Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

bill that "reigion shall neither be taught
or practised in the public schools"
Mr.. Wilcox, of Connecticut, is out SG75
just by hiding the money in straw bed.
His wife cleaned house and burned all the
old straw.
The southern papers say that Now
Hampshire school-teacher by the name of
Hoyt has left Hopefeld, Tenn, in disgust,
because esquire Wright (colored) fined
him s. and costs for profanity"
The National Academy of Design in
New York is open TO the public on Sundays,
and determined movement is making to
have the Mercantile Library open also on
Sunday.
-The Journal of the Telegraph announces
that the seemingly wild problem of trans
hitting messages both ways at the same
time, on single wire, has at last been
solved by Boston man.
The cutting of all kinds of hard sub
stances is now accomplished by means of
a fine blast of sand. The principle is the
same as that involved in the new process
of engraving glass by similar blast.
A lady writer says, if women were as
q
as men are in selecting virtuous wife,
moral reformation would soon begin, which
would be something more than froth and
foam.
As wife was holding her husbands
aching head in her bands one morning, she
asked: "Are man and wife one?" ar sup
pose So" said the husband. "Then," re-
joined the wife, ~ came home drunk last
night, and ought to be ashamed of myself"
Frank Leslie is a nom dc plume. The
man who wears il came to this country a
bankrupt many years ago now he publish
cS three literary periodicals, three ladies'
papers, three comic papers, and four Illus
trated periodicals in foreign languages, and
has accumulated a fortune.
"A Mississippi girl just out of school hir-
ed a few negroes last season, and under
took to carry on the farm at her homestead.
The results at the end of II G year were
eight banks of potato K hundred bush
els of corn, and 5000 in cash from the sale
of cotton after all expenses were paid.
Even at the centre of its force in south
ern California, the late great earthquake
was not felt by miners three hundred feet
under ground. The disturbance seems to
have been wholly along the surface of the
earth, which is an intere sting and impor-
tant fact in the science of earthquakes.
1t is estimated that in the State of
Minnesota alone, the government loses
$500, 900 annually in the presumption of
timber land by men who have no purpose
of settlement, and who retain the land only
long enough TO cut OFF the timber, when
they abandon it and pre-empt new tracts.
1t is estimated that S75, 900, 900 worth of
fuel is burned yearly in the United States.
Locomotives consume over s., O00,0 900 cords
of wood annually, and over 800, 900, 900
worth of sawed lumber is yearly employed
in building and in manufactures. Four
millions of acres of forest disappear every
year before the axe TO supply all these de-
mands.
A man named j. c. Clymore was late
ly murdered near Vienna, Illinois. The
popularity of this case is that it shows how
the shadow of an impending event may
fail upon man in his sleep. This man
was troubled with dream of his own as
sassination on four successive nights about
a week before the event.
A cIo,olond odi,or bos ;nyon,odo si,oo,
iron cat with clock-work inside. which
nloced unou a roor-sbed. utters cat calls
that brings 20 its treac herous arms the fe-
line denizens of n whole ward. 1t mows
them away with fearful rapidty and in the
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oitber of tbe three years last mast and man.
ueactprers saw thew cannot afford 10 buv
LARGELY mill The nrioes decline nc the nres-
ont nrioos for woollan goods do no, nav
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,be milk and one black and white ono
was on the back fence trying to catch an
English sparrow. drowned the whole lot
| The despairing editor of n Petersburg
Va, paper makes the following WALL "A
man from Maine has our st-ofiice, Yer
mont man represents us in Congress, fell
low from Pennsylvania is our street com
missi oner, our commissioner of revenue i,
a Mas sachusetts man, fellow from Phila
delphia is jailor. The chief of police is
Penns ylvanian, two negroes represent us
IN the LEGISLATURE Name man represents
us in the senate
Up in Vermont (says Hearth anc
HON e), there lived reprobate family nam
ed Ransom. Once, however, they were in