Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-03-22

any of the Infected portions of India.
At present there are 10000 Sunday
schools in the United States. with
100000 teachers and 100000 pupils.
Florida has been health resort as
far back as the days of Ponce de Leon.
VINO pronounced il the Land of Flow
c-S."
Salmon fry in Oregon are fed ON can
ned heads and tails OF salmon till they
are old enough TO be planted in the
rivers.
Glucose Is now manufactured largely
from cornstarch. Its commercial val
ne lies in its use as an adulterant Of
cane and beet sugar.
American exports of corn have aver
aged lI3,000.0O0 bushels year since
lS95. an increase OF 25i per cent ucel
the preceding five years.
In the region of the southern Crals
Russian laborer gets only IL cents
day. and Il man with horse and a
cart costs ~ cents day.
At numerous mines in Siberia 1000
men and 500 horses are used ON a sin
gle property to produce gold not ex
ceeding S2.ouO.O00 per annum.
At present pennies are all coined in
Philadelphia by law. because there
was formerly no demand for them in
the southwest and the far west
About 100000 barrels of beer in
twelvemonth would he a fair estimate
OF the consumption in Chicago There
are 6,3Tl licensed places in Chicago.
One of the latest inventions is an
imitation vaccination scar that you can
paste on your arm and thus fool the
health officer, The scar costs dime
The number of letters passing
through the London postotfice averaged
10000 daily in 1901. rising to 100000 in
1910, to 100000 in 1870 and to $780,
600 in 1900
If American farmers could get for
their apples the prices which prevail in
England, they would soon all be indie
pendent, as but little of the fruit is
grown there.
What am English paper says is the
greatest incubator in the world is at
Batary, near Sydney. Australia. 1t
accommodates IL ,440 duck eggs or H.
0S0 hens eggs.
Eastern oysters do not reproduce
well in the colder waters of Oregon
and Washington. An attempt Is to be
made. therefore, to acclimate there the
fine large oysters of northern Japan.
Sunday consultations at the Paris
hospitals were not well attended by the
working classes, the workingman pre-
ferring to lose days work rather than
a few of his hours of idleness on Sun
day.
In a suit brought at Columbus, o., to
recover payment for pane of glass
the novel defense was brought that
the plaintiff had taken the glass from
a coffin and that the grewsome associ-
ations connected with it made 1t unfit
for use.
Three hundred persons in London
earn a living-and several of them are
growing rich-by providing meals for
the cats of the metropolis, which they
deliver regularly once. twice and thrice
day. as may suit the owners of the
feline pets.
An American musical instrument
company has issued circulars broad
cast in London offering to 200 pupils in
each district two free music lessons
per week for II months. One of the
conditions attached to this novel offer
is that each pupil shall recommend the
company's instruments to friends of
the family.
The galleries of congress now begin
to resemble the orchestra chairs of a
theater in the evening. This is not so
much due to the bright and pretty cos
tunes of numerous brides, but to the
fact that nearly all the ladies remove
their hats. 1t Is q new custom in the
galleries, but it is one that gives to the
sessions of the senate the character of
an afternoon tea.
Paper wood is as hard as wood itself,
is susceptible of brilliant treatment, is
vastly lighter, perfectly adjustible and
absolutely fireproof. The erection of
skyscrapers necessitated very serious
study Of fireprooting treatment of
wood. and the result is that paper is
coming very largely into use in all
cases where woodwork has to be used,
1t is particularly adaptable for ceilings
and is becoming popular for that pur-
pose.
Two thousand Japs were put to work
by the Great Northern railroad a year
ago They took the places of white
men in all branches, and there were
many who predicted the necessity of
excluding the Japanese, just as the
Chinese were before them. The fear,
however, was i'll founded. The railroad
has come to the conclusion that Japa-
nese at 81 a day are more expensive
than white men at S1.25. Orders have
been given to discharge the Japanese
as fast as their places can be filed.