Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.


long ago.
The Berlin Academy OF Sciences IS
preparing to issue a complete edition OF
the works OF Kant.
A fisherman near Seattle says that
he hauled in 1900 salmon with one cast
of his seine the other day.
1t is estimated that some 1000 dozen
eggs were smashed in railroad wreck
that occurred at Canterbury, y. ii.
The seasons apple crop is set ut &C.
2J6.000 barrels which is pretty close 10
a barrel for every man, woman and
child in the country.
The demand for coon eats in Belfast
Me, has become SO brisk thai eat steal
ing has become decidedly annoying 20
the residents there.
London has imported from America
during the last fortnight 10000 tubs of
butter. 1t fetched from ~ 10 2S cents
a pound over there.
A Malay opera troupe is on its way
from Polynesia TO London, where it will
perform "Rishi Sha Hiram" described
as Il national opera.
PROJECTORS are very much elated over
a find Of unfading green and purple
slate just north OF CaSuetOn, Vt, which
they say is very valuable.
On account of local opposition the
monument to John Brown, which It was
proposed 10 erect at Harper's Ferry,
will not be built at present.
Pension Agent AIillisen of Maine has
received 2,026 applications for State
pensions. an increase of about 500 over
the number received last year.
Thirty years ago, it is said, England
had 10000 miles OF toll roads and Loaf
turnpike roads. There are now no tolls
and the roads are better than they were
then.
Beerbohm's estimate Of the worlds
wheat crop indicates Il total of 2395,-
000 900 bushels for 1895. compared with
2,55S, 100000 in 1894 and PASS, GOO, 900
in 1893.
One of the meanest white men on re-
cent record is a fellow in New York,
who. after playing poker some half
dozen times with four friends, had them
arrested for gambling.
Bears are becoming quite numerous
in the region of Gardeners Lake, Yer
! mont. One farmer met one on the road
recently. and another resident has had
several sheep killed by them.
A Vermont rapper has just received
an order from Montreal party for
900 live Skunks. Just what the party
wants them alive FOR the srapper can
not understand. but Re says that he
shall fill the order.
Indiana will celebrate in 1900 the one
hundredth anniversary OF the estab-
| lishment of the government Of the ter
| ritory of Indiana. A commission was
| appointed under Il concurrent resolu-
ton of the last Legisla sure % fix plans
/ for Il Safe exposition.
They are telling queer tale of &
| man in OronO, Me, whC -. many
months has been boarding gold in the
hope that series of furries in the bond
and currency markets OF change in
administrative methods would give it
premium from which he could realize
q fortune.
The granite pedestals for the eques-
! trian statues Of General Winfield Scott
Hancock and General George G. Meade,
to be erected on the Gettysburg battle
field, have been shipped from the quar-
ries at Westerly. X. I. The pedestal
| for the Meade statue consists of three
large stones weighing in the neishbor
hood of seventy nine tons.
| One of the residents in Greenfield.
| Conn. has an antique wooden clock
which is peculiar in having very
erratic method of keeping time which
| is all its own. The house is near rail
road and whenever a train passes the
clock starts and runs for q while. Then
it stops and waits for the next train
to pass before taking up its work again.
Jack Grisby, of Lawrenceburg. y. u,
was engaged in storing pumpkins in
the loft Of his barn and his 5-year-Old
girl was standing near by watching
him. A large pumpkin, weighing about
thirty pounds, rolled from the loft, and.
| falling, struck the girl in her upturned
face, bending her head suddenly back
ward. breaking her neck and causing
instant death.
There are 434 Federal licenses per-
hitting the sale Of liquor in Vermont.
or about one for every 7S4 inhabitants.
Burlington has sixty three, BrattlebOrO
ten, or one for every CSC people. Barre
! has one for every 3D., and Montpelier
one for every 244. Rutland has one
for every 400. All this in a State where
the prohibitory law is supposed to be
impartially enforced.
There is complaint in the small towns
and i'm the rural districts Of England
that it is difficult and frequently i'm
possible to get glass Of cider at the
public houses The reason is that
many of these public houses have fallen
into the hands of the big brewers
through mortgages. and the new own
ers allow their tenants to sell no drinks