Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-07-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

The nude has nOtlceably diminished
in the Paris salon 1t doesn't sell as it
used to sell, having declined in fashion
with the demi monde, and the leading
artists are now somewhat careful about
warming off by too startling displays the
steadily increasing number of young
women pupils ofrecognized respectable
ity
Hypnotism has reached that point
that the French authorities think of
creating a superior council of medical
jurisprudence at the ministry of justice,
to be composed of medical men and
magistrates, who will be required to
give opinions as to the responsibility of
criminals in connection with the ques-
tons of suggestion and hypnotism and
of heredity.
A monstrous chunk of ore was taken
from the Mountain Consolidated mine
at Butte City, Mont, a few days ago.
1t was too large to put on a two horse
wagon and four horse team was
used The ore is estimated to weigh
nearly four tons and is nearly solid
copper and silver. 1t has been bound
with hoops Of iron and boxed up, pre-
paratory to shipment, probably to Eu-
rope.
A movement has at last started against
the gates and bars which are still put
across some London streets by the adj
jacent landholders. The select com
mittee of the house of commons ap-
pointed for its consideration has passed
the preamble of the bill promoted by
the London county council for the re-
moval of certain gates and bars on the
estate of the Duke of Bedford.
Pound Keeper Finn, of New York,
estimates the dog population of that
city at from 25, 900 to 30, 900. During
the past year the dog catchers caught
z, 468 dogs, 300 of which were redeemed
by their owners paying So fine, the re-
mainder being asphyxiated.
In 1904 there were thirty-five trans
lations of the Scriptures in existence; ;
since the formation of the British and
Foreign Bible society in that year ten
millions of money has been expended
in the work of circulating the Bible,
and there are now nearly 300 transla-
tions of the Scriptures
In letter written by Thomas Jeffer-
son in 1771 to a friend in London there
is an order for ''1-2 doz. pr. India cot
ton stockings for myself at los pair.
Ten shillings is an equivalent of 50. so
"a big price for a pair of cotton stock
ings. Owing to knitting machines,
cheaper cotton, etc, they now cost
about that sum per dozen.
The present year is the tercentenary
of the discovery of the microscope,
which in its crude form was due to
Jansen, a spectacle maker of Middle
burg, Holland The occasion is to be
celebrated by an international micro
scopic exhibition, which is to be shortly
held at Antwerp. when an endeavor
will be made to bring together col
lection of instruments which will fairly
from its simple original form to that of
the present day.
A somewhat unusual deposit was
made with the Notre Dame Savings
bank in Montreal some time ago for
safe keeping. 1t consisted of a Bible
221 years old The work is said to be
in good state of preservation and to
be a Lutheran Bible, published in
Amsterdam in 1869 by S. Des Marets,
professor of theology in one of the uni
versities of Holland, and his son, who
styles himself "a minister of the Cos
pei" 1t is a French version of the
Scriptures and illustrated.
The great wall of China, extending
for twelve hundred English miles along
what was once the whole northern
frontier of the Chinese empire-from
twenty to twenty-five feet high, wide
enough for six horses to run abreast
and furnished with a suitable number
of gates and bastions- it has
been carefully estimated, more material
than all the buildings of the British
empire put together.
A four-in-hand coach race lately took
place from Vienna to Presburg. The
participants were among the elite of
Austrian aristocracy Count Wimpfers
team was the winner, covering the dis
lance in three hours. The first prize
was 1, ZOO gulden and gold medal;
gold medal was the second prize. vi
emma and Presburg society turned out
almost en- masse to see the race, and
the roads between the two cities were
thronged with sightseers
1t is not twenty years since the Jap
anese began to reform their institu-
tions. and during that time nothing has
more clearly shown their adaptability
and intelligence than the progress which
they have made in education. Out of
6,74O, 920 children of school age in the
empire $500, 900 are enrolled in the
public schools, while universities, COM
mercial schools, schools of fine art and
of music, schools for the deaf, dumb
and blind, law courses in German,
French and English, libraries and mu-
seums all form part of thorough and
progressive system.