Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-18
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A Hindoo temple is to be erected in
London.
-Tonsberg, a Norwegian city, celebrated
its ono thousandth anniversary on the 22d
of June.
The inhabited houses of London stretch
along the banks of the Thames over 1872
square miles.
The Texas Pacific Railway will be 1915
miles in length. In SIS miles of it there
will be but six bridges.
The young ladies of this country now
have the choice of fifty colleges wherein TO
complete their education.
The largest melon patch in Illinois is
probably that at Seymour, which covers
seventeen hundred acres of ground.
The annual income of Miss Anna
Dickinson for lecturng the past seven
years has averaged $1,000. Her profits last
season reached $4,000.
BY actual weighing, it is found that
vigorous hive of bees will add, during the
best part of working day, one pound of
honey per hour to its weight.
So far as is known at the War Depart
ment, the rebels captured $50 flags from
loyal regiments during the late war, and
the boys in blue retalated to the extent of
capturing 1856 flags from JOHNNY Reb. Mas
>achusetts regiments took 10.
-Tangipahoa, La, is excited over the
discovery of some mammoth human skele-
tons larger than any other of the pre-
historicoges yet found. The skulls are
twice AS large as those of ordinary men.
The Richmond Palladium says: "a
German named Kitterman had a remark
able streak of luck Tuesday His wife had
a baby, his COW twin calves, his SOW thir-
teen pigs, his cat five kittens, and one of
his hens Matched twelve chickens. Pretty
fair operations for one day"
Thirty years ago, Berlin did not con-
tain 800, 900 inhabitants; now it has nearly
100000. Its growth has been more wonder
lul than that of Chicago, and much more
rapid than that of any other city in Europe.
Since the law concerning free emigration
has been passed, the growth is tremendous.
The graduating class of the Ohio Wes-
leyan university contained John S. Van
cleve, a young man totally blind, who
nevertheless went through the entire course
and took fair stand in scholarship. The
Western Advocate, which tells the story,
thinks this the first instance of such thing
being done, bnt on The contrary, only
year since young man, stone blind, grad
uated at Columbia college, New York, and
carried off the second honor in his class
The murderer of the Viceroy Ma was
executed at Nankin a few weeks ago by
being "cut into 10000 pieces" which means
cut 10 pieces gradually until he died. He
bore the punishment as stoically as he had
supported the horrible tortures to which he
had been subjected in the course of judi
cial Investigation, when he was kept for
twenty days kneelng on not chains for the
purpose of forcing a confession Of the cause
of the murder.
An accident, sadly ludicrous, recently
occurred at a funeral in Chicago. The par
lors where the coffin was resting were ex-
cecdngly full of people, so that the unu-
sual weight upon the floor caused it to give
way during the address of the minister,
and precipitated the whole crowd, coffin,
minister and mourners, into the cellar.
The room into which they fell was the
commissary department of the establish
ment, and one lady was particularly fortu-
nate, managing to get one foot into a jar of
butter, another into pan of milk, while a
shelf Of honey was deposited in her lap.
To add to the confusion the coffin was bro
ken by the fall, and the corpse landed in
barrel of soft soap.
Capt. David II. Todd, brother of Mrs.
Lincoln, whose death in Alabama was re-
recently announced, was captain in the
Confederate army from louisiana and his
young brother Sam Todd, was private in
the Crescent Regiment of New Orleans
Abiding to the latter, the Richmond En-
quirer says: AT Shiloh, about 10 o'clock
on Monday morning, when the army I'M
der Beauregard advanced toward the river
and was met by Buel's reinforcing col
umn, young Todd WAS killed. A bullet
pierced his forehead, and he was left on the
field TO be buried by Grants army. In
camp, when he was present, the boys were
always very careful to say nothing often
Sive about the Northern President. In the
same regiment was a nephew of Secretary
seward, who still lives"
Ten elephants recently arrived in New
York from Ceylon, and were taken, via
the animals entered the cars prepared for
them quietly, except the largest of the
number, Rajah, In vain the keepers prick
ed him with their spears, scolded, praised,
or enticed him. He would not move an
inch, and showedsymptoms of rage, which
we're very alarming. Finally, the baby
elephant eight years old was led in and
ont of the ear several times and at last,
after he had been Modified with sugar,
candy and sponge cake, Rajah slowly and
with great delberation followed his COM
panion, carefully testing with his forefeet
the strength of the planks leading from the
platform to the truck. Each elephant was
then provided with abundance of hay and
water. and the train moved away. Their
trunks went unchecked
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