Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

There are some drugs that are said
to be worth $4,000 a bottle, and the
druggists say they don't make much
on them.
The whole of the sewerage of Paris
is soon to be utilized for the purpose
of maintaining market gardening.
An indication of the spread of Eng
lish as a language is given by the fact
that it has just been chosen for use IN
the recording of important treaty en-
gagements between Russia and China.
The ''tercentenary Of the invention
of the compound microscope" will be
celebrated by q universal exhibition
of botany and microscopy, to be held
at Antwerp during the present year.
A great flight of locusts, calculated
to have covered about 1000 square
miles, lately passed across the Red sea
from the African to the Arabian shore.
A singular Asiatic people called the
Akas, who live among the hills north
of Assam, dip the barbs of their arrows
in aconite, and they are so made that
when any attempt is made to pluck
out the arrow, the barb breaks off and
remains in the wound The poison is
so deadly that even a buffalo falls,
after running a few yards, when he
has been struck by one.
In the year 1900 there was but one
newspaper in the United States. In 1870
there were 5,871; this year there are
16, 319, the total for the United States
and Canada being II, 10Y. In 1870
there were but IA, 600 periodicals print
ed in the whole world Now, how
ever, there are in the United States
alone II, 791 weeklies, 1, 999 monthlies,
and 1, 5S4 dailies.
Davy Prichard is an eccentric old
man who lives at Shelby, Mich, and
imagines he is president of several rail
roads. He meets every train, gives
orders to the trainmen, passes through
the cars and asks passengers for sug-
gestOns as to the management of the
road, and claims a back salary Of
81, ZOO, 600 for fifteen years services.
He decorates himself with all imagin-
able badges and insignia of office,
and deports himself with great dignity.
Ladies in London are now having
their arms nodded in terra Gotta and
marble, the hand holding a pen
and a receptacle for ink. One recent
ly finished in terra Gotta had a piece
of plush drawn in about the top of the
arm, and pen in the slender fingers,
and was designed fOr-'"Tell it not in
Gath; publish it not in the streets
of AshkelOn "a bethrothal gift to her
latest lover.
The losses by the burning of the pal
ace of the king of Belgium include all
of his great collection of maps and his
geographical library, said to be the
finest in the world The library con-
tanned 1000 volumes, among which
was a manuscript of Walter Raleigh,
an original edition of the letters of
Capt Cook, and the first edition of the
Spanish reports of Christopher Column
bus Besides the maps there were
II, 600 photographs, taken in all parts
of the world.
Nearly every man in the streets of
Lisbon has a cigarette in his mouth.
Two gentlemen. strangers, each with
a lady on his arm, Will meet each
other on the sidewalk. One has an
unlighted cigarette and the other
lighted cigarette. The former with
draws his arm from the lady's, re
moves his hat and bows to the gentle
man with the lighted cigarette,
takes the lighted cigarette from be-
tween its owners lips, lights his own,
replaces the other, bows again, gives
his companion his arm and passes on
without a word being spoken on either
side
The new passport regulations that
came into force in Russia on Jan. Is
oblige travellers to carry their photo
graphs annexed to their passes La
dies will therefore have to be careful
not to exhibit photographs taken ten
years previously; while gentlemen
will have to keep their face hair in
statu quo during their sojourn in the
cars dominions. By way of doing
little business in connection with this
new order, the finance minister in
tends to levy a stamp duty of about
four cents on every carte de visite.
A new calculating machine has just
been invented in France and obtained
a gold medal at the exhibition. The
inventor is NJ. Bollee, of La Mans, a
clever machinist, already very favora-
bly, known by other useful inventions.
The machine does addition, multiply
cation and division with astonishing
rapidity, and all by the turn of the
wheel. NJ. MaScarC recently gave an
account of the invention before the
Academy of Science.
An article called ''cavassa starch
is attracting considerable attention in
the Florida sub-tropical exhibition. A
local paper says: Northern men can
hardly believe it IS a Florida produc-
ton, and when they learn that it YVES
raised on a small garden plot and pre-
pared by a simple, crude process and
learn how enormously it produces,
and further, that it is an article not
only for man, but for animals. they
open their eyes in wonder"