Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-04
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"A st. Louis court granted 2S divorces
in single day recently. More than half Of
the number were Germans.
The story of william Tell and the ap-
pie is distinctly told in an ancient Persian
manuscript lately discovered at Breslau.
Goodness, and absence Of heat and haste,
indicate fine qualities A gentleman makes
no noise; a lady is serene.--Rdiph Waldo
Emerson.
Bilious humanity will hail with un-
feigncd delight the announcement that CAL
ifornia expects to harvest 10000 gallons of
castor oil this season.
New York has % parks of various sizes,
with total area Of 1907 acres. The total
cost Of the Central Park and its improve
menls has been Sll s,s49.
"A clever fellow has invented an anti
| breach-of-promise ink to be used in writ
ing love letters, as it fades away in about
four weeks, leaving the sheet entirely
blank.
1t took 100000 dozen of imported
! corscts to sufficiently squeeze our Amari-
/ can women, last year. besides 100000
made in this country. About 200 dozen
were importe exclusively for some anom-
| alous creatures who call themselves men.
A correspondent in the interests of hui
manity informs The Tribune that an aggra-
waited case of cancer in the face was cured
| by inserting seton in the leg, aud thus
keeping up perpetual issue. All vestiges
| Of the usually fatal atIiction have vanish
| ed.
| As an evidence Of the Wonderful eX-
pansion of Methudism in America, the
| Church organ states the fact that during
! the past wear there was new church CONF
plctcd. on the average, every three 'work-
| ing hours, or four for every day ia the
year.
The Hon. Samuel Shelabarger, NJ. c.,
| in a letter to j. q. Howard on art culture,
takes. occasion thus vigorously to state an
opinion which he may not be altogether a.
lone in entertaining; Though we uhe
American people, are the all mightieSt peo-
pie that ever was or will be, yet the ten
dencv of uurall- -mightiness IS to run us in
to black euards.
Mr.. John Ed wards OF Beleiontaine,
| Ohio, Is person of unreasonable eNpccta-
tions. His great grandfather, 80 years ago,
leased, it is stated, large tract of country
in England to King George, and now the
lease expiring throws the property into the
hands of the heirs, who will be Obliged lo
take charge, il is said. of something like
So, 100000.
A certain lecturer, having occasion TO
use the word phenomenon" imagined
that he had flown too high, and that his
meaning was not visible to the naked in
telligence of the spectators. at is possi-
ho aplyo Ippft EpOxx
what phenomenon is. Well, will tell
you. You have seen a COW, no doubt.
Well COW is not phenomenon. You
have seen an apple-lree. Well, an apple
tree Is not phenomenon. But when ynn
see the COW 90 up the tree tail foremost. to
pick the apples, it is phenomenon"
Louisiana will produce a magnificent
sugar crop this year, the cane turning out
we'll. Prices will also be good, owing to
the Cuban revolution, which has crippled
the crops in that country. The aggregate
falling off in the production of cane sugar
countries is about 100000 tons, while the
annual consumption of the world is rapidly
increasing, and row amounts to at least q,
jOO,0O0 tons. SO there are better days in
store for the sugar planters of the south.
In n few years, at most, all southern crops
will reach their ante bellum standard.
July |, 1901, just 20 years ago, one Of
the first steamboats, ever built, made a trial
trip on the Thames. This is the account of
it given by the London papers of the diy:
AN experiment has taken place on the riv-
er for the purpose of working barge or
any other heavy craft against wind and tide
by means of a Stcam-engine, on very sim
was set 10 work, the barge was brought
: about, answering her helm quickly; and
she proceeded at once to make way against
IL strong cbb tide nt the rate of nearly q
miles an hour.
The Free Methodist of New York city
! has a telling article on Methodist Dram
Shops, in which il says: "ln no one thing
doe, the Methodist Episcopal church Of to-
day manifest its want of principle more
than in its counivance at the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors as u beverage. The disci-
pluc forbids the traffic. But rum-selline
|. is profitable, and to build and run hne
e churches rich men are necessary 1t then
{ adds the following facts: "lu Rochester, n.
r y, the most gcnteel, fashionable dram
G selling establishm ent, the Osburne House,
f is owned by "A prominent member of the
a First Methodist Episcopal Church. In
+ Wilkesbarre, Pa, the leading hotel is own
4 ed bv Il leading communicaut of the saine
e denominations.
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