The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-11-21
GOSSIP AND. INFORMATION.

The sting OF n wasp Is said to be fatal TO
Cinnamon.
Three men in New Orleans have been made
dangerously i'll by being bitten by mosquitoes.
Kircher originated the germ theory of in.
fictitious diseases two hundred years ago, and
not Pasteur, as it is supposed, inmodcrn days.
Hugo Barthol,. Hamburg clerk. has just
completed the longest bicycle journey on rec
ord. In 10 weeks and days he covered 1850
German miles, including several long stretches
across mountain ranges.
| The London Lancet gives an account of a
young girl, recently deceased, who had the re-
markable gift of changing the color of her
hair and complexion according to the state (of
her mind. The transition occupied about three
days.
( DR. G Johnson lately told the British medical
lassociation of Il patentot his, So years u!d,who
has lived upon milk for years. He to0ll gal
lon OF milk a day, bat not particle of any 9th
er food. The treatment cured him Of Bright's
disease.
Journalism is in q fourishng condition in the
little kingdom of Greece. At this moment there
are l2S printing houses, which produce annual
ly about 1000 different works. Nearly every
village has its newspaper. In Athens there are
81 political papers. !,
Every body has heard of 'Nasby" (Locke)
of the Toledo Blade, but few cculd imagine
how be looks. He is the shaggiest and most
uncouth specimen OF manhood that can well be
thought OF. He is short and very broad, ana
his face is red, red sun.
Another Florida lake has disappeared
through subterranean outlet. Peacock lake in
Suwanee county, favorite resort for plcnics
and sportSmen, on account OF its beautltul sur
roundings and the abundance OF the trout, mas
disappeared through hole in the ground. leav-
ing thousands of dead fish for the buzzards to
prey upon and contaminate the alt.
The Journal of Inebriety gives the results of
DR. Napier's inquiry into the n4tYFe OF diet, the
object of which was to solve r. question OF
how far some foods encourages or prevented
the craving for drink. He concluded that mac
caroni, beans, dried peas ana lentis antGgonize
in marked degree the desire for alcohol, fart
naceous food should be used in preference 10
all others.
Snail raising is becoming quito an important
industry in Switzerland. Daring the summer
the children gather the snails, which are placed
on bushes surrounded by sawdust. They grow
fat feeding on the leaves, and on the approach
Of cold weather drop into the sawdust and
bury themselves. When wanted, they are
raked out, packed in two hundred weight
baskets and shipped to Italy, where as "Bur-
gunda snais" they commands ready market.
It takes 1000 roses to yield two grains of at
tar In the morning the red blooms are gath
cred by hand and distilled into clay stills with
twice their weight of water--tbe water which
comes over bong set to cool all night. and
/ throwing up the thfffnlm on OIL witch covers II
in the morning like cream On new milk. This
is the altar. which must be carefnlly swept of
with a feather, and transferred to small phial.
After repeating this operation night after night
and morning after morning, nearly the whole
Of the oil has been extracted, the little which
it is impossible to separate so ilavoring the
liquid that it is sold as 'srose water"