Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-16
ODDS AND ENDS.
In Victoria, B. c., no mason or
stonecutter will work on building
where Chinese helpis.employed.


oeverai young r.-a OH Mae,linac Isl
and have formed a society with cap
ital stock of S6, 600, which will be spent
on a visit TO the Worlds fair and trip
around the earth in 1898.
Vanilla is produced from n species of
orchid that attaches itself to walls,
trees and other suitable objects. The
plant has a long, fieshy stem, and the
leaves are alternate, oval and lanceo-
late. The flower is a greenish white.
The United States is beyond question
a great nation of coffee drinkers. The
imports from South America amount
to over 525, 600, 600 pounds annually,
of which go per cent. comes from Bra
I'll. The second largest shipper TO this
market is Venezuela, II per cent.
A Spanish coin was recently found
on a Burlington On. j. farm, bearing
the date of 1921. 1t is in excellent con-
dition, the letters and figures being as
distinct as when the coin was first is
sued. 1t is about the size of our two
cent piece.
The weekly papers of Huntington, l..
l., have been for a couple of weeks
publishing the following notice. want
ed-A smart, strong and handsome
school mistress. None but those who
will guarantee to keep the school and
use the rod need apply. Term to COM
mence May 30 in the assembly rooms.
Wages $40 q month and board around"
The amount of heat given by the
moonlight has again been investigated,
this time with a thermopile of almost
incredible delicacy. The results show
that the warmth received from the re-
Elected light of the moon is equal to
that given out by candle at twenty
one feet distance. Observations seem
to show that, although the moons face
is under the blaze of an unclouded sun
for fourteen days, it remains compare
lively cool, and that whatever heating
it does receive is rapidly gained and as
rapidly lost.
A remarkable clock has just been set
up in the municipal library of Rouen,
France. A single winding keeps it run
ming for fourteen years. 1t was con-
structed in 1902; underwent alterations
in 1916; was bought by the city of
Rouen in 1888, and has been recently
repaired and set going.
1t is seen from the report of the do
minion department of Indian affairs
that the number of Indians in Canada
is 121, 500 Ontario has 17,752; Que
bee, 10, 500; Nova Scotia, 2,059; New
Brunswick, 1,574; Prince Edward
Island, 314; Manitoba and Northwest
territories, "a, 522.
A number of wealthy Jews recently
offered 5000, 900 for the Vatican's copy
of the Hebrew Bible, but the pope
wouldn't sell. A similar effort TO buy
this Bible was made in 1912 when
Julius ii was greatly in need of money,
but still he refused 800, 0OO The near
est approach to such price for book
hitherto was $50, 900, paid by the Ger
man government in 1884 for the missal
formerly given by Leo Y to Henry VIII,
together with the parchment making
that sovereign Defender of the Faith.
Charles III gavJ the missal to the Duke
of Hamilton, and it stayed in his fam
lily for 200 years.
Tigers are so numerous in the French
possessions in AMMAN that one official
requested a change of district because
he was tired of administering a terri
tory which contained as many tigers as
inhabitants. In many regions no one
thinks of driving out after dark. The
French are trying to fight the evil by
paying large sums as bounties 10 tiger
slayers, but the Annamese themselves
try to propitiate the tigers by consecrat-
ing pagodas to them and comforting
titles of nobility.