St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-25
Items OF Interest.

Last year Texas imported corn, but (
his year will have 50,0OO,OOO bushels /
to sell.
Bunker-hill monument is going to
be repainted from top to bottom. 1t
will cost 300.
The canning factories of New York |.
state expect to put up 500, 900 cans of
corn this season.
An intoxicated individual who fell
asleep in a Florida swamp was literally
sucked to death by mosquitoes.
The first Sunday law on record was
made by Constantine the Great in the
first quarter of the fourth century.
The editor of the San Diego Gal
Union returns thanks in IA recent issue
for the gift of a forty-two pound water
melon.
Germany is the only country that
uses more postal cards than the United
States, the daily consumption there
being two tons.
More than four times the average an
nual destruction of life by lightning
has already occurred in the United
States this season.
There are over 100000 acres under
cultivation to tobacco in the United
States, and the crop is valued at from
$40, 900, 900 to $50, 900, 900.
The largest sailing vessel atiOat was
launched at Belfast, Ireland, the other
day. 1t measures 300 by 424 by p
feet, and will carry 1000 tons.
A pasture field of 100000 acres i'll
Texas is the property of one man. The
fence surrounding it is made of 5OO,O 600
feet of posts and ninety tons of wire.
Washington territory boasts the
widest -guage railway yet reported. 1t
is an eight foot guage logging road,
and the rails are wood, eight by eight
inches.
This country has one medical man
to every GOO inhabitants, while Canada
has only one to 1900 inhabitants, Great
Britain one to 1872, and Germany one
to 1000.
New Bedford will be the third city
in the Union in the manufacture of
cotton when its new mills are finished,
increasing the number of spindles to
100000.
The annual average of corn produced
i'll the United States in the past ten
years is ,IS4, 466, 954 bushels number
of acres planted, 1874, 33l :; value,
-, 57I ,0IS.
There are 2l9 churches and 10000
members among the Indians of the
United States. Out of seventy-two
tribes twenty-five are said to be self
supporting.
Francis Key, author of the "Star
Spangled Banner" is to have IA 100000
monument in San Francisco. Money
was left for the purpose by the late
James Lick.
1t is singular fact that Mrs. Lin
coin died in the same house, and with
in ten feet of the spot where she stood
November ,, 1912, and was married to
Abraham Lincoln.
The salmon fisheries of the Pacific
coast have increased more than twenty
fold within ten years, and last years
product was nearly 100000 cases,
worth S5,000,000.
General Sanger, editor of the Key
West Democrat, is twenty years old,
weighs thirty pounds, and is forty
inches high. He was born in st. Do
mingo and raised in Florida.
Ninety per cent of all the rain which
falls upon the land from April to Dc
tober | is evaporated. Only about ten
per cent finds its way into drains three
or four feet below the surface.
Sugar to the amount of $4,000, 600
pounds is produced annually in the
United States, while we consume
,2O0, 0OO, 900, or more than eight times
the amount of our production.
Washington Territory is now setting
up its claims to distinction as state.
Two years ago the census of that ter
ritOry showed ii population of 10, ll6.
The people now claim ii population OF
quite 100000.
The Northern Pacific has 1903 miles
of track laid and 1896 to come. 1t has
land, and will have, all told, territory
worth 800 100000 more when the line
is completed.
At Liverpool, n. S., few days ago,
il whole family were poisoned by eat
ing Strawberries that had been grown
near some currant bushes on which
hellebore had been sprinkled. They
were sick for two days.
At Warren, the new Pennsylvania
oil town, water for use has to be
brought from IA spring at some dis
lance and is worth more than petrole-
UNI; the selling price is sixty cents a
barrel, while oil is worth but 81.
A very choice lot of rams, just i'm
ported from England, are now being
sent ont to the Massachusetts farmers
by the Massachusetts society for the
promotion of agriculture. They have
been leased for one year from July l.
There are over 400, 900 habitual users
of opium in the United States and the
impOrtations of the drug last year were
300, 900 pounds. The importation OF
morphine has also increased in tel
years one hundred and forty per cent.
The new Mexican town of Albu-
querque is only two years old, but il
has twenty five miles of telephone
wire, two lines of stTeet-cars, two daily
newspapers, gas-works, union depot
and lots of other metropolitan fixings.
In Texas the Presbyterians number
1900, the Baptists l25, 900, the CathO
lies 10000, the Methodists Isl 900
The Methodists thus constitute ovel
thirty-fve per cent of the number re-
ported for all the above denominations
The japanese government has re-
Gently drafted new regulations fOl
marriages. No man i'll the empire vii
hereafter be permitted to marry undel
the age of twenty. Women, however
are to be privileged to marry at eigh