Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-09-04
FOREIGN NOTES.

Germany now has 40 socialist publica-
tions. of which 50 are dailles
Tho English census returns show that
but ono woman in every six remains un-
Under new law tho bakers Of Montreal
must stamp on each loaf Of bread It's
weight and their initials.
One Of the new bridges across the Seine
IS TO he built in two stories. with one set
OF arches resting on another.
Torty-seven pounds was paid recently IN
London for a Victorian Cross won by Gun
Ter r. Arthur, r, A.. at Sebastopo. In
1855.
On the western slope Of Mount Etna are
reveral villages standing in the midst Of
former lava streams and with all the
houses built of lava.
As many Of tho Paris hospitals are out Of
date, it is proposed TO pull them down and
build new ones. The cost OF the changes
would be about S5, 900, 0nd
France will probably be forced to import
wheat on larger scale than heretofore
The home crop Of that cereal for 1902 will
he little short of an absolute failure.
Newspapers to the value of G149 15s. Sd
arc provided annually for the tea and
smoking rooms of the House Of Commons.
Accidents due to the increasing Use Of
wire fences have done much to cause a
decline in the popularity Of fox hunting in
England.
There arc only 100000 white people in
British South Africa, and at the beginning
of the war there was a deficiency of wo-
men amounting to 10000.
Agricultural produce and articles manu-
featured therefrom valued at S22 900 900
were imported into Natal last year. This
Vas exclusive of military supplies.
Swiss ornithologists declare that cats
have become so numerous in Switzerland
as to threaten the determination of all
birds of the country.
Labor-saving machines introduced in the
canning factories at Q,hmper, Brittany,
led to strike and ultimately to a riot, in
which the workmen marched to the fac
tories and smashed the new appliances.
Thirty-fve mon arc continually employed
IL painting the famous Forth Bridge i'm
Scotland. They commence operations at
the south erd of the bridge and proceed
steadily to paint their way northward,
their laboriuus journey occupying three
years; then they begin again.
unique instance of an English lad tax
Ing part IN the late war was mentioned at
the prize distribution at Cheltouham col
lcge recently. The principal said that one
Of their present scholars, boy named
Grifiths, not yet 10 years of age, had
served in the war and won a couple Of
medals.
Hungarian products are to be push for
ward in the South African market by a
firm of traders at the Cape who will act
as special commissioners of the Hungar-
ian government and by a commercial ex-
pert who is being sent out.
The numerous islands Of the PatagonIan
archipelago are covered with evergreen
forests capable of supplying immense
quantities of valuable timber while the
mountain ranges, being of the same geo
logical formation as those of Chile and
Peru, are probably rich in mineral re-
sources.
According to La Vie Illustrce" the last
surviving witness of the battle of Water
loo is Nine Marie Therese Dupuis, now
living at Chapelle- lez- Herlaimony, near
Charleron.
Henri Houriet a Swiss Matchmaker. has
recently completed watch made entirely
out of the ivory taken from billiard ball
works and cases complete. 1t keeps goUi
time.
Mrs. Elizabeth Silsbee Archer. who died
in Salem, Mass. last Friday was an eye
witness of the great naval fight between
the Chesapeake and Shannon off Salem
during the war of 1872.
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge, re-
tired Is the oldest living officer of the
American navy. He was appointed from
Massachusetts in 1916, many years before
the establishment of the Naval Academy
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has challenged John
A. Joyce, Of Washington, to prove that
she did not write the poem Solitude" and
will give him $1,000 if he succeeds. Colonel
Joyce claims the authorship.
Bradley Martin, Jr., who is at present
in Paris, has sold his three automobiles
He says the numerous recent fatalities
added to his own phenomenal bad luck
have cooled his enthusiasm for the horse
less vehicle.
A. X. Stuart, who has had charge OF
the mineral sections of Canada's eXhib-
its at Paris, GLASGOW and London during
the last two years. will take charge OF
the Canadian mineral exhibit at the St
Louis Exposition.
Frederick w. Lehman, of st, Louis, has
Just acquired three sketches by Charles
Dickens. They are the only drawings b,
the famous author of "Pickwick Papers
and old Curiosity Shop" that as yet have
been discovered.
George X. Cherrie, curator of ornith.
ology I'm the Brooklyn Institute museum
has Just accepted commissions from tho
British Museum and the Rothschild Zoolog
zeal Museum for IA trip to French Guiana
for the purpose of obtaining specimens
of the fauna of that country.
Now good digestion waits on appetite
and health on both"