The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-21
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

The White House cellar has beer
converted into o curiosity shop, with {
miscellaneous collection Of trans sen
on from all parts of the country for tit
benefit of President Garfield. Their,
are at least twenty-five beds, includinl
one which is five and one. half feet long
and was sent all the way from Mime
sofa for the accommodation of mar
over six feet high. A Michigan mar
sent cage with two white mice tc
amtlse the Presidents children, and {
Lady in the remote west contributed {
stuffed humming bird "to relieve the
monotony of the sick room"
The Chinese government, for some
reason not stated, recently issued a dc
cree commanding its subjects to abstain
from shaving the head for o period oi
100 days. Detected in the act of dis
obeying this arbitrary regulation, be.
tween fifty and sixty persons in the
city OF Foochow alone were on the
eleventh Of June sentenced to receive
castigation with bamboo rods and to pay
each a fine Of 5000 cash (SG). It is
stated by the local journals that before
liberation the heads of the offenders
we're, as wholesome warning to others,
carefully painted and vanished.
The flow OF Italian emigration to this
country is comparatively small, and one
reason is that South America has proved
q more attractive region for them. The
Argentine republic already contains
6OO, 600 Italians, and they constitute
more than one-half of the population Of
Buenos Ayres. They lately opened and
carried on successfully an industrial er-
bibition, in which the raw and manu-.
factured products of the country and
the machinery and mechanical inven-
tions chiefly used by the Italian resi-
dents were brought together. The re.
suits were astonishing to the native
Spaniards. The Italians seem likely at
no distant day to become the dominant
people of the South American republic
as the English-speaking races are of the
United States.
Some people have such odd ideas Of
jokel A man ON board an Australian
steamer just leaving Plymouth Harbor
shouted "Man overheard P' The life
boat was lowered, but became entangled,
and two men were drowned. As nobody,
except the two, were missing, it was be-
lieved that somebody shouted "man
overheard for " the fun of it," Again.
a peaceable man was walking the streets
OF New York. when he heard q man say
to another in an excited manner "I.et
me go; I'll have his hearts blood"
Breaking away from his companion, he
approached the peaceable citizen, raised
his clenched fist, and then whipped out
his knife. The citizen cut his hand in
with the rufliian, but finally
knocked him down. Upon being taken
before a magistrate, The rowdy explained
that he was "only fooling little"
The following is the composition o.
n little boy in the Bishop Scott Gram.
mar school, Portland, Oregon, given
ct iteratim:
cran 10 vn-y slow s.sai.-Asl. cil..y
are good too break up ground. wood
rather have horses if they didn't have
eolic, which they say is wind collected
in bunch which makes it dangerosei
to keep horses than oxen. If there
we're no horses people would have tc
wheal their wood in wheal barrow, |
1t w.od take them two or three days to
wheal cord mic. Cows are useful
to. ! heard some people say if they
had to be OK or a COW they wood
sooner be COW, but I think when il
came to be MIXED on Geld winter
morning, think they wood sooner be
oxen, for oxen don't have to raise
calves. If Had to be OK or COW, /
wood be heifer, but if 1 could not be
? heller, and had t6 be both, 1 wood
be q OK.