The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-08-27
T. rMELY TOPICS.

There are .ow 4. e77 postciaScsss y ttss
U uni q u IaS'sss q q dcsi y p s
n mort shi N u COO each, aud there
fore called presidential -postoffices, IL
1,764. New York hende the list, With
1850. Illinois comeS next, with 1893 theh
Pennsylvania, with l32. and Ohio, with
1l2.
Mr.. Fambro, of Sandersville, Ky. has
rge rattlesnake, about ave feet long,
which he captured last Ootober, and
which he has kept in bob with wire
net front ever since that time. Though
he has had II ten months. the snake has
never eaten anything at all since 1t was
captured. 1t lives on air." and IL II
could be converted into the genius homo,
retaining its natural habits, It would
make splendid newspaper man.
A Frenchman. who resides on farm
near Paris, and has a fancy for picking up
old animals, has d mule aged seventy
three, a goose aged thirty-seven, n COW
aged thirty-six, hog aged twenty
seven, q bullfinch aged twenty eight,
and q sparrow aged thirty-one. This
last accounts for the millions Of spar
rows in the world; A couple Of healthy
sparrows, producing twenty or thirty
young year for thirty years, lis some
thing sad to contemplate.
The national association for the pro-
lection of the insane, which was organ
lied at the charities conference In
Cleveland recently, has for its object
the introduction Of more humane and
intelligent methods of dealing with in
sanity. Great things in this direction
have been done In the past generation,
but much still remains to be done.
Especial care has been taken by the
association TO make II understood that
the movement does not arise from hos
tility TO any asylum or officials.
A druggists assistant was charged
before the correctional chamber In
Paris, n few days ago, with causing the
| death OF man by misreading q pre-
scription. The doctor, whose writing
| was very clear, ordered eight drops ol
laudsnm. which the assistant care,
lessly read as eight grammes, or about
. quarter of an ounce. The overdose
naturally killed the patient, and the
months Imprisonment. His advocate
| urged as an extenuating circumstance
| that, If the mistake had cost the de.
ceased his life, 1t had at least provided
him with q painless DEATH 30
State elections will occur this year q,
| follows. Alabama, first Monday II
August; Arkansas, first Monday II
September; Vermont, first Tuesday II
| September; Maine, second Tuesday II
September; Colorado. first Tuesday II
October; Indiana, Ohio and West Viz.
Rinin second Tuesday In October; Call
fornia Connecticut, Delaware, Florida
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Michigan
| Minnesota, Mihsissippi. Missouri, Ne
| braskA, Nevada, New Hanpshire, New
Jersey. New York, North Carolina
! Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten
] nessee, Texas and Virginia, Novembe
.; Georgia, November 3. - e at
A mouse eating spider has beer
added to the London Geological society'i
| collection. It can stretch itself out tc
| several inches, is as black as . hear and
| as hairy, and rs ugly as q nightmare,
] All which leads the London Telegraph
| to ask: What conceivable system ol
1 defenses could avail humanity against q
| creation OF, spiders as big as sheepl
| They would float across the sea In thu
diving bells which they know how te
| make 30 well, and swing themseive.
across rivers as they now do across gar
den paths. Leaping many miles at eaet
jump. they could in q night traverse in
credible distances, and waking In tn
morning whole village might FIND
itself inextricably woven up in fog o
web, every door, gate and chimney en-
veloped In q suffocating cobweb o
glutinous ropes, while the grim twilight
was made terrible by the stealthy mo
tions OF a multitude Of bloodthirsty
spiders" These are pleasant fancies fol
summer reveries.