Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-15
FLYING 3cUD.

Sixty million persons speak the German
language, 45,0O0,000 the French and 10O,-
CCO,OC0 the English.
The numIer of Christians murdered last
summer in TOnquin, AEam and Cochin
China is estimated at $4,000; 1000 or 5000
escaped.
Neither the Capitol MGR the White
House is iirc-proof, notwithstanding the
millions that have been expended upon
them to make them SC.
AS the result of arboriculture birds are
making their appearance in Dakota that
were never seen there before. Quail, in
particular, are abundant.
An old bachelor asserts that the best ard
quickest way to revive lady when she
faints is to begin to take down her hair.
If it amt her own she viii grab it in q
jiffy.
A man living in Southern Florida last
week saw, for the first time in his life a
lump of ice. He put piece in his
pantalCons pocket to take home and show
his family, hut soon took it out again.
There is an Indian in TIC Cherokee tribe
in the Territory who is ninety-four years
of ago and docs all OF his own work, The
fact is chiefly curious as showing that
there is an age at which Indians will
work.
The greatest European horse breeder Is
said to he Mr.. Oplcnheimer, Of Hanover,
who has an average of eco hors:s in his
stables 1t is noticed as popularity in
German establishments of this kind that
the horses are all of one color, some owners
preferring chestnut, others bay, &c.
Young alligators are raised and tanned
for Northern visitors by Sanford Fla.)
man, who finds it quite a lucrative bust
ness. He has now hundred of the
animals under training, and reports
that his sales last season would have been
five times that number could he have pro-
cured the alligators,
An old fashioned spinning wheel was
introduced in lunailc asylum in the
Isle of Man for the amusement Of the
patients. The latter were delighted with
the idea Of contributing to their support
in this way, and the new occupation so
diverted their minds that they were
greatly benefited. The experiment is to
be tried IN other asylum.
If the process illustrated by q specimen
which has reached London from Norway
is capable of general application, the work
Of florists in varying the hues of their
flowers is likely to be made easy. The SEN
der has succeeded III making the ordinary
ox-eyed daisy purple by the simple method
OF watering it with water colored by red
paint. In the same way white roses have
been brought almost to the perfection of
Marshal Neil by the use of saffron water.
At the Melbourne exhibition there was
q complete dwelling house made entirely
of paper and furnished with the same
material. There were paper walls, roofs,
ceilings, foolings, ioists and stai1ways.
There were paper carpets, bedding
chairs, sofas and lamps. There wels
paper frying-pans, and even the stoves
in which bright fires were constantly
burning daily were Of papier macLc,
When the builder Of this mansion gave
a banquet The tablecloths, napkins, plates,
cups, sauceIs tunblers, cruets and even
the knives and forks were likewise made
of paper.
| The longest spans Of overhead telegraph
wire III the world have recently been put
UP by the French authorities in Cochin
China, These are erected across tho
river Mekong, posts 100 feet high having
| been placed each side of the river at a spot
where the width is 1850 feet; and from
! these silicious bronze wires-one .04 of an
inch and the other .055 of an inch in
| diameter--are suspended across the
stream. Over a tributary of the river
another similar connection has been made,
1870 feet span and more than ia feet
above food water; the former Of these is
a SDon of O. DC of n mile