The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-16
GENERAL MOTIFS.

Out OF 3772 pupils ", the schools ai
Erie, Pa, 1862 are Studying German.
A French Gle ctrician is having n
boat constructed in which he intends
to cross the English channel, using an
electric motor to propet 1t.
The successes achieved recently by
American horses on the turf in Europe
has led Mr.. Leopold Rothscbild to i'm
port some yearlings from the United
Queen Victoria is Ill. She is reported
as suffering much from the comparative
mildness of the weather, warmth al
ways being particularly depressing 70
her. She should attend church so.
ciables. 'o
1t is spoken of as wonderful
thing That The person who transports
the mails from Vergennes to Addison.
VI, is women. Just as If transport
ing males was not vomen's work
from time immemorial.-[LowelI Cou-
rier.
One of the allegations made in n
Louisville wife's bill for divorce is
that her husband, to cure her of ieal-
ousy, compelled her to kiss the woman
OF whom she was jealous, having
brought the latter to the house for the
| purpose.
II is stated on good authority that
not less than 9,2oO,Oo0 pounds of glycer-
me Is States s and i"1 ntiiiued every
year in this country, and yet SO late as
the year 1854 it was run off into the
sewers as waste product.
New York and Boston Wholesale
liquor dealers say that they derive a
greater profit from the prohibitory
laws in Vermont and Maine than thew
] would under license laws. They can
! get good deal more for their stock
when put up as patent medicine than
when sold by the glass.
II, q. Burleigh & Bros steam saw
and planning mill at Larrabee's Point.
was burned on Monday night, about
midnight. 1t is not known how the
fire originated, as there was no fire in
the building on Monday, the works
having been shut down for repairs TO
the boiler. The loss was total. Insured.
MIR. Erskine Thomas OF Leicester
was few days ago injured in bis hand
by a threshing-machine. The injury
resulted in lockjaw, of which he died.
He was attended by DR.. Dyer of Bran
don. The deceased was the son of the
lste Phillip Thomas of Salisbury, He
leaves wife and two children.
Since the war between France and
Germany ended, the growth of the two
countries in population has been cur
ious in its contrasts. Germany has
increased by 1850, 900 souls, but France
by only $4,000. At this rate of in,
crease, by the end of this century
Germany will have 10000, 900 people,
while France will have scarcely
40, 100000.
A Cincinnati man, when about tc
raise telephone receiver to his ear the
other day, was somewhat surprised tc
see flame six inches long leap from it.
lie very naturally reconsidered bis
purpose of gaining information from
the instrument, and went to the centra
office 10 investigate, where he found
that similar phenomenon had been NO
ticed. Further exploration discovered
the fact that the telephone wire had
fsllen upon an electric lightingl wire
and that the former had been melted al
its points of Union with both telephones
There were two horrors at Pittsburgh
Pa, last week. Friday evening a terri.
BILE explosion occurred at the keystone
rolling mills, and Saturday morning
another, which exceeds in horror any
thing that ever occurred in the vicinit,
since the destruction OF life caused by
the collision on 2Sth street. Between
two and three O'Clock frame boarding
located OH the line of the Pittsburgh
and Lake Erie railroad was set on fir,
by the explosion of a lamp, and of fifty
persons sleeping in the building onl,
twenty-four escaped alive. The fiameI
spread SO rapidly that there was no pos
sibility of rescuing them.