Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-26
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

Cuba has a coast line of Q, 400 miles
| and 900 ports.
The Vermont state prison is a self
sustaining institution.
In Mexico the native whisky is worth
SIT per barrel Of As gallons.
South Dakota has produced $50, 923, :
627 of gold and $1,051, 1874 of silver.
A Warrington (England) man has
been celebrating the Jubilee" of his
wooden leg.
AT the cats home in London cats are
boarded at Is. Cd. or 2s. according to
the means of the owner.
Bacon's greatest work took SO years
to mature, and Grote's History Of
Greece" some few years longer.
John Gordon, who died near Turiff,
Banshire, England, many years ago,
had attained the remarkable age of 1879
years.
A doctor says that half the deafness
prevalent at the present time is probably
the result of children having their ears
boxed.
In Mexico the mescal plant attains
such an enormous size that one of them
has sufficed for the making of a barrel
of whisky.
Platinum wires have been drawn so
fine that two of them twisted together
could be inserted into the hollow of a
human hair.
A resident in Moscow or st. Peters
burg cannot receive the visit of friend
who remains many hours without mott
flying the police.
George Eliot was near her fiftieth
year when she wrote "Middlemarch, I"
and this was succeeded by that power
full book, Daniel Deronda.
Longfellow wrote "Hiawatha" at 48,
and Oliver Wendell Holmes gave us
"Songs In Many Keys" when he had
passed his fifty-fifth birthday.
India rubber has been generally con-
sidered absolutely water tight, but ex-
periments with a Theoretically sealed
rubber bottle of water show that it is
not.
In 1895 the product of the municipal
revenue of the City of Mexico derived
from the sale of pulque was Sill, 95S.
The city has 7S9 places where the in
toxicant is sold.
Millions mind rose to it's highest ca
pacity when the blind poet was between
"a and SO. 1t was at this period of his
existence when he offered to the world
Paradise Lost
Sir Robert Carey rode nearly 800
miles on horseback in less than three
days, when he went from London to
Edinburgh to inform King James of the
death of Queen Elizabeth.
One draw back to the cause of sobriety
in Mexico is the fact that pulque, the
national intoxicant, is strongly recon-
mended for indigestion, weakness of
the stomach, consumption and other
complaints.
Swift was SO when his brain gave
birth TO "Gulliver's Travels, >" and John
Stuart Mill Sc when his essay ON
"Utilitarianism was published, al
though his Liberty was written three
years previous.
There seems at first TO have been a
foolish notion among coffee drinkers
that the coffee should be taken scalding
hot, and its enemies naturally made
great fun of the rueful faces of the suf-
fering enthusiasts.
James Langdon of Camborne, Eng
land, fell about 100 feet at Dolcoath
mine, Cornwall, but received only
slight injuries. His miraculous escape
is attributed to a strong upward air
current in the mine.
Lord Bacon, in his "Sylva Sylvia
rum" DANES y, mentions coffee as a
Turkish drink, made from SCOT black,
scented berry, which the Turks grind
into powder and drink in boiling wa
ter, to comfort the brain and heart and
assist digestion.
Hyde park (London) orators are in
revolt against the new regulations,
which they announce their intention Of
especially the forbidding of
collections, which it is said will deprive
nearly 80 men and women of their
means of livelihood.
At Ramsgate, England, recently q
woman was fined $125 and costs, or
months imprisonment, for i'll treating
her son, aged IL years. The boy said he
had often been thrashed with IA whip
and had been shut up in dark cellar
two hours every day for month.
The coffee tree culture of Guadeloupe
is an easy and agreeable one, but very
slow. 1t takes at least five years to es-
tablish a good plantation, and nearly
eight years before it can be seen in full |
bearing; but, once established, it is for
ever. Some trees a century old can be
seen ON the island
Fieschi fired the Internal machine at |
King Louis Philippe as he rode along |
the Boulevard du Temple on the 28th
day of July, 1885. The king and his
three sons, who were riding with him,