Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-05-04
NRWSY GLEANTNGS,

IHE increase in peanut consumption last
year was over 100000 bushels.
THE worlds annual consumption of wheat
is estimated at 2, 165 900, 900 bushels
The German postal museum is said to have
the largest stamp collection in existence
LAUREL, Del, proudly claims to be the
largest fruit-shipping station in the world.
A LATE estimate places the number of
Sunday-school pupils in the world at 16, 447,-
$780,
OMAHA expects to build a corn palace next
fall that will be one of the wonders of the
world.
BY the capsizing of boat near Boitzen-
burg, on the Rhine, nine persons were
drowned.
SEVERAL million young shad are to be
matched in South Carolina and placed in the
Congaree river.
THE chief clerk of the treasury at Athens,
Greece, has been arrested for embezzline
Sl,OOO,OOO of the public funds
THE South African diamond fields last year
yielded gems amounting to 3,646, 1899 carats
and valued at over 500, 1000, 600.
IT is credibly stated that soap, water and
scrubblng, in the cleansing of it's cars cost the
Pennsylvania Railroad $3.50, 600 year.
LEGRAND, the wealthy Paris cooper who
bought decoration from M. Wilson, has
been expelled from the Legion d'Honneur.
NEARLY 100, 900 seals are reported as hay
ing been caught the last season off the New
foundland coast, the largast catch for years.
GENERAL BOOTH, the Salvation Army
leader, is one of the sharpest business men in
England and has accumulated large for
tune.
WORK on the Panama Canal goes on fast
now, and it is thought that ships will pass
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The town of Bessemer, Ala, which has
grown in twelve-month from nothing to
5000 has just INDUCED in rouSing birthday
celebration.
SOUTH CAROLINA has a sensation in the
shape of its first woman candidate-Miss
Eliza Garneth, who aspires to be school COM
missioner of Union county.
LEE JEROME a waiter in hotel at Wich-
tia, Kan, has married Mrs. Hettie Zimmerly,
widow worth $500 900, whom he waited on
at the table for nine months.
TWENTY WEIGHT people over eighty years old
died in Philadelphia during one week recent
ly-sixteen men and twelve women, The
Oldest was ninety three years Of age.
NORFOLK, Va, claims the distinction of
being the worlds great peanut market 1t
disposes every year of 1900, 900 bushels of
peanuts most of which are grownin Virginia.
THE consumption of coal on the large
ocean steamers varies from 800 to $50 tons
per day. This applies to all the different fast
vessels Of the Cunard Guion and White Star
lines
ROBERT MILLS who before the war had
some $4,000, 600 in land and slaves, and was
known in Texas as the 'Duke of Brazoria,"
died in poverty at Galveston lately, aged 10
years.
THERE are 2,917,S15 Baptists in the United
States. The denomination owns $4S, SIS, 6S6
worth ofproperty, and last year gave s., 937,-
49l ,36 to all objects. 1t has 20, 447 ministers
and 81, S91 churches
AT late election, Kansas City voters who
cast their ballots for T. Robinson, thinking
to elect male fellow citizen, were astounded
to find that instead they had made council
man Of Mrs. Tina Robinson, his wife.
A LoLDoN dealer in birds prepared for the
adornment of ladies' bonnets makes the
statement that last year he sold 1000 of them,
ranging in variety from the robin and the
wood pigeon to the splendid tropical bird.
ROBERT DUNLAP, an Irish merchant and
member of the Belfast Corporation, has been
arrested on the charge of forging a death
certificate for the purpose of defrauding the
Equitable Insurance Company of New York
PROFESSOR LONG says that in one year
Great Britain imports 100000 pounds of
butter, requiring upon the ordinary estimate
773, 600 gallons of milk to make it. This
milk would require for its production 1,717,-
600 COWS.
ONE of the contestants in a walking match
in Chicago was EstEer Gausten, who is only
twelve years old. She is described as 'the
champion child pedestrienne of the United
States,n and already has record for speed
! and endurance, having walked half mile
in three minutes and thirty-two seconds. She
began her career as pedestrian at Elgin,
| ILL.,, when only four years old.