Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-05
NO. 1S.

Preparations for the observance OF
decoration Day"-May 30-appoar to be
very generally instituted throughout tho
country.
There arc now moro than three hun
drcd post offices in this country in charge
of women. The salaries range as high as
$4,000. Twenty-Five have salaries over
$1,000.
The largest farm in England consists of
over 5000 acres. The live stock kept on
this farm is valued at s64, 500.
Some genius in figures has ascertained
that If Brigham Young wore an addition
al weed on his hat every time he lost a wife
or motber-in-law, he would have to have a
hat q feet high.
"A Missouri husband sues another man
to recover $4,000 for deprving him Of the
comfort and society of his wife for G23 days,
showing that the estimated value of the Ia
dy is trihe over s32 day.
Medical statistics establish two facts
conclusively: Since the abandonment of
stays the annual mortality among women
has diminished eighteen per cent, and
since the fair ones began overlooking their
heads with chignons, brain fevers have in-
creased seventy-two and three-fourths per
cent.
There is a man in Glen's Falls, n. Y,
who won't believe any stories about the
sagacity of dogs. lie says dogs have not
common sense. In proof of his assertion
he relates how he poured kerosene on a
dog and set it on fire, just to have little
fun, as he was lonely during his wife's abb
sonce; and that the dog actually ran under
the barn belonging to him, and lay there
and set the barn on fire, though the man
whistled to him to come out. 1t is enough
to make man lose faith in dogs.
king Williams exhaustive demands
for men visibly enlarged womens sphere
in Prussia. BY recent order Of the Min
lister of Education, women who prove
themselves qualified are to be accepted as
teachers of modern languages in public
schools-a profession hitherto monopolized
by the masculine gender.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is just begin
ming to reap the reward of her energy in
trying to obtain possession of the New Or
leans property. The United States Mar
shal there has just put her in possession of
city limits, with all the improvements on
the property, under the decision of the
United States Supreme Court.
The Scientific American says it is now
impossible to construct a burglar proof safe
for the thief, with his cylinders of COM
pressed hydrogen and oxygen, can in
few seconds, burn holes of any size in the
hardest metal, his fire drill enabling him
in few minutes to work his way into the
strongest safe ever constructed.
james Glaisher, the English mronaut,
is seriously ill., never having recovered
from the effects of his balloon ascension at
Wolverhampton, last September, when he
reached n height of seven miles, the great
est ever attained, and when he is supposed
TO have burst some blood vessels.
Sandwich, y. H., claims to be the BAN
ncr town for maple sugar making. The
selectmon have taken an inventory of the
Article, and find the amount to be seventy
tons, which ut twelve cents n pound, the
average price, amounts to sl6,SOO. AS Il
specimen of sugar making one farmer
made 5000 pounds, another 2700, and many
from 500 to 1000 pounds.
The French Empire was conquered by
Prussia in campaign lasting one hun
dred aud eighty days. In that time the Ger
man armies participated in 1856 conflicts anC
II decisive battles; they captured l26 FOR
tresses 600 cannon or mitrailleuses, l2O
eagles or stands of colors and made prison
ers II $50 officers and 100000 men.
The eighth collection district of New
York may justly be called the millionaircs'
| district Forty men therein have paid in
come taxes on over Sl00,O for the yeai
1870, among them being \. I. Stewart, ST.
537 ,205 L. ). Higgins, S37s, $50; b. q.
Arnold, S3lG,OOO; Moses Taylor s292, ,3O3
Peter Goelot, S2Gi 500; James Gordon Ben
nett, s2Gl ,OOO and so on through the lii
including Rufus Hatch, Robert Bonner,
A. S. Hatch, Henry Clews, Paran Steven
u. Delmonco Peter Cooper, John j. Cisco
and Jesse Seigman.
This story is told OF Jldge Vose or
New Hampshire, in his last days, when al
most lieless through paralysis: a neigh
Dor came in, who was understood to hav
seen better days, but had been reduced By
improvidence or bad habits, to rather di-
lapidated condition. He, however, appear
ed this day, quite unexpectedly, in pret-
ty, tidy suit of black. The son remarked
the change, and inquired if he was in
mourning for any one. mo" was the re-
ply-"only mourning for my SINS" The
judge raised up at the moment, and but for
moment, and, with his former droll look
and his latter broken articulation, asked,
Lost any of 'em?"