Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

About 10000 plants and $4,000
shrubs are to be set out at the stations
along the Old Colony railroad.
The latest experiments made with
carrier pigeons in connection with va
rious European armies show that the
normal velocity of the carrier in calm
weather and for a short distance is
about 1,210 yards a minute. With
very strong wind in the direction of
the fight a bird has reached 1880
yards a minute.
There are many very warm spots on
the torrid zone, but Bohrin, by the
Gulf of Persia, seems to be, as far as
temperature goes, absolutely without
a rival. For forty consecutive days
in July and August last year. which
was by no means an exceptional sea-
son, the thermometer was known not
to fall lower than 100 degs. Fahrenheit,
night or day, and often ran up as high
as 1913 dogs. in the afternoon.
One reason why English comedians
are SO popular socially is because they
A music hall comedian who can sing
and do nothing else cannot command
much of salary, but if he is able to
dance, play a musical instrument or
two and give an exhibition of legerde
main he is pretty sure of adding ma
terially to his income.
Scotch manners can occasionally be
odd A Glasgow gentleman, in escort
ing some ladies home from a dance,
found diamond hairpin in the bottom
of the cab and handed it to one of the
ladies. The owner advertised, and the
young woman who had taken it from
her escort received a reward of 910.
Then the young man applied for a
share of the money, and she refusing
he carried the question to court. The
court allotted him 95.
A schoolboy recently scalded his leg
from knee to toe. AS there were no
signs of healing the attending surgeon
chloroformed greyhound puppy to
death, shaved it's body, skinned it, and
grated the skin on the boys leg. The
healing was rapid and the color of the
grated skin was uniform and very
similar to that of the normal skin.
Some idea of the support which Eng
ishmen give to artists whom they con-
slider great masters may be had from
sales of paintings by Sir John Everett
Millais In 1877 1.-The Knight Err
rant" brought at auction 81, 500, in
1886 1.-THE Vale of Rest" fetched $15,-
600, and in 1888 the enormous sum of
500, 900 was paid for 1.-THE Northwest
Passage"
A little white bearded man named
widows, now a clerk in the treasury
department, was one of PATHS first
managers. Widows is a noted chime
ringar- He paid the 13-year-old child
who was destined to become a world
renowned diva 500 a week for singing
in a concert troupe with which he
toured the country.
While Robert Wilson, living near
Columbiana, Ala, was blowing in an
old field last week he unearthed a tin
box containing $3.50 in gold and $25
in silver. The place was formerly
owned by an old gentleman who
always buried his money when he got
drunk 1t is supposed there is more
somewhere on the farm, as he was
wealthy, and all his money has never
been accounted for.
Lieutenant Ray gives some very re-
markable experiences in the Arctic
regions. In excavating the frozen
earth he found it harder to work than
granite Powder had no effect what
ever upon it, and when a blast was
inserted it would always elbow out. F."
The drills used were highly tempered,
but in few hours at farthest the tenn
pering was gone. He found that the
extreme cold had the same effect on
tempered steel as extreme heat. The
steel would lose it's temper, become
softened and bend easily.
Two young Londoners have just re-
turned home after a years walk
around Europe They first walked to
Dover, where they took the Calais
boat, thence proceeding along and
near the coast of France to Spain and
Portugal, leaving Spain at Barcelona
by boat to Marseilles Then the route
lay via Italy, Austria, Poland, through
Moscow and st. Petersburg to the
Baltic, which was crossed to Sweden,
then Germany, Holland and Belgium,
leaving Europe at Ostend. A stick
and knapsack formed the travellers
luggage.
The most northerly railway in the
world is that one now building be-
tween Sweden and Norway. 1t runs
from Lulea, a little town at the top
of the Gulf of Bothnia, to Elvegaard,
"a fort on the Atlantic in the ford of
Ofoten. The works are frequently
stopped on account of the severity of
the climate, but it is hoped that the
line will be opened in 1891. 1t is a
British enterprise, owned and con-
structed by British capitalists.