The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
SELECT SETTINGS.

There are certain crabs which live on
dry land, but they manage to keep their
gils wet.
General Scott is credited with saying
that terrapin is the best food vouchsafed
by Providence to mortal man.
The highest velocity that has been i'm
parte to shoot is given as 1926 feet per
second, being equal to mile in 3.2
seconds.
Duels in France in the reign OF Henry
". resulted directly and indirectly in
the death of 10000 persons. In 545
duels fought in that country since 1869
but eight have been fatal.
In certain province in southern
Russia coin is current which is made
in the form of wafer from the juice of
tree Their value is so microscopic
that $50, 900 of them would be required
to purchase an American dollar.
Francis Atkins was porter at the pal
ace gate of Salisbury, England, from the
time of Bishop Burnett to the period of
his death in 1851 at the age of 104
years. 1t was his office every night to
wind the clock This he did regul arly
till within year of his dccease, though
the clock was on the summit of the pal
ace.
The use of the magnet for the cure of
diseases was known to the ancients. 1t
was know to Aetius, who lived as early
as the year 500 He says: 1--WE are as
sured that those who are troubled with
the gout in their hands or their feet, or
with commissions, find relief when they
hold magnet"
A recent calculation shows that a man
weighing 100 pounds, and running a
mile in six minutes, performs work about
equal to that of a half horse engine, while
a walker sustaining five miles an hour
for a long time does work equal to that
of quarter horse engine and consumes
only ne-twenticth of the weight of food
or fuel.
A New York photographer is quoted
as saying: after twenty-five years
experience under the skylight, and photo
graphing over 157, 900 people, | have
become convinced that in nineteen cases
out of twenty the left side of the face
gives the most characteristic likeness,
while to the same degree the right side
is the most symmetrical"
n Offices of mermaids are scattered
abund antly in books of by-gone times,
mermen and mermaids, men of the sea
and w omen of the sea, having been as
stoutly believed in as the great sea SER
pent and on very much the same kind
Of evidence. IIolinshed gives a detailed
account of norman caught at Oxford,
in suffolk, Eng and, in the reign OF King
John. He was kept alive on raw meat
and fish for six months, but at last
"gleddc secretelye to the sea and was
NEWER after scene nor heard off
In the United States, even as late as
1929, it was estimated that there were as
many as 5000 debtors confined in the
prisons of Massachusetts. 10, 900 in New
York, 1000 in Pennsylvania, 5000 in
Maryland, and a like proportion in other
States. In many of the debtors prisons
no provision was made for sickness, OIL
even for ordinary cleanliness or comfort.
There was often no separation Of tn c
sexes, and these victims of misfortune
were confined with robbers, Migrants
and murdcrers. Between 1921 and 1915
Imprisonment for debt in the variou;
United States was abolished, except il
cases where fraud was reasonably sus