Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-10
ODDS AND ENDS

By the new route via British America it
will be possible to go from London to Yoke
hama in twenty-three days.
A leasahold property in Worcestershire
was sold few days ago which is held for a
term of 1000 years from 1000 A. D., SO that
the lease still has /, I'll years to run.
1t is claimed that phosphate is found in only
three places throughout the United States
South Carolina, New Mexico and Florida
In New Mexico it is about exhausted, while
in Florida it is more extensive than in South
Carolina and assays 25 per cent more.
pancake machine has been invented to be
placed on the table. Turning a handle
grinds out a batter between metal rollers
that are kept hot by lamp and deposits the
cakes, brown and warm, as they are needed
A squirrel was killed recently on its way
from grain field in San Joaquin valley, Cal. ,
and on examination of its pouches they were
found to contain $40 grains of wheat, which
animals can do.
A Cincinnati man who has preserved rec
ord of 320 railroad accidents happening in this
country in the past year, finds that only thir-
teen out of the lot occurred from causes be-
yond human control.
In the Royal palace at Athens triumvi-
rate of chefs reign in the culinary regions.
One of them, master of the Danish cuisine
cooks specially for King George; the second,
equally up in Russian cookery, cooks for
Queen Olga; whilst the third. Partisan cor
don bleu, cooks a la Franchise for those state
dinners at which both king and queen are
present as royal hosts.
Official notice has been sent to all the for
eign legations in Constantinople warning
tourists in Turkey in Asia not to take any ri
6es, revolvers, wearing apparel, silver coins,
pictures, books or manuscripts in their pos
session, as all such things will be confscated
by the custom houses All political matter
will be taken away on the plea that it may
refer to the religious or political system of
Turkey.
An absent minded German professor was
one day observed walking down the street
with one foot continually in the gutter, the
other on the pavement. A pupil meeting him
saluted him with: Good evening, herr pro-
fessor. How are you?" 81 was very well,
thought" answered the professor, ''but now
| don't know what's the matter with me.
For the last half hour I've been limping."
A large class of applicants for teachers po-
sitions assembled in the rooms of the Santa
Clara Cali school superintendent last week.
They were set to work on the examination
papers, and all went smoothly until this ques-
ton cropped up in the history division: ''What
was the name of the head steward of Stan
ley's exploring party, and was he any rela-
ton to the ameer of Swat?" The whole class
silently left the room, and walked out in the
drizzling rain to cool off.
The cooperative bakeries created by the
Belgian labor party are extraordinary evil
dences Of the power of organization At
Client the wOrkmen have built, for a cost of
Ell, 900, the most perfect bakery of Belgium,
where 43, 600 quartern loaves are tnrned out
every week, and out of the 131 900 Inhabitants
of Client Is, 900 belong to this institution. At
Brussels the Maison du Peuple bakes 81, 900
per week, and at Joliment 5000 loaves per
day.
There are probably more flowers sold in
France on New Years day than on any other
day in the year, for gifts of flowers are al
most de rigueur among all those who aspire
to a place in 'ihigh life" But there is a
general complaint this year that the "whiter
flowers are becoming more expensive than
ever, and that even in the sunny south, where
most of them are said to have their home,
natural violets are sold at ten times the price
paid for the crystallized violets which are
a favorite bonbOn.
Springville, Utah, is enjoying genuine SEN
satiOn over wonderful musical clock owned
by Mrs. Martha Stevenson, of that place, &C
counts of which have appeared in the Provo
papers. Mrs. Stevenson says: The whole
thing is uuaccountable to me. 1 have had
the clock for seventeen years, and never sus-
pected it had any muscical tendencies until
Nov. 1. On that day an enlarged portrait of
my son Charles, who WIS killed by Indians
in Arizona, was hung in the room where the
clock was. Shortly afterward the clock be-
gan playing of its own volition, and has con-
tinued to do so ever since It has been care
fully examined by several persons, and the
question as to how the music is produced still
remains mystery.