Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-02-26
CLIPPINGS.


600 elephants.
The new regulations for the proven
ton of collisions At sea so into effect
on the first of July.
4 New York export firm will soon
ship 5000 pairs OF shoes TO the Argen-
time Republic and ., 500 pairs to Cen
trail America.
The "Old Maid, a stump of Que oil
the giant sequoias of California, Is
iwenly-six feet and five inches IN Iii
ameter, and shows /, 22J annual rings
of growth.
Water hyacinths are disappearing
from the streams near Green Cove
SPRING, Fla, and loggers expect 10
send rats through soon into the -.
Johns river.
The italian Medical Council Is i'm
pOrtuning the government to no
longer allow foreigners to practice
medicine IN Italy unless they nave
Italian diplomas.
Robert Barrett Browning is estab-
fishing "A school Mt Asolo, Italy, for the
beneiitof girls employed in the silk
mills there, thus linking still closer to
that spot the memory of the poet.
Judge Murphy, of ST. Louis, refused
to allow policeman to testify in his
court tue other day, saying; "Ihere
hasn't been policeman in st. Louis
for ten years who has seen anything.
General Booth has announced that
the Salvation Army is to extend its
operations over the whole Malay mr.
chipelago. The movement will be III.
recled from the army's headquarters in
| Australia.
The long-standing question of pro-
viding a statue to Darwin in his ma
tive town Shrewsbury has been set
tied by the Shropshire Horticultural
society undertaking to defray the en-
tire cost, estimated at from -, 900 to
So, 900.
70 prevent person from ''acci-
dentally" taking the wrong hat and
coat upon leaving public place II
New York man has invented coat
and hat hook which locks the articles
fast, the owner only being able to re-
lease them.
A monument has been erected nj
Boulogne in honor of L'Hoste, the
French aeronaut, who first crossed
from France to England IN balloon.
He crossed three times successfully,
but was drowned in the fourth at
tempt.
The cOstliest rugs in the world are
owned by the Shah of Persia and the
Sultan of Turkey. 1t is said that each
possesses a mat made Of pearls and
diamonds valued at over 81, 500, 900.
The Carlton club, London, owns the
largest mat or rug ever made.
George Lewis, lightweight years
old, of Whitetield, Me-, is as able,
physically and mentally, MS when ii
his prime, and he has just cut auu
sawed up the necessary timberto make
II blacksmith shop aud alone hauled
the logs out of the woods with an Cx
team.
Silver exports in 1896 we.e the
largest in many years, agsregntlne
S52, 800, 900. Silver imports were
nearly 50, 900, 900, leaving net export:
for the year $40, 400, QGO. The net eX
ports in 90 were S37, 900, 900, 80
$32, 500, 600. 1913, ISL, 600, 900, and .:
$40, 500, 600.
Turquoise IN the rou ID, from the
famous mines in New Mexico, nea
Sante Fe, is being cut into jewels a
San Fralc for shipment East. Th
mine vas discovered early III the six
teenth century,a and besides one in Per
. STA, Is the only known genuine tur
) qUoise mine in the world.
= The worlds output of gold for 1S9
was $21S, 900, 900. The chief source
, of supply were the United States
South Africa, Australia and Russia
and our own country led them all i
{. the amount produced, yielding $53,
!, 600, 600, an increase of so, 600, 90
over the previous year.
The English government has iuE
- established Sanctuary for the A
h rican elephant IN the coast area {
i Somaliland. Within the reserve shoe
I ing of elephants is strictly forbidden
: and the observance of this rule will |
9 an essential condition to shoot otht
e animals within the prescribed area.
n Charles L. McClenachan, an al
l. thority on Freemasonry, who TO
- lwenty-nine years was employed
the New York Department of Publ
5. Works, died recently. Mr.. McClent
al chan was born in 1929 For b
L. knowledge of Scottish Rite Masonr
- he was known all over the world. H
q was the author of several books O
Y Masonry.
A society at Shanghai, China, heade
e by two English women, recently DIRE
A. up u petition to the Emperor begin
e. him to forbid the cruel custom of foo
binding. The petition never reache
I the Emperor, but the officials returne
the answer that no one was cOmpelle
to follow that custom, but that til
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