The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-18
eLEANINes AND GossIp.

in grape culture in France.
Fifty-two languages and dialects are
spoken along the banks Of the Danube.
The average life of the native Of In.
dia is only "a years, while the AVERAGE
IN England is a.
The Missouri hen beat out the Mis-.
souri, mule last year, as she did SAL.
6i2,26l worth Of business.
II Is now officially announced that
John D. RoekefelIer's wig failed to fool
Ida Tarbel. She knew him even in his
disguise.
Onto is the only city in the world
which is exactly on the equator, and the
sun rises and sets at 6 o'clock there
every day in the year.
Now that jerome has declared th@.
he will enforce the multiplying law in
New York he may find there are few
things which even he cannot do.
The Smith family recently held ia
annual reunion in one OF the small New
Jersey towns and over 400 Smiths were
present John led numerically. as rs.
ual
The new crown princess Of Germany
has introduced the fashion Of carving
walking sticks. The kaiser probably
gave lis approval, 50 everything is all
right.
A couple al Verjux, France, have re-
Gently had the unusual pleasure Of ceIe.
brating the 18th anniversary Of their
wedding The man is 100 years old and
the woman 30.
The automobile has taken strong
hold in Peru, and already there are
number Of automobile omnibuses doing
good business at Lima. Each carries
80 passengers.
Ii took eight policemen To arrest
drunken soldier in London last week.
This was because London policemen are
not allowed 70 use their clubs except in
self defense.
1t Is now estimated that only two
flftls Of the people of the world have
come IN contact with census enumeF-
ator Holyuke should be able 10 find
some consolation ii this.
A Frenchman las invented a she'll Eli.
ed with oil, which can be fired into a
stormy sea and exploded. Il is said
that the Oil is 10 quickly scattered that
the waves are claimed At once
Georgia il still leading the world 81
peach producer, in spite 81 the chronic
reports Of failures Of the crop. There
are over 100000 peach trees IN the
state which bear fruit.
Miss Annie a. Baldwin az Newark n.
u, has retired from the service 81 the
city after having been teacher ia
the public schools AZ years. She Is to
be given half pay for the rest 81 her
a traveller in an English railroad
train recently went to sleep and was
carried BY The station for which Bis
ticket was bought He was taken from
the train at the next station and pas
under arrest for riding without q tie.
ket.
\ lawyer in Ireland was defending B
man charged with theft and while ex-
aiming the prisoner was d bit snrpris
ed that his client was wearing a pair Of
shoes which had been stolen from him.
The proprietor 81 one al the Alpine
hvtei has the following rather START
ing notice posted III every bedroom ii
the house: Mistefs the venerable
Royagers aud mesdames are requested
earnestly not TO take the clothes Of
me bed % see tie sun rise, for the
color changes"
Madrid still has the medieval night
Waterman. They admit late corners to
the apartment houses II night, but no
longer sing out the hour or the condition
q the weather. The still 10 hy the
hanle Of Serene which they got from
MS TACT that, az il seldom rains in
SPAN, Their cries about the weather gen.
eIaiiy end with that word (las tres y
MARX Twain while at his summer
residence prepared one evening To take
drive and expecting to remain out in.
81 late, tod bus hostleF that he need
~ wait for him. He instructed the
i liail' however, when he had finished
his work q lock the stable ana place
sae Sey under stone. the location Of
Mheh Ar. Clemens described with much
,Aaethess. When tie humorist reached
nome alter his drive he was surprised
e md that the Ike was noe ii tbe place
selected. When his patience was ex-
1880 rs evoke the hostler, who ex-
plailed, q be started out to find the
1 s.ls7iiig Key, Mr. Clemens. ] found q
0ettef place to hide it.p