Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-08-28
CLIPPINGS.

There are 1851 patents which may
he employed in the manufacture OF
glass.
OF mechanical motors there are
l775 known to the officials at the patent
Office.
OF the entire number of English
peerages only five 60 back rs far rs the
thirteenth century.
In Caroline County, Nd, the school
board has decided not to employ mar
ried women rs teachers.
The Canadian parliament, which has
just adjourned, passed appropriations
aggregating 500, 900, 900.
In France four million tons of po-
tatoes are annually used i'll the manu-
facture of starch aud alcohol.
The income of teacher in a private
school of China is very small, about u
half-penny day for each pupil.
Hammond, Ind, offers free water
and IN exemption from city taxes for
five years tothose seeking factory sites.
. Fattening ewes in Wyoming test
fed hay and sugar beets gained faster
than those fed hay alone or hay and
grain.
The papyri recently found in Egypt,
which record some hitherto unknown
sayings of Christ, are being published
by the Egyptian Exploration Fund.
An Anderson lind. man stole n
load of corn in order to secure money
enough to buy marriage license. lie
is now in Jail and the wedding has
been indefinitely postponed.
Th ere are now 7l2 fountains for
human beings, 2S6 large troughs for
horses and cattle, and 476 small
troughs for sheep and dogs i'll the
streets and suburbs of London.
The Araxes river in Transcaucasia
has shifted to its ancient bed and now
flows directly into the Caspian sea, in
stead of into the Kura, Mt point
60 miles from the latter's mouth.
Italy's exports for the first four
months of 1897 were 1856, 953,37O
francs, while her imports were &c.,
794, 100 francs. This is the first time
in twenty-six years that the exports
exceeded the imports.
Though steamship companies have
complained for many years of small
earnings, J. J. Bibby of Liverpool,
head of the Bibby line, who died re-
Gently, aged eighty-three, left 80, OOO,-
900 in personal property.
Roszdin, IN the coal mining district
of Silesia, is colapsing rapidly, owing
to reckless mining close to the sur
face. One thousand people are
already homeless and $500, 600 worth
of buildings are destroyed.
Italy is about to follow the example
of Switzerland and France in enacting
exclusive medical legislation, which
will prevent English or American ply
sicians from practicing even among
their own countrymen while in that
country.
According to an Australian paper,
six of the cooperative settlers who
sailed some time ago from California
with the intention of taking up an
island in the Pacific, have become dis
gruntled and have gone to Auckland,
New Zealand.
The story that Texas farmer found
$4,000 buried beneath the ground at Il
spot to which he was directed by the
aprarition of woman with ghast-
Nv wound in her side," was evidently
intended as u ghost story, but it sounds
like fairy tale.
At one place on the Idaho side OF
the Snake river, across from Asotln
county and not covering space of
over so feet in extent, eight head of
dead cattle were recently counted,
having met death by tumbling from
the bluffs above.
Miss Gordon Cummings is raising
money in all the principal cities of
England for the purpose CT teaching
the blind in China. She will found a
large blind asylum at Pekin, and is
doing this in commemoration of the
Queens jubilee.
OF the hawks, the sparrow hawk is
accredited with doing much good by
destroying large quantities of field
mice, as we'll as grasshoppers, etc.
The little harm caused by catching II
few chickens in its breeding season is
more than recompensed by the good it
does.
An English paper which has been
taking ballot on the subject of fa-
vorite names for boys and girls re-
ceived 1000 replies. A list of 81 boys
and BIB girls names was submitted,
and the voting showed Harold and
Dorothy to be the two most popular
appellations.