Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

A New York lady recently had on
her dinner table $50 orchids that cost
$1.5 each.
Oranges are now preserved in silos,
the fruit being wrapped in tissue and
buried in sand, care being taken that
the wrappers do not touch, and only
three layers deep being laid in each
trench.
Twelve hundred years ago kerosene
was known to the japanese, but the
method of refining it so as to be availa-
BILE for domestic use is but a dozen
years old.
During the eighty-one years of its
existence the British and Foreign BIZ
BILE society has issued from its London
house alone 29,OOO,OO0 complete BIZ
bles, nearly 80, 600, 600 New Testaments
and IL, 645, 900 portions of the Bible
altogether ~, 100000.
It has been ascertained that the
burning of the royal palace at Laeken,
Belgium, was caused by great fires
built up to furnish an unusual guam
tity of boiling water for the stables,
and that the rapid spread of the flames
was due to the fact that oak logs
had been inserted bodily into the
chimneys when the palace was being
constructed to take the place of bricks.
There is no country like France for
starting journals During 1889 no
less than $50 new newspapers were
brought out, of which not one remains
in life. On the other hand, The Petit
Journal now claims a circulation of
1895, 900 copies. During the same pc
riod, there were printed in France
over Is, 900 new books, including 5000
new musical pieces.
A resident of Massachusetts came
near going through life with a name
that would have made him miserable
The name was Lynn @. Doyle, and,
strange to say, no one present at his
baptism noticed the strange sound it
made when pronounced.
There are, it appears, in Europe, the
Americas, Egypt, South Africa, Japan,
India, etc., no less than 1,714, 900 Eng
fish miles of land and telegraphs, and
their estimated value is $258, 642, 500.
Of cables 107, SAT miles have been laid
down by companies, at a capital out
lay of $3.50, 600, 900; by government,
12, 523 miles of submarine cable, at
coss of $18, 500, 000
James Collins, who lives near Gales
burg, Ills, while searching for hogs
in the woods Tuesday, noticed bees
flying around large sycamore tree.
Securing help he chopped the tree
down. AS surmised, it turned out to
be tree of the richest kind. 1t was a
mere shell, and when it struck the
frozen ground split open, showing a
section Of honey thirty feet long In
all he secured 1, 100 pounds. Mr.. Col
Inns thought the bees would have filled
a large barrel, but he had no way of
hiving them.
A famous Viennese oculist says, for
the benefit Of the people who have to
earn a livelihood with the pen:
''Never write on white paper if you
can get yellow paper. A sheet or card
of the same shade placed on the wall
over the desk will assist in giving the
eyes a rest, and this will facilitate the
work" He has made this sugG eStion
to many, and in each case has received
the thanks of those who have been
benefited by it. 1t is simple, and does
not require any philosophy to prove it.
The mortuary chapel at Farnbor-
Ough, where the remains of Napoleon
III and the prince imperial are inter
red, has justbeen endowed with beau
tiful and interesting gift. 1t is an altar
cloth, shaped and trimmed by the
hands of the empress. The cloth is
made from the gown, worn thirty sew
en- years ago, when Mile. Eugene de
Montijo, comtesse de Teba, was mar
ried at the Tuileries to Napoleon III.
The altar cloth is trimmed with the
lace and embroidery which ornament
ed the wedding gown.