The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-12-11
axzx. usossIP AND IMPORTATION.


The first steel ferry boat ever built In this
country Ii now running between New York and
Brooklyn.
The hot water cure has become craze.
New York druggist claims that he has o 600
disciples now swallowing tumblerfus before
breakfast.
There are l.403 dust.women In England and
Wales who spend their lives In raking over dust
heaps for what gain they may find. And they
like the work.
Jean Ingelow Is turning gray in the prime
OF life. Her London home, where she lives
with her two brothers, Is always full OF How.
ers. She devotes much time and money to
charity.
Ratskin fur and ratskin slippers are a late
London freak. Only tho skin about the
launches is used, the remainder being too thin.
Four rats are required for slipper and sixty
tor a neck piece.
1t Is said ID L Moody and Ira D Sankey have
received In royalties from the publishers OF
the Moody and Sankey collection OF hymns
$780, 900. Every dollar has been given to the
cause OF religion.
The anti.tobacconists find strong argument
In curious fact that has just been made pub
lie In relation to the Greeley Arctic expedition.
Lieutenant Greeley's account OF the nineseen
men who persisted all but one were smokers.
and the one was the last to die. The seven sur
vvors were non-smoking men.
The migration OF birds in North America Is to
be studied systematically by nearly LOU per-
sons who have engaged to act rs observers, &C,
cording to plan proposed by the ornith0logistS
union, About 800 OF these persons arc the
keepers of lighthouses and light-ships In the
United States and Canada and the other BRUSH
possessions on this continent.
The newest society wrinkle Is q twilight par
x,v .vh,ch tho op1v 1ivht q from n crate tire.
All the company gather about the glowing
Goals and each one tells story or recites po'
EN-. These novel entertainments originated IN
the east last season, among the cultured and
refined people who enjoy social, intellectual
entertainment.
Mr. Hill, who Is to succeed Mr. Cleveland as
governor Of New York, is above the medium
height, and Is dark, with Find eyes ana diplo-
matte SMILE He dresses in black hrOadcloth,
wears silk hat and looks like wel-kept man
OF affairs. "Why," said q hotel clerk, "Mr
Hill Is rs unassuming as man could De-he
sleep in q blacking-box sooner than give trou-
ble."
Princess Dolgorouki's coming marriage to an
Italian tipOmatist is privately explained Us an
expedient by which she can visit Russia when
she likes under foreign protection. Her eldest
boy is a perfect image OF the late car, and the
mother is said to cherish faith in his destiny as
the future constitutional ruler Of reformed
Russia.
Strauss, whose fortieth anniversary as con
ductOr has Just been celebrated at Vienna. IS a
wiry little man, 9th coal black hair and whls-
kers, showing the last possibility in the way OF
the dyer's art, for, as the great waltz composer
is fifty mine years OF age. il is scarcely probable
| that no gray could be found If his hair were
| left to its own sweet will. He bows in ner-
vous, quick way, stiff legged, with an equally
| stiff back.
| Robert Burdette has severed his connection
with the Burlington Hswkeye, Frank Hadon's
| paper, and taken up permanent residence al
| Ardmore, Pa. He says, "There is no quarrel
we still speak as we pass by; bur have decd
| ed to make nv home in Montgomery county
| The Hawkeye can't come down here to be edit
| ed, and | won't 60 to Burlington to edit II
hence after twelve wears of harmonious union
we separate amicably and 60 out peaceably.
| For centuries the entire indus ny OF Mitten
| wald, town of Bavaria, s1ut in by snow-clat
mountains and dense forests, has been vl0llr
| making, for which the surrounding forests fur
| nish the best material. Every yard is crossed
| ny labyrinth OF ropes and poles, on VIII CT
| hundreds OF violins are hung to dry. Every
| KIND of stringed instrument, from the finest vi
| olir to the cheapest banjo, is manufactured and
shipped in large quantities to all parts OK the
civilized world.
| The production OF gold in this country II
| 1883 was valued at $50 900. 900. and OF silver
SAG, zoe, 900. The production Of gold In the res
OF the world was $6i'927 ,90l and OF silver $6S,
OH 733. Total product Of the world--gold
| 1914 OF, 90l; silver, Sll4,2l7733. The United
YER, than any other country, The director O
the mint estimates that 90, O0o,O OF gold, land
"a, 900 900 of silver were used Lass year In the
| art ma. .ufactures.
| Napoleon the Great whiled away some of the
| wearisome hours that be was enforced to stay
at Longwood by setting about learning the En-
| glish language, and after some weeks OF per-
severing study wrote "Since sixt week learT
the English. and do not any progress. 6week
| do fourty and two day, would know II
thousand and hundred It is in the diction'
| ary more OF i0urty thousand, even II he could,
| must 20 bout much often for know 1t or l2(
| weeks, which do more years. Ate. THIS you
| shall agree that to study one tongue ID a grea
| lab or who must do 1t IN the young aged"
A new skating surface, called "crystal ice,
| has been invented by DR. Caantarients of Scar
borough, England. Considering that after all
| ice Is merely a crystalline substance, and that
there is no lack OF substances that are crystal.
| line at ordinary temperatures, DR. Calantarients
| experimented with variety OF salts and after
| a time succeeded in making mixture consist
ing mainly of carbonate o. soda, which, when
| laid as a door by his plan, can be skated on
| with regular ice skates; the resistance of the
surface is Just equal to that of ice it oots like
| ice. and indeed, when it has been skated on and
cut up little, the deception Is quite astonish-
| ing.
Many persons are not aware that glass may
| be cut under water with great ease to almost
any shape by simply using pair OF scissors.
| In order to insure success the points must be
kept quite level in the water while the scissors
are applied; and secondly to avoid risk, it Is
better to begin cutting by taking on small
pieces at the corners and along the edges and
SO reduce the shape gradually to that required.
When the operation goes on well the glass
breaks away from the scissors in small pieces
in straight line with the blades. The two
hints given above, il strictly followed, will al
ways insure success.-G The Painter.
For Iuxuriant growth of green in winter.pu
some Jumps of charcoal in tue bottom or
suitable vessel (I use one Of my hyacinth glass
esq, and fill with water. or take an ordinary
f1ower-pot, making the bottom tight; put In the
charcoal, cover with sand to the depth OF two
inches and fill up with water. Put in thrifty
slips of English and German ivy, and the vari-
cites of tr- descanta. Ii sand Is used, plaza the
stems firmly in ii. As the water evaporates fill
with fresh. A beautiful effect Is produced by
simply placing handful of the heads OF wheat
in a vase of water. Each grain will send out
bright green leaflets and continue to replace the
old one for many weeks together.--lB Boston
Transcript.
remarkable worm-known to the natives
of the Fiji Islands by the name or "Mbalolo
and to naturalists as Salolo vrids-is found IN
certain of the cor Al archpelagos OF the Pacinc.
The worms appear periodically In great num-
her. and are highly esteemed by the Fijians as
an article of food. The worms only make their
appearance to spawn, and the time is reported
to no the oav of the last uartering OF the moon