The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-11-11
GENERAL NOTES.

bin has been puDllsDeu IN LONDON. 1
Tennessee will realize as much for s
her fruit crop this year as she usually
does from her wheat crop.
During last week 957S immigrants
landed Mt New York, against 1880 the !
corrcspon ding week last year.
Martin Kankowski was sentenced at
Jersey City, Saturday, TO be hanged
January 6, for the murder of Minal
Muller.
Farmers throughout the province o
Ontario arc unanimous in the opinion
that the fall wheat prospects were never
brighter than at present.
Guiteau has written to the president
and James Gordon Bennett, asking
them to subscribe for his defense. He
wants $4,000 from Mr.. Bennett.
An aesthetic looking passenger in
Brooklyn IN. " horse car on Satur-
day, insisted upon the conductor sit
ting beside him to hear him rccitc poe
try.
London society has has adopted the
word "impY" as a substitute for lmpe-
cunious, and now when q man is in
straitened circumstances he is said to be |
"impy."
John Farrell, who had plate of ar
tiiicial teeth removed from his gulet by |
q surgical operation at the Troy hospi- |
tai, died during the following night
from the effects of the surgery.
The smallest antelope in the world
was discovered by the naturalist, Carl
Book, i'll Sumatra, two years ago.
The adult of this species was barely
fifteen inches in length and nine in
height.
The actual deficiency in the Mechan-
les Bank of Newark, as shown by the
statement of the government examiner,
mates that depositors will receive from
80 to GO per cent.
English landlords are making large
: reductions ntheir rents, in order to
stave off land agitation in England.
The average reduction in new lettings
= is thirty per cent, or more than the
, Irish landlords expect 20 lose by the
4 decisions of the land court.
Mrs. Fry, on clipping from Union
q vile, Ohio, left note kindly advising
:, her husband TO get q divorce immedi-
ately, and marry certain frugal and
f industrious widow of the neighbour
q hood, who would, as she expressed it,
/ "be good to the seven small Fry"
: Gray squirrel is much more popular
: in London this season than the white
Il and black so much seen during the last
two or three winters. 1t has already
: gone up in price, owing to the great
demand for it. Circular cloaks, long
7 Jackets and dOlmans are lined with it.
u In many parishes i'll England bags
l. have been introduced to receive the
c offerings of the people instead of the
Il usual plates. AS a consequence, the
o amount of the contributions has fallen
e Oft, good deal of copper money hay
l. ing taken the place Of silver and gold.
y Another proof of the truth of the
st popular notion that annuitants arc eX-
T. ceptionally long lived is afforded by the
" circumstance that over $500 is still paid
D. in pensions TO servants of Queen Char
lotte, who died sixty-three years ago,
10 and $50 TO a surviving attendant OF
1ft George III.
l. The Scottish papers announce that a
II Glasgow policeman has fallen heir 10
r. ESQ., 900. The money was gathered to-
&c Carolina. lie had family of daugh-
). ters, but refused 10 leave them dollar
because they did not or would not mar
II ry Ilighlandmcn!
n A curious story is told by tho Sheffield
g (Eng.) Telegraph. A gardener, who
IF had became blind, owing to a cataract,
II dreamed that if he applied petroleum
" to his eyes the sight would be restored
1t The old man Che is S2), strong in his
D. simple faith, carried the dream into
N effect, and bis sight was restored.
= AS the long drought appears at last
to have come to an end, 1t is of inter
u est 10 notice that last week, the Albany
~ county grand jury indicted man fol
~ larceny in stealing an umbrella. This
nf looks like the beginning of reform
j., movement that will ultimately estab
:" fish the security of umbrellas as pri
!, vate property.
III Attention has recently been called t(
c, a singular illustration of the manner in
~ which historians sometimes become Sc
much Interested in their subject as tc
lc forget to mention important details
"a 1t is said that the Rev. Mr.. Poets bool
II, on "The Ashtabula Disaster" nowhere
~ gives the date, day, month or year, O
= the great catastrophe.
Dr. II has leaked out that number o
a rooms in the basement of the Senate
N wing of the Capitol at Washington arc
&c regularly used by Senators for the stor
ut age of trunks and miscellaneous person
IN al property and household goods. The
I'd things are hauled there in Senate
&C wagons free of charge, and carried bach
to the Senator'S houses when needed.
d. A writer on domestic life in Ital,
ct says that, as rule, "distrust and sus
ld picion rule the ordering of an Italian
10 household. No master or mistress us
c. ually believes in the integrity of any
one in his or her employ, and thu
he whole home life resolves itself into
es kind of war of wits grim game o
es cleverness of theft matched by clever
ir ness of detection" The servants ar,
Oh abominably trcatcd-badly fed, abused
ne and scOlded.
I'd Impelled either by computations O
conscience, tardily awakened, agains
the wretchcd business, or by DISCUS
with investments that yield only heav,
j. assessments, the people of Douglas
S: vile, Pennsylvania, who have dabblet
tn in "grave yard insurance" have resol
a we'd to wash their hands of the dis
nd graceful traffic. Accordingly, on Satur
In day, they made march in solemn ar