Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

EIaSn signals, by means OF the neno
graph, are used for communicating be
tween stations in New Mexico and Ar
iona seventy-five miles apart.
A Georgia lad, 10 years of age, has
an unusually large head He wears ar
eight and a quarter hat, and it is diff
cult job to find one large enough fol
him in any of the stores.
The Ferranti dynamos used in the
Deptford lighting stations near London,
weigh 500 tons each, stand 40 feet high,
run at so revolutions per minute, and
can each supply about 200, 900 incan-
descent lights.
Henry Bertrand asserts that consump
ton is often caused by eating the meat
of diseased animals.
"Oh," said girl of IA, who had not
seen a grown up cousin for year, dur
ing which time she herself had become
many inches taller, chow small you've
grown!"
The Russian peasantry have long
been accustomed to dress flesh wounds
with thick layer of ashes, prepared
K. Pashkoff strongly recommends the
practice.
1--WE counted the money in our state
treasury for the first time in fourteen
years two years ago, and had to sweep
the dust and cobwebs from the money
bags" says Governor Ross, of Texas.
The most recent experiments tend to-
ward showing that better work can
really be accomplished with one motor
to a car axle than two. The addition
al friction and the difficulty of equally
distributing the load between the two
accounts for the preference being given
the single motor.
You can get 100 acres of land in Sa-
moa for 81, 81 and the taxes will be only
80 cents a year.
A new megaphone has been placed
on the market in England, by which
the human voice can be so magnl.led
that it may be heard at a distance of
several miles.
During the last three years the an
cient and reliable rush light and candle
caused 391 fires in London, gas was re-
sponsible for 594 more, the kerosene
lamp started 707 CONGREGATIONS and the
dangerous, devastating electric wire
caused just 3.
According to the results of an in
quiry instituted by the French govern
ment, there are at present in France
1900, 900 households in which there has
been no child 2, 500, 900 in which there
was one; 2, 500, 900, two children; ], 5OO,-
900, three; about 1000, 600 four; $780,
900, five; $50, ZOO, six, and 100000
seven or more.
An extraordinary outbreak of infiu-
enza is reported to have taken place at
Dowlais and Merthyr-Tydoil, Glamor-
ganshire, among the ponies employed
in the mines. About 100 animals are
affected, and a large number of min
ers are temporarily deprived of employ
ment in consequence.
Standing near the yard at Jonathan
Farmers, in Oglethorpe county, Ga, is
a red oak tree which measures twenty
seven feet in circumference two feet
from the ground. 1t is hollow, and the
recess within is sufficiently large to &C
commodate half a dozen men.
A depression has been discovered in
the Egyptian desert which is all that
remains of a reservoir constructed by
the patriarch Joseph for irrigation pur-
poses when he was Pharoah's prime
minister. 1t is proposed to reopen it;
and it has been estimated that this
would add $4,000 acres to the
1000, 900 acres now under cultivation
in Egypt. The reservoir originally COW
cred $50 square miles and was $50 feet
deep.
According to a report from Man
chester, a gentleman while rummaging
some music in the shop of bookseller
came upon several manuscript copies of
works by Mozart, which further exami-
nation convinced him to be, for the
most part, in the composers handwrit-
ing. Among them are two concertos
written by Mozart when a child, and
several numbers from the opera of
'Mithridate," composed at Milan in
1910.