Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-05
.NiscrfIaneous Hens.

1t is st ated that the Government is
about to make an effort to secure the re-
lease of the remaining Fenian prisoners
now in Canada. There are nearly 80 now
in prison.
1t is related of an English farmer that
he condensed his practical experience into
this rule, Feed your land before it is hun.
cry, rest it before it is weary, and weed :
before it is foul"
A white Italian pup, six months old
and weighing only four ounces, was sold
at auction in Boston few days since for
s250-one thousand dollars n pound for dog
meat, and there is no famine in Boston, Ell
ther.
-Advices from Tucson, Arizona, April
10th, state that Capt. Moore, with de-
tachment of troops, killed "a Indians in
two engagements. The troops have "cor-
raled' 100 Apaches in the Dragon Noun
tains, and have hopes of killing the entire
band. The valley, for 40 miles is nearly
depopulated, the settlers fleeing TO Tucson
10 avoid the Apaches.
In the museum at Cassel, Germany, is
library made from 500 European trees.
bark of a tree, the sides, of the perfect
wood, the top, of young wood, and the bot
tom, of old. When opened, the book is
found to be Il box, containing the flower,
seed, fruit, and leaves of the tree, either
dried or initiated in wax.
1t is a curious fact that our hat and cap
manufacturers in different localities, use
different sizes of hats and caps as stand
ards. Boston and the eastern states use
the smallest sizes, New York and the mid
die states use the medium to the largest
sizes, and Chicago and the western states
require the largest sizes. Goods manu-
featured for one market cannot be sold for
the other, only in exceptional cases. The
South use a shape peculiar to themselves
and of large size.
The canary birds, for which the rage in
this country is greater than ever before,
come mainly from the Hartz Mountains
that is their progenitors come from thence,
but bird-ianciers and dealers breed them
at homeland about the Hartz Mountansa
large part of the living of the peasants
comes from breeding them for the market.
During this season not less than Al, 900 have
Decn imported ny new I Ofk houses, from
which they are sent to all parts of the coun-
try. About fifty varieties have been bred.
A standing antidote for poison by dew,
poison oak, ivy, ETC., is to take handful
of quick lime, dissolve in water, let it
stand half an hour, then paint the poison
ed parts with it. Three or four applica-
tons will never fail to cure the most ag-
gravated cases. Poison from bees, hornets,
spider bites, ETC., is instantly arrested by
the application of equal parts of common
salt and bicarbonate of soda, well rubbed
in on the place bitten or stang. We give
the above for what it is worth. Go and try
it.
Gen. Leggett, the new Commissioner
of Patents, has placed in charge OF a spe-
cial examiner the improvement in ma
chinery for using electricity as motive
power, for which caveats are now being
filed. \ New Jersey inventor claims that
the power can be by his invention indefin-
itely multiplied without increasing the size
of the battery or the strength of the cur
rent. He has II two horse power engine
run by single cup battery, the expense
b eing no greater than the cost of battery
in Il country telegraph office.