Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-08-28
ODDS AND ENDS.
OF all the green things under the sun,

ana trleS TO give tne farmer points on naylnS.
Yea, verify, he takes the bun
1t is estimated that three millions of
dollars are annually paid to the Louisiana
lottery by New England people. About
$4,000 is returned by way of drawings.
A New York World dispatch says that
North Carolina is in imminent danger of
going Republican next fall on account of
division among the Democrats growing
out of the Farmers Alliance.
Mr.. Blaine may properly feel proud of
the fact that he is the first Secretary of
State who has ever been complimented
by the London papers at the expense of
a British Premier.
In hundred years the population of
Canada has increased 32-fold, while that
of the United States has increased only
16-fOld; Canada began with only 1861 900,
while the United States had 3,929,000
people.
1t is said that nearly a million square
miles in Canada, or about one-eighth of
the total area of this continent, are as yet
practically unknown. The greater part
of the Canadian Northwest is well known
only along its water courses.
The new torpedo boat Gushing has
made trial run of 120 miles in four
hours and forty-four minutes, or 1886
miles an hour, beating the German tor
pedo boat Adler by l l-2 miles an hour,
and proved herself the fastest war vessel
in the world.
A few days ago Charles Morrison of
Danbury, Conn.,, had number of small
pigs in his barn which were quite curl
Osity, none of them being quite perfect.
One was born with three legs only, and
the only one now living has but two legs.
Siam is the place to combine unlimited
leisure with limited means. You can get
your board there for 40 cents week, and
this includes washing, the use of two
servants to run errands, tickets to shows,
three shaves, and all the cigars you can
smoke.
According to the new census, Johns
town. Pa, has more inhabitants today
than she had before some $500 of her
people were swallowed up ia the flood
And this reminds us that no proceedings
have as yet been commenced against the
owners of the South Fork dam, which
broke away, although fund was raised
at the time for this purpose.
A successful trial trip was made re-
Gently on the Maine Central railroad,
with a new downward draft locomotive.
just completed. The engine drew a
heavily-loaded passenger train of four
cars at speed of forty miles an hour, a
distance of nineteen miles and return,
and emitted no black smoke or einders
1t is claimed that the machine, through
complete combustion, has solved the
problem of how to abolish smoke, Gin
ders and waste of fuel in railroad trans.
portation.
Henry Willard, the great railroad mag
nate, Just before he embarked for Europe
the other day, said that Through new
electrical discovery he expected to see
the motive power of every railroad in
the United States changed within five
he doubtless referred to the rumOred
invention of young Maine man, which
is being promoted by Hartford capital
lists, by which electricity is developed
directly from heat-a problem that has
long baffled electricians.
China's tea-crop is heavy, this year,
and of prime quality; but according to a
big tea importer who has just arrived in
Chicago from China, the price has jumped
no per cent on account of the passage OF
the silver bill by our government. Mos,
all payments in China are made in silver
and the purchase of 4,500,GG0 ounces {
month by the United States is equivalen
to taking out of the market just so mucf
that was hitherto available. Easter
markets have already felt this influence
With 1900 enumeration districts to be
heard from, the census count shows {
population of 62,695, 955. Estimating
these districts, Superintendent Porte
places the total population of the United
States at $4,000, 000-an increase of 3
per cent in the 10 years.
The Quebec newspaper, LIE CdHGdien
appeals to the leaders of the Ottawa an
Quebec government to provide work TO
the inhabitants of the counties belON
Quebec whose crops are total failure
The papes says it has ascertained tina
thousands of families are preparing t.
leave the country, and unless the project
ed Matane railroad is pushed, in order t
provide these families with bread, emf
grafton will take place, which will b
ruinous to the Dominion.
Representative Featherstone has intro
duced in Congress bill to lend any sui
plus money i'm the United States treasur,
to states that may want to borrow, tn
same to be loaned by the states to thei
citizens upon lands or other satisfactor
security. the loans to be made pro rat
to each state in the proportion of it
population. So much of the sipkin
fund as the Secretary of the Treasur
may replace by the sale at par of tw
per cent twenty-year bonds, shall b
considered surplus money.
The Farmers Alliance in Alabam
was worsted in congressional fight i
the I'd district, last Thursday. The A
lance men tried to GUST Col. Hilary A
Herbert, who has represented the distric
for IA years, but, although A. A. Wiley
their candidate, is man of considerabl
reputation, and in addition they capture
the organization of the convention, tn
Herbert forces by good management
routed their opponents.
The Manchester (England) COurie
says: In consequence of the fierce pro:
ecution of the church, which is tn
policy of Crispi, the Pope will soon issu
manifesto to the Roman Catholic
throughout the world giving his inter
ton of leaving Rome, together with hi