The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-01

Ihc vita III AbyAsInlo always OWN
the house and contents
a mans half TURNS gray about ave
years EARLIER than Aonans
IN proportion To its size, beetle Ii
stronger than % horses
The orange tree is said to produce
about 10000 oranges during its life.
There arc 262,000 Sunday schools n
the world With 26,000000 pupils
Stella 4 dreadful experience, Won
|sayl Bella Yes; sew bargain ia
sloea when Ind D. hole til my stock.
irg New York SUM-
Born in the church where for d0
years he has been minister. Canon VIII.
liam Hector Lyon, tie blind vicar of
Stlbornc. Eng, has resigned
I'll Switzerland uniformity, 0r fixed
rices. may ~ arranged, bat agreements
nv discriminate against Or ID prohibit
the sale Of any article are not permit
ted BY Law.
The diamond. so long the hardest
known substance, now has two rivals,
the silirlde and the boride Of titanium
produces of Henri Moisson's electric
furnace being claimed 70 be as hard.
When the Pennsylvania railroad
completes two mile section between
Vineyard and Newton Hamilton, MifIn
county, it will have a complete four
track system between Philadelphia and
rittsburg.
The republic of Brazil is a good bit
larger than many suppose. Nlinas Ger
aes, one of its states Il much larger
than Germany, but only has 100000
inhabitants. Great inducements are be-
ing held out to settlers To 10 there.
Seven Thousand frogs have been plac-
Ell in the bitches, pools ond small lakes
ut Finkenburg, small place III THE
woods to the west Of Berlin, iii the
hope of reducing the plague Of mos
quito.lilSe gnats which breed in mil
lions
William Gibson Of Amesbury has in.
vented an antless dinner pail From
practical experience he learned that
ants are too frequent at lnnch time, so
Mr.. Gibson has fitted tin saucer filed
with water at the bottom of his pail
II the ants want meal they have to
swim for it.
The first book ever published on the
question Of women's rights was recently
sold IN London. The title Of the work,
which was published in 1889 BY ]. Haw-
k:ns, il Women not Inferior to Men;
Or yindication Of the Right Of the
Fair Sex To a Perfect Equality with
the Men" by Sophia, Person Of
Quality.
There ii no doubt that all books kept
Tor long time in libraries and other
places become the abode Of the germ
and microbe To prevent this French
professor has introduced method of
the books, They are plac.
ed in an oven under pressure. in which
the evaporation of a certain liquid
causes the breaking up of the aldeydes. |
Ii is said that all sorts of books, big |
and little, can thus be disinfected with
out harm TO the cover, the paper or the
binding.
An imperial decree issued by the Chi.
rese goverHment points out the evils
Of opium, and states that the British I
government has aoreed to decrease It's
expectation for trial period Of three
years In order to see whether the cul. l
tivation of the poppy and the number
of opium smokers ii lessened should !
such BIZ the case, Importation into l
China will bc further decreased grad
nally. The decree orders the enforce
ment Of existing regulations and the
"a further measures to deal
with the evil
The reglilor army saw It's birth on
lame ~, TITS, when Congresses author