Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-10-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In Scotch rivers
An epidemic of scarlet fever mas
been traced to tame pigeons In Clnclh'
natl.
Gray has been decided on by the
kaiser as the color Of the German ar
my war uniform.
The Detroit river is the outlet of the
greatest bodies of fresh water IN the
world, aggregatng $4,000 square miles
of lake surface.
Ajaccio, III Corsica, the birthplace OF
NAPOLEON, has a new telephone serV-
ice. At present its subscribers are
three IN number.
The population of the entire Austria
liam commonwealth is but few thou
sand greater than that of New York
city-viz 3.775, 12S.
The electrical police ambulance aft
er a severe test has been placed in reg
ular service by the police commission
ers of Hartford, Conn.
During a recent cyclone at karachl
British India, trains were stopped by
the force of the wind, which blew at
the rate of 100 miles an hour.
Singapore possesses a curiosity IN
the shape of Chinese dwarf who Is
barely forty inches in height and Is ell
dowcd with fine gray beard.
Enough coal was produced in the
United States last year to give three
and a half tons to every one of the
76.0OO,NO men, women and children
In the country.
The great fleet of sailing vessels
which for move than a century has
been going out from Gloucester, Mass,
is destined to give place to steam
propelled fishing boats.
A. l.. Rotch, who has been studying
the German scientific methods of OBJ
servations in the upper air, says that
everywhere he found the Blue hill kite
had been adopted by the German OBJ
servers.
One Of the most important industries
attaching to the cheap power now pro
duced by Niagara is the electrical tear
ing apart of the molecule of common
salt, resulting In the formation OF
caustic soda and bleaching powder.
On the Pacific coast are found nu
merous little shells of sea snals of
species called the "olivella" because Of
their resemblance to olives, out of
which the Indians used to cut disks
that We're extensively used for coins
or the silks used in the United States
$50 ,Ooo.0oo worth are imported and
$10l 100000 worth homemade. The do
nestle silk industry employs 24,000
men. $4,000 women and 5000 children
In 4s' mills, with ssh. 900, 600 capital.
Many steanlpipe explosions are due
to water hammer action. A plug of
water only six inches long propelled
only two feet under a pressure of Gf-
teen pounds can exert Il pressure Of
400 pounds on being suddenly stop
ped.
Colorado is great honey producing
state. One Colorado apiarist keeps his
bees busy collecting honey all the year
'ound by turning them loose in his
alfalfa fields in the summer and in
winter shipping them to a plantation
n Florida.
A peasant woman at Salcine-des-S us,
ioumania, has Just died at the age of
81 years, the figures being fully sub
tantiated by documents IN the DOS
session Of her family. For the past ten
ears she had lived entirely on milk,
icing toothless.
The leading swine raising states are,
n their order Iowa, Illinois, Missouri 4
Nebraska, Indiana and Kansas. Iowa,
With 9,l23,19l, has 1871 per cent of all I
he hogs in the United States, and they
onstitute nearly one-hfth of the
wealth of the state.
Garrick's villa. at Hampton, is to be
emolished to make way for a tram
way extension. The granite posts at
he entrance to the house, where Da-
id Garrick. the actor, resided for
ears, were originally part of the foun.
ations of old London bridge.
Kansas City woman who made
)me shirts for her husband few DAYS
60 made a discovery that was curl.
us to her. In woman'S waist the
ght hair of the front buttons over
II left half. In Il mans shirt, open
| front, the left half buttons over the
..nu half.
y petition of Berlin land and house
Nncrs against the new elevated clcc.
&c railway on the ground that its
after deprecated their property by
living away tenants has found no ia
~ with the President of police. He
lys that Bcrlit.urs will Get nccus
med t. Tie Innovation
The Ia.; ,Aat V&> Cr:t raised over
ut IonrtSol, Team, after Is sl.rrcn.
T to Gp"""'.! & .?'Nt on N>n. ~. l>42,
Is l.'r:l llr SrHt>d to the state Of Col.
at o Us 81! addition to Ike collection
var rr..'r in th2 capitol II is r.. 80
bunting. : ~ 10 t.pt IL size. u..0
oW> til" c,.V"tS Of n'Uch use. =,
BELGIAN cities are liable for all t.~..
e done 20 private property by riot L
: and lruSNclS has uccortlingiy been
dored by the court to pay $1,000 faY
ndoWS Snlasunu during the riots of n
30. The riuting hast spring WAS
1ph nol,n S.p,p,1c and I,u =