Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-28

speaking, China is not very far away
when we consider the wonderful i'm
provements made in steam locomo-
ton. Gin the good old days" if a
man contemplated trip around the
world, he would naturally go around
to all his which would be the
whole community, if he was at all a
decent fellow-and bid them good-by
in the most solemn manner; but very
likely before he returned, he would
be forgotten by most of his acquaint-
ances. Nowadays we miss man
for what seems a week or two-pos-
sibly a month and find, to our as
constituent that he has taken a trip
around the world during this interval
A journey around the world from a
given point takes eight weeks now,
instead of as many months.
Jules Verne considered ga trip
around the world in eighty days suf-
ficiently important to write book
about. To-day, letter will start
west from New York and go around
the world, back to New York again,
in less than two months, in the fol-
lowing manner: From New York to
San Francisco, five days; "Frisco"
to Yokohama time made by one of
of the last mail steamers, the "Oce-
anic, sixteen days and seventeen
hours one of the last shipments of
tea from Yokohama, via Suez, arriv-
ed at New York in twenty-eight
days. total time from New York to
New York, forty-nine days and sew
enteen hours, and these are not the
fastest records.
1t is quite possible for a lady to
travel around the world from New
I DIRK, by the above route with COM
fort and convenience, in less than
two months. Jules Verne will please
to take a very far back seat. Eighty
days is far too slow in our day of en-
terprising advancement.
There is no cable across the Pa
cifc as yet, although the project is
being strongly agitated in London.
Are the readers of the MONITOR all
aware that the people of Hong Kong
are informed of the day of departure
of the American mail steamers from
Vancouver and San Francisco, by
telegraph? The date and steamers
name is telegraphed to New York,
thence to the European continent via
London then across to Singapore,
via Suez and India; thence by cable
to Manila, and by cable from Manila
to Hong Kong. 1t looks very much
as though man would never be sat
isfed until he has found some means
of getting to his destination by SIM
ply wishing himself there when he re-
tires for the night, and can wake up
| in the morning to find his wish full
filled.
"John Chinaman's" New Year will
come due this season on the I'd day
of February, and / anticipate much
pleasure and amusement in the way
of sightseeing during ''JOhn's" two
| lob inh 6G me-
that you, too, will soon be in the midst
of the glorious and hilarious season
when everybody reaches eagerly for
the cash-box containing last years
savings. From all accounts you have
had just cause to complain of wet
weather in your vicinity. You are, no
doubt, enjoying CD the cold weather
usually prevalent in New England at
this time of year.
/ opine that the excitement of the
election is but memory of the past;
that the republicans will celebrate the
coming season with a new found in
terest; that the Barton people have
started up their coal fires and taken
their overcoats out of pawn; that
the chirp of the robin and the song of
the woodchuck is no longer heard in
your peaceful valley that the last
load of rowen has been added to the
NOW, and the garden truck has been
stored away in the cellar for winter
use; that the woods have lost their
beautiful tinted coats of yellow, and
red and brown; that Horace p, with
his winning smile, no longer dispens-
es the deadly soda; that frequenters
of the villa and the shore of your
"Crystal Lake" have returned to the
busy metropolis,a the weary steam
launch hibernates in peace; that the
festive bicycle is no longer seen gy-
rating about the country, greatly to
the relief of the unsophisticated gran
ger on his way to market; that the
small boy and his SNOWFALL, with an
utter disregard for consequences, will
soon be terror to the passer-by !;
that the first oyster supper of the sea-
son has come and gone, leaving
snug little balance to the ''Ladies'
Aid Society," that the Barton
Brass Band no longer distills their
sweet strains in the public garden;
that promenade concerts and pro-
gressive euchre parties will soon be
in vogue that the first s'booby prize"
of the season will be ''nuts'' for Chas.
D.. ESQ.,, who holds forth nightly
on those occasions, to the delight of
an admiring audience.
But I will let your readers do their
own thinking, and bid you adieu for
this time, VERMONT.
Hong Kong, Dec. 5, '8S.