The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-21
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Africa Of British soldiers who fell Ia
the late war stin remain unmarked.
A woman OF twenty-five has been
appointed grave digger, bell ringer and
organist in the Danish town Of Gre
naa. She is the first grave digger in
Denmark.
Saloon men near Bellevue hospital,
New York city, object to small drink
Ing fountain which has been placed on
the iron fence Of the hospital by the
woman's auxiliary OF the Church Tenn
perance society.
The house at Litchfield, Conn, In
which Judge Tappan Reeve started the
first law school In this country in 1774
has just been sold at auction to parties
who viii see that 1t is preserved for
its historic value.
A nugget weighing five ounces
which must have been passed over by
wheeled traffic for years, has been
found In the main street at Linton,
near Ballarat, Australia, by one John
Golden as he was returning from
work.
The authorized life OF Mckinley,
which Secretary of the Treasury
George Bruce Cortelyou Is expected to
publish few years hence. is intended
to be to the third OF the martyred
presidents what Nicolay and Hays
was to Lincoln.
A Philips (Me) young lady learned
recently that sour milk will remove
mildew from silk waists. So In pan
Of sour milk her best waist was put
and carefully set away. But her IA
Their meant that pan of sour milk for
the pigs, and the girl later found rem
nants of the waist in the pigpen.
The work of arranging for the cree.
ton of statue Of Edwin NJ stanton,
Lincoln's secretary OF war, at Steu-
benyille, o. his native town, is pro-
crossing favorably. The statue viii
be the first erected to Stanton, and the
sculptor is Alexander Doyle of New
York, who is native Of Steubenville
An effort is being made IN some
parts of India to encourage the ma
tives to kill the crocodiles which in
fest the large rivers. 1t Is said that
high prices can be obtained by selling
the skins to American hide dealers
and, at the same time, one of the dan
gers of Indian river life VIII be re-
moved.
In South Africa a Chinese laborer Is
undergoing Imprisonment for theft and
desertion from the Johannesb burg
mines. During his trial he informed
the magistrate that he left his work
with the intention OF walking home
from Africa to China, and that he
hoped TO reach it by following the
railway line
The score of a hitherto unknown
opera by Verdi has been found in a
cabinet of old papers at the villa Yer
di, at Santa Agatha Verdi in his viii
directed that the contents of the cabi-
net be destroyed. These were being
examined when the score was found.
1t seems to be an early work of the
composer.
Commander Robert r. Peary, q. s.
n, has purchased OF her Damarlscotta
owners the ancient pinky schooner
Mary and will have her restored in an
effort to perpetuate this vanishing
style OF craft. THE Mary Is strongly
built and In good condition. She is the
second oldest merchant vessel under
the American flag, having been built at
Portsmouth in 1911.
Peat contains much water, and in a
newly patented process 1t is pressed
ESyith dry cement to form such ma
terials as pipes, building blocks, etc.
The water necessary for the hardening
OF the cement Is drawn from the peat.
This results in close union OF the con
stituent parts, and the product is civ.
en- great strength and resistance to at
mospheric action.
They have a systematic way of deal
ing with rubbish in Germany. The
sorting Of house dust has been COM
pulsory in Charlottenburg since April
l. The householder must provide
three reeeptaeles for refuse-namely,
for ashes and sweepings, for cooking
refuse and for Industrial waste, such
as paper and rags The rubbish thus
systematically sorted is then applied
to various uses.
The model for the statue which Is to
be erected to the memory of the late
Senator George f. Hoar by popular
subscription from the people Of
Worcester Mass, has been completed
by the sculptor, Daniel Chester
French, and It Is expected in time for
dedication next October 1t win be
erected on the common, somewhere in
the vicinity Of the city hall, Worces-
ter.
The John Harvard house at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon has been restored
through the fundamentally Of an
American beef packers money and an
English novelist's interest in Shake
speare's native town. Nelson Morris
OF Chicago bought the home some
time ago and commissioned Marie
Corelli to supervise the restoration
The house Is one of the most interest
ing Of all the relics OF shakespenre's
time.
v. Ford Greaves, who has been
honorably discharged from the posi-
ton of chief electrician Of the United
States navy, is Endorsed by Admiral
Evans as a man having no superior as
wireless electrician on board any
chips of his feet At the time Of the