Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-01

An English member of parliament
has patented an invention in which
electricity is made use of for improving
the extraction of gold
A colored woman was SO frightened
during a thunder storm that, as she
expressed it, she ''trembled like an
asl2pan."
Aside from the Morosini collection
the handsomest diamonds in Saratoga
are those worn by the wife of ex-Mayor
Grace, of New York.
''Should we keep our vests in the
vestry?" asked Gilroy. eyes" replied
Larkin; land our coats in the coterie,
and likewise our trousers in the pantry"
Dr. Gatling, of Hartford, Conn, the
inventor of the famous gun, is a com
paratively old man, but still keeps
busily at work with his plans and con-
ceptions.
Life has its compensations for most
people, but for his compensation the
undertaken has to wait for death.
The Duke of Edinburgh and Bis
marck are hobnobbing and drinking
water at Kissingen, and the Prince of
Wales and Chauncey M. Depew are
shopping stories at Homburg.
A grand turning cupola eight meters
in diameter is to be erected in the
Vatican garden for covering the pho
tographic equatorial instrument which
is to be used in connection with map
ping out the stars.
Manslaughter in the first degree is
punishable by imprisonment for not
less than five or more than twenty
years. Murder in the first degree, and
arson in the first degree accompanied
by homicide, are punishable by death
The Babylonians embalmed their
dead in honey, and discountenanced
cremation, which they believed to be
nothing but a sacrilege to the sun.
At the end of the Bulgarians Palm
Sunday feast at the cemeteries they
them on the graves for the dead who
are expected during the night.
The late Duke of Portland used to
shelter himself from observation while
walking in his park by hiding under a
huge umbrella The back of his Lon
don residence was guarded by a wall so
high that the neighbors could not see
the dukes house, much less its inmate
when he was walking in the yard.
A well known lawyer of Toronto
who ic Ior1t fo no al orInr hic
wedding suit, whereupon it was at
tached by lady to whom he owed S41,
the payment of which he had sys-
tematically evaded. His wedding gar
ments are now in the hands of court
official, and will be put up at auction
if the matter is not settled.
The accomplishment of the man who
could speak four different languages
with his hands tied behind him is sur
passed by a Quaker gentleman of whom
a western paper says that not desiring
to see the terrible pictures of battles
and bloodshed in popular magazine
he ''read the magazine clear through
with his eyes shut"
There has recently been current a
story to the effect that the venerable
mother of Lieut.. Gushing, the hero of
the blowing up of the rebel ram Abe
marie, is a pauper, dependent upon
charity, in Boston. This is declared to
be baseless falsehood. Mrs. Gushing
is living at ST. Louis in easy circum-
stances.
One of the latest proposals is to lay
a pipe line for supplying New York
with milk, as Pittsburg and some other
cities are supplied with natural gas or
oil from the wells. The Tactical supply,
of course, cannot be got by boring, but
it is to be collected at various points
and sent along the pipe for distribution
in New York. 1t is said company is
being formed with a capital of about
$3.50, 900 to carry out the scheme.