Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-09-13
STRAY BITS.


j., is named Pizarro Caesar.
The new United States postal card will be
big enough to write letter on.
There are 600 central electric light sta
tions in various parts of the United States.
Professional rat catchers receive a salary
of 81 800 a year There are but ten in the
United States
Homestead entries were made during the
last two months in Cullman county, Ala,
for over 5000 acres.
During thunder storm at Dennison. Tex,
the wheel of a sewing machine was melted
by a stroke of lightning.
A stone at Woodsville, n. H., is said to
mark the boundary line Of two states, three
counties and four towns.
A Steubenville, o., man suggests that a
day like Arbor day be set apart annually for
the destruction of the English sparrow.
A Canton, o., man undertook to eat
twelve boiled eggs in fifteen minutes, and it
took two doctors bring him around again.
The Bennington battle monument, that is
to be 30l feet high, has reached a height of
1914 feet The rainy summer has retarded the
work
A feminine summer boarder, who recently
killed rattlesnake in Passaic county, n. j.,
will wear the tanned skin of her victim as
girdle.
A deathbed marriage took place lately in
Winsted. Conn The groom was well to do,
and willed all his money to his wife He was
"a years old.
Somebody has discovered that nearly every
one of the worlds famous beauties was born
In summer, at a time when the earth seemed
to smilingly welcome them.
The 10 ton gun Mt Shoeburvness is stated
to have cost el5,000 and the carriage with
its various mechanical devices for handling
it, 81 900, a total of $4,000,
1t is stated by one of the guides at the
capitol in Washington that fifteen brides an
lour is the average number of visits to the
tatuary hall each day of the year.
The elm tree that shelters the Sheldon
homestead at Deerfield, Mass, is one of the
oldest in the state. and its history can be
raced back automatically for POO years.
young man from Philadelphia has lost
his job as school teacher in Accomac county,
Va, by chucking the girls under their chins
in study hours and kissing them at recess.
In San Francisco one day recently water
melons sold low that wholesale dealers,
rather than still further glut the market,
threw a consignment of 5000 into the bay.
According to German paper, there is now
living at st. Hubert an old stager of %, who
takes daily exercise on bicycle, and is re
1owned all over the country side as an expert
'ider.
The diary of the famous Baron Friedrich
Won der Trenck, cousin of the notorious Fran;
Won der Trenck which purports to be writer
with his own blood while a prisoner at Magde
burg, is now offered for sale at Leipzig.
The statisticians of the Pennsylvania
weather service have calculated the rainfall
of that state during the summer, and fine
that if gathered in one place it would form
a lake 1000 miles square" and 35 feet deep.
A man named William j. Hanes, l02 year
? old, has been converted and has joined
Methodist church in st. Louis He says h
was never sick day in his life. He was al
orderly on Gen. Jackson's staff in the war o
, 1872
The craze for pearl fishing has EXTENDED
, from Wisconsin into Illinois. At Belvidere
on the Kishwaukee river, a baker found 80
pearls for which he has been offered in Chi
cago an average price of thirty-ive cents
pearl.
still fingers in Warren county, Pa, spearin
l fish, etc., for a living. The tribe all toll
= barely numbers 200 members and has s
= dwindled that marriage among blood rela
1 tions has become almost necessity.
1 Clinton A. Snowden, of Tacoma, saw bee
going and coming from a hollow tree. Fl
built a fire, smoked out the bees and GU
down the tree to get the honey. He found
great lot of it; but, better still, a large quar-
tity Of gold was in the hollow trunk.
J. The house in which Oliver Wendell Holme
: was born is still standing on the common a
Cambridge, Mass. and is now one of the co
y lege buildings. 1t is an old gambrel roofe
e house, and during the siege of Boston it wa
IS the headquarters Of the Amer can officers.
T. A party of fossil hunters are having goo
!, luck in the North Fork country of Oregon
They have found the bones of small hors,
!, with three toes ON each foot; rhinoceros skull
v and other bones that show, as they thinl
u that Oregon had tropical climate before tt
l. glaciers came down from the north and co,
J. cred the land miles deep with ice,
One of the jewels which Col. North, tt
= nitrate king" brought back with him froI
= Chill was miniature canoe, fashioned O
" gold, after the model used by the Peruvia
. and Gillian warriors hundreds of years az
= in the construction of their war canoes. Co
II North announced that he felt much incline
= to build racing boat on the lines of this Ii
70 tie canoe and it is now rumored that he il