The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-12
GENERAL NOTES.

The title OF Prince Ill Kussla, IL Is as
serted. is about equal TO that OF Esquire
in England.
The places where bribc money was
paid out in the English elections were
called sugar shops.
The Lyons silk manufacturers give
| ont the raw silk to the workman, who
has his hand looms at home, and on
these looms the best goods are made.
Reports have been received at San
Francisco and Yokohama, derived by
whalers from the natives of the Arctic
regions, that the steamer Jeanette
and some whalers had been lost, with
all hands, but the reports are not be-
lieved.
In the city of Dublin there are "a 900
families, averaging five members, who
are each living in single room. These
families depend for support on wages
of from 10 to II shilliDgs week. The
mortality in the tenement house dis
tricts is GO per 1000.
1t was talented Western man who
bet that there was city in the United
States of over 10000 inhabitants that
would not cast 800 votes for Garfield
and he won the money. He named
Washington, ID. c., as the city, where
nobody is allowed to vote.
1t is said that 72,5lO,O00 packets, or
1870, 100000 single pins, are manu-
featured yearly in the United States,
being at the rate OF 46S pins for every
person of the population. Fifty
years ago it took one man minute to
make IA pins,no single workman can
make $4,000 in the same time.
On Wednesday last, while out gun.
ming with some young men, Fred
Drake, son of James Drake, residing at
Searls Mills, Gardiner, Me-, thought
the easiest way to carry his gun would
be to pull it along by the muzzle, allow
ing the butt to dragon the ground
The firearm was discharged, blowing
off the thumb and badly mutilating his
hand and wrist.
Drinking saloons of every degree are
very abundant in Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, and the truthfulness of the sign over
the door of one of the lowest class IL
very striking. An old fashioned per
forated tin lantern hangs upon a rude
} bracket, and in the night throws din
and fitful light upon strip OF white
muslin OIL which is inscribed in large
letters, "Nose Paint"
Jacob Terwilliger, New York farm
err on the Shawongunk Mountains, fel
into a nest of rattlesnakes while pick.
ing apples, the other day, and, though
one of them bit him OH his finger, hi
went for them with big stick and
killed eight, the largest five feet long
and wearing seventeen rattlcs. Plent,
: of whskey saved Terwiliger's life
though he tainted dead away just as hi
got home, and it took two days to Kill
the poison.
Among the boys of Oldtown, Mass.
there is youngster who will yet bt
chairman of the National Democratic
Committee ifhe keeps on as he has be
gun. He sold another boy two pair o
brown pigeons as "dun tumblers"
The buyer waited a week and as h,
couldn't get the pigeons to tumble h,
complained that the other had cheated
him. "Why," said the seller, "they
are just what l warranted-they ar
done tumbling, and won't do 1t an!
more"
Japanese paper air cushions are sale
, to have some advantages over those
, made of rubber. They may be rolled
into a package of smaller dimensions
when not in use; they will not sticl
, together as rubber does after it is wet
and for pillows they are better because
they have no odor. Their strength il
marvellous; man weighing l60 pound.
may stand upon one without bursting
it. They are said to be waterproof
and to make excellent life-preservers
, Philip, the man charged with the for
, gerry of the Morey letter, was once
managing editor of the Brooklyn Union
, The night before he wound up his con
nection with the Union, he invited thu
reportorial staff to his room and re
marked that certain application fol
increase of salaries, though his repre-
sensations 10 the ploprietors, had beel
favorably acted upon, and a subscrip
ton for a handsome watch, properly
engraved, as a recognition of his ser
: vices, was promptly filled up. Before
, quitting the Office tine next day for good
Philip wore the watch in his vest pocket
. The New York Journal of Commerce
: always Democratic to the core, says OF
lUt TCCcui cleCllOH.
"The Republicans have achieved I
: very signal victory. We concede tina
/, all which official power and the lavish
I use of money could do has been done Il
secure this great victory for the domin
: ant party. But there is something
: more than this; the victory has beef
(; gained and the defeat inflicted by tn
!. honest counting of votes and the coun
, try may be congratulated that the new
;. ly elected President may take his sea
). with the feeling of satisfaction that
(; over and above the votes that may hav
) been unduly influenced on either side
l. he has been fairly elected by the suffra
e ges of the people,"
The baby elephant of the Londo
Show alternating at Bridgeport, Conn
is as playful and mischieyous as XII
ten. He is an inveterate beggar an
will take almost anything that Is offel
ed him. He ran up to party of visi
ID ors at the circus quarters the other da
. and began playing in his own peculis
d way for some gift. The trainer tol
e them to give him nothing however, {
TO he had just punished the infant and di
p; not want the good effect of the disc
b pline destroyed by any favors. Tt
= party complied with the request, bl
= In moment baby had fished an app
g out of the pocket of one of the visitor
= and ran with it to his mother. Ever
i thing he gets he carries to her in Ii
9, same way.