Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-07-28

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The Connecticut Legislature has pass
ed the resolution approprating s5OO,OOO for
a State house in Hartford.
The steam power employed in the Uni
ted States does the labor of lao, 900 men.
while that of Great Britain is equivalent to
0,OOO, 900.
The largest rosc-bush in France is at
Toulon. 1t covers wall seventy-five feet
long by eighteen in height, and near the
root measures two feet eight inches round.
In the months Of April and May it pro-
duces fifty thousand roses.
California has 2j,OOO,OCO vines, over
two-thirds in bearing, which last year rro-
duced Il, 600, 900 gallons of wine besides
100000 gallons of brandy. The profits of
the California vineyards last year varied
from 500 to $4,000 per acre, according TO
the location and skill in management. The
expenditure was not over $500 per acre.
Teresa Gambardella, girl of IL, "A ma
tive of Palermo, has recently attracted
much attention in Vienna by the fact tlst
her body is so thickly covered with hair
that it more resembles fur than anything
else. Even her iorehead-the irst instance
of the kind on records covered; her
head is very similar TO amonkey's, and diff
ferent parts of her figure bear out the strk-
ing similarity. Her habits and peculiari-
ties correspond with those of the quadru-
mana species, aud the interest she has ex-
cited in the public and among the scientif-
ic class is altogether Unprecedented. Terc-
81 see ms to be remarkable illustration of
Darwin's theory.
A new patent electric car-brake was
successfully tested recently on the Provi-
dence and Worcester Railroad. Each car
is furnished with three-cup battery, plac-
ed under the seats, entirely out of sight.
Two cords, similar TO the COMMON bed
cord, one dark and the other light, pass
through the train connecting with the en-
gine, thus placing the entire train under
co ntrol of the engineer. one cord puts on
the brakes and the other lets them oil.
Each ear is Independent of the other, and
each can be operated by a single move
ment. The train running between Provi-
de nee and Wuonsocket, ut Il rate of forty
miles an hour, broke mp in nineteen sec
onds.
There is considerable excitement in
New York commercial circles, caused by
the sudden rise in the price of wool and
wooden goods. The staple has been steadi-
ly going up for six weeks, and the limit
apl cars to be not yet reached. Common
Mexican, which used Ia sell at from IS to
20 cents pound, is selling at from 30 to 3"
cents. Carpet woods, usually quoted at 80
cents, gold, are held ut 81 l-2 cents Cape
woods have gone up from 80 to 30 cents,
Australian wool from A. to 81 cents, and
what we called extra feeces, which are
standard in the wool market, like mid
dlings in the cotton market, are quoted at
from Gi to Ga cents, as against AZ to so cents
six weeks since. The various woolen man
ulaclurers have responded, of course, to
this rise in the raw material, and all kinds
of wooden cloth and clothing have advanc-
ed on an average of 10 per cent with an up
ward tendency.
The Kansas correspondent of the Gin
cinnai Times says: "Pietures in the old
used to represent the Indian
solit tary and in melancholy attitude on
rock, gazing in sad reflective way upon
train of ears speeding along in the valley
below. lie seemed weeping to see the
steam horse invading his hunting grounds,
and overcome with gloomy iOrebodings AS
to his future. | saw the lonely Indian at
the railroad depot this morning. He WAS
because the train was few
minutes behind time, and cursed the depot
agent in good missionary English because
he did not hurry up and check his carpet
bag. He looked delighted when he saw
the train coming, shook hands with the
conductor when it arrived, borrowed
'chaw terbacker" OF a brakesman; and,
as the train moved away, saw him COM
fortably stretched out on two seats, eating
peanuts"
Noble County, Ohio, perhaps has the
honor of being the only County in all the
United States entirely without a dram
shop, or place where liquor is sold AS
beverage. How ii has escaped this curse
will not appear so strange when we consid-
er the character of its people. At recent
magnificent temperance demonstration at
Caldwell, one of the principal towns in the
county, stringent resolutions were passed
and congratulations interchanged on the
entire banishment by moral suaslon and
the force of public sentiment, of liquor
from the community. Atthis meeting, nu-
merously attended by delegates from every
section of the County, not single arrest
was made, nor was any person seen intox-
icated during the day. The temperance
reformation in Noble County results from
one years agitation in all parts of the COM
munity of the subject of total abstinence.
me etings being called on what is knowna,
the "Washingtonian" plan, aud by town.
ships. The President of the Noble County
TIE importance Society is the Rev. l.. c. Rut-
ter, the 'Boy Preacher" II is to his exer-
tions its citizens owe much Of the success
Of Prohibition.