Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


Michigan made nearly 100000 tons of
pg-metal last year against 200 tons in 1854.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has re-
pealed the charters ofthe infamous Medical
Colleges which were such disgrace to
Philadelphia.
"A new style of watch is in the shape of
beetle, thickly incrusted with precious
stones. One side CT the wing opens with a
spring and discloses watch dial, and the
other side has place for miniature.
California bred horses. II is claimed,
are proving superior in speed, endurance,
and general good qualities, TO the best
raised in the Atlantic States or Europe.
The hair on a camel weighs about ten
pounds and sells for more than 500, which
shows that IL was not only in the days of
Mohammed that the animal bore great
prophet.
The Mobile Tribune says the ramie plant
will be a more profitable crop than sugar,
cotton, rice or tobacco, whenever machine
is invented that will be to the ramie fibre
what Whitney's raw-gin was originally to
tn cotton fibre.
The nufacture of iron rails in this
country has doubled in the last ten years.
Pennsylvania stands first as to the amount
manufactured, and Illinois second. One
mill in Wisconsin places that state fifth on
the list of producing States.
DIR. Hull states in the Prairie Farmer
that the simple use of soft soap, put on hot,
is quite as eflectual against the borer, for
the exclusion of the moth from laying her
eggs in the bark, as the carbolc soap, and
not one eighth as expensive.
There is a farm in Pennington, Conn.
in connection with which the singular fact
is stated, that no deed was ever given for a
portion of the lands, the same family hav-
ing held 1t for two hundred and thirty-two
years, from the time of its original pur-
chase of the Indians.
Gotham recently produced a wedding
cake that weighed forty pounds. 1t was in
the shape of a three-story house, and orna-
mented with flags, bow windows, balconies
and Cupids, with newly married couple
of sugar coming out of the front door.
A New York farmer laughed when his
pru dent wife advised him not to smoke on
a load of hay. He footed il home that
night with his hair singed, most of his gar
ments a prey to the devouring elements,
and the ironwork of the wagon in potato
sack and then his wife laughed.
A New Hampshire traveller in going
lately from Concord to Bradford, twenty
six miles, passed twenty-six deserted
houses. In going over main roads from
Franconia to Concord, via Warren, ITO
miles, he passed 30 deserted farm houses.
Even in the Granite State the people are
flocking to the towns and cities.
A croupy youth in neigboring town
having strongly objected to taking his
medicine, was induced TO make hearty
meal of buckwhcat cakes and "maple svr-
up" but the latter proved to be hive syrup
of squils. The boy said she thought
something allied the molasses the minute
his father told him | @ could eat all he
wanted to-"
The Boston Journal states that a veal
thy manufacturer in Massachusetts, who
AS also n fancy farmer, in making out his
return for the income tax, closed hi; eport
OF the urolis of farming TO tie assessor in
writing as follows: "My cattle have eat
up all my crops, and my hired men have
eat up my cattle
Life and death in the Bereh Palace |
Hog Cars is thus beautifully painted by the |
high toned artist of the Cleveland Ledder
"When the swine wish to slumbcr, they |
blow whistle made from the tail of a
brother who has gone before, the conductors |
enter and conduct them to a hot Russian
bath in the rear of the car, after which they |
are rubbed down with wet towels, lunch |
of old boots and ice cream furnished. Not |
a squea is ever heard on these cars. moth
ing but grunts of satisfaction, and a skilled |
musician puts in from eighteen to twenty |
four hours day playing on cottage or
gan, and singing UGH ballads as the Ham
Fat Man. THE Watch on the Rhine |
when the Pigs come Home, etc, etc. In |
fact, life is one perpetual holiday on the |
hog trains until they arrive within a few |
miles of Jersey City, when the train is
stopped, a steam fire engine throwsa stream |
of chloroform into each car, and the in |
mates sink int n slumber from which they |
do not awaken in this world of trichne,
butcher knives, smok ed ham, he adj cheese |
and DEATH