Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-03-22

regular contributor to a well known En-
glish periodical. She resides at Meran,
Austria, in beautiful old manse, which
bears the name of Marion's Rest.
Ceremonious and stately as she has
become in later life, Queen Victoria re-
tains the fondness for children that was
such a marked feature of her early
years, and she keeps a record of all the
bright sayings and doings of the little
ones that come to her notice.
One of Theebaw's last acts as king of
Burmah was to receive a party of Parsee
actors. After witnessing their playing
he arranged on table as many silver
cocoanuts as there were actors, each nut
containing handful of precious stones,
and invited each player to take one as a
token of royal appreciation.
Gen. Longstreet thinks that his uncle,
William Longstreet, of Augusta, Ga,
should share with Robert Fulton the
laurels of the inventor of steamboats,.
This ingenious Georgian was big with
the idea as early as 1888, but it was not
until 1903 that he successfully ran a
boat by steam in the Savannah.
The waters of Lake Tulare, in Cali
fornia, which had been receding for a
long time, have risen rapidly since the
autumn rains, and many squatters'
cabins that were built on dry land are
now mile from shore. 1t is thought
probable that the lake will assume its
old, or even larger, proportions.
When color on fabric has been acct
dentally or otherwise destroyed by acid,
ammonia is applied to neutralize the
same, after which an application of
chloroform will, in almost all cases,
restore the original color. The appli-
cation of ammonia is common, but
that of chloroform is but little known.
One of the new congressman from
York State, when asked at the capitol
the other day to vote for bill, astound-
ed the man who was electioneering for
the measure with the novel answer; 81
shall take pleasure in asking the opin-
ion of my legal adviser at Albany as to
the bill, and viii act upon what he
says"
The total cost of the liquor drank is
1857 100000 per year, and the average
per head of our entire population would
be ten dollars. Last year 1916, 100000
worth of beer was consumed, and there
mas more money sunk in spirits by
$346, 100000 than was paid for boots,
shoes and cotton goods. The amount
expended on drink yearly would sustain
six million people.
The whole district of Aroma, in New
Guinea, is ruled by remarkable man,
whose influence extends far and wide.
His name is Koaplna. He towers over
the heads of all his subjects, his hand
has an astounding grip, and his face is
remarkable for its enormous Roman
nose. Old deeds of valor are chronicled
by numerous tattoomarks upon his back.
each signifying death.
ALondon paper asserts that the high
est velocity yet impaired to cannon
ball is 1925 feet per second, equal to
| mile in SO seconds. The velocity of the
earth at the equator. due to rotation on
its axis. is 1000 miles per hour, or a
mile in SO seconds; thus, if cannon
maintain its initial velocity, it would
beat the sun in its apparent journey
around the earth.
| An area of about four and one-half
square miles forms the nucleus of the
whole oil-bearing region of the eau
casus. The aphtha-bearing beds con-
sist of sand, calcareous clays, marls,
and in places compact sandstone, often
of great thickness and penetrated by
bands of pyrites. AS in Pennsylvania,
the naphtha is in some places associated
with saltwater, which gives much trou-
BILE in driving bore holes. The plateau
is on level of about $40 feet above the
surface of the Caspian, and depth of
700 feet below that great lake has been
reached by the borers.
The Germans, who have always been
celebrated for heavy eating, furnish us
with some curious culinary items. In
the middle age the goose was the grand
dish among them, but they also ate
crows storks, cranes, herons, swans and
bitterns-these last named dishes being
arranged in circle of honor around
the goose. The geier, or European vulture,
the dogfsh, the dolphin, and even the
whale were eaten, while a rost guinea
pig was considered very great delicacy.
All their foods were highly spiced, and
sauces were endless in their variety,
three or four kinds being served up with
each dish. In these sauces pepper, mace
cinnamon, cloves, ginger, garlic, saffron
and pimento contended for the mastery
and the more decided the flavor the bet
ter the cook.
An English working man, just pas
the middle age, found that his pipe
which for many years had been q grea
comfort to him, was beginning to seri
: ously affect his nerves. Before giving i
up, however, he determined to find on
if there was no way by which he nigh
continue to smoke without feeling its eff
fects to an injurious extent. He-accord
ingly wrote to a medical journal, an(
was recommended to fill the bowl o
the pipe one-third full of table-salt ant
press the tobacco hard down upon it, a
+" in ordinary smoking. The result wa
g very satisfactory During the process o
smoking the salt solidifies, while remain
e ing porous, and when the hardene'
smoking, it is found to have absorbed S
much of the oil of tobacco as to be deer
re ly colored. The salt should be renewe
daily.
/, Saws the Washington correspondent
of the Boston Traveller, '.The daughte
of distinguished naval officer is one {
k the leaders of the healthy craze. He
as plump, well-rounded figure and sWins
ing gait can be seen on Pennsylvani
" avenue nearly every afternoon, rain {
shine, and she has the ruddiest pair {
cheeks in Washington. She looks th
s. perfect picture of health, but.some of he
sharp sisters have been tracking up tt
secret of how her pale complexion di
81 appeared SO suddenly. 1t appears.
they say, that the young lady called
IS, the services of an old sailor who ha
m' known her ever since she was a wee b
of thing and told him that she W;
~ miserable because she could never ha'
sts any color in her face. She asked him
tattoo her cheeks delicate shade OF re
lis and, although the operation was our
painful, she stood it bravely, and tt
consequence is that she will have q II
NJ face even after death. 1t is said tn
gis several society bellies contemplate u
dergoing the same course of treatmeI
ity >. ------
A skeleton was unearthed in Nantucl
~. the other day with a small copper c.
!. under one hand. The remains of an &c
ire or, most likely, who tried to fake
gle wealth with him.