Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-07
STRAY BITS.

Roumania has 200, coo gypses and Hungary
$4,000.
Iondon's new Albemarle hotel has an oaken
staircase that cost 4l0,00O.
Last year Germany granted only 1891 pa
tents, against Engand's 9,779, and 20, 400 in
the United States
In Edinburg it is found possible to supply
for half penny wholesome meal of vege-
table broth and bread
The price demanded in England for whale
bone is at the rate of f2, 800 per ton, which
is the highest ever known.
At the last primary scholarship examina-
ton in Bengal eight out of twenty scholar
ships were awarded to girls
Tho Massachusetts, savings bank commits
soners suggest school savings banks as a
means of teaching the young idea how to save
In China, when the rain is too abundant,
the officials set the images of the native gods
out in the rain to induce them to stop the
downpour.
Mr.. Aldrich says la grippe makes one feel
as though he were wearing misfit skull that
is too tight across the forehead and that
pinches behind the ears.
The youngest millionaire in New York, if
not in the world. is Marshall Roberts, son of
the late Marshall O. Roberts, who is worth
81, 900 900 and only 10 years old
Two Russian climbers of Mount Ararat
found in perfect preservation a minimum
thermometer, which was left there last year.
1t registered 80 degrees below zero.
A curious fact about cigarette smoking is
that nearly double many cigarettes are
smoked during July, August and September
as during any other three months of the year.
A mail bag was recently found in the old
law courts at Frankfort-on-the-M Main, Ger
many containing Us undelivered letters
dating back to 1875, all in good state of
| preservation.
Never buy diamonds except on clear dav.
The least mist or fog in the atmosphere will
prevent you from discovering the flaws in
them Damp, murky weather practically
| kills the diamond business.
The French soldiers were an army Of tea
| drinkers during the prevalence of la grippe.
| Whenever la grippe made its appearance in
a regiment all the soldiers who remained free
from the epidemic were given between meals
hot tea with sugar.
The keel of what will be the largest salin Q
vessel in the world has just been LAID in one
of the shipyards of the CLYDE. She will be
1900 tons, over $50 feet long, and will carry
on her five masts a spread Of canvas that
would capsize NOah's ark.
Berlin has established perambuatiug post
offices, which are great success. The mail
carts drive about in eleven different direc-
tions, deliver local letters at their destina-
ton, and sort the letters collected while they
are being taken to the postotfice.
The dog house of Col North, the nitrate
king, at London is a perfect canine palace
filed with costly animals The best dog cost
1920. There is dressing room and clonl,
room filled with dogs coats and fresh shoul
ders of mutton make the dogs daily dinner
Here is an illustration of the way Pari:
keeps her streets clean: An American unslis
pectingly tore a letter in two and dropped
the pieces in the gutter, just as he had doubt
less done hundred times at home. A mo
ment after n policeman invited him to re
trace his steps and gather up the fragment OF
waste paper on the penalty of being arrested