Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES
One man in six In the British navy ii


There are 10000 Portuguese in Mas
sachusetts, Boston having over 5000.
Mormon missionaries report that they
are making many converts in Ger
many.
White pine, when green, weighs "a. 90
pounds to the cubic foot; when season
ed, 1856.
The latest thing in the eating saloon
and lunch cafe lines is the automatic
or waiterless restaurant.
Paving experiments are to be made
in Havana with vitrified bricks, gran
lite squares and sandstone blocks.
1t is estimated that the Puget sound
sockeye s:A.mon pack for this season
will be 100000 cases, valued at $780,.
OOO
One Of the Buenos Ayres newspapers
has a consultation room in which the
poor can daily get medical or legal adj
vice free.
Tasmania's government does not per
nit any land to be sold by private con.
tract within five miles Of Hobart OF
Launceston.
South Dakota has more Indians a..
| 900 than any other state. or the terri
| tories Indian Territory has $4,000 and
| Arizona $1,000.
Exports of American breadstuffs In
| creased % per cent during the past sew
en- months over the same time the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
More than 1000 men are at work on
the Swiss side of the Simplon tunnel
and nearly 1,SOO on the Italian side
Much trouble has been caused by a
vein of water which supplied loo
quarts per second.
Chemists say that As per cent OF
green wood consists of water. They
estimate that it is almost impossible
to eXpel all the water from seasoned
lumber, about 10 per cent remaining
In highly seasoned woods.
The demand for agricultural nipple
ments in Egypt is increasing with the
progress made in cultivating land
Farmers are rapidly finding out the
value of improved machinery and have
in use already number of thrashns
machines.
Recent statistics show that no less
than 264S4 horses, mules and donkeys
were killed in the slaughter houses OF
Pantin and Nillejuif, in France, dur
ing 1900. OF these 25.O50 were sold
! for food and the remainder of them de
clared unfit for consumption.
The biggest woodworking plant in
the state of California has been erect
ed by the unions of San Francisco and
Is now turning out material as fast as
1000 union carpenters can place it on
the buildings in two cities. 1t gives
employment to 16O union mill men.
About 40 per cent Of the men EN-
ployed in the Minnesota mines are Fin
landers, another 40 per cent Hungari.
ans. about s per cent Italians and the
rest are divided among Americans, Ger.
mans, French, Scotch and Welsh. The
manstay of the mines are the Cornish
men.
Excellent results have followed the
administration of forests and timber
production by the Hungarian govern.
ment. While in 1868 the net income
from the national forests amounted
only to 100000 forms, they yielded
during the last decade more than
100000 forms.
The largest beehive in the west is
claimed by Lexington, Ill. In the long
bridge of the Alton railroad over the
al INN, ,,fv. II h.
insects have established quarters. The
hive is in the main span. which is 12C
feet long. and the stretch of comb is
fully that length.
The presidents of the Berlin Society
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami.
mails have issued a proclamation to the
public urging them, in engaging cabs OF
wagons, to take only those drivers whd
do not follow the STUPID and cruel Gus.
tom of using binders over the eyes of
the horses. which is the principal cause
of shying.
At birthday party in Railway, n,
j.. recently four sisters were among
the guests. Their united ages foot up
go years, divided in this way: Mrs.
Mary p. c. Rowell. eighty-sx; Mrs.
Elizabeth Acken. eighty-four; Mrs.
Henrietta Van Sicklen, eighty. and
Mrs. Bruen. eighty. They are all in
excellent health.
Sisal culture in East Africa is pro-
crossing, there being over 10000
plants set out in one locality. A few
were brought from Yucatan in 1891.
and the number has grown as mention
ed. In another locality are plants COW
ering 1880 acres. Six hundred acres Of
Mauritius agave hemp are laid out in
the same territory.
Fall River, Mass, produces more
than three-quarters Of all the print
cloths made in the United States, has
one-seventh of all the spindles in the
country and about fourth Of those in
New England and more than twice as
many as any city in the country. Its
mills turn out more than 1000 miles of
cotton cloth every working day.
Now Vorl. ct1to stands hiub nc