Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-20
MISSING LINKS

MIA land cost her just 100000.
Mic, Oscoda county, Mich. has
street occupied entirely by Smiths.
An American company is going TO
buy the lead mines situated in the Dis
trict of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Henry Mayhem, the first editor OK
London Punch is dead. The first
number of the paper appeared July II,
1911.
Indians at Colfax, w. T., get drunk
on rheumatism cure. At NORTH Yakima
they prefer lemon extract and Jamaica
ginger.
1t is so easy to secure laborers from
Europe that Brazilian planters are
thinking of liberating all their slaves
within the next two years.
More bears have been killed in the
state of Maine this year than any year
previous within the remembrance of
the oldest furrier in the state.
New York will be we'll supplied with
potatoes this winter, as it is estimated
that the yield on Long Island will
average 500 bushels per acre.
Pobedonnezew is the uncompromis-
ing name of the man who will probably
leader of the Russian Panslavists.
A peach tree 40 years old, at Sonoma.
Cal, has produced 250 pounds of fruit
this season. Most of the peaches
measured over eight inches in circum-
ference.
In filing out a death certificate
Buffalo physician attested that the con-
tributing cause of death was Group
cure made and sold by another doctor
OF the same city.
There is truth in the remark of the
New York Mail and EpresS that ''base-
ball is making ruffians and gamblers
out of too many small boys in both
towns and country"
Mrs Crawford, Paris correspondent
of the London Daily NeeUs and Truth,
is said to earn $4,000 year by her
pen-the largest sum made by any
woman out of journalism.
Remove, Pa, contains a COW which
can remove the bars from a fence,
enter an nclosed lot, and then replace
the bars when she goes out. The COW
is said to do this every night.
Mrs William Thomas of Baraboo
tripped on a loose plank in sidewalk
in Oshkosh and fell, striking ner face.
The bows of her gold spectacles were
embedded in her face to the bone.
John G. Whittier, who was at Senter
House, Lake Winnepesaukee, ut the
time it was burned wthstood the ex-
element and stock of the fire very
well for man in feeble health and 80
years of age.
A Philadelphia barber displays a
sign which announces that he is 'sprO-
prietor of Il facial decorating saloon,
tOnsorial artist, physiOgnomical hair
dresser, and facial operator, Uranium
manipulation, and cap .llary abridger."
The San Francisco Examiner under
takes to show that Miss Eta B., whom
| it STYLES the belle of California, is more
beautiful than Mrs. Langtry. 1t com
pares the items of makeup in detail,
| and from shouller to ankle awards the
Lily second place every time.
A new cookery-book gives the infor-
nation that originally imam ate moth
| ing, but imbibed nutrment by the os-
NOSE from the air Upon this theory,
the evolution of man has been attended
with much Inconvenience, and marked
by descent from sp rt to matter.
A cave was broken into near Shulls-
| burg, Wis. recently, which is believed
to contain fortune. 1t will take Il
weeks labor before it can be explored,
but from observations there is no doubt
in the minds of the miners but 100, 900
pounds of fine cog mineral is at hand.
Hilles Smith of Niles, Mich, received
bv express from his brother, Frank Z.
Smith of East Oakland, Cal. the rib
bone of some extinct animal. The
size of the animal that wore it may be
guessed at from the fact that the rib is
eight feet in length and three inches in
diameter.
Sharks are accused of causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the
waters of the Chesapeake bay this
summer. They are unusually numer-
Gus and bold, and may be seen any
day swimming about on the flats eX-
ploring the water grass with their
| blunt noses.
Harper's Weekly recently had an
illustration of wheat harvesting in
Dakota. 1t says that in 1880 Dakota
harvested $3.50, 299 bushels of wheat,
aid that in 1890 this will probably be
doubled, when as a matter of fact the
census of 1885 gave SO, 161, 413 bushels
as the last crop.
Cape Charles City Oel.) is the only
city in America that is fenced in. 1t
is said that the only public roau lead
ing to the place is the railroad. Why
the citizens of that section do not build
roads by which people can drive to
Cape Charles is mystery, for the
town is growing rapidly.
Once when Ignatius Donnelly was
delivering a poetical speech in Mime
sofa someone hurled head of cabbage
at him. He paused a second and said:
Gentlemen, | only asked for your
ears; | don't care for your heads" He
was not bothered any more during
the remainder of his speech.
Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade
Hampton's daughter, has hobby. 1t
is the healthy one of pedestrianism.
While the general was away on his
last fortnight's northern tour Miss
Hampton walked from her home to
Charleston, a distance of AS miles,
making a record of twenty-five miles
in one day.
A remarkable freak of nature oc-
Cured in the lower part of Taylor
county, Georgia, few days ago. A
child was born to a respectable family
having only one hand and an
arm. On Jne OCler nanu Glero are Ten
fingers and on each foot there are ten
toes. The child appeared to be well
developed otherwise.
The queen of Portugal is an accom-
plished potter. When staying at the
seaside last year she constantly visited
an important factory near by, and was
so interested that she took lessons in
the whole process of manufacture.
Now she has become first-rate work
woman, and turns out most artistic
vases, bowls, cups, etc.
Sarah Bernhardt is said to have
shocked her dear Paris by emphati-
cally declaring, 81 cannot play any
more in Paris. You Parisians are toe
poor. / like butter on my bread. Sc
| will have to return to America" Hel
pet tiger, which she is pleased to cal
an Algerian black cat, has been fined
100 francs for disturbing neighborine
families.
! The late Sylvanus Cobb made &
great deal of money out of his writings
and lived in a fine house at Hyde Park
Mass. His sanctum was in tower a