Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-10-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

tons of coal annually.
The gross tonnage Of Pittsburg prod
ucts exceeds 46,OOO,OW.
Licenses have been taken out for
100000 bicycles in France.
Tugboat owners on the Rhine have
combined to raise towage rates.
There are now some six Europeans
in the Buddhist priesthood in Burma.
Deep sea water for study Is procured
by means of specially prepared bot
ties.
India rubber and gutta percha trees
have been discovered in German New
Guinea.
A calf with two tongues Is now In
the possession of a farmer at Rossert,
north Wales.
In the United Kingdom last year
1927 persons were killed while at work
and 1O7,29O others injured
In London 1G,4OO laborers on the av-
erage find employment daily at the
docks and principal wharfs
The processes now in use for collect
ing tin from the waste Of sheet tin by
electrolysis is comparatively costly.
Leeds, England, possesses factory
chimney modelled on the beautiful cam
panile designed by Giotto at Florence.
Instruction in the art of reading rail
way time tables is now being given to
his pupils by schoolmaster In Silesia.
One Australian syndicate has Of
fered General De Wet $3.50 weekly and
expenses for a lecturing tour In Aus
tralia.
Seattle's exports to Japan are now
about $5.OOO,00O per annum, which is
eleven times what they were six years
ago.
Four tons is the weight of twenty
foot grampus which has been captured
by the crew of an Irish fishing boat OF
Kinsale.
Gaelic Is the only language spoken
by 9.442 inhabitants Of Galway, 2,458
of whom are between three and eight
cen years Of age.
Cheap soft goods made In Belgium
and Switzerland are rapidly ousting
Manchester (England) fabrics from the
Mozambique market.
Three hundred and fifteen shoals In
various parts Of the world were de-
clared dangerous to navigation last
year by British admiralty surveyors.
Dumfries has just revived the an
Client system Of shooting for the Siller
gun presented to the trades Of the
town by King James vi. Of Scotland.
Between 1000 and 5000 packages Of
home grown figs are now being dis
patched every week from Worthing.
growing industry.
Germany furnishes more than one
fourth of the foreign born immigration
to this country 258 per cent; Ireland is
next with 1873 per cent. and England
follows with 81 per cent.
Notices of dismissal have been served
on the golfers in the Bochum and
Dortmund districts, Westphalia. where
1t has been decided to restrict the out
put Of coal
Lectures on the editing and publish
ing of newspapers will be given at the
High School For Journalists, which Is
to be opened in the autumn at the Uni
versity of Bern.
The spirits monopoly has been ex-
tended throughout the greater part of
central Asia and the northern eau
casus. All efforts to introduce local
option in European Russia have failed.
In its upper reaches the river Rhone
has risen yard in one day. In the
Vaud canton the snakes which have
been ousted from their holes by the
foods are so numerous as to constitute
a plague.
The commission appointed to reap
portion Oklahoma has announced the
total population Of the territory to be
100000, with one representative for
every $4,000 people and one senator for
every $4,000.
The great advantages that have &C.
crued to California cities from using
oil to lay the dust instead of water
are being recognized by many cities,
and especially in those in which the
supply Of water is rather limited.
An ''armored waistcoat; price, 80
shillings; carriage paid" has been in
vented by French tradesman at
Charleville, who recommends it espe-
cially for the use of ambassadors and
members Of parliament. journalists
and others exposed to danger.
A petition Of Berlin land and house
owners against the new elevated cleo.
trio railway, on the ground that it's
clatter deprecated their property by
driving away tenants, has found no
favor with the president of police. He
says that Berliners will get accus-
toned to the innovation.
A thoroughbred Great Dane at hos
pital near the Washington ZOO Is rails.
ing lion cub with the rest of her lit
ter. Two African lion cubs were born
at the zoo recently, and after th.e moth
er killed one the other was put in with
the Great Danes litter. The dog treats
the cub better than its own mother
did.