Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-10-16
ODDS AND ENDS.

The weight of the document known
as the Mckinley tariff bin is four
pounds.
Judge-'Prisoner, have you any Wis
lille means of support?" Prisoner
"Yis, sir, your honor; Ito his wife) Brid-
get, stand up, so that the Coort kin see
yez,"
The longest day of the year has nine
teen hours at st. Petersburg, seventeen
hours at Hamburg, sixteen and one-quar-
ter hours at London, fifteen hours at
New York, and three and one-half
months at Spitzbergen.
Sam Jones resembles certain script
ural character. Says he: ''Tm so glad
that don't preach like other preachers !;
and I'm so glad that whenever anyone
else tries to preach like l do he makes
an ass of himself" No one can Outiones
Jones.
The Irish registrars annual report
estimates the population of Ireland at
4,730, 500 The number of persons emf
grating to other countries during the
year was 70,476. The death rate has
compared favorably with other years,
and an increase in the number of mar
riages.
The wholesale destruction of forests in
this country is attracting attention in
Germany, and it is predicted that we
shall in few years be impoverished in
tree property. A striking comparison is
made of the two countries. While the
United States has but II per cent of its
area covered by forests, the Empire of
Germany has 26 per cent of its entire
area so covered.
II would not have men kind to cattle
chiefly because ill treatment poisons
meats and milk, nor would | have them
merciful to horses simply because when
kindly used they pull more freely and
trot more swiftly, though such is an I'M
doubted fact. A noted horse fancier
said to me within week: IF Maud S.
were not treated as kindly as girl she
would not be worth a dollar"
It's the Charleston (S. O. Ne,os and
Conrier the leading Democratic organ
of the state, which let's 60 this beautiful
sentiment in commenting on the late
Grand Army gathering in Boston:
There is one feature about the great
G. A. Il. encampment in Boston that
South Carolina can regard with ust
pride. She probably had fewer repre-
sentatives there than any other state in
the Union.''
The expected advance in the price of
seal skins in the London market is good
evidence that predatory sealers in Behr-
ing sea are having a disastrous season.
The catch thus far has been unusually
small, not reaching $1,000 skins, while
10000 is generally regarded as fair re-
turn. The catch elsewhere, too, is so
inadequate that many dealers predict
rise in prices of 80 per cent, while rumors
of an attempt to corner the market are
already afloat.
The worlds wheat crop is placed by
the Financial Times, of London, at TO-
100000 bushels less than the yield of
1889, the United States and India show
ing shortage of 95,0 900 bushels, and
Europe, Egypt, Canada, Australasia and
South America, gain of 100000
bushels over year ago. But the crop
of 1889 was below the average, and the
reserves were very largely eaten up.
Hezekiah Butterworth, one of the edi-
tors of the Youths Companion, says
II recall an evening spent with Longfel-
low in which he related to me the Incl
dents of his life that had found express
sion in verse. Il wrote the Psalm of
Life, he said, lin my early years; merely
as an expression of my own resolutions,
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publish it. put it away for myself.
| CHANGED to give it to the press, and it
went over the world, and was even put
into japanese art
A cooperative community, or rather
club, of dozen families, is to be founded
by Chicago business men, at Evanston,
on the lake shore. Twelve houses are to
be built around a court, and club house
at one end of the court which shall con-
tain complete kitchen and laundry; and
all the buildings will be lighted and
heated from the same plant. The work
of all sorts is to be done in common;
each person investing $4,000 becomes
partner and equal owner, besides having
his own lot. For wonder this enter
prise is not called after Mr.. Bellamy, but
simply an experiment in cooperation.
People ask why the world isn't better;
why there isn't more charity and love
eXtant than we find therein? The reason
is plain. There are too many in the
world who will not cast their bread upon
the waters unless they are assured before
hand that it will come back in a few
days full grown sandwich all trimmed
with ham. butter and mustard. Too
many people do not extend the same
charity and forbearance to others that
they expect to receive. In short, con-
sstency is the wonderful panacea that
will go far towards solving the most
intricate prob ems of human life.