The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-07
Mistellanp.
Items of Interest.

In the recent elections in England no
fewer than six members of the Society
of Friends were candidates for parlia-
mentary seats in the tract Of north
eastern country between the Tees and
the Tyne.
What is now North Berwick. Me-.
was known as Doughty falls thirty
years ago. A postal clerk says that &C.
cas1onally letters are even now addressed
to Doughty's falls, and that he has had
one such in his hands within the last
month
1t is proposed spending 5000, 900 in en-
larging the docks at Liverpool. Emil
nent shipbuilders recommend that to
prepare for the future it will be neces-
sary to consider that vessels will be 700
feet long and that the docks should he
100 feet wide.
1t is not often that asparagus, the
daintiest and most expensive of vegeta-
bles, is used as food for cattle, but the
asparagus crop has been so large all over
Brunswick, Germany, that in some viii
lagos nobody could be found to pay a
cent for pound, and whole basketfuls
were given to the cows and sheep.
Many people owe summer sickness to
the too free use of ice water. 1t is n
question if any real ice water is safe.
That which is cold without coming di-
rectly from the ice is quite as satisfying
and is not dangerous. Strong men have
died in fifteen minutes from the effects
OF drinking copiously of ice water while
highly heated by hard work or the sun.
This year being the 1,1O0th anniver-
sary of the Emperor Kwammu's estab-
fishing his capital at Kioto, Japan, the
people are busy preparing for a suitable
celebration of the occasion. Kioto city
was founded by the Emperor Kwammu.
who took up his abode in Yamashiro
province, which was then unbuilt, and
gradually the city arose around his pal
ace, so that the emperor's memory is
especially honored. There will proba-
bly, be an exhibition opened in Kioto for
the occasion.
Final tables issued by the census Office
compute the entire population of the
United States in 1890 at 62, $40, 766. OF
the total population 1858, 1850 are col
ored, comprising 7,470,049 negroes and
mixed blood, 107 ,465 Chinese, 2,039 Jap
anese and 5S, sos civilized Indians. The
foreign born inhabitants numbered
9,249, SAT, and those of foreign parentage
numbered II ,503,675. The figures given
regarding civilized Indians do not cover
the entire Indian population, which is
put at 1926, 464, though this total includes
some whites.
The jelly palace which the women
of California will prepare for the
Worlds fair exhibit will be 16 by 90
feet and % feet high, with two open
doors approached by three marble steps.
The framework will be of WIRE On
this will be firmly placed several thous-
and jelly glasses-cups globes, prisms,
etc.-flled with jelly of many shades of
color, arranged in artistic and beautiful
designs. The interior will be brilliantly
illuminated by electricity. The cost of
the framework and glasses alone is esti-
mated at $4,000
When very angry or suddenly alarmed,
chameleons utter a squeak like a young
bird. My FRIEND the Rev. &. Fisher, of
Cape Town, an enthusiastic naturalist,
whose name is familiar to the visitors
to the reptile house in the London Zoo
gardens from the number and frequency
of his contributions there, informs me
that one day he was surprised to hear a
loud squeaking and commotion in an
adjoining room, where were some pet
chameleons, and going thither he found
that the disturbance really proceeded
from these small reptiles on account of
a cat, who was surveying them through
the wires. Cats, by the way, are their
dreaded enemies, who catch and devonr
them whenever possible