Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS,

1t is said that the Havana lottery robs
this country of a million dollars yearly,
which goes to Cuba.
"A cynical bachelor, in speaking of la
dies ball dresses, says: "They wear but
little here below, but they wear that little
long"
-Beecher says that reli ion that isn't
"mixed" with politics and the business
of life, is worth about as much as yeast
that is never mixed with flour.
1t is estimated that fully 100000 sides
of leather and SO,OOO,OO lbs. of wool were
destroyed in the Boston fire. The effect
has been an advance of ten per cent on un-
finished leather, three to six per cent. on
sole leather, and ten per cent. on woollens,
with prospect of further advance.
A plan is on foot in England-suggest-
ed, probably, by the present scarcity and
costliness of coal-to supply houses with
heat, as they are now supplied with gas,
from a common source. 1t Is proposed
ultimately to make one immense furnace
serve whole city, but, for beginning, to
try the plan with twenty or thirty houses,
supplying each with both heat and hot wa
ter, at rates far below the present cost OF
warming dwellings.
The first chapter of a western novel has
the following: "All of a sudden the girl
continued to sit on the sand gazing on the
briny deep, on whose heaying bosom the
ships all went merrily by, freighted-oh
who can tell with how much joy and sor-
row, and pine and lumber and emigrants,
and hopes and salt fish,"
That was good, though rather a Sc
we're pun, which was made by student
in one of our theological seminaries (and
he was not one of the brightest of the class,
either,) when he asked: "Why is Prof. -
the greatest revivalist of the agep" and ON
all "giving it up" said, because at the
close OF every sermon there is Great
Awakening.
"A Republican, walking out with
Democratic friend, made bet thata drunk
en- man whom they saw approaching was
Democrat. AS the topper approached, he
was accosted by the Republican: MY
friend, have ust made a bet on you, which
you are to decide. have bet my friend
here that you are Democrat How is ~"
"Well," replied Mr.. Cornjuice, II am sor-
ry to say you have lost your money l ac-
knowledge I've got The symptoms but not
the disease ~
Down among the mountains Of Maine
lives rough specimen of a farmer, we'll
to-do as it goes with his neighbors, but sell
dom seen at church. A new minister came
into the place, and in calling among the
people, happened one day to reach Uncle
Luther's Just at dinner-time. He was in
vited to come in, and when dinner was on
the table, to "hitch up his chair" When
they were all seated, Uncle Luther nudged
him under the table and says, "Not0, touch
her OF, parSon." Had he been about the
world less, he would hardly have taken
that for an invitation to say grace.
AT the Oneida Community but two
meals per day are now served, instead of
three. The breakfast hours are from to
10 a. M, and dinner, the final meal of the
day, is served at p. m. Their medical ad-
visers say that the eating Of three meals a
day is a habit and not a natural instinct,
and that it had been conclusively proved
that better digestion, better assimilation,
better sleep and brighter faculties, are the
rewards of those who limit themselves to
two meals.