, Kiowas, Comanches Poncas, Nez
Perces, Wichitas, Seminoles and sew
sral others.