The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-26
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300 grand opera house.
There are 250o15 children In Chicago
under five years of age.
The first playground in Detroit was
started by clubwomen twelve years
ago.
The new British Dreadnought Iron
Duke is especially armored against at.
tack by airships.
American steel piling has been used
In the great irrigation works at Hin
dla, near Bagdad.
In several provinces OF China men
are being shot to death by the govern
ment for smoking opium in secret
Last year there were 275,000,000
acres of land plowed In the United
States at an estimated cost of $450,000,-
600.
Ninety tons of fresh water mussels
recently were taken from a London
water main supplied by the river
Thames.
Four times as much wood was manu-
featured into paper in the United |
States last year as there was fifteen |
years ago.
After twenty years OF experimenting |
a Philadelphia scientist has succeeded |
in Matching eggs OF diamond backed
terrapin in an incubator.
Great Britain carries on more trade
with Germany than any other country,
with France and the United States
ranking second and third.
A San Francisco dog has been pro-
vided with a silver hinge for one of
his hind legs by a surgeon who operat-
ed for removal of diseased bone.
The odor OF the FIR tree disgusts the
cotton boil weevll. The southern cot
ton fields are being cleared of the pests
by planting these trees about them.
Sweden and Norway together manu-
facture more carbide of calcium than
any other single nation, but use less,
exporting almost their entire product
Glove trees in the islands of Zanzi-
bar and Pemba. in East Africa, have
been officially estimated to number
$4,000 says the American consul at
Zanzibar.
Previous to 1906 Morocco had prac-
tically no public improvements, but the
international conference of Algeciras
has forced them upon it. Now it is to
have harbors, lighthouses and roads.
The oldest agricultural society in
England is the Royal 1t was founded
I'm 1898. 1t viii hold it's annual show
at Bristol this year in July. Among
the prizes offered are some for milking
machines.
A course in penal studies was re-
Gently instituted by the university OF
Montpelier. France Physicians, pub
. licists. lawyers. police and court off,
Gals were among those who enrolled
; for the course.
. The new stamp marking the ter
! centenary. OF the Romanoff rule of
: Russia is to be withdrawn. 1t bears
: 4 picture Of the car. and postmasters
do not dare cancel them by stamping
the cars face.
Leon Carvalho. having lost in a game
Of chess with his brother Pascual al
Oviedo. Spain. paid the prearranged
penalty of exchanging his mother-in
law for the winners and taking the
latter to live with him.
In the past calendar year losses by
fire In the United States averaged
$4,000 a day and aggregated SPOT,
$4,000. The loss was nearly $4,000,
600 less than that of 1911 and abou
100000 less than that of 1910.
Six large spiders are working 70
Uncle Sam as part of the Panama ca
nal force. From their cocoons the in
strument makers will take threads 70
use in all the engineers transits oil
the canal work. The threads take tn
place OF platinum.
Frederick c. Hid, a young aviator
up 1000 feet at Mineola, n. Y, saw
tall tower dead ahead" shut off hi
motor and volplaned to the ground
Then he learned he had seen in m
rage the tower OF the waterworks,
mile and half away.
The man who is fond of honey, bu
who has hitherto hesitated to establis
an apiary in his back yard through
very natural fear OF the singing tenC
encies Of the honeybee. may now tax
heart. The production of the shingles
st bee is announced from London.
re Ii Hung Chang, the statesman who's
NJ name once filed the world, is honore
at Shanghai by the first statue erecte
lit in the Chinese empire to n Celestii
he after the manner of the sculptor's ar
to The style of monument preferred /
nd the Chinese has hitherto taken I'll
form OF temple
We Detaille, the French military painte
he desired, like the English artist tn
re ner. that his country should posse!
CHI his paintings, and such of his pictur,
nd as he possessed at the time of b
We death are to become public propert
ey His house, containing his collection
uniforms. weapons, etc, Is to be d
st voted to the purposes of a museum.