The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Jenny l1lilu OOluSCnnlub Is llVlnR III
London and has 81 100000,
Thomas A. Scott, the former famous
president OF the Pennsylvania railroad,
died last Saturday.
1t is stated on the best authority that
the total French forces now in Tunis
$1,000 men.
In many box factories the nails are
now driven by machinery, one machine
doing the work of ten or fifteen men.
During the logging season just closed
6,279 ,950, 900 feet of lumber have been
felled in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota. .l....
1t is stated that recent deep-sea
fishing expedition resulted In the dis
covery of eighteen hitherto unknown
species of fish. fi...I
Edward A. Osborne, who was dis
tinguished confederate officer during
the war, was ordained minister of the
Episcopal church, at Raleigh, N. c.,
Sunday,
ono kiss ?" he said, pleadingly, emo
kiss from my darling Tonight" mo-"
she said emphaticaily, emo kiss. | hear
that there is mumps in your family
1.-THE Sanitarian. ...i
In Tunis, as elsewhere in Africa, ex-
cessive stoutness is considered mark
of female beauty. Women are fed for
this purpose like cattle when trained
for an agricultural show.
A st. Louis man deferred his suicide
until he could have some mourning pa
per exquisitely printed with his mono
gram, so that he could write his fare
we'll letters in good style.
The report that the peach crop on
the Delaware peninsula has been
blighted is strongly denied by one of
the largest growers of that section,
lie says all varieties are in excellent
Monday night the explosion Of fifteen
barrels of Danforth's fluid stored in q
cellar in st. Joseph, Mo-, killed from
fifteen to forty colored men who were
in saloon overhead, and destroyed
the building.
A Georgia paper says that a law
against smoking on the streets is still on
the statute books of many states, and 10
of the opinion it should be enforced
against cigarette smoking school boys
under sixteen years.
The tunnel under the Straits of
Dover is being pushed forward at the
rate.of twenty-five feet day. The cut
Ting is done by disk which makes two
revolutions minute and cuts a quarter
Of an inch at each revolution.
1t is said that wealthy octogenarian
physician of Philadelphia has adopted
young servant girl, and proposes to be-
queath to her the greater part of his
which is valued at 100000.
His nearest blood relations are neph-
,ws.
A bald headed eagle was caught by
,hree boys few evenings ago near the
Delaware Western railroad bridge, at
" ilmington, Delaware. The bird was
engaged in combat with a Newfound-
and dog, and was endeavoring to carry
t off in its talons.
Half of the junior class of the Indiana
State University have left the institu.
ion because professor would not per-
nit them to 60 out in the midst of a
to fight the sophomores, who
lad captured their hats and were rend-
ng them under the windows.
On Tuesday a crowded excursion
steamer, the Victoria, collapsed and be-
,ame total wreck, about a mile be-
ow London, Ontario, plunging its
Tx hundred passengers into the water.
Over two hundred were drowned.
Gross carelessness was the cause.
Luther Foster, the Phillips academy
student, who, with his twin brother,
broke into the dwelling of Abiel Will
on, and whose brother met his death
rom bullet fired by MIR. Wilson, has
,een sentenced to seven years in the
Massachusetts, state prison at hard Ia
'or. He has manifested no remorse
whatever at the act which cost his
'rother's life and himself long impris-
)nment.
On the railroad between Galveston
md Austin they tell that Jay Gould
md his party, while in Texas, stopped
It farm house along the line Of the
abroad to get some fresh eggs and
milk. The party furnishing the refresh.
nents wanted $50 dozen for his eggs.
lay Gould remarked that eggs must be
carce, to ask that much for them.
There are plenty of eggs here" re-
ponded the genial host, "but fellows
ike you, that can afford to pay such
'rices, are scarce. That's why eggs are
worth $50 dozen on this joyous occa. |
ion."
An item is in circulation to the effect
hat 5000 have been offered for the
elivery in New York, of a fagstone
15x25 feet. Such a stone
as been cut at Waterville, but the
roblem how to get ii to that city is |
till unsolved. II is too wide to pass
trough railroad bridges, and If placed |
dgewise would he too high. Equally |
reat difficulties are in the way oil
ringing 1t on the Erie canal. The lar
est fagst0ne ever cut, 1t is said, was
lid in Chicago, before the great fire.
measured 1926 feet and was - in
hes thick.
A New London whaling vessel, the
'ilots Bride, Capt. Fuller, last year
lade an interesting cruise in the vast
olitudes of the Southern Ocean, PEN
trating as far south as CSC, which Is
Md TO be farther than any whaler has
itherto penetrated. Leaving the
outh Shetland Isles in September last,
apt. Fuller took his vessel down to
no ice-packs, and there saw high,
mountainous land extending like a
past line for miles. One of these
fountains was an active volcano, which
resented magnificent spectacle at
light. Many attempts were made to
each the shore, but in vain, the ice
arrier proving impenetrable.
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