Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-21

l. our hungarian dcputleS, mCIuulng Tue
present prime minister. Count Tisza. who
had been sentenced to various terms of
Imprisonment for duelnG. have just been
pardcned by imperial decree.
On the ground that it has insulted the
army tho Spa nish anarchist journal, FL
Preductor. has been connscated by the
judiciary authorities.
Bullion City is to be the name OF a
town being built in the Lake kluhane dis
trict-a region on the northern borders Of
British Columbia-wh is stated to give
promise of being a second Klondike.
According to Russian reports. says tho
koenische Ieitung, the Shah of Persia
has granted to a Persian merchant a con-
cession for the construction OF a railway
from Toheran to Shimran. which is to be
completed III a year.
Foreign inventors are invited to take
part IN an electrical exhibition to be held
ut Warsaw from May to September next
year. All communications are to be ad-
dressed to Philharmonic Building. Mon
iuszki street. Warsaw.
1t is proposed. says the Petit Journal. to
run a through train by the trans Siberian
route from Calais to Pekin at tho begin
ming u the coming year.
Despite the hard times now experienced
in Johannesburg. 1t Is estimated that
amuSements.
II. IIcrrerschmidt. an engineer, has
stated. says the Petit Parisicn, that the
rec .ntly discovered gold reefs in the de
pertinent Of Maycnne France. may pos
shlY rival those OF Australia.
Tho rrefect Of the Seine having placard-
I'd Paris with posters describing the ter
rible effects of alcohol ard absinthe drink
ing, the Cai. proprictors each fled dam
az" suit aSains. him.
The Balkan committee learns that an
English Officer viii be sent to take part in
the reorganization Of the gcndarmer!e in
Macedonia, and that the recent consular
reports from that region will be published
IN due course in a blue book.
The worlds production of rubber was
two years ago almost equally divided
between Africa and South America. now
the Amazon region produces three-hfths
OF it.
During the last six months ireland sent
to Great Britain AS lOl more cattle. los. 100
more sheep and only ,42 fewer horses
than were received from all the rest of
the world.
Inmates OF St. Aslph workhouse, in
Wales, possess a pony and phaeton, "a
piano and a library of over six hundred
disposed persons in the district.
Work is to begin Immediately on the
erection Of a large museum in Ottawa,
to hc called the Victoria National Mu-
scum, which is to be the center OF lit
crary and scientific work in Canada.
The new Vesuvius electric railway is
working to the fullest satisfaction of the
builders Since its opening for passenger
traffc in September last over 800 tour
lists have used the new line.
There were found in the Tiber last
year tho bodies of 1870, dogs, 1876 cats,
/, $50 rats, 1al turkeys. 3 pigeons, ST can
aries. 80 other birds, liz hares. 81 rab-
bits, sheep. parrot and snake.
X has leen necessary for the Japanese
to import smokeless coal for the use OF
the feet, but n deposit of smokelcss coal,
underlying about 100 acres. has lately
been discopercd in Hokado.
The new trans Canadian route from
Liverpool to YokOhoma will be 200 miles
shorter than that across tho United
States.
In one of the streets of Vienna work
men have dug up part Of the stone
flooring OF a Roman house dating from
the third century.
Travelling baths on one OF the Russian
railways are the latest provision for its
employees comfort in the outlying dis
tricts.
Just quarter of n century has elapsed
since the first German crematory WAS
built at Ciotha To-day there are nine
crcmatories i'll Germany.
The climate of the German colony Kan
erun, in Africa, has been found favor
able to tea growing, and the government
has planted a large tract with tea shrubs.
Measurements of gravity throughout
Europe and Asia are expected to give a
better idea of variations in weight and
of distribution of the bulk OF the earth's
crust
In the Island of Luzon there are nearly
a million acres Of rolling pine land, with
no underbrush or tropical vegetation,
where the climate is like that of the
upper Allegheny mountains in June.
The mineral resources of Manchuria
as shown even by the surface scra itching
that has been done. are simply stupen-
dous. Az a wealth giver, IL may send
more TO ST, Petersburg for the next half
century than India will TO London.
The number OF cotton spndles in the
principal countries of the world is as
follows: Great Britain, 100000; CONT
nent of Europe SiUpooo; United States
(North), I5.Ono000 United States (South).
0Oo.00; East Indies, 5'cHo"o; Japan,