Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

e The Hamburg American line now ia
: ninety-eight ocean steamers.
The prairie dog in some parts OF w
west Is as great a nuisance as the rap
bit in Australia.
The population Of the Australian COM
monwealth according to the latest re
turns. is 8, 775,366.
In Europe the greatest average con
sumption of coffee is in Denmark ana
the least in Russia.
Americans have increased their sales
In Sydney. Australia, 100 per cent each
year for seven years.
Nome's population this winter Is estl-
mated at about 5000, which is l'5oo
less than last winter.
1t is possible in some cases to assist
| the process of seasoning by dissolving
the sap of wood by immersion in water.
Statistics recently published show
that Paris affords excellent climatic
conditions for the treatment of tuber-
culosis.
In the early machines electricity was
generated by turning a large glass
wheel which rubbed against silken
band or cloth.
The checks which pass through the
London clearing house in six weeks are |
more than equal in amount to all the
coin of the world.
Montreal is to forbid child insurance
on the ground that parents neglect
their suffering children upon whose
lives they hold policies.
Chinatown in San Francisco. accord
ing to the president of the board Of
health, should be burned. AS it is at
present it cannot be rendered sanitary
except by total obliteration.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are ,
10 have a residence on Deeside and ,
nave selected Cragowan, near Balmo- {
al, which. has hitherto been the resi- ,
lence of the kings commissioner.
The telephone has been government +,
in France since 1890 The
development outside of Paris has been h
light. Theirs are more telephones in =
lew York than in the whole of France. :,
Paris now has automobile fire en-. ~
ines which measure to 10 feet +,
'elgh 2l2 tons or when fully equipped W
$50 pounds. They start to work in +,
antly. The pump delivers twenty gal w
ms a minute. .,
In 1880 the area Of the national do lt
ain occupied by the Indians aggregat- h;
lldWo'OoO acres. Today it aggre-
les Soo0O,000 acres, which is about
much land as we have in the states
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. :
There seems to be no longer any r.,
ubt that Italy will within few a..
afs turn from sugar importing to a mr.,
gar exporting country. The past two vi,
lsons have witnessed a remarkable
'elopment of the beet sugar indus, r-
When the first Bible society in this WIZ
lntry was organized, the English VIII
guage was spoken by only 2o.0OO.- VIZ
people. Now 120OOO.0UO people "
ak 1t. Then the Bible was printed in Isl
languages; now it is printed in 429
yuages
the capital of German
It Africa, which seven years ago
village Inhabited by a hundred
YES, is now town with 800 Euro. M
l and 21,Oo0 native inhabitants II n|
'hree hotels, several hundred NJ
rs and newspaper. MA
is estimated that the value of land VIII
rural delivery routes has increas. WI
rom - to So an acre. Then too Nj
is an educational value in tie ru, R,I
rec dellvery in that thousands more E'~'
'zlhes and periodicals are finding htI
way to peoples homes,
rye quantities of dried inkbags of
and squid are received hr
80 eoiofh'eh Tor manufacture into 4is
~ mas been suggested that the
ouh0lahd fishermen, who animal, one l
s'roy large number of these mol. HIS Il
might make a constituencies na satin.
y saving and selling their nkhors The
nerville is tho mama ot o.. down
"n on record. 1t is located siv. was
iiiies north Of Rice Lake. Wis can
le town site comnonr o,,.. W., third
OF land. No one was allowed iohsel
''e until Oct. Is, but the president .eht,
Town was elected beforehand h'''a
'llce appointed, who now rulo thn nave
with an iron hand. spare
her bird believed to have ho
,N''''ct IS the California condor A,,
- ''rSe as the condor of the A,' Wy oDi
Is length Was ) feet, weight ., nr' ~ Il
ana spread of wings - feet u VIC
vi inns bird is worth S., 600 +o , u.ol''e
rs Dut none has been found for ,.'', IN n
em years. Eggs of The golden i So VI. "A Il
sen IN San Francisco for 500 na, un u
: 'he last century the popu,o. When r'il
, ,s territory which now con. Avres "
ere German empire has ve,r Tho NV
u, "epied Notwithstanding tho ,ioned IL
rs emigration 1t has incroos, .a"'u'
100000 to nearly GO LOCO ~" ~W ,Teu a
;ermanr ,,i,,, e>e'e rate Of in Ro9?'
100, OO0 ooo hae. nave a popula. thought
ury. e'ose OF men sen
on ror "a. Mrs. H.
populated city in the rnita" Dnera d
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