Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-08-22
CLIPPINGS.

John D. Rockefeller paid $50, 900
for Tscmoc rug, somewhat larger
than the one purchased by Mr.. Van
derbilt for $4,000 at the World +
Fair.
A Budapest journal notes the fact
for the millennium exposition IN that
city, while at the last Paris exposition
only 10, 900 were sold.
A large brass has been placed in the
church OF Bishopwearmouth, England,
AS memorial to the once famous
Archdeacon Paley, who was for ten
years rector OF the parish.
During the last six years there have
been AZ, 9O2 homicldes in the Unlied
States, an average OF 1917 per year.
In the same time there have been 723
legal executions and ], 1lS lynchinss.
The grave of John Fitch, who is
said to have first applied steam power
to navigation on the western rivers, is
unmarked by any stone in an old
cemetery in Nelson County, Ken
lucky.
A monument to Iron Nation, for
fory years the head chief OF the lower
Brule tribe of the Sioux, has been re-
Gently erected on the reservation OF
the tribe, near Chamberlain, South
Dakota.
Ninety per cent. of the railway pas
sengers in England and Wales travel
third class, and their fares amount to
1915 Of the gross revenue obtained
annually by the railway companies
from passenger traffic.
During the year 1895, 1888, TIA
tons Of coke were manufactured III
the United States, aud of this amount
5000, 900 tons came from the Pitts.
burg district, aud was consequently
handled by the Pittsburg roads.
A scheme for the holding of a great
international congress Of librarians
in London next year is taking definite
shape. Already 200 members of the
American Library Association have
expressed their intention of attend
ing.
The estimates of the yield Of the
potato crop in Great Britain show
that on 533, 900 acres crop of 3, O53, =
OO5 tons was secured against an almost
exactly similar quantity produced on
much larger acreage-753, 900 acres
in Ireland.
The English papers note that a CEN
fury plant is in full bloom in the Roy
al Botanic Society's gardens, in Re-
gents park, London. The plant has
been in the gardens for more than
half century and when planted was
fair sized plant.
The first step in the new movement
for White mountain forest preserva-
ton has Just been taken. The Appa-
lachian Mountain Club has entered
into the possession OF n large tract OF
land near the Crawford House, which
is to be held as natural park.
The Portland, Maine, park commits
sioners have had tablet made to be
placed upon the house where Henry
w. Longfellow was born, at the COR
ner OF Fore and Hancock streets in
that city. The tablet is made of al
minimum with sunken letters nameled
in black.
George Mence Smith, self made
Scotchman, who recently died worth
over $15. 000,OO had more than
seventy stores in London for the sale
of lamp oil, kitchen brushes, and other
requisites for housekeeping. He left
81, 800, 900 to be divided among his
employees.
The discovery of the buried treasure
of King Prempeh of Ashanti seems as
far off as ever. All efforts to discover
its whereabouts have been fruitless.
OF the two men who buried the treas
ure one was beheaded Immediately
afterward and the other, n relation of
Prempeh, still defies capture.