The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-04
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Mr. and Mrs Christopher Lewerence
Of Huclnall Torkard, Nots, claim to be
the oldest married couple in England
One May day they will have been mar.
ried ~ years. Lawrence is 92 and his
wife oil.
Dolphin NJ Delmas has accepted the
invitation Of the Kent club Of The Yale
law school To address ais soon as the
Thaw trial ends. He said in his letter
of acceptance that h expected to give the
address about April Is. He has chosen
as his subject 'sIlriminal Jurisprudence 2
On a tombstone in a churchyard at
Cover. Eng, the death Of a member Of
the Benson family Is recorded, and on
the other side appears; Also the body
"a William Dnman Benson, barristed-at-
law, who died .p Mir William is
not dead yet, having just been appoint
ed county court Judge, but it Is con
hdentlg xpcted that the vacent space
viii be needed sooner or later
According TO the Val Alumni Weekly,
the property Of the university which
IS exempted from taxation ii appraised
~ S9,4sl, 150, and increase Ut S255,00D
over the appraised tax exemptions Of
last year. Of the total exemptions, A.
bout S1,37o,000 belongs 70 til Sheffield
semitic school. The old campus, as
land, is valued at $i033 400. and the
buildings on thi campus at $s2,4s3,500.
The hotel.keepers and tradesmen Of
London AT gleefnly anticipating an un-
usually large influx of Americans for
the Forthcoming season. Philadelphia.
New York and Washington are expect
Cd to send their fashionable men and
women TO London ia good time for the
international horse show that will open
IN June. BY that time nearly the
whole Of the Vanderbilt family viii be
in London, AIrs Corneline Vanderbilt
will probably take the house In Park
lane that was the property Of the late
AIRED Belt.
Nothing reused the wrath and lisdain
Of the lat Congressman Jerry Simpson
more than Dragging about afliuence and
luxurious living One day q rich sena.
tor holding forth III that strain remar-
ked unnecessarily ii was obliged to
discharge ny second coachnan last
week. Though he was ia many ways
an Invaluable Fellow, he was contin.
ualy hanging around on of the prettier
Iinderholisemaids." "Ah,p said Mr.
Simpson grayely, Il can sympathize
with you. | have lust been obliged To
discharge my third groom lie was al.
woys loafng in the servants billiard
room"
Samuel r Drigeers, until recently a
rsideut Of Madelia, Mimi, at the agp
Of IS years has started life anew ON a
homestead in South Dakota, west OF
Pierre. Although be great-grand.
father and has reached an age beyond
the ordinary years Il which man II
supposed To round out his life Of useful
ness. to say nothing of understanding
new ventures, MIR Driggrs has gone
West with car load Of furniture AMI
suples to begin actual residence on his
claim, and be faces the future eoufldent
that he still has many vars before him
He walks as springhtly as man of 81
and = hale and hearty.
Three boys a hous were told to 20
and take thee Hact time by clock in
the town. Th first lad went, looked at
the clicked, came back and said, 1T i:
IL o'clock Ia after life he became 5
prosaic bookseller He said on return.
ing that it was three minuts past IL
He became doctor. The third lad
looked at tie clock, found out how long
ii had takn him To walk back to the
house, returned 10 the clock, then ad.
ded the time Of his walk to the time
OF the clock, and reported the result
thus; "It is at this moment II hours
| 10 minutes and ] 5 seconds" That boy
came to distinction as Helmholtz, the
scientist
Can there legitimetely he FEBRUARY
30i asks the Chicago News, which an
swers: Yes, under EXCEPTIONAL eircum
stances, if snip happens O be yoyag
ing across I'll Pacific at the end OF Feb
rnary during leap year. An observer
looking 0vr a collection Of menu cards
found on dated Fbnlary 30, 1905. AZ
| first he thought was printers error
but he afteTward aseerained hat it was
correct. The dinner was given on
board the Pacific steamer Siberia Will,
crossing from Yokohama 10 San Francis
co. A day is gained between Japan and
America, and as the event happened on
this occasion at he nd Of February, lear
year. the February 30 was right.
Many wonderful things happen IN
this country. One OF them is the recent
election TO the United Stats Srate from
wstern tate OF the son OF an immi
grant who came to this country IN tht
Storage in the middl Of the last cen.
eury, and latr mafrid fellow steerag,
passenger. But this is not 50 wonder
ful as the presence in he Senete Of an.
ober man who came over in III steerag,
himself, and has risen to change. III
this list should be added the name OF
ON, himself an migrant Also Score
arg Of Commerce and Labor Straus, ia,
man whose portfolio includes immigra.
tion. is am immigrant.