Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

OF this worlds population it IS estimated
that $50, 0OO, 900 go entirels naked.
The largest gold mine in the " rid Is
taid TO be il Alaska. IL is lighted oy
slectricity end Is run day and night.
In England last year 6,O67 books were
Notwithstanding new editions. Most
Of them come under the head of fiction
While the population of the country was
Increasing about 100000 during the year
The consumption of cigarettes increased
nearly S00000,oO0
Yellow piano keys may be made white
by rubbing them gently with sandpaper
and polishing with channels
Two Swapping turtles, weighing forty
three and thirty pounds respectively,
were found lately in the wheel PIT OF
Connecticut mill
Capt. Holmes, of Mystic, Conn, who has
lust returned from his siNteth voyage
around Cape Horn, believes he has made
the trip oftener than any other living per
son.
Charles Faye, who died in Brooklyn a
day or two ago, was feet , inches high,
though only Il years old. His death, ply
sieians say. was due to too rapid growth.
A bookbinder in Vienna was called upon
20 bind volume of 100 leaves worth lOOOOO
gulden. Each leaf was Il bond for LOCO
gulden, the book being the owners glit TO
his only daughter.
All the members Of the firm of Harper q
Brothers are practical printers and il is a
rule of the house that each member Of the
family who expects to be taken into the
firm must first become proficient IN type
setting or presswork
In 1889 no less than 5s,0oo0o0 bushels of
wheat went into British ports, and -four to
the value Of S4LOOO000 has circulated in
English bread pans 1t is calculated that
the shortage Of wheat in the present years
crop will not be less than 100000 600
bushels.
Peace reigns so supremely at Canton,
Me. that the selectmen have rented the
town Jail to a shoemaker The tenant,
however, has a spare room, which Is in
readiness for any miscreant overtaken by
justice
The desk at which Oliver Wendell
Holmes writes his poems is fer from being
the ideal escritoire of q poet. Z IS n very
prosaic roll Top desl. q polished black wal
nut. kept VIII Ell che 9altaess and pre-
cision Of the professional boo;keeper
Ills rather startling fact that the most
densely populated S 10 .t3 Ellle in ths world
Is not in China OF Belgium, but in the city
of New York, and taa. Il IS iahaJited by
270.000 people, the larger pert Fl wnom are
Italians, who speak their native language
only and retain their native customs.
A. c. Christopher, of the Georgia house
in Orlando Fla, has "A peach tree in his
yard of the large yellow clingstone variety.
The tree is three years old, and has borne
two crops since the frost in March last the
first becoming ripe in July and the second
in August, and there win still be another
crop in September. The tree grew from a
seed obtained in middle Georgia
An American who was lately abroad
asked a great London critic to name for
him in their due order of merit England S
greatest literary men. The answer was,
First, above everybody, Lord Tennyson,
then George Meredith, then Robert Louis
Stevenson, and then Rudyard kipling.
Europe is soon TO be entertained by "A
troupe of Persian singers, wrestlers, box
ers. equestrians, conjurers and mounte-
banks to the number of sixty who will
give performances of a kind never yet seen
IN the great capitals. Most of these gen
try are banditti, whose local celebrity has
been earned as much by highroad exploits
as by artistic performances, but Russian
impressario has banded them together, and
begins his rounds with them at Odessa.