Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-03-08

MISCELLANEOUS.

-"Pride goeth before iall,' and many
a waterfall.
The formation of a temperance society
has created a sensation in st. Petersburg.
"A Connecticut farmer has named a
prize rooster Robinson, because Robinson
Crusoc.
A tombstone has been found in Hck-
man county, Tenn, dated 1910, with Lat
in inscription.
Remains of elephants in Alaska have
been discovered in quantities sufficient to
supply the world with ivory for centuries.
The first railway to Yeddo, the capital
of Japan, is now nearly completed. Steam
fire-engines have been introduced into
that country.
Somebody tells the scientific American
of way to clear a well of carbonic acid
gas. 1t is to lower red hot iron to the
water, so as TO produce little steam. The
vapor instantly absorbs the gas.
A post -mortem mination OF pa
tient who had died from trichinia in Indi-
ana developed the astounding fact that
there existed in ev ry cubic inch of flesh
nearly fifty thousand parasites.
All the horses and carriages owned by
the late James Fisk, Jr., were sold at auc-
ton last we k, in New York, They brought
in all $50 600, which is great deal less than
the cost.
Speaking of theoretical farming, Josh
Billings says he once knew man who
wouldn't even set a gate post. unless the
ground was anav wed to see if it possessed
the proper ingredients for post holes.
One Of the best Temperance sermons
ever delivered is this sentence: "Ifit is
small sacrifice for YOU to give up drinking
wine, do it for the sake of others II it is a
great sacrifice, do it Tor your own sake"
When the German indemnity is paid
France will have the largest national debt
ufany country in the world, amounting to
81 500, 100000, or more than double the
present amount Of tine public debt of the
United States.
1t is said that the thread of certain
species of spider found in the South-sup-
ports a weight Of illty-lour grains. As
this fibre is only the one fourth thousandth
Of an inch in diameter, this is at the rate of
1913, ,427 pounds, or Gll tons per square inch.
Good iron wire Sustaius 81 tons per inch
good steel, SO tons good gun-me;al, 50 tons.
A new aud simple method OF prevent
ny pain in the extraction of teeth is an
nounced as being entirely practical, and
free from harmful or unpleasant results.
An assistant simply presses his middle fin
ger of each hand with persistent tirmness
into the Jossa or hollow behind the ridge
of the temporal bone. After this pressure
can be removed without pain.
Mr.. Fox, the celebrated orator, was
one day told by lady whom he visited,
that she "did not care three SkipS of a louise
for HIM" lie Immediately took out his
pencil, and wrote the following lines:
"A lady has told me, aud in her house,
That she not for me three skips Of a louise
forgive the dear creature for what she has said,
Since women will talk Of what runs in their head,'
Tho question as to the origin of the
North American Indians is revived by the
fact of a Japanese junk having gone ashore
in Alaska with three live natives on board.
Twenty-three of the crew had perished
from hunger As japanese and Chinese
vessels are the same now as thousand
years ago, it is quite possible that natives
of those countries were drifted to the shore
| of America long before the time of Column
bus.
We have tidings from Boston of "A cler-
gyman of Massachusetts who, on exchange,
preached in brothers pulpit Taking
up note which he found when he opened
the Bible, he read that Brother A. request
ed the prayers of the church, that the loss
of his wife might be blessed to him, etc.
The preacher prayed most fervently. To
his amazement and modification, he found
that the note had lain in the pulpit Il year,
while the bereaved gentleman was on this
Sabbath sitting with a new wife In the
J congregation i-Churoh Journal.