Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
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been fitted up IN oriental style at cost
Of $40, 200, and Is said to DO tho most
luxurious appointed house In the place
II Is said that $4,000 was paid for one
parlor rug alone,
The Indianapolis Medical Journal
saws that the first railroad built west OF
tho Alleghanies was the twenty-five
miles between Frankfort aud Lexington,
Nv, Five counties In Indiana arc un'
touched by railroads,
A street parade bya circus at Newark,
o., presented more than tho advertised
attractions, "Nladam Mashier, the four
horse oharlotcer," thashed q groom no
thoroughly that u justice deemed q hne
Of $50 none too much
A large conservatory IL to inclose tho
new mansion which N being bnilt Tor
Leopold do Rothschild, aud tho expense
of Keeping II filled with flowers will not
be more than s5O, 900 year-enough TO
keep imitators ut distance
From Russian newspaper OF the
year 1882; "Tho ruins Of the palace are
still smoldcring. Twenty-Five nozzles
are playing on tho debris Tho safe
cannot bo taken ont before tomorrow
night, hut Il ~ believed that the ear
will bc found uniniured'"
The Now York Telegram says that o
visit to the intelligence offices isenongh
TO show that the present race OF cooks
and maids, IL the worst this country has
over had to deal with llousewofk II
the last thing girl will do IN these
days Of paint, powder and dress,
A swindler calling himself tho Wis
consin dental college has sold hundreds
of diplomas for sl2 each, Applicants
were not asked to give any proof OF NJ
ness, or TO do anything whatever except
send the money, in order to receive an
elabomtcly mounted parchment bearing
the signatures and seal OF "thc faculty"
Gen. Robert l.. Lee was direct do.
sccndant Of four of tho five heroes OF
Bannockhum of the high steward OF
Scotland; of Sir Robert do Keith, tho
preat Marischal Of Scotland OF Thomas
Randolph, earl of Moray; and OF king
Robert Bruce, from whom hc was the
seventeenth in line.
An ingenious system of lifts for
mountain ascent is very shortly to be
put in operation near the town oil Gar
terets, in tho Pyrenccs. A largo num-
ber of tourists, and especially bathers,
frequent this place in summer, the lat,
ter on account of the sulphurous thermal
waters, thought highly curative, A
series of five towers, for lifts, are to be
raised on the mountain side, and the
ton of each of the lower ones will be
connected with the bottom OF the next
higher by means of q piece oil slightly
inclined railway. The carriage convey
ing the passengers is raised in each
tower by hydraulic power.
Miss Maynard, one of the wealthiest
ladies' in Europe, who on the last day OF
last month was married in Westminster
abbey to the heir Of the carldom OF
Warwick, witha prince of the blood as
best man and in the presence OF score
of princes and princesses beside, set the
daughters of millionaires an example OF
simplicity they would do well to follow.
She wore no jewels, and the only orna-
ment discernible on her person was n
single bunch of orange blossoms in her
hair. And this Notwithstanding the
grooms wedding gift to the bride was
diamond collar with pendant marguer-
ties, emblematic of her pet name.
A recent publication of the Brussels
observatory states that there are at
present 13 public astronomical obser-
vatories in full activity, viz; "a in
Europe, 2 in Asia, in Africa, 3 in
Oceanica, and 2G in North and South
America. The United States has 10
Mexico, 2, Brazil, Chill, Columbia,
Ecuador, the Argentine Republic and
New Britain, each. In Europe, Prus-
sia contains the largest number, 70
England has II; Russia, -; Italy .;
Austria, 6; France, G; Switzerland, !;
Sweden, 3; Holland, Norway and Portu-
gal, 2 each Belgium, Greece and Den
mark, | each. The Oldest observatory
now in operation is that of Leyden,
founded in 1852. Six observatories OF
the most perfect equipment have been
established in America since 1870,