The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

War cry of the Arab-Up and Be
douin. .'.....fs
Over $4,000, 900 n year are expended
in private horticulture in Great Britain
and Ireland.
There is not much danger when il
rains "cats and dogs" but when it
Spitz dogs, look out.
A Russian physicist maintains that
the quantity of water on the earth'5
surface is diminishing
Brine applied to the roots of grape
vines affected by the grapes rotting, has
been found to completely eradicate the
rot.
the other day that they save all their
old ice and give it to the poor.-Eeso
York Herald.
township, Pa, is l07 years of age. She
does not use spectacles, and is remarka-
bly, active.
A bad little Philadelphia boy made
bis mothers hair rise the other day,
He stole her switch for kite bobs.-
PhiladelIhia Chronicle. tai
When four robbers broke into house
in Arkansas. intending to murder the in
III ates and rifle the place, they found
keg of beer, got drunk, and were all ar
rested.
" If you feel like sneezing,n says az
English physician, throw yourself fiat
on your back" And yet there are pee
pie who say that they can sneeze just a:
well standing up.
A man in Fannin county, Texas, re-
Gently caught deer in fish net. Ii
appears that the animal was chased by
dogs and. jumping into the net, became
entangled in it and was captured.
The Astor library at New York sends
its books to be bound in England, for
economy. The price of binding an Or
dinary thick octave volume in half
morocco in New York is 81 so; in Lon
don about 81.
More than 100000 people and more
than 100000 horses and other animals
drink daily at 1872 fountains and 404
troughs provided in London by tie
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and
Cattle. Trough association.
you see," said lively old bachelor,
on being advised to get married, "you
see can't do it, because could not
marry a woman didn't respect, and it
would be impossible for me to respect
woman that would consent to marry
me-"
The German sculptor, Muller, whose
magnificent statue OF Prometheus
Bound " has just been bought for sixty
thousand marks by the government and
placed in the Berlin national gallery,
was, when poor boy, cook in n Mu-
Mich hotel. H4ff
Some twenty stations and six or eight
mare colts have been shipped from Nor
7 mandy to Bloomington, Ill. Three of
the horses weighed 2,016 pounds each,
and the rest averaged about 800 They
are to be brooded with common Western
stock.
The Mormons are still pegging away
at their new temple. 1t is now twen.y
years since the building was COM
menoed, "a 600, 900 has been expended.
it is about one-fourth completed, and It
is said that S2S 100000 will be required
to finish it.
Pilots sometimes go a long way out to
sea for incoming vessels. The steamer
Illyrian, on her last inward voyage, was
boarded 242 miles east of Cape Cod as
she was feeling her way through dense
fog. Both captain and pilot were de-
lighted at the meeting.
George Beaumont, an Englisinnan, has
lately taken from the Cape to Buenos
beautiful species, with the intention to
start an ostrich farm in the Argentine
Republic. From studies made previous
to carrying his ideas into effect, the i'm
porter entertains no doubt of their thriv-
ing in the climate of South America as
welias they do in Southern Actria.
A German chemist has furnished an
exceedingly cheap and simple plan OF
testing the amount of water in milk.
All that is required is a small quantity
(say an ounce) of gypsum. This is
mixed with the milk to the consistency
of a stiff paste, and then allowed to
stand. With milk of l.030 specific
gravity, and temperature of sixty de-
grees Fahrenheit, the mixture will
harden in ten hours; if twenty five per
cent. of water is present, it will harden
in two hours; If fifty per cent, in an
hour and a halt; ifseventy-tive per cent,
in thirty minutes. ffi" +
Doctor Cooper, in Fraser's Magazine
argues that only those eyeglasses that
are made of the purest glass can be con-
sidered safe-specks, rays, globules, or
other imperlections, are detrim entail.
Though more costly. pebbles possess
two important advantages, namely, ex-
treme hardness, rendering it difficult to
scratch or break them, and clearness,
and they are also thought to be cooler
than other glass. To be good and true
the glasses should likewise be, in all
their parts, of an equal thickness in pro-
portion to their convexity, as well as OF
an equal form Another and easily
applied test of true glasses is that of
holding them obliquely over print, to
the letters of which will be found all
greserve their true character if the
passes are correct.
A wretched woman, brought lately to
London police court, proved to be the
wife ofan ex-ofiicer of the army. She
is of excellent birth, has been presented
at court. and is very accomplished, but
can keep from the gin bottle. The
name was studiously concealed. The
magistrate suggested an inebriate asy-
lum but it was explained that her con-
sent was necessary and that she
wouldn't give it. Ultimately her husband
came for her.
The Germantown Telegraph suggests
that our agricultural societies, which
give so many and high premiums for
fast trotting horses, might at least spare
little for the announcement OF the
food which the noble animal is to eat.
Premiums for well-grown hay, clean
hay, hay from improved grasses. and
well-manag ged hay fields. it thinks,
would surely be objects worthy the
attention of even a State agricultural
society. t....f ,. s
A Years Work at the Mints.
The following is n statement of the
coinage executed during the fiscal year