The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-24
Items of Interest,

IHE Presbyterian church Of Goshen,
N. Y, is 175 years old
A FALLEN eucalyptus has been found
to be 4S0 feet in length.
GLASGOW, which owns its street cars.
prints Scripture texts on the cheap
tickets for workmen.
The largest orchard in the world il
situated near Santa Barbara, California,
belonging to Edward Cooper. 1t COM
prises 100 acres.
The Kremlin of Moscow contains
the crowns of Poland and all the other
kingdoms and principalities which Rus
STA has overthrow.
OF bituminous coal, over one-tbird ia
produced in Pennsylvania. while PENN
sylvania and Illinois together produce
little over one-half.
The ink used in printing Bank of
England notes was formerly made from
grape-stone charcoal. Now it is made
from naphtha smoke.
THE Japanese propose to erect a
great monument, built of iron and SINH
lar to the Eiffel tower, in commemora-
ton of their victories.
CALIFORNIA diamonds are found in
all the colors, from brilliant white to
a clear black, together with rose, pink,
yellow, blue and green.
North CAROLINA diamonds are
usually associated with itacolumite, or
hexible sandstone, quite plentiful in
certain parts of that state.
CHINESE women, as a rule, dress their
hair once month To prevent disar-
rangement of their tresses, they sleep
with their heads in boxes.
AS an illustration of the vitality of
the old Welsh language. it is shown that
it is still spoken by eighty-five per cent
of the population of Wales.
ALABAMA, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin
produce over four-fifths of the iron
manufactured in this country.
AN inch of rain, falling upon an area
OF one square mile, is equivalent to
nearly 17,500,000, gallons, weighing
40 ,250, 900 pounds, or 70, 625 tons.
A SWISS scientist has been testing the
presence of bacteria in the mountain
air, and finds that not single microbe
exists above an altitude of 1900 feet.
In Dalton-le-Dale, England, there is
q vi llC lOTIu wall. aUu the
time is indicated by the sun shining
through the windows of the south wall.
The Japanese begin building their
houses at the top. The roof is first
built and elevated on a skeleton frame.
Then it affords shelter to the workmen
from storms.
The BRIDES cake of to-day is relic
OF Roman custom. At Roman mar
rage the bride was expected to prepare
a part, at least, Of the wedding feast
with her own hands.
The white rhinoceros has become
nearly, if not quite, extinct. There are
two stuffed specimens in England and
one in the Cape Town museum. 1t is
the largest species of the genus.
THE English authorities have begun
the work of cutting the new dock at
Gibraltar. Some 700 men are employed
When completed, it will be capable of
holding the largest British warship.
BEFORE the tenth century organs had
become common in England, and ex-
ceeded, both in size and compass, those
OF the continent. In the fifteenth CEN
fury half notes were introduced at
Venice.
The area of British colonies is $780,
600 square miles, that of the French
5000, 900, of the Dutch $50 900, of the
Portuguese 100000, of the Spanish no.
900, of the German $4,000, and of the
Danish $4,000.
A NEW kind of cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than square yard of light and very
warm waterproof cloth.
IN the manufactures of Great Britain
alone the power which steam exerts is
estimated to be equal to the manual
labor of four billions of men, or more
than double the number of males sup
posed to inhabit the globe.
OF the four nationalities making I'D
the population of Great Britain and Ire
land the Scotch are the heaviest men,
the average weight being: Scotch,
1858 pounds; Welsh, 1858 pounds;
English, l55 pounds; Irish, 154. l pounds.
NJ. FREMONT has proved by expert
ment that water kept for twenty min
utes at ITO degrees Fahrenheit loses all
the deleterious germs it may have con-
tanned, without being deprived of its
gases or precipitating the salts contained
in it, and the flavor is not modified.
To the moisture in the air we are in
debted for the maintenance of an even
degree of temperature. But for it night
would be colder than Greenland, even
at the tropics. 1t is the water in the
air that holds the SUMS heat and keeps
the earth warm where direct sunlight
fails to fall upon bodies.
The first invention of the organ has
been ascribed to Ctesibius of Alexan-
dria, who lived B. G. 100. But the
period when this instrument was intro
1uced into the churches of western Eu-
rope is rather uncertain. Pope Vitalian
Is supposed to have been the first to
adopt it, about the year go.
EIGHT women hold the rank of
colonel in the German army. They are
he Empress Frederick, Queen Vic