Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-06-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES


the Swiss city of Luctrne last year.
Twenty-seven thousand vessels enter
the port Of London in the course of a
year.
The smoking Of dried colts foot
leaves antedated the introduction of
tobacco in England.
Probably the oldest dog in the state
Of Maine is Jack, owned by G. e. free
man Of Norway. Mr.. Freeman claims
that the dog is thirtytwo years old.
There were 35,91S emigrants from
Ireland to England last year, an in
crease of AGA over the previous year,
this being the first time in FIVE years
that an increase has been recorded.
Cocoa importations into the United
States are now averaging more than
$1,OOO,O00 month against $3.50, 600 per
month a decade ago. Meantime i'm
portations of both tea and coffee show
a decline.
In his Queens Of Spain" Major
Hume says that Isabella l. authorized
the burning of 700 persons in Seville
alone and condemned 5000 more to life
imprisonment and the confscation of
their property.
Mayor Fitzgerald observed Arbor day
by planting an elm tree on Boston Com
mon. The tree is an offspring Of the
Washington elm at Cambridge. which
was presented to the city by Jackson
Dawson of the Arnold arboretum.
William Blount of Bayonne, N. j., is
only fourteen years old, but has run
away from home 100 times. He has
been publicly spanked in court and
threatened with hanging, but these
methods of correction have no effect.
DIR. Paul Prayer, an army surgeon
Of Vienna, suggests that molds of the
mouths of prisoners would be much
better than finger prints for Identified
ton purposes, as the palate remains
absolutely unchanged throughout life.
A complete set of the signatures OF
the signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence recently sold In New York fol
$3.50. A Portsmouth IN. H. man hat
cludes that of Button Gwinnett, which
Is very rare.
Northeast Australia develops very
slowly Farmers grow maize In tn,
old fashioned way The maize crop IL
Queensland this year is record one
portant industry in Queensland. Opa
mining is growing steadily.
The lack of railroad transportation
has been the main cause of keeping tn,
state of Sinaloa from taking her posi-
ton as one of the leading and larges
states of Mexico, it having $500
square miles of splendid farming Lane
and thousands of rich undevelope,
mines.
A little bit of land, not too far from
thes city, if intelligently cultivated, de
clares Bolton Hall, author of "Thre
Acres and Liberty" will support
family and give them a life far NOR
wholesome than they could ever hav
In the crowded city. Intensive cult
walton is the password now.
Charles Doolittle Walcott, the pey
head Of the Smithsonian institution Fo
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of New York and in 1888 attended tn
international geological congress 4
London, where he won much praise fo
his addresses. Since 1902 he had bee
secretary Of the Carnegie institute
He lives in Washington.
The home Of the poet Keats In h
Piazza di Spagni, Rome, which is t
be preserved as a memorial to Keat
and Shelley, will be overhauled, an
the floor on which Keats lived will
made into a memorial museum.
fund for the purchase Of furniture ha
been started by Nelson Gay Of Boston
secretary Of the local committee.
Baron d'Estournelles de COnstan
one of the prominent figures at tn
peace congress in New York, is a men
Der of the French senate, an officer Q
the Legion Of Honor, author lecture
and champion Of international arbitrt
ton. He came to this country as hea
Of the French section at the congress
and his motto is, my country's goo
through the peace of the world"
A New York woman who has Ell
plOyed several japanese male SER
ants declares that she will have n
more Of them. II do not care" sh
says, ito have a butler or waiter VIII
however humble he may appear, ca
ries with him the air Of knowing MOI
about everything than i do. A Jap'
nese servant will do as he is told, b,
his manner Of doing 1t suggests tht
he knows a better way"
According to a Shelbyville corr
spondent, Combs P. Parrish Of thu
city claims the stump removing chan
pionship Of Indiana. Parrish has bee
in the business of stump blowing II
twenty-eigbt years. A few mont
ago on the Adams farm, near Shelb.
Vile, he removed 1900 stumps. H
record for fast work was In Marc
when in FIVE days, with the assistant