The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-12
Items OF Interest

MRS. SANBoRN Of Metuchen, N j., ten wears
| ago swallowed set of false teeth. Recently
one tooth was extracted from her shoulder and
eight more from different parts of her BODY.
THE strength of mans tendency to sleen in
church was illustrated recently in lewiston
Maine, where burglar was found in sound
slumber in pew of st. Peters with his kit of
tools scattered around him.
MINNIE F. HoYT of Connecticut enjoys the
distinction Of being the first person appointed
to clerkship in the treasury department under
the operation OF the new civil service rules
She is about twenty-four years old and is a
graduate of Vassar.
On August 4th a man residing In GRAY. Ia
had his feet frozen. He was working bare.
footed in field about mile from his house
when heavy hail storm came up, covering
the ground with hsilstones. Before he could
walk to the house the soles of his feet were
badly frozen.
PECELIAR association, designed to be ma
tioDal, was organized under q special charter
in Erie, Ky. 1t bears the name Of the INA
tional Longevity Union" and has capital
stock of | 900 shares at $50 each, all subscribed
The object is the proopgation of human life
by the prevention, instead of the cure, OF
disease
IN the state of Massachusetts, it is now An.
nouDced that there are 2S4 occupations open 10
women, instead of seven, and that 251. 1888 wom-
en- are earning their own living in these occu.
pations, receiving from $50 TO $1,000 each wear.
This computation does not include amateurs
or mothers or daughters in the household. and
OF course excludes domestic service.
CASPER GRoIs, who was killed by train in
Illinois, belonged to family singularly unfor-
tuDate in unnatural deaths His Oldest brother
froze to death in Nspoleon's retreat from Mos
cow in 1872, one was drowned in the Rhine.
one WAS gored to death by bull, one dropped
dead in a graveyard while attending the funeral
of a neighbor and sister was run over by
horses and killed.
LOCOMOTIVE was used in public prooes.
sion at Austin, Nevada, to draw car loads of
yOung women representing the states OF the
Union, and symboiziOg the virtues, sciences
arts and trades. The grade of the prneinal
street through which the railway track runs IL
twelve and half feet to the hundred, but the
locomotive managed TO march up and down
hill at rate suitable to the gait Of the rest of
the procession, and behaved in a very dieni-
fed and stately manner.
The Bell farming company's farm Is said 10
be the second largest in the world. 1t is in the
On Appellee valley, Manitoba, and Ia about ten
miles square. The capital is 5000, 600, of which
thirty-hve per cent has been expended, and the
stock is held entirely in Canada and England.
Last fall, before the railroad reached there
the company broke several hundred acres OF
land, and added to 1t largely in the spring nov
having growing crop Of 1900 acres Of wheat
and 1900 Of oats.
IRlPLErs, DIR. Ogden of Chicago says, occur
only once among 5000 or 1000 births. Ger
orally twins are OF different sex next in fire.
quency are two boys, and the least in frequency
girls. From table taken from the registrA-
tion Of births in Prussia, between the years
1926 and 1Si9, period Of % years, 1t appears
there were IL, 360,575 births. OF these there
were las, 964 cases of twins, 1859 cases Of trip.
lets, and 80 cases of bankruptcies. In other
words, there were twins in 80 cases, triplets
once in 1910 cases, and quadruplets once in
81, l26 cases. bankruptcies appear to have
been the limit