Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-06-23

1t is said that tourist travelling con-
tinuously without any stoppages can now
go round the world in eighty days,
A Cleveland merchant lately received
package labelled, 81 box Tom. Cats" II
took him some time to decipher the fact that
the inscription meant a box OF tomato eats
up.
Among the immigrants recently arriv-
ed in this country is Collie dog, from
Scotland, said to be able to control five
hundred sheep He is TO he taken to Colo
RADIO.
A school committee in a frontier district
are reported to have summed up their o.
pinion OF an examination which they had
attended by making to the pupils this ad-
dress: you've spelled well, and you've
cphered good, but you hain't sot STILL
Noah Austin of Lima, Ind, received a
musket ball in his head under the LEFT ear,
at the battle of Queenstown, Canada, Oct.
10, 1912. The ball could not be found un-
| til fortnight since, when it worked out
| into his mouth through the roof, causing
his death nearly 50 years after the wound.
When Indiana found her dogs mnlti-
| plying fast that the luxury of mutton
was almost unattainable, her Legislators oil
| tered a bounty on dog skins. And now
the honest farmers have quit wool-gather-
ing and rear dogs which they shear at
week old. Dogs are a far more profitable
crop than cereals.
An old rat in New Bedford got captur-
ed by the neck in a trap the other day, aud
speedily evinced signs of much demorali
z,tiun. In very short time small army
of mpairiotS rallied to the spot, attracted
by his cries, and-rescued him mo, they
didn't do that but they went right to
work, skinned him, and ate him all mp,
except his hind legs.
Here is the last of Il shoemaker, be-
yund which let no cobbler go: A lady
complaining that the soles of her shoes
were too thick, the artful manufacturer
said to her, as that your only objection
to them, madame?" at is" replied the
lady. "Well then, madame, if you take
them | think | can assure you you will ind
that objection gradually wear away"
1t is said that the salary of President
Eliot of Harvard College is 800, and of
There is nothing very alarming in this
statement" says the Boston Traveller ;
sit only suggests that there are more men
fitted for the presidential chair in colleges
than there are capable of taking charge Of
the kitchen Of first class hotel
How borrowed things are often used is
well exemplitled in the case of a boy who
was met ON horseback crying with the cold.
Some one said To him, "Why don't you
get down and lead your horser That is
the best way to keep warm NO. said
the boy. tits b-b-borrowed boss. and III
ride him if ! freeze"
Since II much advertised nostrum
brought out the King of Swedens hair so
eflectually that his head resembles bill
lard ball, he has determined to Danish all
pretended hair restoratives not only from
Stockholm, but from the whole country, a
chemical analysis having shown them to
be injurious To the scalp and Destructive II
the prospect of any and all hairs to the
crown.
There is an exceedingly troublesome
ghost in Racine, Wis. A widower there.
doubtless being lonesome, has taken seq
ond spouse, and now the shade of his ii rsl
visits him and beclouds, by her presence,
his honeymoon. He had solemnly prom
Used No | never To lead a No . to the altar
but having broken his word, and that, too,
in most INDECENT hurry, he is now suffer
ing the consequences.
In a late speech on wolnnn's rights, the
lady orator, led away by enthni iasni, e1-
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