Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Missouri youth and a fortune of
$780, have parted company in less than
four years, at the gaming table.
a Western editor speaks Of a contem-
porary who is $50 dirty that every time he
goes up stairs there is rise in real estate"
"A CONNECTICUT woman's grief for her
husbands DEATH was increased by the
thought that the parlor curtains were in
the wash.
An ingenious Englishman has con-
strucied a knitting machine, three Of
which can be tended by little girl and to-
gethe r will make 1880 loops in a minute.
In the funeral procession of Wong
Hang Soon, 4 wealthy Chinaman Of San
Francisco, few days ago, there were five
express wagons full of roasted pigs and
chickens, to he deposited with the corpse in
the sepulchre.
A bushel of wheat contains 666, 900
grains. If you don't believe it, count 'em
yourself.
"A shark caught off Charleston had pair
of boots, scalp, two cannon balls and u
package of Sunday School tickets in his
stomach. Some poor boy had played tru
ant from Sunday School, probably. Warn
ing TO boys.
-Despise not small things. An old la
dy in New Jersey has made 600 by sell
ing peanuts, and wretched-lookiug wood
sawyer in Boston owns real estate, purchas-
ed by his earnings alone, worth $4,000.
There are sixty-cight avowed republic
can clubs in England Il @ largest of which
numbers nearly 1000 members. The "In-
tie irrational" numbers halfa million ADDER
ents in Great Britain, all of whom are OF
course in favor of a republic. Bradlaugh
and Odger count on 10000 ardent republic
cans who are capable of good organizing
work in case OF an out break.
A curious story is told of gentleman
OF Newberry, England, who recently made
wager of $4,000 that Mt eight o'clock on a
particular evening he would sit down to
dinner in well-woven, well-dyed, we'll
made suit of clothes, the wool of which
formed the fleece on Sleeps backs at five
o'clock that same morning. Two sheep
were shorn; the wool was washed. clrded,
studied, roved, spun, and woven the
cloth was secured, iulled, tented, raised,
sheared, dyed, and dressed the garments
were made. At a quarter past six he sat
down TO dinner, at the head of his guests
in n complete damson-coloied suit-thu-
winning his wager with one hour and
three-quartcrs to spare.
Illustrative ol the ups and downs ofthis
life in general, and politics in particular
Thurlow Weed tells how some New York
err raised a fund to defeat Fillmore in 1896
which was given to him for 'judicious dis
tributon." He placed $4,000 in bank t.
the credit of his partner, TO be drawn GU
Us it was needed. \ few days after. thu
latter dropped dead in the street. Tn,
of law, to the widow. \ year or two pass
ed, and Mr.. Fillmore met and married tn
widow-and the $4,000
Richard Yates, once governor Of Illinois
and Senator in Con ress, is fast going Il
| the bad. The other day he visited bank
! ing house in Spri gtield, H., and denlan
ed $50. II was refused him, whereupon h,
abu, ed the teller like a pickpocket, anC
had to be elected. lie visited Il saloon anC
~
tender told him he had none, whereon he
grew so violent that he was put out by
| force. Drunken, friendess and an Outcast
| he is now perfect wreck, and even his
| friends have come TO the conclusion that
the only service he can render is to die.
There is house still standing in Green
land, n. H., which was built in 1888, and
is consequently 233 years old. 1t is a two
story brick building, with high gable ends.
1t is 30 feet in length by % in width. The
walls of the lower story are eighteen inches
thick, and all the timber which enters into
the construction of the house is of oak,
massive and strong. This was for better
protection against the Indians. There is
a serious rent high up in the east wall, be-
lleyed to be trace of the earthquake Of IL
| ~, or that of l77j. \ Mr.. Weeks built the
house, and it has remained in the family
possession ever since--n remarkable cir
cumstance.
The Richmond Dispatch is not very
enthusiastic over the productions of Nir-
| ginia, which have diminished every year
| since the war. II asserts that the produc
ti6n of tobacco in the James River Valley
has diminished ono half As to wheat, The
dhninution is still greater, the production
for five years since the war being as one t.
four what II was for the five preceding thu
war. The last crop was almost an entr,
failure, aud the receipts fell on one half, st
that the Richmond millers had to purchas
wheat at the North. Cattle, sheep, horses
hogs, and poultry have Also diminished il
a greater ratio than the leading staples.