Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

a==Ene ADDITION OF dessert spoonful Oh
hgar.
The silver half dollar was authorized
April 2, 1892, and coinage was begun
"a 1904
. The nickel cent was authorized Feb.
Ii, 1857, and it's coinage was begun the
hme year.
The 2 cent bronze piece is composed
Ill So per cent copper and 5 per cent of
n and zinc.
The 1 cent bronze piece is composed
Il 95 per cent of copper and 5 per cent
LII tin and zinc.
The 10 cent silver piece was author
iked by congress III 1892, and its coin-
e was begun in 1896.
The library of Gottingen has a Bible
written OH palm leaves. There are 1878
|pages, each made of single leaf.
The Krupp foundries at Essen, near
dusseldorf employ 81, 155 persons
whose families amount to 81, 597 per-
ons.
Hi Since the beginning of operations in
lie Torres straits fisheries, in the seven
hes, all the pearls have gone to England
DE the continent.
Among the Chinese Chow old are
|you?" is neither more nor less than
4ormula of etiquette like Chow do you
lo?'' in English.
An Orange City Ella. woman has a
nose bush feet tall, with spread of 6
and ca which has been grated or
more than a score of varieties
from deep red to pure white.
No fewer than SO specimens have
Been added to the reptile house of the
London geological gardens during the
last few weeks, several Of which are
new to the collection. The chief of these
y an Indian python.
The popularity of the bicycle as
means of exercise, sport and pleasure is
fully established in France. The full
Extent of the use of this machine has
Recently been brought before the public
In the national tax collectors report.
" In the Russian army two days a week
Are observed as fasts, Wednesdays and
Fridays, ON which days all the soldier
gets in way of food is Ientil soup and
black bread and a drink consisting of
water in which rye bread has been alb
sorbed.
Between Jan. of the year 1877 and
Jan. /, 1896, over, 100000 persons
perished in earthquakes. The greatest
mortality in any one shock or series of
Shocks was at Yeddo, Japan, in 1903,
when 191 900 persons persisted in three
lays and nights
The amount of sulphurous acid in
Gown air in heavy weather is 10 to 90
#fmes that III bright, clear weather, and
La fog the proportion is still greater.
Freshly fallen rain collected in Man
Ehester showed as much as 20 parts per
l 600, 600 OF sulphurous acid. ~
"Crappit heads is Scottish dish, Of
which the name signifies stuffed heads.
It consists of the heads Of haddocks,
Stuffed with a mixture of oatmeal and
#salt, favored with onions chopped small,
Ind pepper, to which the roes of the
haddocks are sometimes added.
Pins are first mentioned in an act of
Edward ", which forbade their impor-
Etation, with a view to protecting the
home made article, in 1853. John Til
zney of Bristol first established their
*hanufacture III Gloucester in 1926, and
there it fouGished for two centuries.
An experimental line was constructed
on the High peak in Derbyshire, in
1861. The outcome of this was the
Mont Gents line. ON which the trial trip
was made in August, 1867. The earliest
american mountain railway is that on
#A1Ount Washington, in New Hampshire.
! lt was opened in 1869.
In Worcester, England, the glove
making trade is largely, if not entirely,
dependent on female labor, and in that
city alone nearly $4,000 women are
employed by the various firms. The
great lace industry, covering many
Efities and districts Of Europe, lies large
~, If not entirely, in the hands of wo-
men.
The allowance of lawyers to popula-
zion in this country is rather more lib
4eral than that of preachers. There are
#e9, 422 men and 20S women engaged in
'the legal profession, and, supposing
each to have an average of ten suits on
band, the litigation going on at one
time in the United States would foot up
1to 500, 800 cases.
When persons are feverish and thirsty
Beyond what is natural-indicated by
Hrhetallic taste in the mouth or by
EThitish appearance of the greater part
Epf the tongue-one of the best coolers
lis to take a lemon, cut off the top,
Isprinkle over it some loaf sugar, work
ing it down into the lemon with spoon,
and then suck it slowly.
Mountain railways attracted the at
Mention Of engineers at comparatively
H. .r-lr~ 1afn he -
Hhaffic. Undoubtedly the Semmering
rhilway-which was the first line to
H1ross the Alps-holds the distinction of |