Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-22
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Magazine rifles will be issued shortly
to the Moorish army.
French submarines will in future be
manned by volunteers only.
The wife Of the governor Of New
Borneo has baby rhinoceros for pet.
There are but nine subscribers to the
postottice telephone in Swansea. Wales.
The Russian consul at Salonika has
suddenly resigned his appointment to
enter a monastery.
Beetles in the East and West Indies
I are so brilliant in coloring that they
are beautiful as gems.
The volume of the worlds commerce
Is two and a half or three times as
great as it was thirty years ago
Antwerp town council has opened a
labor exchange to assist worSlnen and
servants of both sexes to obtain EN-
ployment.
Efforts are being made to establish
a university at Jerusalem for the Jew
ish students expelled from European
universities.
After thrashing a corporal who had
Ill treated them eight German cavalry
men have deserted to France and en-
listed in the foreign legion.
Its neck broken by passing train.
fine dog OTTER weighing twenty one
pounds was picked up recently at Gal
gate, near Leicester, England
Within the last fifty years 1G4,5SG
persons have emigrated from County
Mayo, Ireland-nearly as many as in
habit the county at the present time.
w. j. Ryan, a blind man in Milwau-
kee, has invented writing frame
with wire lines to enable blind per-
sons to write with evenness and sym
metry.
OF ninety-three emperors who gov
erned the whole or large part of the
Roman empire siXty-two We're MUIR
dered or died under suspicious circum-
stances.
Orders for some 10000 tons Of ar
NOR plate for the new war vessels King
Edward VII, Commonwealth and Do
minion have been shared by three Shelf
field firms.
Finding a nine leaved shamrock, a
sent it to Queen Wilhemina, who ac-
cepted the gift and rewarded the donor
with f. Is. Sd.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
tr> Inn 1f L,,f
faloes now remaining in this country
and to prevent that animal from be-
coming extinct.
Pineapples grow so plentifully in
Natal at certain seasons that 1t is not
worth while carting them to market
and they are often given to the pigs
in consequence.
Inspectors of the Bristol England
more than 1000 miles of ma chine made
cigarettes are turned out weekly from
the districts aforesaid.
Probably the smallest village In the
United Kingdom is Bagley Wood, about
three and half miles from Abingdon.
1t was formerly the abode Of hermit
and has only four inhabitants now.
Jonathan Hutchinson's allegation
years ago that the prolonged use of
arsenic gave rise to callosities on the
palms and soles which in certain cases
turned to cancer are said to have been
confirmed.
Betting on the results of the recent
municipal elections at Rome was per
nitted by the government The wager
ing was conducted on the parmutuel
system, and the profits We're devoted
to charitable purposes.
The authorities in Cape Colony have
made an enactment forbidding the
practice of medicine to all foreign ply
slcians in whose home countries SIM
liar privilege Is not accorded to resi-
dent practitioners in Cape Colony.
Within the last two years two new
words, with many others, have been
introduced into the English language
communicating, polite word for
theft, and "morganeering" the legal
acquisition of the property of others.
While demolishing an ancient church
at Lalinde, near PerigueuX, France,
some workmen found an egg apparent
ly in perfect state Of preservation
imbedded in the mortar Of a wall that
had been standing for fully 800 years.
The smallest state in Brazil is Ser
gipe with an area of 10, 1875 square
miles and population of 100000, most
ly mixture of Portuguese, negroes
and Indians. 1t is purely an agri-
cultural state, yet there is an almost
entire lack of agricultural implements
There are 257,0O6 names in the new
city directory of Boston, an increase
Of 4,722 over the number last year
Surprisingly, the John Sullivuns this
year outnumber the John Smiths
three to one, but there are no indica-
tons that the Smiths are in danger
Of extinction.
Five of the twenty fellowships re-
Gently awarded in the department Of
philosophy, University of Pennsyl-
vania, were given to women. Most Of
these fellowships carry with them an