Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-07
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

| An average of &c, 900 letters are post
ed without addresses in England every
year.
In England and Wales IA per cent of
males and 1871 per cent of females die
of consumption.
Bootblacks in Paris are licensed; do
not run the streets; few stands; no boys
mostly old men.
At the death of Queen Elizabeth 1904
dresses were in her wardrobe, of which
two only were of silk.
Manchester gets the credit Of being
the corporation which is most active in
suppressing the smoke nuisance.
The proposal to reduce the speed of
the Canadian line of fast Atlantic steam
ships does not meet with favor in Great
Britain.
The piles of old London bridge, driven
800 years before, were found to be in
good condition when the new bridge
was erected.
Tt has been decided in the court of
queen IS bench that Wales is district of
England. Consequently child born in
Wales must be English by birth.
'Shut your eyes and breathe deeply
and slowly" is Russian savant's recipe
against seasickness. He says it is infal-
lible. At any rate it is inexpensive.
And now it is claimed that the jaw
bones of civilized peoples are gradually
becoming : .tenuated, chiefly owing to
the prolonged use of knives and forks.
A natural born subject of her majesty
is child born of British parents in any
part of the world. A child born in Eng
land of German father and English
mother is English by birth.
Dice were developed from knuckle
bones. Ingenious men filed smooth the
rounded enGs, making two faces at top
and two at bottom, and set numbers on
each. Thus @ die had no sides.
Youths grow rapidly from their four
teenth to their eighteenth year and
then more slowly until they are 81 or
%, when they cease to grow in stature,
but not i'll bulk if we'll fed and healthily
lodged.
Up to the beginning of the fourteenth
century the ropes of Rome were content
ed with a single crown. In 1903 the
first double one was assumed, and in
1864 the present tiara, or triple one,
was adopted.
The cost of building the present Lon
don bridge was $12, $780, 900. It was
opened on the 1st of August, 1881, by
King William " and Queen Adelaide.
The first stone was laid by the Duke of
York on the 18th of June, 1926.
A Dutch court martial has decided
that it is not INSTRUMENTATION for sol
der to refuse to wash his face when or
dered to do so by his commanding Off
Ger, and the high military court of the
kingdom has confirmed the decision.
The cinque ports are Dover, Sand
witch, Winchelsea, Rye, Hythe and
Hastings. They were originally these
five (hence the namel Dover, Hastings,
Hythe, Romney and Sandwich. Win
chelsea and Rye were afterward added.
Germany's cotton comes to her IN
large quantities from India, Egypt and
the United States. Saxony alone takes
800, 600 or 600, 600 bales of from 400 to
roo pounds each, the weight of each
bale depending on the country whence
it comes.
Contrary to general belief, the Saba
ia is not barren and worthless waste.
Some time ago there were 9,000,0 900
sheep in tho Algerian Sahara alone, be-
sides 2, 600, 600 goats and 260, 900 cam
els. On the GASES there are 100000
date palms.
In Wales there exists the "falling
tower" of Caerphilly castle, which is
n feet in height and inclines no less
than IL feet out of the perpendicular.
In proportion this is much greater than |
the tower of Pisa, which is $50 feet |
and leans 1 5 feet
From present indications America
will soon be outdoing France in the
consumption of frog flesh. The city of |
New York alone consumes 600, 900 |
hams" of frogs during the year. These
delicacies are now sold in tin boxes like
other conserved meats.
1t would appear that Madagascar, I'M
der the new influences, is rapidly fall
ing back into its old ways. 1t is report
ed that six members of trading cara
van (among them were three English
men) were massacred ON their way from
the capital to Ambohipiana.