Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-13
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Messrs. Tenants chimney, at Glas.
gov. is the tallest chimney in the world
and stands 400 feet high.
North Dakota has acquired another
large colony of Dunkards. who will
settle in Towner County.
An eight-pound toadstool, with a
circumference of four and one-half
feet was found at Sparta, Mich.
A driven well near Idaho Falls, Ida
no. struck water at depth Of 142 feet,
after going through 9S feet-Of lava.
Disraeli summed up Gladstone as a
"sophistical rhetorician inebriated
with the exuberance of his own ver-
bosity."
New England paper mills are adding
twenty new paper-making machines
this year with capacity of fifteen tons
each daily.
Sixty Indians on DEVILS Lake roser-
walton have appealed for voting pre-
cinct. desiring to exercise the right OF
suffrage.
bitches are now in course of con
struction in the Big Horn basin in
Wyoming which will irrigate $4,000
acres or land.
A female cod of fifteen pounds
weight, recently examined by the Brit
ish fish warden, was found to have /,
roe containing 4,S72,0O0 eggs.
In the Dominion of Canada there arc
about 10000 militia, The permanent
military forces consist of about 1000
artillery, infantry and cavalry.
The bulk of the Russian cavalry Is
composed of dragons, who are trained
to fight ON foot as well as in the sad
die. and are drilled to attack in mass.
Muhlhausen. Germany, is astounded
at the miracle" of fifty-year- old
vine which has nearly 1000 punches OF
grapes. California is full of such mir
acles.
The necessity of abundant supplies
of fresh water has lately forced itself
on the Japanese Government. Three
of the largest Toxic, Osaka and
works.
For seven years the st. Lawrence
River gradually decreases in depth
then for seven years it gradually in
creases in depth, the difference in leve
being about five feet Why it does sc
no one has yet discovered.
A man named Lewis, of Carlisle
England, found mushroom near Stag
| gyford recently which measured nine
and one-quarter inches across an(
weighed one pound; when strained {
| jill of juice was taken from it.
The typhoid fever epidemic in Leat
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are laid off, and it is almost impossi
| BILE to find men enough for the mines
| The disease is of the most malignan
type. A number OF cases are reported
| at Deadwood
Kuan-Shu-Tchu is the name of thu
| official newspaper which the Chimes
| Government has been issuing since
| May. The first number contained
nothing but TRANSACTIONS from Japan
csc, American and European newspa
| pers, besides kilograms.
The statistical summary of vessels
totally lost, condemned. ETC., just pub
lished by Lloyd's Register, shows tina
during 1895 the gross reduction in thu
| effective mercantile marine of tht
world amounted to 1927 vessels. 81
| of which were steamers.
The constitutionality of the Colorado
law providing for the treatment ant
| cure of INDECENT drunkards at public
| expense has been affirmed by the State
| Supreme Court, which has denied the
! application of County Attorney Goudy
OF Denver, for a rehearing of a ties,
| case
A curious. but not at all surprising
statement is made by some members
| of the party on the Fran, concerning
| the effect on them of the long separa
| ton from the rest of the world. They
! say that after about year the sigh
| of their associates began to grow dis
agreeable. and often they would go of
on long solitary expeditions, merely &c
avoid communication with the othe,
members of the company. Similar ex,
periences have been reported before
and they are what might be expected
on general grounds from cur knowle dge
| of human nature.