Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| For speaking French to him a land
lord of Dusseldorf hotel recently
charged a guest extra in his bill.
Owing to the success of South AT
rican ostrich farms the ostrich feather
trade in the Sudan seems doomed.
Tigers appear to be on the increase
in Burma, owing to the restrictions on
the possession and carrying of arms
English capitalists are going to work
the ancient gold mines in the Alps to
which the Romans used to condemn
early Christians.
Probably the oldest of the many old
clocks in Maine Is one owned by Dr.
Coutourier OF Westbrook. 1t was made
In London in 1865 and has been In the
doctors family for several generations
Britain's new record breaking battle
ship. the Dreadnought is the ninth
vessel of that name belonging to the
British navy. The first was launched
about 1879 and was in use as late as
1899.
Denatured alcohol is used in hat
factory at Manchester. England. The
manufacturers use the spirit. recover
| 1t and redistill the product in their own
factory and use it over again until it
Is used up.
For small silver cup OF the com
monwealth period. weighing three
ounces, $50 an ounce was paid in Lon
don recently. while a Charles H. tum-
bier with the York hallmark Of 1882
brought 500 an ounce.
Very numerous are the patents that
have been issued to women on novel
ties in furniture. One piece. which
appears to be school desk, also con
tains an organ. With simple manpu
lation an innocent looking sofa is con
verified into bathtub.
After the Torrey- Alexander mission
/ closed in Philadelphia number of
Christian men and women banded
themselves together to hold seven serv-
ices week. They go about in gos-
pei wagon. never take up Il collection
sing the Torrey- Alexander hymns and
are all personal workers.
| Children in Italy are not allowed to
rub their eyes When an infant bursts
into tears no effort Is made to repress
the emotion. but the youngster is al
lowed to have Its cry out. 1t Is assert
ed that this beauties the eyes and
makes them clear, while rubbing the
eyes Injuries them In many ways
A Paris jeweler has bought large
number of stones which have been
found in mines on the cars private
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mines are offered for sale by tender, in
! the same way as the forest lands and
mines belonging to the ear are occa-
sonally sold by the imperial cabinet.
The fact that the Ohio building al
the jamestown exposition will be re
production of Adena, the home of
Thomas Worthington, governor of Ohio
from 1914 to 1918, lends new interest
to a fine old house. When it was built
1T was the most stately and luxurious
mansion in wide region northwest of
Ohio.
/ Women have patented cigarette ma
chimes but it would seem that the fem
mime fancy went too far when it I'M
dertook to evolve an Improvement" in
cigars by soaking them in an extract
of pine needles 'in order to take away
I that nasty taste" Yet such an 'im-
provement." so called. may be found
in the patent office.
The Canadian commercial agent in
Mexico reports that although modern
dairying has not reached any high de
gree Of development in that country
there Is an ever increasing number of
diaries being established, and as the
demand for creamery butter and cheese
increases old methods are being super
seeded In favor of modern machinery.
Conway. England. is sorely troubled
over the fact that the gravestone in
the churchyard which is associated
with Wordsworth's poem. I'VE Are
Seven" has been seriously damaged
by the enthusiastic tripper. One bit
after another has'been Clipped off, and
| If the destruction is allowed to con
tinue nothing of the stone will be left.
The cure of Austruwell, a small place
near Antwerp, in turning out a lumber
room came upon a large canvas about
five feet by four feet. Having passed
sponge over the picture, the cure,
struck by its beauty, transferred 1t to
his sitting room, where 1t was soon
declared by experts to be a genuine
work by Rubens. The subject is the
Assumption of the Virgin"
The late Lord Graulley married the
daughter OF an island fisherman. His
widow. beautiful, but totally Hitter
ate woman. although she had become