Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

In Paris there are over l, 900 profess
sional fortune tellers.
Cape Colony exports annually $780,
600 worth of dried flowers.
Michigan occupies the second position
among the salt producing states.
There was no postof1ice in England
properly postoffice-until 1868.
Only "a white elephants have been
captured since the beginning of the
Christian era.
There are about 1880 theaters in
other country.
A nailmaking machine produces as
many nails i'll given time as were
formerly made by 1000 men.
The Rainbow, near the Inner Temple
Gate, as Mr.. limbs proves clearly, was
the second coffee house opened in Lon
don.
Among the Turks the bodies of the
dead are held in extreme reverence, al
though the cemeteries are used as picnic
grounds.
About so, 900 Hebrews returned from
the Babylonian captivity in b. Q. 536,
and among other belongings they
brought with them from Babylon were
1907 slaves
In the Dutch West Indies the slaves
were emancipated in 1868. 1t is stated
that $4,000 were freed, their owners
being compensated at the rate of e32
for each slave.
During the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries no less than
100000 slaves were carried by Eng
fish, French and Dutch ships from AT
RIGA to America.
The railways in France employ
"a, $50 women, the majority of whom,
however, receive a small sum merely
for opening and shutting gates where
roads cross the track.
The cross mark still used occasionally
instead of a signature did not originate
in ignorance. 1t was always appended
to signatures in medieval times as an
attestation of good faith.
The stocking frame was an invention
of 1889, by which the operation of knit
ting was performed automatically, an
invention the chief motive of which re-
mains unchanged to this day.
About 1866 Mr.. Farr, a barber, who
had perhaps been in the Levant, opened
a coffee house nearly opposite the Cock
tavern, London, and Sir Henry Blount
became one of his patrons and frequent
visitors
Extraordinary qualities are possessed
by the river Tinto in Spain. 1t hard
ems and petrifies the sand of its bed, and
if stone falls in the stream and alights
upon another III few months they unite
and become one stone. Fish cannot live
in it's waters.
During July, August and September
from the beginning of the Glasgow
fair till the end of the ordinary holiday
and the south of Eng
land generally are favored with the pres
ence of an ever increasing number of
tourists from Scotland.
The finest mosaic pavement in Eng
land and one Of the finest in Europe ex-
lists in the remains of the Roman villa
in the parish Of Bignor, Sussex. If the
villa was equal to the pavement, it
must have been very sumptuous and on
a level with the best in Italy.
Stories as to the early arrival of
cuckoos il England are once more be-
ing circulated. This year the places
mentioned where the notes of the cuckoo
are said to have been heard during the
third week in February are Hatfield and
the neighborhood of Hartford.
Liverpool receives some curious car
goes at times-cargoes of turtles and
i, l.. e
leeches, shiploads of bones from battle
fields, of human mummies from the
Egyptian tombs and Of dead cats from
the cat cemeteries of the same country.
On May 3, 1858, lady who at New
market had laid q considerable wager
that she could ride on horseback 1000
miles in 1000 hours finished her match
ia little more than thirds Of the
time. At her coming in, it is stated,
the country folk strewed flowers III her
way.
A very interesting volume of poems
N manuscript by Keats is III the pos
session of the authorities of the depart
nent of manuscripts in the British
museum. The volume contains three
poems, ''Thc Pot of Basil, " Lines on |
he Mermaid Tavern and 1.-THE Eve OF |
st. Mark. -
A French engineer has conceived the !
interesting idea Of reproducing the !
house III which Napoleon lived at St. |
Helena as an attraction during the Par
S exhibition i'll 1900. The house will |
,e an exact copy of the original, with
canvases representing the /
natural surroundings.
The monkey named Consul III is one /
# the most intelligent of his species.
lie is about years of age and stands
eet 6 inches i'll height and rides a tri-
ycle with as much skill as any boy
ider. He can steer it anywhere with