Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
FOREIGN NOTES.

Twenty-four persons living in County
Tpperary, Ireland, are centenarans.
A new lighthouse costing over $500 900
is In course of erection al Folkestone.
change in the management of Dub
lin University will permit women here
after to graduate from that institution.
Although the Suez canal is only 90
miles long it reduces the distance from
England to India by sea nearly 1000
miles.
The biggest wheat field in the world
Is in the Argentine. 1t belongs to an
Italian named Guazone and covers just
over 100 square miles.
burglars unable to break through the
iron door of cigar shop in Berlin aveng-
ed themselves by painting up a notice:
There is nothing here worth stealing"
Liverpool and Manchester, hitherto
deadly rivals in trade, have entered into
partnership in order to bring about cot
ton growing within the British Empire
In some of the Partisan cemeteries
there are open vaults connected with
electrical appliances to prevent the burial
of persons who may be only in a trance.
The island of Null off the coast of Scot
land claims the record i'm adders. One
was killed there recently by a game
keeper.
One consequence of the Belgium anti
gambling law is that even the game Of
Lotto has been prohibited in the fisher
mems public houses at Blankenberghe,
near Ostend,
Baron de Sbert has entered an action
against the Paris Metropolitan Railway
| for twopence. the price of a toy balloon
| which his child was not allowed to take
| into one of the carriages, and was
obliged to leave behind him.
In the girls boarding school at Mona
stir, in the European Turkey Mission
| seven nationalities are represe nted-Bul'
garians, Albanans, Greeks. Gypsies
| Roumanians, Germans and Jews
German professors are not likely tc
| grow rich. Seven years ago l9l drew
salaries of $3.50 or less, 81 went as high
$40. "A up to $1,000, 80 up to $500 and p
| to 5000 There are IA that obtained
between that sum and 5000, 10 as high
as $4,000 seven up to 5000 and foul
above 5000,
Some workmen while digging gravel a
Wenden. Saffron Walden, England, nm
earthed a very rudely decorated cinerar!
urn, containing a quantity of dark eartl
mixed apparently with the cremated re
| mains OF a human DtlIs' me urn II
probably 1000 years old and OF Celti'
origin.
Beside the ever increasing revenue from
thousands of travellers Italy is earning
increased sums by her rapidly revivni
manufactures The waters of the Alp!
land Apennines are giving her as cheaI
power by means Of electrical plants al
coal is furnished to Belgium, Germany
England and the United States.
Hawaiian fuel has heretofore been Goa
from Australia chiefly. Within a yea
this will be entirely superseded with fue
from California, with saving of 80 I
50 per cent. in cost. Contracts have al
ready been signed for the delivery o
$50 600 barrels of fuel oil per annum I
Hawaii. and within a year the consump
ton will be 100000 barrels per annum.
German residents of Buenos Ayres ar
planning the organization Of union L
comprise all people of Germanic origi
living in the Argentine Republic, such a
Swiss, Dutch, Austrians and Scandana
VANS for the purpose of protecting tn
rights and interests of the member
against unfair treatment by the govern
ment A similar league is to be forme,
| in RraZiI also