Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-08-27
CLIPPINGS.

There are 1851 patents which may
be employed in the manufacture of
glass.
OF mechanical motors there are
1875 known 20 the officials at the patent
Office.
OF the entire number Of English
peerages only live go back rs far as the
thirteenth century.
In Caroline County, Nd, the sohC oil
board has decided not to employ mar
ried women as 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 in the manu-
facture of starch and alcohol.
The income of a teacher in a private
school of China is very small, about a
half-penny a day for each pupil.
Hammond, Ind, offers free water
and an exemption from city taxes for
five years to those seeking factory sites.
Fattening ewes in a Wyoming test
fed hay aud 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 Ind man stole a
load of corn in order to secure money
enough to buy a marriage license. He
is now in Jail and the wedding has
been indefinitely postponed.
There are now 712 fountains for
human beings, $50 large troughs for
horses and cattle, and 476 small
troughs for sheep and dogs in 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, at point
60 miles from the latters mouth.
Italy's exports for the first four
months of 1897 were 3S5, 1853, $40
francs, while her imports were &c.,
79l, 1870 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 50, 000,
OOO in personal property.
Roszdin, IN the coal mining district
of Silesia, is collapsing 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
spot to which he was directed by the
of a woman with ghast-
ly wound in her side," was evidently
as a ghost story, but it sounds
like fairy tale.
At one place on the Idaho side of
the Snake river, across from Asotin
county and not covering a space of
over 30 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 of teaching
the blind in China. She will found
large blind asylum at Pekin, and is
doing this in commemoration of the |
Queens jubilee.