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

An old lady reading an account of a
distinguished old lawyer who was said to
be the father of the New York bar, ex-
claimed: "Poor man! he had dreadful
set of children"
One of our Western exchanges says:-
1--WE notice in an Indiana paper the mar
riage of Thomas NJ. Lyon and Miss Mollie
Lamb. Another Scriptural in the process of
fultilment." "The lion and the lamb shall
lie down together, and"-after while-"a
little child shall lead them"
General SCOTS monument, erected at
West Point, by his daughter, consists of a
granite base, seven feet long, three wide,
and one foot two inches thick. Upon this
rests a single block of Italian marble. This
block is six feet long, two feet wide, and
two and half feet high. 1t is Il mere plain
surface except the inscription, which is in
square, plain cut raised letters in part and
and the remainder in plain Roman. There
is not an ornament about it; not even
moulding to break the severe simplicity
and solidity of the massive stone.
A stylish young New Yorker who APP
peared on the streets of San Francisco, got
the following ''first rate notice:r The lat
est of walking suits appearing on our
streets may be pronounced very 'nobby'-
more so when the wearer has q big thing in
knee-pans. A nice young man just from
Ne Yawk was noticed on Montgomery-st.
the other day. His coat-tail ended where
the tail of well shaped gorilla begins, and
his tight pants give to his small legs (Which
terminated in prodigious yams) the APP
pearance of couple of broom-stcks
springing out of molasses kegs. The
young gal who sells bouquets on the cor
ner of Clay-st. viewed him with an admir-
ing eye, remarl<ing that he looked 'sweetly
poorly
DR.. Haviland, an eminent English sur
geon, recently read to the British Associa-
ton Il paper ON the hour of death. The
doctor had collected over 5000 cases of
death, with the hour of death, and other
circumstances recorded, which he had tab
ulated, and exhibited on a large chart, the
different collections being distinguished by
colored diagrams. By this chart he show
ed that in 900 cases of death in children
under five years of age the period of the
greatest mortality takes place between the
hours of one and eight a. m, and that an
extraordinary depression takes place in
the succeeding hours between nine and
twelve p IN. He compared these statistics
with 1891 deaths from all causes and the
chart showed how remarkably the wave
lines of death compared with those above.
lie then compared these diagrams with
deaths from consumption, which showed
general resemblance in the wave line, yet
between the hours of four and eight a. M,
there is depression when compared with
the first four hours period. He contend
ed that the tables on the chart proved ex-
traordinary mortality in the early hours of
the morning, when the powers of life were
at their lowest ebb, and strange to say,
when the patient was most cared for.
The dome of the Capitol ai Washing
ton is the most ambitious structure in
America. 1t is eight hundred and eight
feet higher than the Washington Monu-
ment at Baltimore, sixty-eight feet higher
than that of Bunker Hill, and twenty
three feet higher than the Trinity church
spire of New York. 1t is the only consid-
cradle dome Of iron in the world. 1t is a
vast hollow sphere of iron, weighing s.
1000 pounds, How much is thatP Moro
than four thousand tons, or about the
weight of seventy thousand full grown peo-
pie, or about equal TO a thousand laden
coal cars which, holding four tons apiece,
would reach two miles and half. Direct
ly over your head is a figure in bronze,
"America," Weighing 1885 pounds. The
pressure of the iron upon its piers and pill
lars is l3,477 pounds the square foot. st.
Peters possesses nearly 10000 more TO the
square foot, and st. Genevieve at Paris,
$4,000 pounds more. 1t would require to
crush the supports of our dome pressure
Of 67,2sO pounds to the square foot The
cost was about s., 100000. The new wings
cost about &, 900. The architect has a
plan for rebuilding the old central part of
tho Capitol, and enlarging the Park, which
will cost about 50, 100000.