Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-11


The area under wheat In Manitoba
exceeds 100000 acres.
Swiss emigration IL decreasing. Last
year the total was only 3,8i6.
1t has been observed that as a rule
single women live longer than single
men.
The value OF the wine raised in the
vineyards Of Roumania last year was
S7,5OO,OOO.
The first agricultural newspaper was
the American Farmer, begun at Balti.
more in 1919.
Cairo ~ much the biggest town in Az
RIGA. with 100000 people, Of whom 25.-
600 are Europeans.
Last year England imported nearly
5000 600 tons of wheat Of the 100000
| that We're consumed.
Recent observations seem to indicate
that the incubation period Of malaria
is about eighteen days.
The board of trade of Dusseldorf,
| Germany. urges the necessity Of re-
stricting the number of fairs.
Nearly 10000 tons of corks are need
ed for the bottled beer and aerated wa
tiers consumed annually in Britain.
The Egyptian Sudan has twelve
provinces, with an area Of 100000
square miles and 1O,250,00O people.
An ounce Of gold was worth fifteen
ounces of silver in the year 1880. 1t
| would buy twenty-one ounces in 1900.
The city of Portland, Me-, has in its
streets 10000 shade trees, some Of
which were planted more than half
century ago.
Denmark leads the world in agricul-
| ture. Each inhabitant has on an aver
age q capital of 1887 invested In farm
ing British people have only fG5 a
! head.
The big gray kangaroo of Australia
measures about seven feet from the tip
| of it's nose to the end Of its tail. 1t can
run faster than horse and clear thirty
| feet at jump.
The Greek government las secured
monopoly of the picture postal card
business. 1t has just issued cards with
| sixty-four different views of famous
cities and other scenes.
In ten Irish counties there are adver-
| tised G61 900 acres of Shootings. and
the rental asked is f7,SS5. or tritle
over ga pence per acre. In most cases.
too, there are mansions attached.
The longest horse drawn railway in
the world runs from Buenos Ayres to
the town of San Martin. a distance of
fifty miles. Thirteen hours Is allowed
for the distance, and trains run every
hour.
The business of insuring individuals
and firms against losses from bad
debts above a certain amount Is one
which has grown and extended rapidly
in New York city within two or three
years.
In the eighteen years Of its existence
the Woman's Reli'f corps. auxiliary to
the Grand Army. has grown from so
to $4,000 members and disbursed ST.
100000 in aid to veterans and their
families.
In every state and territory prize
fights are now forbidden by law. Not
one Of the fighters Is successful
star" in any theater, and nearly all OF
them have lost money in the keeping OF
barrooms.
A writer in the Cologne Gazette de-
clares that servants in the United
States do only half as much work, de-
mand twice as much free time and
four times as much wages as servants
In Germany.
The trade and wealth Of Canada are
increasing far more rapidly than its
population. With only one-ffteenth Of
the population Canada has trade OF
| more than one-siXth Of that of the
United States.
The packing of sweet corn in Maine
has grown rapidly in the last few
years. until now only New York and H.
linois exceed Maine in the number Of
cans put up Last year about 22.OO0.-
900 cans were produced.
New York has long been distinguish
ed by its excellent breed of horses.
This years census record shows 305,-
600 in the state. of which 10000 are in
the county of New York, $4,000 in
Kings. $4,000 in Erie and 100 in
Onondaga county.
The danger Of living in house that
harbors consumptives Is illustrated by
the fact that of G273 patients officially
examined by the German imperial
board of health 2,177, or 34.7 per cent,
belonged to families that included 9TH
er victims Of tuberculosis.
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