Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-29
NUGGETS OF INFORMATION.
Curious and Interesting Facts Which are
We'll worth Reading.

TO charleston, w ' a. 'ii'' - - 49, ~
stul capable of good execution. Its stock
and barrel are five feet long, and it carries
nj, cameo hall It is "A flintloCk of course.
Tbis gun has been in the family of Nathan
Boonc Van Bibber, back in the wilds of
Nicholas county. Matthias Tice Van Bib
bcr received the gun from his friend Boone
and he carried it at the battle of Point
Pleasant i'm l74 and throughout the war
of 1872. The original powder horn and
bullct moulds are with the gun. Matthias
Van Bibber left these relics to Capt. G. r..
Van Bibher, who left them to his son,
Nathan Boone Van Bibber, the present
owner.
There is steady increase in the number
Of cigars and cigarettes smoked i'm this
country. and notably in the consumption
of cigarettes, according to tobacco trade
journal During the fiscal year just closed
there were sold in the United States 1888,
Si5.56O cigarettes and 413o, i4o,
80 cigars. The increase in the consump-
ton of cigars over the previous year was
60, 522,93S
This seasons catch of Goldfish off the
coast of Labrador is reported to be UMPIRE
ccdcntcdlY large.
\ statue Of bronze of Ole Bull the fam
GUS volinst. is to he erected in one of the
parks of the city of Minneapolis. jacob
Ficldc. "A Norwegian sculptor, living ii
Minneapolis, has been selected for the
work of designing the statue, and Nor
weGians from all over the country are in.
vited to subscribe to pay for it,
Dresden is making arrangements &c
have an important international exhibitor
Of works of the fine arts in 1897. 1t is tC
be on larger and more magnificent scale
than anything the city has yet done il
. this line.
Abbcy's mural decorations for the new
public library in Boston have been pho
/ tographcd and reproduced in book form
by an enterprising Boston book firm.
/ DIR. Arthur G. Webster of Clark univer
sity recently received notice from Pari:
that he had won the Elihu Thompson prize
of 5000 francs for the best treatise of cleo
! tricity. The subject of DR. Webster!
| thesis is An Experimental Determination
of Periods in Electrical Oscillations"
The largest deposits of asphaltum ar,
found in California, Utah, oklahoma
Texas and Montana. That from Utah Il
said to be the purest in the world. the tota
product in 1894 being valued at S3J3,000.
Ohio stands at the head of the States IL
/ clay manufacture, its product being valued
at $40 66S, OC0, or over l6 per cent of that o
tho whole country. Illinois comes next
with 10 per cont, and Pennsylvania stand
third with II per cent.
The managers of the Atlanta exposition
desire to give a big bicycle tournament OF
the track situated on the grouds, durinI
October or November and have requisite,
/ Nice-Consul Thomas J. Keenan, of Pitts
burg, who is = member of the Pennsyl
vania committee at the exposition, to TAX
charge of the affair
Mayor Curtis of Boston received a let
ter from President Cleveland in whicl
the President states he cannot come t.
Boston i'm Knights Tomplar's week. owinl
to previous engagements.
Patrick j. Fox, aged 80, of Providence
r. l., slipped on a banana peel in tn
street Monday forenoon and, f9:line
struck his head upon the curbng, causin
conclusion of the brain, from which h
died instantly.
| The warship Hagen has arrived at Wi
/ helmshaVen from Tangier having on boar
the $4,000 indemnity which Germany, a
the lannon's mouth compelled Morocco
to pay for the murder by natives of Ger
man named Rockstroh.
a Warsaw despatch says that the tow
of Prsytyk, in the Radon district, ha
been entirely destroyed by fire and 40(
persons are homeless.
Tho Pail Mall Gazette in an article o
the situation in cuba, says that thong
Capt Campos get his hundred thosan
men Cuba will get autOnoDlV
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to I.rauca from, colonies ar foreiu, can,
tries
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decided to honor Rismark hv ba,,inf, ~
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