The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-30
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Colombia finds its alllgators a pest
London has 10000 pupils in night
schools.
Greater New York has 1919 more
men than women.
Portsmouth Is the most strongly for.
tilted point in England
Importation of champagne is on the
decline, aud that Of beer is increasing.
Los Angeles is driving out "matri-
monial bureaus as socially undesira
BILE.
Colorado's 1912 fruit crop Is valued at
100000 In 1890 il was worth $3.50,
67S.
Adventists have purchased Spion Kop
battlefield. South Africa for a mission
/ farm.
Washington complains that business
tricts.
Missouri's new capitol building. to be
erected in Jefferson City, will cost
80, 230,127. !,
American college bred men are said
to be stunning the ministry because of
low salaries.
United States railroads this year We're
made subject TO forty-eight new laws in
the various states.
Gambling is prohibited throughout
Spain, even in the most aristocratlc
clubs.
Under certain conditions, local au.
thorities in Prussia are permitted TO
tax incomes below $3.50 year.
Open air physical culture classes for
the free instruction of women and girls |
are held every Sunday in Berlin.
The French government has placed
an increased tax upon signboards in
the hope of decreasing their number |
Japan's new battIeship, the cruiser
Kongo, has displacement of 27,500 I
tons. Its length is 704 feet. its breadth
90 feet.
w. w. Glass of Columbia, Mo-, has
presented Abraham Lincoln's school
dictionary to the Missouri State Histor.
Ical society.
Poors Manual for 1912 shows that In
the fiscal year 1911 American railroads
earned an average of 5.13 per cent on
capital stock.
During the last twenty years land
in the United Kingdom devoted to
farming has decreased by more than
100000 acres.
Kilkenny castle Is one of the oldest
Inhabited houses in the world, many Of
the rooms being much as they were
500 years ago.
The japanese. besides drinking 210.-
100000 gallons of sake or rice wine in
one year. have In addition disposed of
100000 gallons of beer.
The International Aluminium syndi.
cate has fixed the price of the metal
for next years delivery at $3.50 per
metric ton of 2.20462 pounds.
Practically all of the jade now mined
eomes from Burma. though New Yea. 9
land is n producer of some note. China
takes practically the entire output.
President c. r. Thwing of Western
Reserve university has secured for ,
Cleveland the meeting next March of
the Religious Education association. J
There'll be 1900 delegates. :
There are now $50 athletic organiZa-
lions in Bohemia, with membership
Of nearly 100000, including $4,000 wo- .
men. The athletic movement has de-
veloped almost entirely since 1871.
Reports from Germany say that the
'tork is disappearing. Naturalists
lave been investigating the cause of
he stork's disappearance. and peas
Ints have been encouraged to build
tests for the birds and supply them
With food.
Large districts In the far east for.
nerly planted IN tapioca are now be
ng planted in rubber trees and as
no lower prices for tapioca
re looked for. Land for tapioca grow
ny can be used only one-fourth Of the
me and must be left idle for the re-
A French author. quoted by the Gas
World points out that there is room
)r improvement in the manufacture OF
rs mantles What is wanted Is uni
Drmity rather than durability. At
resent. he says, the difference in light
x power among nantes from the
Tine batch may amount to 40 per cent.
The rhinoceros beetle. which came TO
le island Of Apia. Samoa. three years ]
20. destroying the cocoanuts. has I'm
-eased in number despite the efforts
ade for its suppression. IL is esti- ,
sted that in the infested district 30
r cent OF the cocoanut trees are ar
cted. 20 per cent have been set bach
bearing and , per cent killed. +
With The completion d. a sexen stori !