Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-03-29
MISSING LINKS.


Ex-Secretary Kirkwood, who has re-
tired from politics, is living at Iowa
City, where he owns a bank.
In leveling hill in East Los Angeles.
Cal, lately for the residence of Baron
Roquiat, the workmen uncovered a two
foot edge of gold-bearing quartz, ASSAY
ing s. at the surface.
Some Indian arrow-heads were lately
shown at the Societe d'Anthropologie
which were poisoned with curare over a
century ago, but still retained thei
deadly power. Small animals scratched
with them died in half an hour
George M. Palmer, Philadelphia
baker, has buried six children and
married a third wife within a wear.
The bridegroom, his son, and Journey
man baker were all sick the day of the
wedding; but Mr.. Palmer managed to
pull himself together sufficiently to 90
through with the ceremony.
The food of Burmese peasants includes
almost all kinds of reptiles, the grub of
ball-rolling beetle, a kind of ant which
constructs nests of leaves in treetops
(eaten in curries), and hill rats The
last named exist in such hordes that
their consumption is almost necessity
to prevent the rats from eating the
Burmese
Charles NJ O'Connor, First-Lieuten-
ant of the Eighth Infantry, is the Poo
Bah of the United States army. He is
on duty at Fort Brown, Tex, where he
serves in the multifarious roles of Post
Adjutant Post Treasurer, Post Range
Officer. Acting Signal Officer, Recruit
ing Officer, and Superintendent of the
Post Schools.
Mrs. Lily Macallister Laughton, Re
gent of the Mount Vernon Association,
is asserted to have 1.-The smallest and
most perfectly formed foot in America"
She once gave one of her slippers to a
| charitable fair, where it was ratified for.
| The lucky number was secured by
| Bishop Potter's son Frank, who used
his prize as watch-case.
A curious old coin was found near the
lime kiln on North Main street, Cham
| bersburg, Pa. 1t has the inscriptions:
''1n commemoration of the extinction of
Colonial slavery throughout the British
| dominions in the reign of William w."
| The reverse side has the figure of a
slave with his shackles broken, and the
words: This is the Lords doing, 1884 :"
Mr.. Blaine, while addressing re-
union of Maine legislators lately, de-
plored the change from annual to bien-
NAL elections and sessions of the legisla-
lures, saying: people must govern
themselves, or somebody will soon gov
ern them, and there is no way to keep
popular government fresh, strong, and
effective like frequent and well-contested
elections"
M. de Lesseps, who is about to leave
Paris for Panama, said in an interview
with the Gaulois concerning the 18TH
mus Canal: 81 do not anticipate any
future obstacles. The period of expert
ment is passed, and only that of execu-
ton remains. Every one of the con-
tractors will have his work finished the
3lst of December, 1888. I shall sail
through the canal that day"
A St. Paul, MINI. dog watches the
trough directly under the ice chest
where the beer kegs are placed, and
when the trough becomes filled with the
beer he viii lap it up. He refuses
water, and drinks beer morning, noon
and night After drinking heavily he
will 90 to sleep, and the first thought
on waking up seems to be of beer, as he
goes directly to the trough and satisfies
his thirst.
Lord Brougham. who has just passed
away at the age of ninety-odd, is not
the first nonogenarian of his family.
His elder brother, Henry, the versatile
lord chancellor, was just 80 when he
died, and their mother lived not only to
see her son seated ON the woolsack, but
to enter on, if not to complete, her Goth
year. She enjoyed all her faculties to
the last, and wrote an excellent hand to
the year of her death, as is shown by a
letter addressed to her son Henry. 1t is
not often that three members of one
family live jointly go years.
A Frenchman has invented gal
vano-plastic process which, he thinks
will preserve the human body indef
nitely by inclosing it in an air-tight
coat of mail. The body is first covered
with conducting substance, such as
plumbago, or it is bathed with a solu
ton of nitrate of silver, which, after de
composition under the influence of sun
light. leaves finely divided deposit o.
metallic silver. 1t is then placed in {
bath of sulphate of copper and con
nected with several wires from a bat
terry. The result is that the body is in
cased in a skin of copper, which pre-
vents further change or chemical action
In a paper read before the Publ,
Health Association, DR.. d. E. Salmon
said that the ravages of hog choler:
were unusually severe and widespread
| Lost on1 ,,rn1nnarc nnarl,
S30,000,00O. Referring to the sanitar,
aspects of the question, he said: ''Th
disposition of the million carcasses o
hogs that have died from this disease i
a matter which affects the health of on
people. Sometimes they are left t.
, putrefry, sometimes they are thrown in
to the ponds and streams which furnish
drinking water to our cities, sometime
the lard is rendered from them, ant
what finally becomes of this product i
an interesting subject for speculation.
The English hangman, Berry b
| name, is a tall, respectable-lookin,
+ man, with the appearance of me
chanic. He is a shoemaker by trade
1 but does not work now, as the execu
: toner is well paid He gets $50 head
OF, when there are more than one, So
: for the first, $25 for the second, and 50
/ for the third, with all expenses paid
The first essential is nerve, and Berr
has nerve. Binns, who preceded him
: was braggart, and liked publicity
r He would smoke his pipe outside hal
an hour before an execution, and drink
and had an active tongue. Now tn
: eXecutioner is obliged to sleep in ia
the night before a hanging. Calcraf
who was famous for SO many years. wa
Il also shoemaker and, like Berry,
quiet, retiring man.
Mile. de Ia Rance, known to move
readers as ''Ouida," is described by on
who saw her on a Florence drive for til
first time as appearing Every niue
above the usual stature of women. He
N face was marked by a nose decided
n aquiline, and abundant yellow hal
The figure was graceful and 1.-THE. B,
such eyes! One moment they were
1T topaz-brown, and in the next secon
4 they were misty-gray. The fat
- would have been pleasant though vel
'e unusual one but for the eerie, uncanr
# eyes. The lady is of spotless persons
character. Her mother is English; h,
v father was French-Spaniard, wit
good blood but bad morals. Ouid
devotes her life, outside her work, to h
ne dogs and her mother, a pleasant-face
st white-haired old lady, who always go
to sleep in the warm, soft sunshine wht
81 she drives out with her masterful-lookir
We daughter"