The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-01
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
The largest cotton-seed oil mill in the
United States is being erected in Little
Rock, Ark. 1t will have capacity for
using 300 tons Of cotton-seed per day.
The work will employ $50 men.
The announcement is made that
Prince Gunther H., of Schwartzburg-
Sonderhauscn, has abdicated because ho
has become near-sighted. When he
wrote his name he rubbed IL out with
his nose, and his subjects felt mortified
to see their ruler with half pint of ink
smeared on his countenance.
A San Francisco manufacturer has
received from the interior of the State
ar an order for pair of boots which, L
the numbers in use ran so high, would
be eighteens in size. They will be la
inches in length and in width. The
man who is to wear them Is small, cx-
cept as to his hands and feet.
| BY the census just taken in England 10
Is found that Joneses carry the day and
are more numerous than the Smiths.
After the latter come the septs Will
iiams, Taylor, Davis and Brown. John
son stands tenth. Robinson eleventh.
| n
"p," takes only twenty-fourth place,
and Clark, without an "e." twenty
eighth. Clarke, with an &C." is thirty
eighth; Among the strange names
are Albertina Regina Victoria Gothic
Boult, Turnerico Henrica Ulrica
due Gloria de Lavinfa Rebecca Turner,
and Hostiliana Ophigpia Maria Hypi.
hile Wadge.
At Cincinnati brewery there is a
machine recently imported from Ger
many which is under contract 10 make
ton of ice-or to produce cold equal
to ton of ice-for ninety cents. The
| plan is to station the machine in side
| building, and to send the cold air or
water through tunnels in the street into
the cellars. In the fermenting cellars
cold water is sent by pipes through the
tubs, having coil pipe inside. Into the
storing cellars, where the beer is in
casks, the cold blast is injected full into
| the cellar, turning 1t into a monster
refrigerator. The estimates are care
fully made, and confidence is expressed
| in the success of the plan.
The debris of Hallett's Point rock, in
the East river, New York, which was
exploded In 1877, under supervision of
General Newton, has now nearly all
been removed from the bottom of the
water, and nothing remains to be done
toward making He'll Gate completely
navigable except the demolition of Flood
rock, which is gigantic stone, and will
not be perforated ready for blasting until
1883. 1t covers nine acres, and work
upon it was begun Immediately after the
explosion OF Hallett's Point. An addi-
tional two or three years will be re-
| quired for clearing away the debris, after
which there will be twenty-six feet OF
water at low tide.
The rapidity with which the railroads
from the Indus valley to Sibi, at the
mouth of Bolan Tass, have been con-
structed exceeds that of any similar
work in the United States, the country
of fast railroad building. The distance
from Lakken. in the Indus valley, to
Sibi Is l34 miles, and the railroad over
this distance was finished in lOl con-
secutive days. The last sixty-two
miles occupied exactly one month-from
noon of December IL to January IA.
The last ninety miles ran through a
desert, and all food. water and means of
shelter had to be transported by tram.
The consumption of water by the men
and animals was 10000 gallons day,
and in some cases the engines had TO
run 200 miles without stopping to take
water.
An exchange says that cigarette
smoking is now a fashionable habit,
and one which is increasing at an alarm
ing rate among half grown boys, and it
is the opinion of well-known physicians
that If this habit is not checked ad-
ditions to our asylums will be in order.
physician, satisfied that there was
death in that form of tobacco. had
cigarette analysed. The result was
startling. The tobacco was found to be
strongly impregnated with opium, while
the wrapper. which was warranted to
be rice paper, was proven to be the most
ordinary quality of white paper
whitened with arsenic; the two poisons
combined being presented in sufficient
quantities to create in the smoker the
habit OF using opium without his being
aware of it, and which craving can
only be satisfied by an incessant con-
sumption of cigarettes.
The following comparison is made
between American and English cities:
There are sixty four cities in the United
States with population exceeding 3O,-
900; there are forty-four cities with
more than 10000; thirty-four with more
than SO 900; twenty-seven with more
than 10000; twenty-four with more
than 10000; twenty with more than
10000, and one with more than l,OOO,-
900. London is long way ahead of
New York, but the other English cities
fall below the American ci ies Liver
pool ranks below Philadelphia and
Brooklyn; Manchester and Birming-
Leeds and Sheffield are below Boston
and Baltimore; Bristol, Bradford and
Stafford are below Cincinnati, San Fran
cisco and New Orleans; Hull, New
castle and Portsmouth are below WASH
ingtoI, Cleveland and Buffalo; Leices-
ter, Sunderland and Oldham are below
Newark. Louisville and Pittsburg.
A writer on Australian life in the
Boston Commercial Bulletin tells how a
.ick man was found by his mate at the
diggings murdered, and his gold gone.
The culprit was found, but contrived
that night to escape with the money,
which, for safe keeping, had been placed
in the place of detention. Nothing
could be heard Of him, but few days
later came the following: :" Mr.. Mag
istrate: Jim Bell (the murdered man)
vas orce mate of mine. He was a
so0db sba mSs Sess 3S" os Dead Dd 2S 2dSrbsdi BIZ eaereY
5ARoo Bill, captain of the bushrang-
ers." They found the murderer's re-
mains "a fleshless skeleton. every bone
picked clean. He had been staked down
On the ground, with his back to an ant
hill, and left for the ants to eat him
alive. A more awful retribution can
scarcely be conceived.
In one OF several suits in the United
States circuit court, recently brought
by the Adams and the Southern express
companies against certain Southern
railroad corporations, it was stated that
these two companies cover 2l 200 milesl
of railroad. employ 1900 persons, and
make 900 daily trips over GA 500 miles,
aggregating nearly 100000 600 miles OF
travel annually. For the transporta-
ton oftheir freight, they pay the railroad
companies over $4,000, 900 year. In
1873 they carried for the government
81, 900, 100000. In 1879 they carried