Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-04-28
HERE AND THERE.

apples are advertised III MeAlCO Sity
newspapers.
1t takes about three seconds for G
message to 60 from one end of the At
lantic to the other.
"Abuse me if you want to-" said
the late P. T. Barnum, but don't omit
to mention my show"
A pearl that was afterwards sold to
jeweler for SIS was found in the giz-
card of a turkey in London recently.
Newspapers are suppressed in Japan
for publishing scandalous articles on
the private life and family affairs of in
dividuals.
The big ocean greyhounds will soon
it is thought, be equipped with life
boats harnessed to balloons, so as ia
be practically unsuitable.
Lemon culture proved so profitable
in California last year that it is though,
nearly a million trees will be set GU,
during the coming season.
Efforts are making to sell to the
government, for $50, 900, the farm of IL:
acres near Hodgenville, KY, on which
Abraham Lincoln was born.
Tim Hussey, who discovered mine;
in the Cripple Creek district worth ully
81 100000 died penniless in the hospita
| OF the great gold camp recently.
The craze for things Scottish has
invaded Africa. The Sultan of Moroc.
co has engaged DRAW hielandman'
to play the bagpipes at his court.
President Eliot can scarcely expect
to obtain $10,O00,000 for Harvard col
lege until the course in football is ma
terially improved at that institution.
Fair American (after graphic descrip-
ton of an English foxhunt)-Now, tell
me, captain, does the poor animal &c
in circles round the island ?-Sketch.
The New York Stock Exchange was
formed in 1892. It's seats are now
worth $4,000 each, and the aggregate
capital of it's members is $150,000,0 900.
Australia could be made to support
400, 100000 inhabitants of the black OF
yellow races, able to endure the eli.
mate. The present population is only
100000
According to the New York Tribune
DIR. Nansen pronounces his name as il
it were spelled "Naunsen," and the
name of the Fran as if it were spelled
"Fraum."
The New Hampshire Legislature has
followed Massachusetts, and has passed
a bill to abolish fast day" and to make
April 10 a legal holiday, to be known
as Patriots Day."
The careful and scientific estimate
of the present population of New York
city, made by the health department
is 1867 ,031, as against the claim for
Chicago of 1,635,O00.
John B. Duke, the millionaire cigar.
cite manufacturer, told the LeXoN
committee that he never smoked a CT
garette in his life. 1t is a wise doctor
who doesn't use his own medicine.
In Waterford, Me-, there is pastor
who used to be an expert boxer in his
college days, and this winter be has
been giving lessons in the manly AR
to the youths of his neighborhood.
There is species of pine tree which
grows in California, and is known as
the giant pine, which is the largest oil
the pine genus, often rising to height
of 200 feet, with a trunk 20 to 80 feet
in girth.
The new town of Woolton will be
the largest wool camp in Wyoming. A
steam shearing plant of forty shears
has been put in and 100000 have beer
registered for shearing during the com
ing season.
The old George w. tavern in Portu
gal street, London, which Dickens
| commentators unite in saying is tht
house which the novelist described il
"Pickwick," has just been sold at auc
ton for $4,000.
Doubling Customer-What sort Of
assurance does a man have that this
cod-liver oil is genuine? Homes
Pharmacist-The fact, sir, that it costs
about as much to make it from whale
oil now as it does to extract it from the
cod.-Chicago Tribune.
1t is the custom in the RothschilG
family to purchase six pearls, each
costing G100, at the birth of each CIR
baby. Upon each birthday six moro
pearls are added to the original nest
egg, SO that when the young woman
makes her debut into society, a casket
of magnificent gems is presented tc
her.
The year 1900 is not a leap-year, be
cause, although divisible by 4, it is moi
Invisible by 400. The year 1000 will be
leap-year, although it is a century
year, because it is Invisible by 400. The
arbitrary exception thus made in the
case of century years makes the Greg
orian calendar year correspond with
the solar year.
There are eight extensive sales sta
bles in Macon, Ca, where mules are
sold. Over 5000 mules were sold in
Macon last year, and of this number
one firm sold 1000. A prominent deal
er says the indications at this time
point to still larger sale this season.
At an average of $40 apiece, there was
$350,000 worth of mules sold in Ma
con last year.
According to Professor SCHNEIDER
berg, of Strasburg, dogs need iron in
| their food. He relates the case of g
strong dog that was nearly starved by
being fed for a long time with pure
milk. just as he seemed on the point
of death a gram of ferratin was added
to his daily allowance of milk; when
instead of refusing as heretofore, he de-
voured it ravenously, and in the space
of two weeks recovered his normal
health and strength.
Two Maine game wardens. who
have been wandering through the
woods on snowshoes, bring back to Au-
gusta great stories about the slaugir er
of moose, caribou and deer. They say
that in MANY DIacaS thew fouod daar