Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-31

! O00n Wdbueu AsnOre ueaE SWs"S
Wales.
In. Berlin 1913 public buildings are
| owned by the state and 497 by the
municipality.
Bicycles are taxed In Vancouver, b
c., the municipal revenue from that
source last year being f557.
| Penrith. Cumberland. England is TO
be lighted by electricity, power being
obtained from the river Eamopt.
| Wire screens are now place! IN .he
tramway cars at New Orleans To Sepa-
rate negroes from White passengers.
While $500 coal cutting machines are
used in United States mines, there are
less than 400 such machines in British
collerics.
Her puppy having died, a To-. ,l.Iier
| at Twickenham Is now contentedly act
ing as foster mother to coul<i of
young kittens.
Under light anasthesia ammonia ap-
piled to a cats nose will cause car
do inhibition and rise of blood pres
sure In rabbits the effect is the same.
Bullets shot In military target prac-
tice nowadays are caught on An In
clined surface made of sheet iron back
Of the target, are remelted and become
bullets again.
In Worcestershire, England, 499 wo-
men are engaged making anchoTs.
while 7O3 others make needles and
1,o44 nails Nearly all are married wo-
men or widows.
BY order of the japanese empress
wooden legs have just been distributed
to the seven manned survivors Of the
Aomori disaster, when 200 japanese
soldiers were frozen to death.
Reports from Manitoba show an i'm
mense increase In the production OF
wheat in that section. This must 10
greater or lesser extent affect the pro
duction Of this grain in the United
States.
The decision Of the directors Of the
theater at Halle, In Germany, to als-
tinguish by means of red and white
advertising posters between plays that
are At for young persons to witness
and those that are not is causing sems
Amusement.
| All q lUUucl a uAuIhSh oNo'Pe"A 49,
hired a full grown lion from menag'
erie. The animal eats twelve pounas
Of horsefesh daily and drinks ten gal
Ions Of milk. The cost Of its food and
its keepers pay Is SO day. The
menagerie is to receive $500 # the
: Hen dies.
: According to the statistical register
Of South Australia, Germany supplies
considerably more than half of the fer
eigners who take out papers of natu-
. ralizat ton. Out Of total of 3,76S the
Germans numbered 1904. China came
next, with 2S4; then Scandinavia, 30,
and Austria, 115.
An international agreement for tie
:, protection of birds that are useful to
agriculture was signed at Paris this
year by representatives Of Belgium,
France, Switzerland, Sweden Spain,
Portugal, Austria Hungary. Greece and
{ the principaiities of Monaco, Lichten.
. stein and Luxembourg.
= The kaiser has had carriage built
:. from his own designs for use for hAe
:, correspondence on the field. 1t II
= drawn by six horses and is always neal
- At hand. Writing material is stored n
drawers, and by letting down pane
q convenient writing table is formed
= 1t has roof and canvas sides, permit
u ting its use in all weathers.
A typewriter for the pocket Is one Of
the latest bits of American ingenuity
specially designed to meet the require
:. ments of Journalists and authors whit
:. need to take notes under condition.
- where pencil and paper would not IN
- convenient. 1t may be worked withou
- removing the hands from the pocket
= It Is four inches long by three inche'
- wide.
y. In a dispatch from Moscow the coz
respondent of the London Daily MAJ
avs that DR.. Koulatke has succee0et
In his experiments In terminating III
- heart of an infant which he had ex
y, tracted from a child who had dlet
:. twenty-four hours previously. III
~. heart beat with normal regularity 70
~ enc hour. DIR. Koulatke hopes that hi
NJ discovery will assist in termination i
N eases of death by drowning.
" 1t has been suggested that meme
" rial window be placed in WestmiHste
sbbey in honor of the late Duke o
Westminster. Considerable indignan
protest is being heard on the gronH
" that such honor should be reserved 10
I'd really great men. One critic says: "H
49, was merely a good average duke OF
IL kind that we breed MS easily e d
IN breed good average grocers. 1t If II
no tolerable that Westminster aux
n should be spoiled to do him poppo
h. nous honor" HfItt
The bulk of the British prese kw
made in London. reliable estima
gives the weekly output by LOntlo
or makers as 500 to GOO tons, and this Ou
.t; put is annually increasing. Taking tn
ds average net profit at $40 per ton, II
.. total profit amounts to about $11,0e
70 per week, or nearly 100000 per q
H. mum. This very safe estimate does
hnclude the profits accruing from
SoI n