The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-01

More than 22,000,00O tons of corn cob
l are burned annually in the Unite
: States because there is no profitable us
for them.-News item How many M
| consumed around the old.fashioned stoy
!. in the village g,ocerys
a Even the refuser must fuse at times
Z Theodore Roosevelt is expected to max
a declaration in favor of the Progress
a syes combining with other partie
l against the Democratic organization II
the New York mayoralty fight.
! Obstructing traffic in the alimentarl
canal is to be listed on the calendar o
crimes. DR.. j. II. Wilmeyer, Laporte
Ind, physician, has been sued for SIG,
900 because he operated on Miss Anna
, Reckenberg and did not find her ap
! pendix.
A portrait of Washington as boy
has just been unearthed in Philadelphia
Ii shows the future father OF his coun'
try standing in front of his boyhood
home, although unfortunately the cherry
tree and the fractions horse are not in
cluded in the background.
"The strike in Burlington seems to
be bearing fruit. The fire that de-
stroyed the Shepard Morse Co. lumber
shops brings out the fact that the con-
Germ will probably move to some point
where it can hire labor at a rate TO
compete with other mills of like kind.
Perhaps Swanton may get this great
industry. "-Morrsyill Messenger. Does
Swanton subscribe to this taeit admis-
sion that she is able to furnish labor
ing men who will work at such miser-
ably inadequate wages as were disclosed
at the time of the strike last winter?
Burns Advises Yale to Learn Sleuth-
ing.-Headline. Along with the course
in applied detection, w. j. b. should
tell the college detectives how every man
! can become his own publicity agent.
Thousands of victims all over the
country must say goodbye to the swim
ding Spanish prisoner" According to
latest advices the man who knows all
about the hidden treasure is a Rus
sian.
DIR. Harry P. .Judson of Chicago uni
versity declares he has found such
Jokes" as the mother-in-law Joke, the
bashfui-young- man and the soak-who-
can't -fnd- the .keyhole Jokes inscribed on
bricks dating back to $50 b. c. For adj
ditional gems OF antiquity, the doctor is
referred to the originator of inter-syl-
Liable humor Of the who-put the O. X in
smoke brand.
Gunboat Smith is the latest pugilist
to press a claim on the white hope
title, but there is a representative
sprinkling of men in every community
who are willing to eoncede that Mr.. |
Highcostofliving is still there with the
punch.
New York Sun: 1t seems positively |
settled that Bryan will or will not be
in the cabinet.
DIR. Albert Pcorini, editor of an Italian
newspaper, told the Gflrren investigating |
committee that only three per cent. of
the Italians coming to America become
citizens of this country. All editors I
dearly love to edit, and some OF them
like to testify; but it's a safe shot
that Editor Pecorini didn't take straw
census of conditions in Barre in order to 4
arrive at such conclusion.
The South Royalton dog that kicked 1
over its masters lantern and set the 4
barn aire was probably seeking TO EN-
ulate the Chicago COW that kicked too
far over its traces on that fateful night
of October s, 1871.
Inmates Of the Orange county jail at
Chelsea turned ditch diggers the other
day when the water pipes connecting
with their temporary abiding place We're
found to be frozen. Digging down and
digging out are operations distinctly
different from each other.
If bill drawn up by the Massa-
,husetts Fish and Game association be-
ZONES law, all cats in the Bay state
viii have to be lieensed.-News item.
Tagging every feline member with a
license may be quite as much of task
Is the rats encountered in belling the
at.
Down in Dallas, Tex, the city council
las passed an ordinance limiting the
peed of trains passing through the city
o ten miles per hour; and all because
asst trains refused to make any stops
t Dallas. The thought persists that
omehow such an ordinance would be
seless in some sections of Vermont. \
Another Adam is leaving Eden On I
he eve of his departure from Washing !
on, President Taft puts in good word ;
or the White City by allowing that the /
apital is paradise.
Sedalia, Mo-, high school girls are get I
ing back to first principles in this mat :
er of hair dressing. On a designated
ay, every girl member of the school I
to appear in classes with her hair
led simply with one ribbon.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer: A lingo in
he White House would have had this
overnment embroiled in affairs south
+ the Rio Grande months ago.
"Schoolhouse; Go. Slowly" Right here
Barre few signs of this kind might
e the means of lessening the dangers !
+ auto traffic TO small children. The 2
lea had its origin in Boston.
Measles have entered town.-Bridport Z
EN-. Such a triumphal entry should :
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