Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-28
Hide me, o my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm of life be past.
Safe into the haven guide,
o receive my soul at last.
ODDS AND ENDS.

! OODS AMI ENOOs
A Russian lady proposes, in the col
umns of a Russian newspaper, that
women of Russia and France should
join in forming a corps of amazons to
fight the amazOns of DahOmey.
A leading English scientist states
that women have better eyesight than
men, and that in all his experience he
has never met a woman who was color
blind.
has made a complete dynamo, capable
of lighting one large arc light, run
by treadle. He has also made COM
in the transmitter, which is said by
electricians to work perfectly and to
be much simpler than the one now in
use.
Near 1uscon, in Arizona, a very
large cave has been discovered, which
is as yet unexplored, and from which
ranchmen in the neighborhood have
obtained beautiful specimens of lime
carbonates.
During the recent floods at Ana
helm, Cal, every hummock was
swarming with hareS and rabbits that
WCIO oIINCh I1OnI OIlO BldIIlS. 1nCY
were slaughtered by thousands by
boys and men, who used sticks, and
when tired of the sport would run the
poor beasts off their dry places into
the raging waters.
The pet names of the four baby
states are as follows: North Dakota is
the 'F'lickertail state" South Dakota
is the ''Swinge Cat state" Washing
ton is the Chinook state" and Mon
tana is the ''Stubbed Toe state
The royal mail steamer Polynesian
had a queer experience. The steamer
yards and rigging being brilliantly IL
Illuminated with balls of fire. The first
officer says it was grand sight, many
of the passengers coming up on deck
to see it.
Two thousand ammunition carts,
baggage wagons and other military
transport vehicles, built in Warsaw,
have been shipped by the Russian war
department to Batoum. They are in
tended for Central Asia.
One of the finest pieces of work
ever turned out at Mare Island navy
yard, San Francisco, is a whaleboat
built for King Malietoa, of Samoa, to
be presented to him by the United
States government as a token of es-
TEEN for his kindness to American Off
GERS and sailors at the wreck of the
Trenton and Vandalia.
There is dog in st. Louis that is
regular funeral goer. While driving
out the road to Bellefontaine with
funeral he was seen to get up and trot
along beside the hearse. No more was
4l011orh+ Of hi,1o 11,af11 la
reached, and there the big brindle was
seen hanging on the outskirts of the
crowd, Just as much interested as any
one From that time on he has been
a regular mourner, and he goes to
every funeral that takes place.
A gentleman has offered S., 900 to
any university in New England that
will send physicist to witness Keely's !
experiments, who will bind himself !
not to give an opinion until the nature |
of Keely's discoveries have been made |
known to him, and he has seen the |
demonstrations which Kelly is ready
to make in proof of his claims as dis
coverer, not as an inventor.
One of the most extraordinary of |
African trees is that known as the ba- |
obab 1t is almost forest in itself, |
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on the largest scale. Rarely growing |
more than seventy feet high its
branches extend horizontally, support
ed by trunk which has girth great
er, it is believed, than that of any other
known tree. One of these extraordin-
ary trees was found on measurement |
to be forty feet III diameter. The age
of another, counting the concentric
rings was found to be ) 900 wears at |
the very least.
1t is now believed that the MAN.
moth abounded tn great an extent
upon the east as on the west coast of |
Behring sea In fact, mammoths have |
already been discovered in Alaska,
and news comes that syndicate has
been formed for the purpose of procur-
ing their ivory tusks, which are now
of great value and which will undoubt-
eddy continue to become more valu-
able as the elephant is being extermi-
mated.
An innovation in the placing of the
orchestra, inaugurated at the first
"Ascanio" performances at the Grand
Opera house, consists in making all
the players face the audience, instead
of playing partially toward the stage
and partially toward the audience.
The conductors stand is placed at the
point farthest removed from the stage,
and he, of course, turns his back to-
ward the audience; but as he is in
front of all his forces he is not obliged,
as is so often the case now in our oper-
attic performances, to turn partially or
wholly around to make musicians
aware of his intentions