Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-11-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Z An average Britisher Is as strong ia
two Hindoos.
There are four milllonaires In Eng.
land to one In France.
G. Uz Of Sarget, Mo-, has possibly
the shortest surname on record
japanese coiners are alleged to be
flooding Korea with counterfeit cash
The various countries of the world
use 13,4OO different kinds Of postage
stamps.
There az In this country LILA unions
Of carpenters and joiners. embracing a
membership Of 10000 persons.
During the past Ave months 1000
marine firemen on the Atlantic coast
have Joined the Marine Firemen's
union.
Every rural school in Sweden pos
sesses a garden In which the scholars
receive practical instruction In horti-
culture.
Fifty pounds was the weight Of the
heaviest salmon caught in the river
Severn, England. during the past
season.
One thousand six hundred and fifty
six stray dogs were captured in London
and taken to the Battersea dogs home
last month.
Books Of an educational character
are borrowed by $40 per cent of the
readers using the West Ham (EnglandD
public libraries.
Many Of the men now on tramp In
Wales are stated to be reservists. or
those discharged after short service
In South Africa.
Forty-three inches was the length
and 6 pounds 5 ounces the weight of
grass snake which has been killed at
Wisbech, England.
The Union Labor party of Queens
land; Australia, has elected twenty
four members to the legislature and
polled 2S.50O votes.
Halifax is considering a scheme for
the establishment Of municipal hotel
and restaurant near the corporation
reservoir at Ogden.
Every class now seems to have a
special newspaper or organ in Paris.
A weekly has now been started In the
interests Of the police.
There are about 100000 farms in
the United States. Of which 100000
produce corn. The average cost Of
producing an acre of corn is 1913.
Wages Of the working people of the
United Kingdom, according to official
statistics, showed decrease Of 1920
600 last year compared with the pre-
ceding year.
Hundreds Of carcasses of sheep are
now being washed up on the French
coast near Calais. They are believed to
be part Of jettisoned cargo Of New
Zealand mutton.
Torquay, England, has municipal
rabbit warren where over $4,000 rab-
bits have been trapped during the past
year and sent for sale in the northern
and midland markets.
There is marked increase in the
growth of rice in Texas and Louisiana,
so marked that the industry is spoken
Of as being transferred from the south
Atlantic states to this new territory.
Fifty-eight feet is the height of a
colossal monument to the late Prince
Henry Of Orleans which is to be erect
ed on Cape st. Jacques, at the mouth
Of the Saigon river. French Cochin
China
A recent cure for consumption advo-
Gated by an Irish physician, DR.. w. G.
Utnchin, is the inhalation of the vapOr
of garlic juice. The doctor claims that
by this method he has effected some
remarkable cures.
Germany has been experimenting
with the American system of checking
baggage and likes it so well that it liz
to be more generally used on the rail
ways. Under the old German system
every man had to look after and iden-
tify his own baggage.
The International life saving con-
gress at Nantes advocates the regula-
ton Of the speed of vessels in foggy
weather, the establishment Of an inter
national maritime bureau and the car
rying of a rocket apparatus by every
warship and trading vessel.
At the recent annual exhibition of
the Societe de Physique in Paris Pro-
fessor Curie exhibited a piece of pure
metallic radium. 1t was about an inch
in diameter each way, and it had cost
$4,000 to extract this small quantity
from several tons Of barium salts.
The census reports that there are CPL |
musical instrument factories in this |
country, Of which 263 are piano facto-
ries. The annual products are worth |
$45, 100000. The figures show a great |
decline in the number Of organs made |
and an increase in the number of pi- |
amos.
NJ Michonis, French millionaire,
has bequeathed $4,000 as a fund to |
enable French students to study phi
losophy and religious sciences in Ger
man universities and $35, 900 more to
+ hS~r r1I l.