Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A man In Calaveras county, Cal, is
Matching pheasants in incubators.
The life OF Robert Burns is dealt with
in over $50 books, and there are NO
fewer than 40 distinct elves"
Since the year 1000 England has sui.
fered from 81 famines, Ireland from "a.
Scotland has had IL, France 10 and
Italy 80.
Boycotting at Sligo, Ireland, results
In one Of the county magistrates not
being able to buy bread inside radius
Of IL miles.
At one English workhouse a grateful
inmate is occupying his time in carving
beautiful stone font for the work
house chapel.
The British union jacl, has unfolded
itself. so to speak, over two acres OF
new territory every time the clock has
licked since 1900.
Almost exactly half the coal exported
from Great Britain in the last six
months went to the four countries
France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
The mayor of New York to be chosen
in November will serve for two years
only. He will have the power Of re-
moval during the whole of that period.
While in Canada there were no bank
ing defaults during the first half Of
1901, in the United States there were
45, with liabilities Of nearly $4,000, 900.
On a big White Star liner, say the
Oceanic, the meat carried in the cold
storage chamber for the voyage Of six
days is 10000 pounds, to say nothing
Of 1,SoO head of poultry.
The population Of the municipal area
Of Dublin. including the independent
Belfast is 3lS,JG5, which gives the
northern city clear majority of 1851.
A new kind Of sealing wax has been
produced on the continent. 1t is con-
tanned in glass tube, and when re-
quired for use it is sufficient to warm
the cylinder in order to make the wax
flow.
Details are published in Belfast of a
beg fire Of gigantic proportions on the
borders of Counties Derry ard Tyrone.
A large number of farmers have in con-
sequence lost their whole winter fuel
supply.
Bears eyebrows, being stiff and ex-
act!y the right shade, are used in a
newly invented fly that is killing guam
titles of salmon this year. These eye
brows come from the Himalayan
brown bear and cost about $3.50 per
set.
Yarmouth's last trawlers have been
sold at auction for small sums, steam
having driven them out Of business.
Yarmouth for century was the center
of the English North sea fishing indus
try, and its fishing feet numbered over
400 vessels.
In Leipsic the tram cars are furnished
with some weekly journal and leaf1et
giving particulars Of theatrical and mu-
sic hall performances. The reading
matter hangs on a hook at one end Of
the car, and passengers may take 1t to
their seats for perusal.
On the banks Of the Purus, in South
America, dwells a peculiar tribe Of peo-
pie who are spotted in a queer manner.
All members Of the tribe are similar in
this respect. men, women and children
being mottled black and white. They
live almost entirely on fish.
At a recent auction sale in Paris of
autograph letters, including some by
Napoleon l. Balzac. DelacroiX. Gambet-
ia, Malibran and other famous persons.
the highest price, AGO francs. was given
for letter by Mozart. written partly
in German, partly in Italian.
1t Las been positively ascortained by
expert chemical analysis tl"t rec con-
tains more nutritive clements than any
other Grain. 1t will sustain life better
and longer than any other cereal, a
fact we'll known throughout the east
ern countries from time imlnemorial.
The systematic examination Of more
than 10000 pairs of human ears in
En- Gland and France has resulted in
SOME Interesting conclusions. For one
thing. it is ascertained that the ear
continues to Grow in the LAGER decades
of life; in fact, it appears never to stop
growing until death.
Tie manuscript Of an appeal for
funds for Dartmouth college. dated
1871, has just been given that college
by the estate of Miss Hopkins Of
Mass. 1t is signed by
Washington T. Lincoln, Livingston,
William Moore. Robert Morris and
other historical persons.
A musty diary in which for ten years
David Sewall, a register of probate Of
York county, Me-, recorded memoran-
da of his daily life has been discovered
In the courthouse archives at Alfred. |
Judge Sewall was appointed by Presi-
dent Washington Judge Of the district
court Of Massachusetts,.
The board of ordnance has adopted
new magazine pistol which fires 11G |
shots minute as against 40 fired by |
the best Colt revolver. which has been
up to the present time the standard
weapon Of the army. The new pistol