Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-17
Miscellaneous.

| Making ox-head cheese and OK tail
soup may properly be considered making
| both ends meat.
| "A New York paper says it has no doubt
| that the proceedings of the Fourth this year
have resulted in thousand people being
killed or wounded, besides the loss of prop
erty. 1t is as destructive as though we had
an annual battle of imposing magnitude.
"A German statistican reports that the
| Emperor of Russia receives daily $4,000,
equal to the annual salary of the President
| of the United States. Louis Napoleon Sl4-
2iO day. Queen Victoria s6,2O7 the king
of Austria $40, ,959 the king Of Prussia SS-
10. The king OF Belgium has the smallest
salary, it being only Sl,6is day.
| If we may trust the report of an Eng
lsh journal, The Builder some operative
chemists in stockport have discovered
cement of extraordinary value. The name
of Coaguline has been given to it and the
account in question says: Its adhesive
ness and tenacity are extraordinary. Glass,
leather, wood, stone, ivory, bone, or min
erals can be pieced or joined by it; and so
tenacious is it that, when thus used, it will
resist strain of 224 lbs. or more. Heat and
| cold, fire and water are successfully resist
ed by it. In piecing glass or crystal with
it, its transparency renders the junction inn
| perceptible, and its adhesiveness, in fact,
makes the broken glass or crystal as good
as new.
| The arrival at Boston of a refrigerator
car, after a passage of five days or less
from Chicago, with fresh meat, is an event
worthy of more than the passing notice
taken of n common news item. This ex-
pertinent, says the Transcript, may prove
the beginning of revolution in the guam
tity and quality, and possibly in the price
of animal food. 1t may put an end to the
deterioratng driving of herds from distant
regions to the sea- board, and bring to the
city markets headquarters, fore-quarters
lbs and tenderloins, poultry, eggs, butter
and other perishable articles, in mid-sum-
mer, all in nice order for the cooking-range
and table. If the plan works well from
Illinois, there is no reason why it should
not be a success, by-and-by, from Texas
and California. Then the removal of
slaughter-houses from thickly populated
places will be another gain. To be sure,
the renowned "Union Stock Yard may
find its vocation gone; but that will be an
endurable loss, provided the locomotive
can rush along from West to East, from
South to North, across States and conti-
nents, with trains freighted with the prod
ucts of every cline.
1t is estimated that within the last
; twenty years the Irish in the United States
) have RENTED to their friends at home near
, lv els, ,OOO, 900 or s75, ,OOO, 900, in gold
1 | hn
: more books, encyclopedias, pamphlets,
' magazines, etc., than any other people.
Their principal encyclopedia embraces five
thousand volumes.
A three-year old boy in New Bedford
recently ask ed his mother who made the
moon. "God," was the reply. The next
question was IA double one: "Who takes
care of it, and who lets it out nights9'
A poison of any degree of potency,
> which has been swallowed intentionally
or by accident, may be rendered almost in
simultaneously harmless by swallowing two
> gills of sweet oil. An individual with
strong constitution should take twice that
quantity.
The railway rolling stock of Great
Britain, if ranged in line, would be head
ed by about fifty miles of locomotives and
i' tenders, about one hundred miles of car
9 riages, and eight hundred and fifty miles
II of freight gravel, cattle and miscellaneous
. trucks.
o Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany,
y known as the Patroon, who has recently
" died, by his will divides the whole of his
immense property, over Sl,5OO,NO among
!, his children and grandchildren, and ap-
!. points Charles NJ. Jenkins of Albany, Ma
y thaniel Thayer of Boston, IA son-in-law,
!, and Eugene Van Rensselaer,, his son, exc
:, cutors. The widow receives the use Of the
manor house and grounds and $1,000 per
=. year for life.
y There is an apple orchard containing
y 100 acres owned by r. IL. Parks, eight
II miles from st. Charles, Missouri, near the
:, Mississippi River. II was planted in 1859,
= and contains 1000 Jenetons, Early Harvest,
> Red Astrachans, Red June, Rambo, Fall
Queen Yellow June, and PENNSYLVANIA
Red Streak each 200 and so of the Ortley,
McKinly, and Yellow Bellhower. The
yield in 1866 was 81 900. In 1867 the yield
was 2,56I barrels, averaging about 81 a bar
= rel; giving s7,602.
Preachers often dwell uponthe thought
that at the last day there will be a great and
terrible exposure of hidden sin. Doubt
less they are right; we have the Gopsel for
\ it, But we believe that these shameful
revelations will not be more astonishing
S than that other unveiling which shall dis
g play hidden sufIerings heroically borne,
: deeds of self-saorifice never noted or ap-
e preciated on earth, loves deep and tender
= split like water upon sand, and struggles
II with, and victories over temptation, on
s which the eyes of all Heaven may have
d bent, luminous with praise and tender
o pity