Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-10-03
CLIPPINGS.

in Japan last year, 40, 900 OF which
were fatal.
The Czarina OF Russia, it is said, IL
AN expert swimmer, and recently had
q great swimming tank erected in the
Winter Palace.
In Alprach, Switzerland, is a timber
slide said to be the biggest in the
world. At any rate, il is eight miles
long, and is helping to denude old
Mount Pilatus of trees
George Cruikshank was constantly
making portraits of himself. A com
plete series of these pictures from the
time the caricaturist was twelve years
old is about to be published in Lon
don.
1t is said that Rev. Samuel ID. Mer-
rill, now of Rochester, n. y, was the
first white child born in the territory,
now state, of Nebraska, when his
father was laboring as a missionary
among the Indians.
Edinburgh, Scotland, has just re-
ceived through its Lord Provost, an
offer OF $780, 900 toward building
town hall from an anonymous person.
In the last few years the city has re-
ceived 81, 900, 900, in gifts
The famous collection of drawings
and engravings by the old masters
formerly in the possession of Colonel
M,l,Dlp, hoo hnnn cn1I Ia tho RrltISh
Museum for 1925, 900, though it is
said to be worth about 5000, 600.
Hearing the note of redhird high
in tree, while on picnic, Il Louis
vile (Ky.) bird fancier determined to
capture the songster and climbed al
most to the branch where it was
perched, when he slipped and fell.
fracturing his skull.
Ensign Brodie of the salvation army
in India was recently tried and con-
demned to seven years Imprisonment
for homicide committed III street
dispute. An interesting feature of the
case was the fact that the presiding
judge was native and Mohamme-
dan.
Public libraries, maintained by
municipal corporations in England,
are "literary institutions" and con-
sequently exempt from taxation by n
recent decision of the House Of Lords,
everything the decisions of the divi.
sional court and OF the court of APP
peals.
Immigration statistics which have
been compiled in Ellis Island for the
year ending July l shows an increase
of 72,781 in the immigration over than
OF the year 1S94-95. During the yen
just ended 2G3, 700 immigrants We're
landed at New York, against $780, 1928
brought the year before.
According to an unaudited census
OF the population over an area OF three
miles round Johannesburg, South
Africa, the total number of all races
is 1902, TIA, composed as follows:
Whites. 1926; Kaffirs, A, 396; and
haif-breeds, 1908. Among the whites
80, TAI are males and 10, 4S4 females.
The newest thing, the roller steamer
upon which M. Bazin proposes to
wheel himself across the Channel next
month, is not, it seems, new ut all.
In 1880 a Capt. Bagot patented YES
sci essentially identical to the Ernest
Bazin, and year or two later one
similar in idea was said to be building
on the Hudson,
Dean Hole made scene in Roches-
ter (England Cathedral recently.
At the Sunday service the canon, whose
business it was to read the first lesson,
omitted centan passages which he
thought improper. The Dean was to
read the second lesson, but before be-
ginning he solemnly read the passages
omitted in the first lesson.
The largest boat ever built in Michi-
gan was successfully launched the
other day from the Wyandotte yards
of the Detroit Dry Dock Company.
The new boat was chrstened the
Senator, and cost $260,00O. Her
dimensions are 420 feet over all, 400
feet keel, forty-fve feet six inches
beam and twenty-eight feet deep.