The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-03
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feet 8 inches In hight.
The treasurer of Jackson county,
Mo-, 10 accused Of raising the properly
tax $1,000, 900 and pocketingt IL.
1t is stated that the Chilli PERUVIAN
controversy correspondence will lead
to q Congressional Investigation.
Seats near the door have been the
ones most sought after by European
theatre-goers since the Vienna disaster,
A cyclone in Doueherty county,
Georgia, Saturday, lifted q cabin In
the air tearing It to pieces and killing
It's occupant.
A line Of fast steamers Is to be pui
on to run between San Francisco and
the Hawaiian Islands, making the
21OO miles inside Of seven days.
In Ascension Parish, La, Tuesday,
Charles Gustave stabbed his manor.
eta, Jane Thompson, eight times In
the heart. Both colored. Cause,
Jealousy.
The smallest town In the United
States and probably In the world
which supports q daily newspaperif
Weldon, N. c., which has q popu.
lation Of 1892. The editor does moi
feed on peacock meat.
Vennor is puzzled. He says: ssThe
month Of February 10 likely to follow
In the track of 1878 or 1881, which
can not yet determine, but in either
case the pictures presented are abouI
the same, namely, very cold and
wintry."
Mr.. Z. M. Boynton, whom the New
York Sun describes as o BROOKLYN In.
ventor, and who halls from Massachu.
sets, has patented what he terms q
bicycle railroad, by which he expects
to revolutionize the present system OF
railroads, and 10 enable people 10
travel at the rate of 100 miles an hour.
When a young mar at Scranton, Pa.
went to be married the other day and
found the other chap standing up be-
fore the minister with the girl, the ia.
Their said: "There are my other three
daughters; you can take your pick, y
Aud the Young man picked and there
wal q second ceremony.
In Paterson, N. j., Saturday, q street
car while going down a hill became
unrpfnageable and collided with q milk
wagon, completely wrecking 1t and
knocking q man and woman senselees.
The q finally smashed through the
'front.' Of q store. The driver was badly
hurt; the passengers escaped with
slight bruises.
Nearly 700 Chinese on the steamer
from Hong Kong were vaccinated at
San Francisco. The chief mate states
that the passengers were operated on
in Hong Kong, but there being no
vaccine, m%ucilase was used. Never.
theless the surgeon and Consul Mosby
signed q certificate that the pass engera
were properly vaccinated.
Barnum has had q large number OF
applications for the position of ssthe
handsomest woman In the worldn 10
accompany his show next season. One
Of the beauties halls from Boston, and
says that she is told every day that she
D handsome.
The old World building In New York
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, with
q loss of over a million ofdollars. Sew.
eral newspaper offices, including that
Of the New York Observer, were in the
building, as well as many law and pa.
tent solicitors Offices. A number OF
lives were lost In the building on ac-
count of the extremely rapid progress
OF the flames. It is thought the mum.
Der may reach twelve.
A bar-room census was recently
taken at Bristol, Eng, with surpris-
Ing results. All persons entering the
public houses on q certain Saturday
night between z and IL O'Clock were
diligently counted, and 1t was found
that ont Of population of 206, 900,
moro than one-half-105 ,OO0-so en-
tered, 8 ,074 of them being men, SO, 1903
women and 13,415 children. And
Bristol is no worse than other English
towns. In. this respect.
The Lowell Courier recalls the fact
that when the practice of incubation
was first Intro lnced en- Boston In 1921,
the House of Representatives passed q
bill prohibiting 1t, and q sermon was
printed In Boston upon this text:
$50 went Satan forth from the pres
ence of the Lord, and smote Job with
sore boils from the sole Of his foot TO
his crown" from which doctrine was
deduced that Job had the smallpox
and Satan was the first incubator.
Alarm Is caused at Vienna by the
warlike preparations going on. Regi-
nents marching south pass through
Vienna daily. The soldiers are paid
thu. same ~ In time Of war, and the
general impression In military circles
10 that the entire army will be mobil-
lied In the spring. A dispatch to the
London Times from Vienna reports
that the insurrection 10 gradually
Spreading In southern Herxeg ovina
and tho movement is attributed to for
eign agitators.
The beauties Of the law were illus
trsted by q recent case In England.
Three persons were arrested for steal
ing SO pounds Of grapes from q hot
houee. The prosecutor found 1t was
not unlawful TO steal growing fruit,
but the rascals were short-sighted
enough to carry off the scissors with
which they cut the grapes and they
were tried on the charge Of stealing
scissors, and n was sentenced TO
three month"; aud his two associates to
one months imprisonment each.
1t may not be generally known,
says the London Truth, that q man
wearing dark clothes is more liable to
infection from contagious disease than
he who wears ~light-colored garments,
because particles which emsnate from
diseased or decaying bodies are much
more rapidly absorbed by dark than
by light fabrics. This 10 easy of proof.
Expose q light and dark coat to the
fumes of tobacco for five minutes, and
1t will be found that the dark one
smells stronger than the other Of
tobacco smoke.
An Indianapolis dispatch Of the 2sth
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