The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-08-20

uhi1ihg Engianu ana france, nave had
The most. satisfactory results. The pro-
moters have sunk their shaft to the
stratum in which they prop ,se to bore
the tunnel, and are now going TO sink
another shaft, and lower all the ma
chinery for the bore. In eighteen
months they expect to have reached two
kllometers (about two and quarter
miles) under the channel, and in three
or four years to have completed the
task. lt'f
Idaho Territory holds court at Boise.
where is located all the government
Offices, and is the home of She United
States marshal. He goes to Lewiston.
400 miles distant, twice year to attend
district court, and also twice a wear to
Malad for the same purpose, travelling a
distance OF 525 miles to reach there. To
simply attend the courts in the three
districts requires him to travel 300
miles. But TO do all his official work
last year caused Mr.. Chase to travel by
stages 5000 miles.
The slang phrase "queer fish" has
been realized in piscatorial form in
California. At Monterey some fisher
men cought it in seine. It was about
Il
fish was Il mountain brook trout. bav-
ing the eye, head, scales, spots and shape
OF the hsh. 1t had pair of fins at the
usual. place behind the gills; an inch or
two back of this it suddenly changed
into silver eel, tue shape, color and
absence of scales being perfect. 1t will
probably find resting place on the
shelves of the San Francisco Academy OF
Sciences.
A German paper relates that at BIZ
berich, recently, quite crowd gathered
to witness the novel spectacle of a
drunken driver being taken home by his
morse. The man was so intoxicated
that he could scarcely stand, but the
faithful animal pushed him onward
with its head. Now and then the driver
attempted to turn into side streets,
but the horse seized him by the coat
with its teeth, and thus piloted him to
the stable, The horse had great deal
OF trouble with its master, but finally
got him home safe 1t is said that this
valuable animal has acted the good Sa-
maritan for his master repeatedly be.
fore.
An excellent instance of the way in
which the children in the average pub
lie school learn without learning is re-
lated by Barnes Educational Monthly.
A teacher in one of our public schools
has been accustomed to require her
pupils to say: 1.-THE equator is an
imaginary line passing around the
EARTH" etc. II never occurred to her
that the boys and girls of her school had
no idea what an imaginary line meant,
until one day n visitor asked them how
wide they thought the equator is. Some
thought it was 5000 miles wide, others
1000 and others thought they could
jump over it. The visitor then asked
how they thought ships got over it. One
pupil said he thought they got out and
drew them over, and another said he
had read that a canal had been dug
through i'll what is the name of this
canalP" was asked. 1.-THE Suez canal"
was the answer.
On the road from Albuquerque to
Silver City (New Mexico) is Cooks
canon, in which the Apache Indians of
Victoria's band have been in the habit
OF waylaying and slaughtering white
people attempting the passage. A pri-
vate letter OF recent date from Silver
City says Il at 240 white settlers, miners
and mali carriers hav been butchered
and scalped in the canon by the
Apaches. A fortnight before the letter
was written the Indians killed a party
OF eighteen persons and burned their
wagons. They also slew the driver and
three passengers on the mail coach and
destroyed the vehicle. A detachment
of soldiers surprised five Apaches in the
canon a couple OF days after that occur
renee, killed and, it is said, scalped
them. Among the Indians killed on
that occasion uao tho Eftoao.
son of the renowned chief Victoria.
The lad fought desperately as long as he
couln If ? Iard to strike. The people
OF Silver City are greatly exercised
sbout the Apaches, who have made
mining in that vicinity extremely haz-
ardous.
Water Funeral in Norway.
One of the chief men of Christiansund
had died, and was about to be buried.
His body was to be conveyed across the
waters of the bay TO the church, where
the funeral ceremony would take place.
The day was intensely hot; the sun
poured down his rays from cloudless
sky; not n breath of air stirred in this
landlocked, hill-sheltered hay. All ma
ture seemed TO rejoice in sunshine and
prosperity. The houses on the slopes,
one above another, looked white and
tranquil. Nothing could be less in har-
mony with the ceremony about to take
place. In the distance, on the oppo-
site side of the bay, crowd of people
could be Ciscerned, quiet, motionless.
A landing-stage was decked with green
boughs and garlands, terminating at the
waters edge in an arch OF green leaves.
At the foot of the landine-stage some
eight or ten boats were waiting. Sud-
denly there was n sight stir in the
crowd. The coffin was being borne on
mems shoulders down to its appointed
boat. A few minutes more and the
cortege set out. The first boat con-
tanned the musicians, and anything
more sad, solemn, and mournful than
the dirge they played could not he
imagined. 1t was distressing in wall
ing gloom and misery. A certain occa-
sional discorG mingled with the har-
mony, the very embodiment of despair
and heartbroken sorrow. Immediately
following the musicians was a" boat
richly decorated with garlands of leaves
and flowers in the form of canopy,
that might rather have decked bride
than the dead. Below this gorgeous
and beautiful canopy, covered by no
pail. numbered by no trappings, reposed
the coffin. The boat had all the ap-
pearance OF . rlumpnai barge. The
sight was one of the strangest, most in
teresting, most impressive l had ever
seen-perhaps partly from its very
noyelty-this quaint mode of burying
the dead. For quarter of an hour we
watched the procession in its slow,
stately, and solemn march. The oars
were muffled, and not a sound marked
its progress save the wall of the music,
which never ceased in melancholy
strains. Every time the discord came
it Jared the feelings and shot a shiver
through the frame that no self-control
could resist. On and on they went
boat after boat, that one containing the
coffin always the most conspicuous, the
eye ever reverting to it with mourn
fll fascination. The procession passed
onward until it entered narrow canal
between ths islands, and was lost to
view. Less and less distinct, slower
and slower grew the wailing sounds of
the music, until they ceased altogether.
Then we knew that the procession was
landing, and was about to make its way
on foot to the church. A state funeral
in Westminster Abbey, with all the
Uliffar of nann and ceremony the stir