Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-30
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Queen of Siam has the smallest
foot of any titled person in the world.
She wears one and a half Incl boots.
During the last ten years the single
product of sisal fiber has yielded In Yucca
tan the enormous sum OF 297, 600. 900 Next
can silver dollars.
Oil has been discovered on the Is
land of Wakenaam, vt the mout of the
Essiquibo river, Demerara, at a depth
of eighty feet.
Two ancient carthcnwnrc crooks. con-
tanning bronze and silver coins of the
Roman period, have been dug up in
Crowley wood. England.
The women of ObadJona wear orna-
ments on the upper lip. which is en-
larged by inserting small pieces or wood
or stone until the lip protrudes sufi-
GENTLY.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Weber. of Lem
berg, has been appointe' by the Pope as
bishop for the United States To look af-
ter the welfare of the 100000 Poles in
America.
The Great Western Railway Company,
England, has an ambulance corps which
it drills In rescuing supposed victims of
railroad accidents and giving first aid to
the injured.
Undertaking to live for twenty-one
days on four meals a day of canned
meat and fish. a man has offered him
self to Armour & Company for exhibit
ton In London.
Canada paid the following bounties for
the first eleven months at the 1906 fiscal
year: 1924. 1871 on iron; $685. on steel;
s2S.44O on steel rods; s1s,4'S on binder
Irvine and s267, 04S on crude oil.
Four thousand workmen are employed
in the manufacture of straw braids and
Quay, and so, 900 women and children de-
vote their spare time to braiding and
plating.
A native doctor in India, in certifing
to n death, wrote: Il am OF a nd that
he died. Cor lost his lifel for want of
foodlngs or on account of starvation.
Maybe also for other things of his
comfortables."
France, with her population Of less
tiin fo,Wp,uuV, mas IL ndliolldI luueUteu-
ness of more than 5000. 100, 900, or about
sl56 per capita. The debt charges alone
entail a burden of more than 81 a year
on every man. woman and child.
There was a Shakespearean revival
in Hungary the other night. The man
ager of a thcater, in announcing the
production of Romeo and Juliet"
stated on the bill. the author Will be
present at the performance"
OF all the peoples OF Europe the French
have the fewest children and the Irirh
the most. The average French family
numbers, S.3 persons and the average Irish
family SO. In England the average Is IS.
day a woman, ~testifying to bad lang
uage used to her by another woman,
stated that her next door neighbor came
out to see what the trouble was, and
when she heard the language she dropped
dead
A facetious skipper, who approached
the Solomon Islands recently. flying a
black flag with a white skull and cross
bones on 1t, was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment and a $50 fine by
the British commissioner, whom he had
frightened nearly to death.
The japanese foreign trade for the first
FIVE months OF this year amounted to
s174. oOo.ONo or so, 900. 900 less thar in the
corresponding five months of 1906. The
whole Of the decline was In imports, in
which there was a large falling off be-
cause OF the close of the war.
Bishop Mandell Creighton was once
asked the difference between a Cambridge
man and an oxford man. The professor,
as he was at the time, replied: AN OK
ford mar looks as If the world belonged
to him; n Cambridge man as II he didn't
care to whom the world belonged"
A supplementary royal charter Is being
sought by the University of New Zea-
land to enable it to confer degrees of a
novel character. Among them was
bachelor, master and doctor of COM
merce. public health, agriculture, en-
cheering. dental surgery and veterinary
SC .ence,
A writer in London Vanity Fair says:
Il would pass a law compelling every
Highland laddie, not only to speak
Gaelic. but to wear the Kilt, and every
Highland lassie to appear in a tartan
f. ok and with bare feet. They would
marry we'll among the pick OF the tour
ists.'
Eleven railway bridges span the
Thames. Four thousand postmen de-
liver 1900, 900 letters weekly. walking a
distance equal to twice the circum-
ference of the globe. There are 10000
miles of overhead telegraph wires and
and the number OF telegraph messages
received In London in a year Is 6.0OO.O 900.
The largest loaves OF bread baked in
the world are those OF France and Italy.
The pipe" bread OF Italy Is baked in
loaves two feet or three feet long; while
lin France the loaves are made In the
shape OF very long rolls. -FOUR feet or five
feet In length, and. in many cases. even
six feet.
There are in Germany 2,50s co-opera-
tive stores societies.. having a member
ship of over 1900, 900. The value of