Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-24
FOREIGN NOTES.

Juvenile crime in France has decreased
by 30 per cent. among boys and A. per
cent among girls since 1881.
a submarine boat to hold twelve per
sons driven by gas motor. has been
tried at st. Petersburg with favorable
results.
a socialist shopkeepcr at lie Mans.
Sarthe department, France has had the
front of his shop blown out by Il dyna-
mite bomb.
Belfast city corporation has decided to
place shelters for cousumptiVes in the
public parks. and protest meetings are
being held.
At a meeting of working men at Biz
minSham recently a resolution was pass
ed approving of Mr.. Chamberlain's fiscal
policy.
TO facilitate commercial relations the
Chinese Eastern railway is opening
SPECIAL commercial agencies in St. Pet
trShurE, Moscow and Warsaw.
The French government employs Loo
workmen and l5.u0o women in the state
tobacco manufacturers, and maket Il
profit of SS0,"n,0o0 a year.
Japan has erected Il consulate in St
Petersburg and the new consul NJ. Min
nowski. an exporter. has been instructed
Germany manufactures at present
about S2n,W0c1 worth of cotton goods
yearly. giving employment in it's cotton
Industries of all kinds to over 100000
workmen
Eucalyptus gum is the agent in new
understanding process, said to be great
success IN Victoria, Australia. 1t in
creases the rapidty of the work by 40
per cent
An Austrian colonel has just died. leav-
ing TO the Army museum. Vienna. a coll
lection of 5000 papier mache soldiers In
the uniforms OF most armies, past and
present.
Forty-iive members OF the Coldstream
Guards band recently sailed in the Par
islam from Liverpool for Canada. and will
perform at the Dominion exhibition Tor
onto, and elsewhere.
The new lava stream from Nesuvius
reaches to nearly a half mile from Pom
peii, and varies in width from 30 to 60
yards. The detonations and showers of
scoriae have ceased suddenly.
There were cremated last year in the
United States 3,15S bodies; England. 49,,
Germany, Sj6, Italy, 322; France. i.SO5
(of which 800 were paid for; paupers
are cremated): Switzerland, 2l7; sweden
"A; Denmark, A.
The Hygienic Congress at Berlin has
decided that quarantine ON persons COM
ing from countries where buboniC plague
is prevalent is VeNatious and that good
sanitation on board would be much
more effective way of dealing with the
plague.
Il knew l could do it," exclaimed a
lunatic who lay down on the tramway
lines in Paris in order to stop the ears
by the power of his eye" lie had
stopped several by lying ON the lines
in front of them. and when the police
interfered they were greeted with the
above remark.
rhe first meeting of landlord and
tenant in connection with the new Irish
Land Act took place at Irvniestown
when Edward Archdale. Castle Archdale
County Fermanagh, offered to sell his
tenants at % years purchase. With the
saying they could not give more than
%.
The English natural gas has two ad-
MANAGES over the American. In the
Heathileld district near London, all the
wells show pressure of at least 40
per square inch, which is enough to
The other advantage is that while Amer
lean gas. when burnt in IA fish-tail or
Argand burner, has practically no il
Illuminating power, the former, when
burnt under the same conditions cannot
be distinguished, save by an expert
from the ordinary coal gas in common
use. Heathheld gas gives 20 per cent.
more light than coal gas under like
conditions,