The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-30
2 FACTS AND cozsrENTs.

FACTS AND C0GiIENTS. 90 81
Tho Chinese and japanese builf
most Of their vessels OF teak. This WOOD
is very durable, and will stand the vatel
better than any other wood that is used
for shipbuildihg. According to tht
AmstJ'otdsian Shipping Ne,cs, there lie'
at the bottom of Dusly bay largo YES
sci that can be plainly seen in cleal
water. She has been there for cen
turies, and the Maois have q legend
about her. They say that their grand
fathers told them that in their child.
hood large vessel sank in Duslty bay,
that the crew managed to reach one OF
the small islands and after living there
for years died off one by one. Who they
we're or where they came from the
Maoris could not say. A diver Is said
to have recently examined this mys-
terious old hulk. He reported that she
is built OF teak and appears to be still
perfectly sound and firm.
Black birch is pressing it's claims to
succeed black walnut as an ornamental
wood. 1t is much the same color as
cherry, and can be stained go as to look
like walnut. Where the land is high
and dry the fiber is firm and clear. but
in low. wet soil it is soft and of blush
hue. 1t is already used largely for the
perforated chair bottoms. The Toronto
Globe says that it is very abundant in
Ontario 1t is so solid, however, that
IL does not foat after soaking few days
IN water, and unless it is so situated as
TO be RATED with pine logs it has to be
dragged great distances by horse power.
In consequence of its prospects in su.
perseding walnut, it is already rising in
price. Probably, however, says West.
ern paper, its reign will be of short du.
ration, as the cultivation of black wal.
nut is rapidly becoming regular in
dustry. 1t is regarded as one of the
most profitable Of crops-if one can af.
ford to wait.
A Marengo Gowa) girl arose in her
sleep the other night, walked out of an
open window and fell twelve feet to the
ground without heing awakened. What
model wife she will make. Her hus
band will not be obliged, when coming
IN late from the lodge, to tiptoe up the
stairs, carefully pull Off his boots in the
ball and sneak upstairs like phantom.
lie can bolt right into the house, knock |
over the furniture to his hearts con-
tent and get out of his clothes with as
much racket as is made at the breakipy |
mp OF political convention, and all the /
time she VIII slumber sweetly On.
dreaming dreams that carry big per-
centage OF bliss. Then in the morning
he can tell her that he came in at 10
o'clock, and that he doesn't suppose she
mad been asleep ten minutes, and she
VIII kiss him and tell him how kind he
is to come in real easy and not aw,ko
her, Her name is prudently withheld.
but some young man can secure a treas.
ure by packing up his grip-sack and
gong Out to Marengo to spend few
days.
Notwithstanding what has been writ.
ten in English and French books OF
American travel, New York city is at a
considerable distance from the forests
in which wild beasts are hunted BIZ men,
and i,i,!, sometimes succeed in reversing tho
water on nearly every side are man-eat-
ing monsters which of late have been
coming up to the piers and gnashing
their teeth at the populace. To venture
among them might be Gs perilous as to
go unarmed into an Eastern Jungle; yet
small boys sit on beer kegs along the
docks and anxiously angle for them.
Several sharks have thus been hooked.
and hauled to dry land through the aid
OF robust butchers from tho stalls near
by, and their captors have made large (
profits by putting small tents over them ,
and charging admittance fees. 1t has
been feature of tho seasons catch
that each shark captured has turned out {
to be man-eater of more conspicuous !
characteristics and of greater voracity ,
than any of the others-if the aver.
ments of its captors have been trust. !
worthy. \
The family tree Of the Vassars will be '
a list of philanthropists. Matthew Vas q
sar, nephew of the founder of Vassar {
college for females, at tPoughkeepsie, N. {
T., after devoting many years of his life !
TO its service, bequeathed large share {
Of his property to that and kindred in I
stitutions in Poughkeepsie. The college :
receives $3.50, 600, the Vassar Brothers :
Home for Aged Men $15, 900, the Vassar g
Brothers Hospital $4,000, and the q
ast-named institution is also made re- |
'iduary legatee, giving it, probably, a 4
1ery large endowment. These latter G
charities are the work of the two broth. 7
ers, who bear the same name as the s
Vassar brothers of the last generation. d
Another charity, the Institute for the i
Scientific and Literary /
is not remembered in the h
will, as the project was begun after the s
will was drawn. The surviving brother, i
Iohn Guy Vassar, announces that he
enounces in advance all legacies under r
will, and will erect the insti. c
ute as a monument to his memory
This is rare partnership in good works
he recollection of which will be swee
n mems mouths for many day.
The Indian Who Did 1t. I
A dealer in hardware on Jefferson {
avenue las had a strawcuttcr standing
on the walk in front of his store for
some days past to catch the public eye,
and yesterday forenoon two boys diseoy-
cred it and had considerable sport feed. {
ing papers under the knife. They were s
still at work, one at the wheel and the {
other feeding all the old papers he l
could find, when along came three Can q
ada Indians with something less than e 9
thousand baskets hitched to them.