The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09

Insects in our vegetable gardens; fifty
in our vineyards, while seventy-five
attack our apple trees and more than
/, fifty our grain fields. Seventy-fve mil
lien dollars is estimated as the damage
done to the wheat in Illinois in one
season, and nearly ten years ago the
annual loss in the United States from
insect depredations alone was esti-
mated at nearly $400,000.0OO.
The election of Congressman John
E. Kenna, Of West Virginia to the
United States Senate, at the age Of
thirty-fve years, revives the history of
similar cases. James Monroe and
Hayne, the antagonist of Daniel Web
ster, became senators at the age of
thirty-two years; stephen A. Douglas
at thirty-four, and fully dozen men at
Mr.. Kenna's age. Aaron Burr was one
of the number. Dwight NJ. Sabin,
elected to the national Senate, as Sen
ator Windows successor, is thirty-nine.
Why do suicides often subject them
selves to the most horrible fortunes in
the effort to get rid of their lives? A
man in Newark not long ago deliber-
ately saturated his clothing with
bpnzinp and thpn cot fro to II We
often hear of suicides torturing them
selves to death with violent corrosive
poisOns. A few years ago man in
Brooklyn, having become tired Of life,
crawled into furnace head foremost.
The desire to commit suicide is bred of
a morbid mental state which, in cases
like those cited, must have been de-
veloped into positive insanity.
A visitor to the Zuni Indians, of
New Mexico. says that some
of the consequences of the visit
by the leading men of the tribe
to the East, last summer, have been
unpleasant. Pedro Pine, the oldest of
the tourists, has been telling such sto-
ries of his adventures, and of the mar
wells of the white mans ways, that he
has gained the reputation of being the
biggest liar in the nation. The prin-
cipal mischief, however, is caused by
his report that the plainest white
woman he saw in Wa ,hington was
handsomer than the prettiest Zuni
girl. A young chief who had been
presented with number of trinkets
by the Washington women. and who
wore them home with pride, was
obliged to give them up to his jealous
wife, who destroyed them.
The New York GRAPHITE has been
figuring up the places that foreign-born
citizens occupy in the councils of our
nation. The Irish-born members of
the next House of Representatives are
twenty in number while the German
born are seven. OF the twenty
Irish members four are from
Missouri New Jersey and Pennsylva-
mia have three each New York
and Indiana, two each Massachusetts,,
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nevada and
California, one each. Out of the twenty,
three are Republicans. The seven
Germans are credited one each to New
York, New Jersey and Massachusetts,.
and two each to Michigan and Wiscon-
sin. Two of the seven are Republicans.
The only State the majority of whose
delegation of the next House is foreign
born is New jersey.
Women have the right to vote at
school meetings in Kansas, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Dakota
and Wyoming, at school elections il
Colorado and Minnesota, and for men,
bers of school committees in Massachu-
sets. They can vote at school meet
ings in Michigan and New York if
they are taxable, in Washington Ter
ritory if they are liable to
taxation. Widows and unmarried
women in Idaho may vote as TO-
special district taxes if they hold
property. In Oregon widows having
children and taxable property may
vote at school meetings. In Indiana
"women not married nor minors, who
pay taxes and are listed as parents,
guardians or heads of families, may
vote at school meetings" In Ken
lucky any white widow having a child
of school age is qualified school voter;
if she has no child but is a TAXPAYER
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