Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-05
FACTS IN a FEW LINES.


Fifty thousand tons of mahogany are
imported into England yearly.
Fifty thousand Bank of England notes
are, on the average, made daily.
In George Tvs time the area of Lon.
don was twelfth of what it is now.
Moses Brown of Boston has the credit
of making the first deposit of gold bull
lion to be coined. In 1895 he deposited
So, 276.72.
The old fashioned copper cent was
authorized by act of congress April o.,
1892, and its coinage was begun the fol-
lowing year.
The general fineness of our silver
the cent piece, which contains % per
cent of alloy.
''In God We Trust first appeared on
the copper cent issue of 1864 and is
the first use OF the word "God' in any
government act.
The cent nickel piece received the
authorization of congress by law passed
April 3, 1865. and its coinage was be-
gun the same year.
uS pay VI al Is
more than that of soldier The former
has, generally speaking, greater hard
ships to endure and more duty to per-
FORM
The acacia has for long time been
regarded in the east as the emblem of
concealed love. The notion is purely
fanciful, for there is nothing about the
plant to suggest the idea.
A servant hired in London and taken
into the country and then discharged is
entitled to her fraveling expenses back
unless an agreement to the contrary was
come to when she was engaged.
In unfolding his wings the goose
shows q row of white feathers, and this
action signifies his intention of flying.
and thus the thought of cowardice has
become associated with the expression.
During 1895 Germany sent to the
Cape and the Transvaal upward of ST.
900, 900 worth of iron, machinery, tex
tile fabrics and chemicals, or nearly
three times as much as she did in 1892.
1t has been calculated that, assuming
the heart beats IS times a minute at
ordinary heart pressure, the blood goes
at the rate of gro yards in a minute, or
miles AN hour, 168 miles day and
81, 800 miles a year.
Very young children are not sensitive
to pain to any great extent. DR.. Geuger
calculates chat sensibility is seldom
clearly shown in less than four or five
weeks after birth, and before that time
infants do not shed tears
In Costa RIGA several millions of dol
lars have been spent in establishing
communication with the Atlantic sea-
board. In Nicaragua, where a natural
and available route exists, all eyes are
turned toward the Pacific.
Mexican pulque is made Intoxicating
to a maddening degree by the addition
of an extract made from what is known
as jifnson weed in this country. The
number Of deaths from fights in pulque
rias is said to be incredible
A cloth sufficient for covering the
body IN a hot climate is made of the
inner bark of the cocoa tree, and the
very stem itself, when grown too old to
bear, may be used in the construction of
hut or the mast Of u canoe.
1t is stated that the missing link be-
tween man and the ape has been discov-
cred, fossilized bones proving the fact
having been found i'll Java by DR.. Eu-
gene Dubois, a surgeon i'll the Dutch
army stationed in that island.
The ground under the city of San Sal
vador is full Of caverns Of unknown
depths A man was once digging we'll
there. The last stroke he gave with his
pick the bottom fell out, and he and his
pick fell through, nobody knows where.
The creed of the Mennonites forbids
them to carry arms. They were origi-
nally expelled from Germany by Freder-
lex VIII and settled in Russia, where
the Empress Catherine granted them ex-
emptlon from military service for 100
years.
The seventeenth century is not very
rich in material for q history of the cy-
Gle. Henry Featherstone tells US that
in India made a carriage
worked by means of wheels, bars and
crossbars This is rather meager de- !
scription.
Extraordinary qualities are possessed
by the river Tinto, i'll Spain. 1t hard
ems and petrifies the sand of its bed, and |
if a stone falls III the stream and alights I
upon another III a few months they |
unite and become one stone. Fish can
not live in its waters.
Freret, when imprisoned in the Bas-
tile, was permitted only to have Bay1e |
for his companion. His dictionary was
always before him, and his principles
were got by heart. To this circumstance
we owe his works, animated by all the
powers of skepticism
There are i'll England from so, 600 to
DO, 900 barmaids. Over l 900 in London
are daughters of gentlemen 400 have