The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-23

The United States dollar OF 1904 sells
flor $500. II the government officials
had known how highly these coins were
Ito be valued they might have made q
grand speculation by turning out few
millions of them. As il wus they
Thought eight would "meet the bust
mess wants Of the country" and eight
they made.
A correspondent of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun. dried grass or heat
lat this time OF the year, as tho bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ling glasses. The Australi ms know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken place in Australia in conse-
'quence of broken bottles having been
'carelessly thrown down among the dried
3scrub.
From the year 1875 to the present
date 176 murders have been committed
in Chicago. OF these, as is the case
'generally, nearly one-half were COM
mitted in the hot months-June,
July, August and September, chiefly in
July and August. Only two of the 17G
.murderers were hung for the crime.
But in that year, 1878, one of the hot
test summers known, the number of
murders decreased, from thirteen in
the summer of 1877, to six; increased
next year to nineteen, and this year
bids fair to exceed it.
The Main Exhibition building at
Philadelphia, which cost 100000 to
erect, was recently sold at auction for
$4,000 It's sale calls to mind the long
and disastrous effort to maintain a per
manent exhibition within its walls with
some of the shells and vestiges Of the
great Centennial fair. The scheme
was doomed to failure from the begin
ming, but it was heroically supported
for four years by company of Phila-
delphia gentlemen who have paid dearly
for their enthusiasm. Nowhere has a
large permanent industrial and art ex-
hibition been successful save at Syden-
ham, near London, and that has in its
favor the attractiveness of the Crystal
palace and its park as q point for ex-
cursions, and the immense population
of the British metropolis close at hand.
There is nothing small about the
hawaii of Gondal in India. lie has
chosen seven youthful and lovely brides
from among the daughters of the Con.
DIAL aristocracy, and has made arrange
ment to lead them to the altar, one
after another, upon seven successive
days. 1t will be the pleasing duty Of
each bride, progressively and in regular
rotation, to attend the weddings cele.
brated subsequent to her own, so that
the first lady of the series will enjoy
the unusual privilege of witnessing
seven nuptial ceremonies, in all OF
which she will be more or less directly
interested, within the limits of single
week. The seven.fold bridegroom,
however, has bestowed upon all his
brides wedding dresses and ornaments
of identical material, design and value.
The rooms they are destined to occupy
in his palace are all furnished exactly
alike; and the accident of seniority, as
regards the mere date of their respect
i've marriage ceremonies, is not to carry
with it any precedence at court.
The time is not far distant when, &C
cording to scientific geographers (whc
certainly ought to know, the passage
across the Atlantic will only occupy
four days. This will not be, as one may
hastily suppose, on account OF improve
ments in steam power, electricity orI
any such ont of the way attempts, but
simply because in time the American
continent will be something quite diff
ferent from what it is to-day. The
coast of New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island is rising, the lard round
the Bay of Fundy is sinking. Green
land is slowly sinking along 4 line OF
500 miles; New Jersey and the coasts
to the east are rising, and Oh the Pa.
cific there is subsistence Of water.
The American continent must in time
project to the North Pole. Hudson's
Bay will be fruitful valley, with just
lake or two to keep up the vatery
,haracter of the place, the Newfoud-
and banks will become arid and St
Georges bank will be part of the main
and. The coast line of all oceanic
States will be carried out to the inner
edge of the gulf stream.