Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-09-08
FOREIGN NOTES,

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Last April carpenter found III the wall Oh
n house at Dion which he was repairing
ao7 ooo frames i, go,d which Ind been
Aotanned IN in comics If Tho Wonit.yr news.
naner and hidden there durjng The rcvoln.
lion m Chnnul Tho nresen, owner Of the
hons. claimed The money but n counter
claim was srt nm Inv the descendants of the
Vicomte de MONSTER, who owned the house
~ one 'iu u, VA idon,iso m H., a"u
The Dillon tribunal has inst decided in their
favor. considering The nroof sufficient tina,
the money was hidden, though for reasons
unknown nv their ancestor.
From the sale OF tobacco France derives a
revenue amounting to more than $50, OOO,-
ooo Toh,cco w,s frs, ,oyod /, Franc. in
1901 I'm, in af,v years ,ho S,n,o assnmaJ
,hc rxci,,sivn nr;y;lsgn nf snl,;ny thn or,icIc
and Observation-Disclosures, I, u,,J ,,a,,,, /, o,,nr 10
,ho fnrn,n,s aen,ra, ,,,n a, ,hn o,,,hroot Of
,hc r"v"iu,;nn ,ynr,, n " ~ No s"n oct os "a
400 noo n.r an,,n, ,d Nh ;hn;, N, ;v;,oaos Tia
S,oic a, Inn, n,riod howcver aboIishcd us
own exclusive n,iyilcrc. md the manufac,
,urr md soic of ,ohocen ,cco,d;no,v hccamr
kprre. Dnrinr twenty wears n tax was i'm.
7 7osod i, fnIl no lou 40 10 G0o O00. In, in
| 1siO Nonol,. m rav;ved ,hn monono,v nr tho
| e,a,e yvb;cl, s,;i, axis,s ne ho cs,ahl;.had i;
7 since isi0 tbn revenue has steadily in.
creased II 1859 IL was S35 600 600 and
now it is s5O, OOo, 600. For the last five
tne Iuam' vi ,,' .o oD ann ~, III ~
nm which ia some what moro than three
times Nc nncb No was consumed half n cen
turv earlier.
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Cast-iron pipes are now bein1 MADE 10 rcl
ceive the underground telegraph cable. which
in n few months will mt Paris in direct
communication with Marseilles, A hundred
and fiftv navvies are engaped in This work
which l. being prosecried from both ends
along the right bank of the Rbone. and fol.
lowing the main roads, The pines nre laid
at a depth of more than a metre and a half.
and chambers for facilitating repars are
| arranged about every five hundred metres
They are d, scribcd as resembling large cast
iron caldrons with covers. and having aper
lures for receiving the cuds of the two pipes
which they connect. Every 100 metres the
pipes are united by cast-iron couplings,
which will also permit of inspecting and re-
pairing the cable and the Joint between
each pipe is made with an India rubber
washer or lead collar. The work is pushed
forward with vigor, and it is proposed event
ually to connect this cable, which will
traverse France from north to SOUTH with
the cables of the Mediterranean and At
lantic.
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with which Socrates was posoned has been
revived in France by the experiments of
NM. Rochefontaine and Tyriaken. Taking
the poisonous hcmlock (conium maculatun.),
which is commonly accepted as the fatal
plant, they have obtained the active elc-
mcnt, ciculinc, after great deal of trouble,
four grammes only being obtained from the
treatment of fifty kilos of fresh leaves.
Fifty ccntigrammes Of cicutlne were intro.
duccd into the stomach of a little dog weigh.
ing fifteen pounds with no more serious
effect than to stupefy the animal, and death
only ensued after sixty.fve centgr immes OF
pure cicutine had been administered by sub.
cautancous injection. the time occupied he.
ing twelve hours. Experiments were also
made by NJ Tanrct with the garden hcmlock
(9ttusa cyndpiun), which has always
enjoyed bad reputation as the alleged agent
of rural Borgas and us plant apt to bt
; gathered for salad or mistaken for parsley
lie tried the juice of the plant upon rats ant
f RABBITS without injuring them, and then, il
the spirit of the true scientist, administered
to himself a dose larger than would be fount
in the salad of Nebuchadnezzar bu
t equally without inconvenience. And so Their,
, is mountain of old straw awaiting will
impotence the fail of scientific contro
vcrsy.
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