Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-24
Miscellaneous.

Tho highest peak in Colorado is Mount
Lincoln, IL 900 feet high
"A woman in Joliet, ILL.,, gave birth to
child few days ago which weighed 1Sl
lbs, good weight.
Full returns of the strawberry crop of
Vineland, N. j., as near as can be arrived
at, the present season, make total OF 5yo,-
5S3 quarts, or 1862 bushels, against 7140
| bushels last year.
Chesapeake Bay yields moro and better
oysters than any other region in the coun-
try. In Baltimore alone 10 houses are en-
| gagged in the trade, employing SUI vessels
One oyster lays 100000 eggs
Speaking of the failure of the olive crop
| in Italy, Western paper remarks that the
| news is of little interest on this side of the
Atlantic. as most of the olive oil used in
this country comes from Western hogs.
The Albany and Susquehannah IN. W
railroad will be completed from Harpers-
vile, its present terminus, through to Bing-
| hamton, and opened to public business be-
fore winter. The whole length of the line
will be 100 miles.
The last survivor of the party of young
ladies who strewed flowers In the path of
Washington, as he passed through Trenton
in 1889, on his way to New York to assume
the Presidency, is Mrs Sarah Hand, now
ninety years of age, and resident of Cape
May county, New Jersey.
conferred the degree of master of arts upon
f.. ID. Bassett, principal for ID years of the
colored high school at Waterbury, CT. This
is the first instance that such a degree has
been conferred upon colored man in the
United States.
The geological gardens at the New
York Central park have lately received
some very rare birds and animals, includ-
ing ostriches, alligators, deer, and an oce-
lot. They now contain $40 specimens, of
which 511 belong to the class mammalia,
800 to aves and 20 to reptiles.
In New York, last week, the returns
of deaths show the awful record of eleven
hundred and forty-two, which is an in
crease of five hundred and twenty-eight
over the total deaths of the week previous.
Over fifty per cent. of these deaths were
from sun stroke, and other causes inciden-
tai TO the extreme heat.
No one who wishes that conversation
should be pleasant to his neighbors, as well
as himself, should speak more than two or
three sentences at once. However much he
may have to say, ii will be all the more
agreeably said for giving others the oppor-
tunity of asserting, illustrating, qualifying
or even contradicting. The ball needs to
be returned by the opposite player to make
lively game.
-"The Chemistry of cigar" is the title
of long article in the last number of the
DOSlOI JOuTIdl Oh ny tne cullOr.
The writer ranks the tobacco plant among
the night shades, all of which are powerful
narcotic poisons; and says it is the greatest
robber of the soil that grows-a ton of to-
| bacco exhausting the soil as much as four
| teen tons of wheat or fifteen tons of corn.
-EX-Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has
published an address to the people of the
state, urging them to accept Gov. Scott's
| administration in a Just spirit 1t would
| have been wise for them, he says, to have
| accepted congressional reconstruction at
first; and at present it is folly to expect
| any relief from the Democratic party on the
| subject of suffrage.
The lovers of justice and the haters of
| cruelty, the world over, will await with in
| terest the appearance of the history which
| Mr.. Thomas Hughes is to write of the I'M
successful efforts of the "Jamaica Commit
| tee to bring Gov. Eyre to justice for his
| manifold crimes against liberty and law
| during the disturbances i'll Jamaica. The
| extraordinary measures resorted to by the
| Tories to screen the Gov. will be fully ex-
| posed.
The red striped pole of the barber is
said to have originated from the fact that,
| some centuries ago, il was customary for
| BARRIERS to bleed people, and the pole with
alternate winding stripes of white and red,
represented the bandaged arm of the pile
botomized victim. In the course of time
the apothecary succeeded the barber as
blood-letter; but the old sign of the craft
was retained by the latter, after the function
which gave it significance had ceased.
Manufacturers are finding out that for
many kinds of driving machinery, round
belts are preferable to flat ones. Among
the advantages of one over the other, they
state that the round belt cuts Off less light
than the fiat belt, occupies less room, makes
smaller holes in the floor, requires lighter
driving pulleys, thereby economizing pow
er; while, as regards driving power, a
round belt one inch in diameter has been
doing for years work which proved too Sc
we're for a seven inch flat belt.
AT the dog pound in New York, a val
liable dog of any breed is always preserved
| and if not called for, sold. The brutes af-
| ter being kept for forty EIGHT hours, to af-
| ford time for reclamation, are placed in a
large trough and covered over. Water is
| let in upon them and they are drowned.
| A company which buys the carcasses of
| horses and cattle also purchases the bodies
of these dogs, and after skinning them,
boils them up with those of other animals
for the grease which they yield. The resi-
due is sold for manure. The skins of dogs
make good gloves, and vary in value from
20 cents to 81.
Among the Southern men who came
to New York last week to give the Demo-
cratic Convention the benefit of his advice
| and to receive the honors which the North
ern Democracy like to bestow upon men OF
| his character, was the Confederate Gen. G.
T. Beauregard, the author of the following
letter:
| "CHARLEsToN, s. c., Oct. 10, 1862.
Hon. William p. Miles, Richmond, Va.
Has the bill for the execution of abolition
| prisoners after January next been passed
| Do it, and England will be stirred into &C.
ton. 1t is high time to proclaim the black
flag after that period. Let the execution be
| with the garrote. G. Il. BEAUREGARD.'
In the New Hampshire legislature the
services of a chaplain were dispensed with
and an invitation extended to the clergy
men of the house to officiate instead. Wher
the subject of the salary of the chaplain o
the state-prison was under discussion, and
the same gentlemen who had been in favo
of dispensing with a chaplain for the house
were moving for a reduction of the salary
of the state-prison chaplain, a gentleman
arose and gravely moved that the chaplain
be dispensed with, and that the religious
services of the prison be performed by thu
pious convicts! The house saw the poin
and proceeded to explode-did explode.
"A letter from Portland, Me-, TO the Bos
ton Journal says: "Our buildings ant
streets are fifty years ahead of what the,
would have been but for the fire. We hav
rebuilt our school-houses, among the larg
est and best in the world; our city hall, o
which everybody within the boundaries O
new EnSiulu mas ncaIu 81 ihucnt anu el
larged the hall itself, by the addition o
galleries, to a capacity of nearly three thous
and seats. We have put up blocks of stores
large public buildings, clearinghouse
churches, and mansions, which will be re
garded as betting a wealthy population q
at least one hundred thousand.'
The progressive women in France an,
England are asserting their rights in YER
practical and aggressive ways. In Paris
we are told they have invaded the sncre
precincts of the Bourse in great numbers
and buy and sell stock with keen earnest
, ness which completely disconcerts thei
rivals of the other sex. In England the
, are subscribing literally toward the cleo
ton expenses of their special champions