Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-11-28
WORTH KNOWING.

Kansas City is to have an undertake.
ers' school.
South Carolina's tea product for 1894
amounts to about 1000 pounds.
Some specimens of medieval he'll
NETS weigh at least eleven pounds.
The French National Library has
$4,000 books on the French revolution.
The number of inhabited houses in
London is estimated at about 548, 300.
Last year 1891 carloads of fruit,
nuts, wines and vegetables were ex-
ported from California.
The total receipts Of the Paris thea
tres and music halls for the last sea-
son were 21,541 ,2O8 francs.
An Anglo-American directory ap.
pears in Paris every year. The volume
for the coming year has over soc
pages.
Nearly 5000 persons are engaged In
the wood pulp and paper industry in
Maine The yield is about $4,000 tons
a year.
Oats, wheat and even corn leaves are
seen in some early autumn millinery
notably in hats that come out from
London.
The number of cities with more thar
100000 inhabitants is exactly the same
-twenty-seven-in Germany and the
United States.
In one of his astronomical lectures
Prof. Proctor once said that 100000
worlds the size of our earth could bt
stored inside the sun.
Dragon-flies measuring over two
feet from tip to tip of the wings have
lately been discovered in the Older
rocks Of the Palaeozoic age.
Ohio's production of coal last veal
amounted to the great quantity Of
13,6S3,S79 tons, an increase Of 1,773,6O(
tons over the preceding year.
The Manhattan elevated railroad in
New York is now running through
trains to fremont, eleven miles, IL
tifty-two minutes; fare, five cents.
A farmer near Sacramento says his
crop of asparagus this season will,
bring him $4,000, of which $4,000 viii
be profit. He has twelve acres Of it.
A comparison of the method of oys-
Ter culture employed by the Romans
with those in use to-day shows thai
the ancient method was superior to the
modern.
Beer is being bottled now in Ger
many in siphons that hold Is, rs and
40 glasses. When drawn the beer is
said to be as fresh as if drawn from
the wood.
Barney Lloyd, of Charlestown. w
Va, is the last surviving member OF
the grand jury which, in 1859, indicted
John Brown for invasion and melting
insurrection.
Many Arizona cattlemen have aban-
doned the business because of the COM
petition of the cattle thieves, whose
working capital consists of lariat an6
a branding iron.
About 200 miles from Sydney, N. S,
W., is place called Wingen, and in
one of the mountains there is said to
be a coal mine which has been burn
ing for over 100 years.
A machine has been invented which
counts 100000 postcards in ten hours
wrapping and tying the same in pack
ages of twenty-five each. They are
neatly wrapped in paper and the string
securely tied, all by machinery.
The Hotel Thatcher, of Bid6eford,
Me-: my wife and 1 proprietors-Ab-
bic A. Smith. Fred B. Smith is fur
Their announced as 1.-The only second
class house in the United States that
charges everybody first-class prices.
No special rates to preachers. shows or
drummers."
A sun dial made for London would
be useless for either Paris or Edin-
burgh. The altitude of the pole star
varies with the latitude, and hence is
greater at Edinburgh and less at Paris
than at London; and as the stylus must
always point to the polar star, the an
gle it makes with the dial-plate must
vary with the latitude.
Electricity can travel faster than
100000 miles in second, or, in other
words. instead of requiring twenty
minutes to go around the world once
like messages recently dispatched from
an American exposition, 1t can make
the journey eight times in one second.
This would be at the rate of about 500
times in one minute or 10000 times in
twenty minatea