Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-09-28
JUST A FEW

The Scots Pictorial has discovered
that Andrew Lang and the late Thomas
Carlyle came of gypsy forebears.
a paper of bremen. Germany. re-
Gently told It's readers that the Span
ish fleet had bombarded Chicago.
King Malietoa, the Samoan monarch,
is unique figure in royalty. He sets
$3.50 a month, and that munifcent
budget Is usually in arrears.
A magnificent horse was offered
General Miles in Washington for his
Cuban campaign, but he refused 1t be-
cause it had a docked tail.
Mr.. w. F. Robertson, mining en-
gineer, who was graduated from McGill
University in 1880, has been appointed
Provincial Mineralogist of British Col
umbia.
At seventy-two years of age J. n.
Twirs, of independence, Kan, has had
his left leg amputated by surgeons.
Four years ago he lost, his right one in
the same way. it ts. .~,.,-e.,
Mother-Johnny, stop using such
dreadful language! Johnny-Well,
mother, Shakespeare uses 1t. Mother
Then don't play with him; he's no fit
companion for you.-Tit-Bits.
In Paris accident insurance policies
are issued guaranteeing the holder
against the consequences of the damage
he may infiict on others. They are
taken out chiefly by bag drivers.
1t was once customary in France,
when a guest had remained too long,
for the host to serve cold shoulder
of mutton instead of hot roast. This
was the origin OF the phrase ito give
the cold shoulder" -sF44
Geraldine Ulmar, whose prosaic
name off the stage Is Mrs. Tilkins, has
recovered $3.50 from the London
Omnibus Company, which was held
responsible for the collision in which
her ankle was fractured year ago.
A crockery dealer shipped 225 dishes
from Lansing, Mich, to a missionary
at Teheran, Persia. The goods were
seven months in transit, and were car
ried 500 miles by caravan, but only one
dish in the lot was broken.
OF all the guides who have helped
| American travellers to love the Alps the
chief, perhaps, was Christian Almer,
who died last month. Until he was
quite an old man the famous old Swiss
was actively engaged in guiding"
Auchmithie, a fishing village near
Arbroath, in Forfarshire, has lost the
only postmistress it ever had, Mrs.
Elizabeth Adamson, who died at 1.-The
age of ninety eight years, had Sheld
the office since penny postage was es-
tablished, in 1910. c-.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, OF Kansas, who
once expressed the ambition of Great
| ing in that State the largest orchard
in the world, has turned his Kansas
farm over to man with a stipulation
that $1,000 fruit trees, mostly apple,
are to be planted. &c l-
Quick work enabled the London Pal
ace Theatre to exhibit the race for the
/ Derby by biograph on the evening OF
the day the race was run. The films
reached London at O'clock, were de-
! veloped at once by electric light, and
shown on the stage before 10: 80.
| One of the strangest, streams In the
world is in East Africa It flows in
the direction of the sea, but never
reaches it Just north of the equator
and when only a few miles from the
Indian ocean, 1t flows into q desert
where it suddenly and completely dis,
appears.
Among the bills paid out by the Bel
fast (Me.) city government one reads:
Towing a whale, So" This refers tc
the dead whale that has been floating