Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-10-28

CURIOUS FACTS.

West India people eat alligator eggs.
Tobacco consumption is increasing it
Great Britain.
A salmon with "two tails" was lately
caught by u fisherman in Coas Bay, Ore.
gon.
There are in the United States ninety.
seven religious denominations; IN Great
Britain there are 257.
Paper from rags was made in 1000 A.
D., the first hnen paper in 1919 and
paper from straw in 1900.
AT the castle. of Simonetta, Italy, there
is an angle in the building which re.
echoes pistol shot sixty one times.
Among Sir William IIarcourt's Parlia.
mentary supporters At Derby, England,
were two voters lGL an l03 years OF
age.
The first carpets made in Europe were
manufactured in France in 1864, in imi-
tation of some which had been brought
from Turkey.
A postal card was recently sold in
Paris for $50. It had gone around the
world after the person to whom it was
addressed, and bore seventy-two post
marks.
Vulcan, the British ironclad, is pro-
vided with a ruddcr weighing twenty
two tons, or something like six tons
heavier than the ruddcr used on the
Great Eastern.
There is a certain hill in the South OF
Bohemia on whose top, il an equiuoctial
sundial be duly erected, a mau that is
stone blind may know the hour of the
day by the same if the sun shines.
At New Orleans there is colorel
woman who was grandmother at the
age OF twenty-five, and French woman
who was a great. grandmother three
months before her thirty-sixth birthday.
A bundle of spiderwebs, not larger
than buckshot, and weighing less than
one half dram, would, II untangled,
make a line long enough to reach from
Philadelphia to Boston and back again.
Llanfairfechan, Wales, is one of those
seaside resorts where, according to the
decree Of the Local Board, ladies and
gentlemen must under no circumstances
bathe within fifty yards Of one another.
A painful story comes from Pekin,
China, of young lady who, overcome
with grief at the death of her husband,
dressed herself In her marriage robes and
swallowed fatal dose of powdered gold
and lead.
A portable suudial is not an uncom.
mon object in Spanish shops, aud it Is
stil In current use in Spain. At Bur
Cos no less than three different kinds are
offered for sale, at prices varging from
niue to seventeen cents.
Three -quarters of a second is the time
occupied by the fall of the knife in the
guillotine. The knife Is weighted by
120 pounds of lead, fails nine feet, aud
cuts through flesh and bone as easily a,
through bar Of soap.
AS lad in Newcastle, Ind, was div,
ing, two stones were struck together uu.
der the water by another boy. When
the diver arose he complained that his
ear panied him. Since then he cannot
hear except when spoken to in very loud
tones.
While the Duchess OF Albany was dis.
sributing prizes at the annual show of
the Cottage Garden Society at Sandown
Park, England, fox terrier ran from
the spectators, mounted the royal dais,
and standing on its hind legs, bcggai
for prize, TOO.
In Bellavista, near Portici, Italy, a
small colony includes more than twenty
people who are more than ninety years
old, headed by farmer aged los, who
still works In the fields. They are all
natives. and have lived with hardly any
meat in their dist and drinking only
rain watar from a cistprn