Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-07-28
ODDS AND ENDS.

Sixty thousand blue gum trees have
been planted this year on one ranch in
Los Angeles county, Cal
Georgia has plenty of room for immi-
grants. There are i'm Pierce county
400, 9S7 acres of land, of which only
12,11S are improved Ware contains
III. 903 acres, of which 10,0S7 are i'm.
proved; Wayne 249, 600 and 1897 i'm
proved; App1ing 357, O75 and 10. 352 inn
proved Other counties make a SINH
lar showing
The government statistician of New
South Wales, 7. A. Coghlan, has esti-
mated the population of Australia at
the beginning of the current year to be
3. 7S6, 79S This is an increase during
1889 of 113, 995, or 3. 10 per cent The
population of New Zealand is now 620,-
719, an increase during the year of
1889.
According to the East Asiatic Lloyd
there are 1905 foreigners and 474 for
eign business firms in Chinese ports
Great Britain has there 1926 citizens
and 300 firms; Germany 500 citizens
and ~ firms; the United States 1, 061
citizens and 81 firms; France 551 citi-
Gems and 20 firms
Coffee is brewed by electricity in a
Berlin cafe In the center of the room
are several large glass jars, through
which passes a platinum wire in spiral
form. The electricity, on heating the
wire, speedily raises the temperature of
the water in the jars to the boiling
point, and prepares the coffee in the
electric railway transmits the coffee TO
the various tables, so that the guests
may help themselves to their liking.
An eight wheeled railway church has
been finished at Tifiis, in the factory of
the Transcaucasian Railway company
for use along the line. 1t is surmount-
ed by cross at one end, and at the
other there is a handsome belfry with
three balls. Besides the church proper,
it has apartments for the priest. 1t can
comfortably seat seventy persons. The
altar is made of carved oak, and the
church furniture was made in st. Pc
tersburg.
ceiving daily from the local lineman
the moths which find their way into
the arc lamp globe in an adjacent street
during the night. Birds are fearlessly
building their nests in the hoods of the
lamps and we are told that an electric
light superintendent in Nashville re-
ceived a unique present from a colored
-, 4I,n Of oh ft111 Of
honey bees The swarm was found in
the hood of an electric lamp, where it
had settled the day before.
Billy, the goat, mascot on the United
States steamer Galena, has been trans
ferred to the flagship Baltimore, along
with whatever goes with an able sea-
man. Billy left the Galena most un-
willingly, and it looked for a time as il
the drill known as abandon ship"
would have to be ordered as the only
means of getting him over the side
Billy was especially skilled in this evo-
luton, and he always fearlessly leaped
into the cutter when the signal for
abandon ship was given.
A state grant of s, 900, 900 marks has
just been made for the extension of the
telegraph and telephone lines in the
German empire. OF this 3, 099, $50 marks
are to be devoted to the town tele-
phones already existing, COG, 900 marks
to the erection of new ones, 1, 92S, 900
marks to new telegraph lines princi-
pally in the country; 761, 900 marks for
improvements in and 81, 500 for extern
sions of the pneumatic postal services
in Berlin and Hamburg.
At Dion a convict under a sentence
of twenty years penal servitude was
permitted to leave his prison and marry
his sweetheart. He returned to prison
after the ceremony, and in two years
time his wife will be able to join him
in New Caledonia.