Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-20
STRAY BITS.


It will take $4,000 to break up the Great
Eastern, which was sold recently for 10000
A blind man in Bulfalo has just passed =
law examination and been admitted to the
bar.
Two hundred thousand infants under Q
years old are believed to be farmed out in
France.
An Ohio man has been charged with max
ing love and becoming engaged to three
sisters all at once.
Phylloxera and mildew have so damaged
the French vintage that the yield will be
$500, 600 hectoliters less than last year.
There is such boom in the Argentine
Republic that Buenos Ayres has become the
dearest city in the world to live in
The price of pedigree Shorthorn cattle has
dropped in England from an average of $3.50,
which it reached few years ago. to $685.
The cold was so severe in Monterey, Mexico,
recently, that circus proprietor had to build
a fire around his elephant to keep him from
freezing.
Deawodod, d. T., has all anti-fat society,
the members of which pledge themselves to
abstain from eating anything that will add
to their corpulency
A bit of Chinese philosophy runs as fol
lows: observe not the stranger in thy melon
patch too closely. Inattention is often the
highest form of civility."
Residents of Rapid City, D. T., have sent
for lot of quail for the purpose of stocking
that region with the birds 1t is believed
they will withstand the rigors of the winter.
At the mouth of the Congo there is a re-
markable submarine valley. Just at the
mouth of tho river it is ,452 feet deep, and it
can be distinctly traced for 100 miles out to
sea.
In order to Introduce railroads into Mo-
rocco the king Of Belgium has devised the
ingenious scheme of sending the sultan a
complete railway train with lot of rails as
present.
The new Mexican law which provides that
the 18th of July each year-anniversary Of
the death of Bento Juarez-shall be day of
public mourning has been published and gone
into effect.
Hereafter no permits will be granted in the
City of Mexico for bull fights on week days.
This order has been given because hundreds
of workingmen neglected their daily avoca-
ton in order to go to the bull ring.
A sleight of hand performer in Thomson,
Ills, while giving an exhibition presented a
loaded cigar to Frank Potter of that town.
When the cigar exploded it burned Potter's
mustache, eyelids, eyebrows, one side of his
face and one of his eyes.
A Connecticut woman has embroidered the
words and music of "Home, Sweet Home"
on linen sheet which is ON the spare room"
bed. Her guests have not decided whether
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feel at home or had better go home.
In Liverpool, England, play entitled
'.Who's the Lunaticf' was recently enacted.
Before it was finished half the people in the
audience were shouting: 'The author, the
authorl" When he blushingly appeared he was
greeted with roars of laughter and cries of
Hes the lunatic!"
Five Paris firemen, on a lark, captured a
countryman's wagon load of hay on public
street, and, after turning somersaults and
going through other athletic exercises upon
it, began to throw the bundles of hay at one
another and at others. The police arrived
about this time and ended the fun.
Thu finest house in Washington is that of
b. H Warder, on X street. 1t cost 100000,
and looks like Venetian palace 1t has
bathroom of white marble, and in one of the
bedrooms there is an apartment walled with
mirrors, so arranged that one can see every
part of himself without turning his head.
There were lynched during the year 1887
in the United States no fewer than 123 per-
sons. Of the various states and territories
Texas leads the list, with fifteen lynchings,
and Mississippi is entitled to second place.
with fourteen to her credit. All the victims
were males, eighty of them being negroes.
Saxony and Thuringia are the home and
paradise of dolls. The annual production of
dolls stockings alone in Saxony is $4,000
dozen. Thousands of shoemakers find con-
slant employment in making dolls shoes.
The export of dolls to England, France and
America is very large, and increasing every
year.
The Boston and Maine railroad has Just
awarded its prizes to the station agents who
have taken the best care of their station
grounds and made the best floral display
Three prizes of $50 each went to the agents
at Atkinson, Madbury and Kennebunk
There were four $50 prizes, seven $50 and
three SIS
a Montgomery tAla.) groceryman crcu-
lated the report that he had found 81 500 in
bills hidden away among the cobwebs in a
corner of his store, and there was consider
able interest around town to know who had
left it there. After several persons had an
nounced themselves us claimants, he quietly
informed them that it was Confederate
money
An Englishman named Hughes, rendered
splenetic by unrequited love, committed sui
eide at Bologna in most determined man
ner. He drank a small bottle of whisky
mixed with strychnine, then locked the doors
and windows, made fire of charcoal, and
finally cut the artery of his left wrist A
loaded revolver which he had lying on the
table became superfiuous after that.
The little village of Aberdeen, O., which
lies just across the river from Maysville, KY,
has in the last quarter of century become
widely known as the Gretna Green of the
west, and it is estimated that more runaway
lovers are married there than in any other
town in the world. In thirty years at least
10000 clipping couples have been made happy
there and the justices of the peace have grown
rich on the marriage fees.
LITERARY LIGHTS.