The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-06-18
VARIETIES.

Women resemble flowers. They
shut up when they sleep.
II is said that only few locomotives
can mako fifty miles an hour.
A Persian will establish at Durham,
| N. c., factory for the manufacture OF
silk.
Female convicts in the Kentucky
penitentiary are required TO dress in
pantaloons.
1t Is established beyond reason that
the coffee plant can be successfully cul-
tivated In Southern Florida.
There are three million unmarried
men In the country. This Is under
stood not to include the.divorced.
Over in England, when anybody has
complaint which puzzles the doctors
they lay 1t to American beef.
is proposed to change the name of
Central Park, N. Y, to Irving Park, in
honor of Washington Irving.
Detroit has restaurant where cup
of coffee and roll of bread can be OBJ
tanned for two cents, or a cent piece.
There arc nineteen batchclor farmers
in Walnut township, Pike county,
Iowa, who are farming and doing their
own cooking.
In the Iowa Agricultural College cv-
cry girl in the junior class has to know
how TO make light bread before she can
rise to the seniors.
The st. Louis police searched all day
for daby whose mother said 1t had
been stolen, but which was found un-
der the bed, where it had fallen.
In order to enlarge church in Dover,
Englang, a yew tree, 1000 years old,
has beeu removed. The earth and tree
weighed fifty tons.
An artesian well at Davenport, Iowa,
has been sunk to the depth OF $50 feet,
and 400 gallons of water minute flow
from it, rising twenty-five feet bove the
surface of the ground
A man, woman, and child, who have
been begging for some weeks in Wat
sonville, Cal, have been found to have
$65, 900 invested in San Francisco,
have four sons engaged in profitable
business. and 5000 in gold was found
in tho possession of the man.
Tho superintendent of the Pits
burgh, Pa, schools highly commends
the use of the daily paper as text
book, as the lively interest the pupils
take in the geography and history of af-
fairs connected with daily events
would deserve to impress both studies
deeply upon their minds.
A German newspaper mentions that
certain druggists of Leipsic offer for
sale colored inks for writing labels
on glass, porcelain, ivory, marble and
metal. The writing Is done with
quill, and when dry adheres so
closely that it cannot be removed by
any liquid. Black, white, red and blue
inks of this kind are made.
Madame Adelina Patti, writing of
her experience in singing, says that
when her name is on the poster for ap-
pearance, she is all the morning pre-
occupied, nervouus and agitated; as
the hour of the representation ap-
proaches, she grows more and more fc-
vered. and at the last moment, when
leaving her dressing-room for the stage.
Que feeling dominates her-a terrible
fear.
The oldest houst in New England is
that now owned and occupied by Alfred
Poor, just beyond the Old Town
Bridge, in Newbury, Mass. The Poors
came to Essex county in 1926, and built
their house in 1643, and The first child
born in that house was named John
Poor, and the last one christened the
same. The Poor family have occupied
this house through eight generations,
and now it Is to be torn down and a
new dwelling erected upon its site.
An Italian newspaper says that a
young female slave has escaped from
the harem of the ex-Khcdive at Resina,
and taken refuge in an opposite house,
in which lives young man who has
fallen In love with her from seeing her
at tho window, and with whom she has
managed to carry on a pantomime
wooing. The young man intends TO
marry thisIOrintal waif, aud though
there are some legal obstacles in the
way, will doubtless accomplish his pur-
pose. The young beauty is only six
teen.
Years ago, a party went from Ken
tucky to unearth the remains of Daniel
DOOuo anu MS WIN, Whooo po'io9 i""
been buried at Mathasville, about forty
miles northwest of 81. Louis, and few
miles from tht house where Boone liv-
ed and died. Fearing interruption
from the citizens of tho place, the par
ty hurried back to Kentucky with
what they got, leaving the graves I'M
filed, and they remain so to this day.
The person who owns the lot where
the graves are is said to bc so angry at
tho loss of the money which he might
have mado by showing them in their
original state that he is taking legal
measures to recover what is left of their
bodies.