Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-02-04
FOREIGN NOTES.

Thibet. "the roof of the world" is n
tableland three times as large as France.
orders have recently boon executed in
Japan for supply of fishing nets for Al
aska, valued at $4,000.
The Brighton England Aquarium has
II tanks and is I15 feet long by loo feet
wido. 1t is the largest in the world.
AS a consequence of the famine times
Stockholm legislators proposed a tax upon
all persons weighing more than rs
pounds,
Thirty convicts recently escaped from
the Nkolosl-Ussur Jail, in Siberia, by
driving IA tunnel lS0 feet long under the
building.
Parisians smoke cigarettes made of the
leaves of the coffee plant Those vino
have tried them prefer them to tobacco
cigarettes
During the last six months Ireland sent
TO Great Britain 1iS,10l more cattle. 1oS 1GO
moro sheep and only 1i2 fewer horses than
were received from all the rest of the
world
Inmates of s.. Asaph workhouse in
Wales, possess a pony and phaeton, Il
piano and a library of more than 600 vol
umos. All are provided by generously dis
posed persons in the district.
Work is to begin Immediately on the
erection of q large museum in Ottawa, to
bc called the Victoria National Museum
which is 90 he the center of literary and
scientific Nork in Canada.
The frequent discovery of new diamond
mines in the Transvaal and Orange River
colony is resulting in important orders be
ing placed with British manufacturers
for diamond washing machinery.
The zebrula, the cross between the zebra
and the horse, has been under test III
Germany. and is claimed to be less liable
to disease than the mule. liveicr and bet
ter adapted to transport work
In consequence of the reduction of the
French import duties on sugar, which
came into force ON September !, last
year. the amount consumed in France IN
the three months following showed an in
crease of - 900 tons
During January and February 400 acres
OF hiEh-grade cotton will hc planted in
Antigua. There are now 400 acres under
cotton cultivation in the smaller islands
Of the West Indies During the summer
a sample of Sea Island cotton was re
ceived at Liverpool from Barbados, and
it was declared to he the best cotton ever
seen in England.
| The historic old bus" which for ages
| has done service carrying passengers and
| the mails between various towns in the
section OF Baden where the steam rail
roads do not touch. is giving way tc
| large automobiles. which travel much
more rapidly and are much more com
| Portable.
| Consumption of earth as food Is said to
be common not only in China, New Gale
donna and New Guinea. but in the Malay
Iarchpclago as wen. The testimony of
many travellers in the Orient is that the
yellow races are especially addicted 10 the
practice. In Java and Sumatra the clay
used undcrgoes "A preliminary preparation
| for consumption being mixed with water
reduced TO "A paste and the sand and Other
hard substances removed The clay is
then formed into small cakes or tablets
about as thick as a lead pencil and bakeJ
in an iron saucepan. When the tablet
energies from this process it resembles
a piece of dried pork The Japanese fire.
quently eat small figures roughly modelled
from clay. which resemble the animals
turned cut in pastry shops,