Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
FOREIGN NOTES.
Stamford, V

Png-pong sets are being shipped to
West Africa
Poppy cultivation is driving out wheat
growing around Foochow. in China. OPP
ium producing pays very much better.
Not 10 per cent of the large wage-earn-
crs in the English cutlery trade save a
farthing. declares the Lord Mayor of Shelf
field
For using threatening "deaf and dumb
language toward his father and brother a
deaf mute has been bound over to keep
the peace at Blackburn. England.
Norway, Ireland. and Spain have more
blind people in proportion to population
than any other European countries. Spain
10" per 10OCCo Norway 20S, and Ire
land III.
Mexican government has ordered
that all railway employees coming iGto
contact with the public must be able 20
speak the Spanish language well enough
to deal directly with the passengers. Pull
man car employees will he principally s.f-
fcCted.
The metric system is already pernis.ive
and legal in Great Britain and in the Uni
TED States. Any manufacturer or merchant
who wishes to increase his foreign trade
is entirely at liberty to make his goods
with metric dimensions and to invoice
them in metric measures.
Excavations which for the last six weeks
have been proceeding in the neighborhood
of Praunhen have led to the uncovering
of Roman cemetery the extent of which
shows it to be the most important discov-
cry of its kind in Germany Already. as
the result of operations upon a small por-
ton $50 graves have been exposed to view
and there have been numerous finds of
small articles.
England is likely to have an academy
u
ton has been presented to the prvy coun-
ell for a charter OF incorporation for THE
British Academy for Promotion of Histor-
iCal, Philosophical and Pathological Sub
jcCts." Among lesser names suggested by
the incorporators for the first fellows are
Lord Acton, Arthur James Balfour, John
Morley and James Bryce.
a womans club in Berlin offers a prize
of 1000 marks for the best "catechism OF
the woman question
In 1877 there were high schools for
, 1926 German pupils In Hungary. To-day
all these schools have ceased to exist.
The longest stretch of railway without
curve is 2ll miles, from Buenos Ayres tC
the foot of the Andes, on the now Argen
tine Pacific railway.
In Java there Is an orchid the gram
, matophylium, all tho flowers of which
, open at once as IL by the stroke of 6
, fairy wand, and they also all wither to-
, gother.
: The Sultan OF Morocco is having cap
tive balloon constructed with a volume
. of 900 cubic yards, which will lift three
persons to a height of 1000 feet. 1t will
| nave telephone communication with thu
l ground
The longest bridge In the world Is th'
: Lion bridge, near Sangang. In China. L
extends five and one-quarter miles over al
r arm Of the Yellow Sea, and is support
ed by 800 huge stone arches. The road
= way is 70 feet above the water and is in
' closed in an iron network
In Spain a man who works on farm
. receives about rs cents day. In thu
> vinegar wages range from IA cents {
. day for women and boys to n cents {
i day for unskilled men and to AZ or Sc cent
. for those upon whose skill the whole re
n sponsibilty OF the raisin crop rests.