The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-08
SOME CUkIOOs FACTS.

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There's hen In the neighborhood {
Ban Francisco laying eggs and hatchin
chickens, the fiesh OF which are as blac
rs that Of grouse. .fo
A crab was taken lately at Galveston
inclOsed In an unusual sort of shell
being coffee pot into which he had eol
and was unable to extricafe himself.
| Among the Gnros. a Hindoo trib
| when q wife is dissatisfied with her Inns
band she can legally pack up, leave hin
and marry another, after annouucin
her separation publicly. ,.fl Il
Tho first stage-coach In America com
| merced running between Boston an,
Providence In the year IT'S, taking tw,
days for the journey. Now we 20 owe,
the same distance in m houri
In 1913 Pocahontas, the historic In
dian maiden, was purchased by Captain
Angel from her tribe for a copper
kettleI Bhe was afterwards married q
John Rotfe, an English planter. !
Up to the last half Of. the last centur,
we had not reached to the excellence O
the locks that were used In Egypt and
China thousands of years ago. and WI
now cannot be said to have surpassed
them. strr-. ~ = =
The strange and wonderful city Of
Timbuctoo, called the queen of the
desert, is most interesting spot, con-
tanning 10000 people, and some mosques
almost equal to any at Constantinople,
1t was founded in the year 1i76, by the
ancient North Africans.
The streets OF Constantipople are mar.
row. dirty and irregular, and paved
with such large boulders that in most
places II Is impossible to drive a car
riage. With a population of between
500 600 and 600. 600 the city has 90, coo
priests, mostly Greeks and Mohammc-
dams. 20 I7i'771 LII = =
There were. twenty-five homicides
committed In San Francisco last year,
some OF them Of peculiar atrocity, and
not one Of the perpetrators has yet been
convicted. W s...if III - II -
Mr.. Parnell, head of the Irish land
league, Ii very abstemious, drinking
little but water or tea. In the intervals
OF agitation no 10 q sroet rider, q raod
erately keen sportsman and something
Of farmer.
Elephants have been known to live
400 years. Robinson's circus has one
eighty-four years old which is as frisky
as kitten. and, by the way, is q con-
hrmed tobacco chewer.
Notice. person who stole ''Songs
Of the Sanctuary from pew No. 80
should impr ,ve theopportunity Of sing
ing them here. as he will have occa-
sion to sing them hereafter.
Ten years ago the United States
boosted fourteen cities of over 100, 900
inhabitants each; now we have twenty
"a greater number. than any other
country in the world contains.
We see an article in the papers about
boy inventors. We hope they will in
vent boy who won't whistle through
his fingers and yell on the streets at
night. -Csncinnrti Saturday Night.
A Bay City (Mich.) philosopher tried
70 stop runaway horse by taking hold
OF wheel Of the carriage. When he
stopped revolving he wasn't any better
looking than he was before, but he knew
more.
The yeung woman who had many
suitors, and from the time she was six
teen until she was twenty one rejected
them all, referred in her later life to tha,
period as her .. declining years. ."-!Sleu-
tenville Herald.
A poet asks, in thirty-two lines,
"W hat do the trees say ?" II he was
to recite his poetry under several trees,
we don't believe they would say any
thing: They would leave" e."--Norris
toun Herald.
Japanese paper air cushions are bein /,
introduced into this country. They aic
preferable to ruboer in many respects
having no odor and net sticking together
when wet, and are as strong nearly ns
rubber.
If thy pocketbook be very plethoris
or corpulent, do not stuff II with anti
fat, but take to thyself tor wife one ol
the fashionable young ladies', and ID
less than one year thou wilt Oe satisfied
that thou hast discovered the trut
remedy. vfa74 ..r
United States Senator Inga.l OF Kan
sas. il tall. thin and cadaverous. III,
wears q flaming scarlet necktie, heavy
broad-brimmed spectacles, and Is tn,
father OF eleven children. He Is very
Thelightning used on theatrical stage
costs go an ounce; bat then so little II
required that you can kill a $50 brigant
vnd ten Sl2 brigands 30 beautifully fo
about two cents. A little lightning i
dangerous thing.
|" Etiquette writes to us to inquir,
II in our opinion 1t would be proper 70
him 10 support young lady II she wa
taken with faint--even II he hadn'
been introduced. Proper. young man
certainly-prop her by all means.-
Cleveland San. ssirs
"See here" said fault finding hus
band to his wife. we must have thing
arranged in this house 30 that we shal
know where everything is kept. "Witl
all my heart" she sweetiy answered
"and let US begin with your late hours
my love; I should dearly ike to know
where they are kept" He let thing
run on as usual.
A little thing In Sunday-school wa
asked by her teacher II she always sal
her prayers at night and morning
: No, miss, I don't" "Why, Mary
are you not afraid to 60 to sleep In tn
dark without asking the good father :
take care OF you and watch oyer 20
till morningp mo, miss, l amt 'caus
! sleep in the middle"
| ''There Is no occasion for tumblin
ifyod' Just take LITTLE care how yor
walk said wouid-be sure-foote
dapper little fellow, who accompanie
| lady down Third street yesterday
"Careful people don't slip on the
wboopi whackl ought What are 20
laughing at -Harrisbssry Ratrict.
"Ihave little poem that tossed o
In an idle hour the otler day. Whs
shall Go with IL ?" writes a youn
| lady. And the editor replied; sc
up on the roof and toss IL of agaiI
selecting day when the wind is higf
Perchance 1t may fall in waste place.
and nobody ever be bothered by it."
81 think" said fond parent, thu
little Jimmy is going to he a poet whe
ne grows up. lie cant eat, and si
all day by the stove and thinks IA
thinks" You htd better grease hil
all over lie j. going "a have VI
measles Thaa's wha. Ai's J n'n'.
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Now you better let me put a set
these weather strips on your doors
pleaded tho agent in, an insinuatil
voice; "they keep the house We
warm" But the man said no. his wife
mother was stoppipg with them, and