Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-03-21
CLIPPINGS.

delivered to European nations over
lG, 600 cannon.
Colorado reduced vs. yic Of silver
last year by 81, 500 OOo nnd Increased
its gold output 10y 81, 200 600,
Berlin's famous rhiorgnr;'n is 10 be
adorned with thirty.two statues OF
,overeins of the house Of Hohen.
.olern.
The Illinois supervisors have started
. fund with wh;ch to build II monu-
,nrnt to general Clarke, the hero OF
Fort Gage.
Emperor William rises NJ ., the
Queen Regent Of Spain at I, k'ng
Humbert and Oscar OF Sweden mt u,
Victoria mt s
CARLYLE was no friend of Turkish
tyranny, and the phrase "tlo nnspcak.
able Turk" so often attributed to
Mr.. Gladstone, is really his. .-,.
That one deer does duty in many
an adventure is proved by the fact TINT
deer shot in Weld, Me-, was carry
ing eleven bullets in hi. body.
Lord Cadogan, the viceroy OF Ire.
land, hopes to materially benefit that
country by making it fashionable I"
visit Irish show places and holiday
resorts.
Richmond, Va, has one OF the
smallest areas of any city of its i'm
portance in this country, having only
) IL square miles Of area, on which
live 100, 600 people.
The Emperor OF Austria smokes
"Virginia cigars" which are made OF
the rankcst tobacco Mt Trieste, and
have to have straws run through them
to make them draw.
When the tomb of tho great En-
peror Frederick, who dicd in $3.50 was
opened in 17S0, his coronation ring,
set with beautiful emerald, WAS still
found upon his finger.
Charles Francis Adams, Of Quincy,
Mass, has presented the historical
society of that town the old honsc in
which lived his ercnt-grandfnthcr,
President John Adams
Van Buren, county, Michigan, has
paid ont 81, 800 in bonnties for the
killing of English sparrows during the
pn,t year or so, and there are just
about as many sparrows as ever III that
region.
Emil Ney, grandson of the only
living descendant of Marshal My,
Duke of Elchingcn and Prince OF
Moskwa, has for years lived in San
Francisco without making known his
identity.
Sixteen new steamers Of the largest
class for passenger and freight bust
ness have been contracted for by the
owners of the principal lines Of steam
ors plying between New York and
European ports.
Munir Bey, the new Turkish AM
bassador to France, is one of the
youngest men in Europe to have so
high place in diplomacy. He Is
barely thirty-siX, but he enjoys the
Sultan's confidence.
A man presented himself at the Bel
levue hospital, New York City, the
other day and asked to he examined
as to his sanity. He thought TINT his
mind was unbalanced in regard to an
invention, which he had made.
A movement is on foot in Europe to
secure u complete census of all the
civilized countries in the world. The
various governments will be asked to
fix date for the work. The first year
of the coming century has been sug-
gestcd.
The Vossiche Xoitung Of Berlin
says that English furniture is becom-
ing more and more fashionable III
Germany, and it advises American cX-
porters of furniture to study amt imi.
tate English models if they wish to
succeed.
Felix Moral, II German, has got n
concession from the shah of Persia to
build a railroad from Bagdad to Ie-
heran, the concession to last seventy
five years. He has the right to make
his own rates, and use either steam or
electricity as he plcascs.
The total salmon pack of the Pacif-
ic coast during last year, for the full
spring and fall seasons, was 2,O34, ST.
cases. OF this amount $4,000 eases
were packed on the Columbia River,
637, 900 cases in Alaska, and 512,S77
cases in British Columbia.
The Canadian Presbytcrians in the
last quarter of II century have greatly
increased. The figures of growth rs
to ministers and missions are: Minis.
tiers from 470 in 1870, to $50; mis-
sionaries 8 to 80, with 800 native AS
sistants, and the native churches con-
tribute now $4,000 instead OF
$40, 900 in 1870