Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

There are four tribes of Indians re-
naming in Delaware, aggregating total
of sixteen persons.
1t is suggested that belle-puls would
be appropriate sppendages to the door
plates low worn on ladies' belts.
An Italian father and daughter are
fighting in the courts at st. Louis over Sl0,-
900, the proceeds of 20 years of street beg
ging in the large American cities.
-Tweuty-four lawyers are engaged,
twelve on each side, in a Kentucky libel
suit, and it is proposed to assign a couple
to every juryman separately.
-Brashear, Tex, after congratulating it.
self on escaping an invasion of yellow fe-
yer, has succumbed TO the more fatal i'm
portaton of 800 barrels of Cincinnati whis-
key.
Fines have been formally imposed in
Cologne upon 235 former residents of that
town who have evaded the military laws
by crossing and settling in America. How
they are to be collected does not appear.
"A minister asked a tipsy fellow lean
ing up against fence, where he expected
to go when he died. "If can't get along
any better than do now," he replied, "I
shan't so anywhere"
The national Total Abstinence Socie-
ty' proposes to commemorate the centen-
NAL anniversary ofAmerican independence
by erecting fountain in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, TO spout for the first time on
the Fourth of July, 1876.
"A girl fourteen years old was made in
sane at Cincinnati, recently through fright
occasoned by man who suddenly seized
her in the street, tied a handkerchief over
her mouth, threw some kind ofa drug in
TO her face, and then attempted to drag her
into graveyard. The wretch has not
been caught.
To believe is to be happy to doubt is
to be wretched. Doubt weakens belief is
to be strong. Belief is power. Only so far
as man believes strongly, nightly, can
he act cheerfully, or do anything that is
worth doing.
"A passenger on the lightning train near
Worcester put his arm out Of the window.
In a short time he had ii back and was call
ing for doctor. His attempt TO brush
freight train off the track was failure.
Even Australia is in advance of the
~ ulltu OlulOSs uO ASSpulDlY
of Victoria have decided by a small major
ity that all the female rate payers may
exercise the franchise at the election of
members to the local Parliament.
The New York Examiner makes
good point on the panic, in saying. "we
live literally by faith in our fellow-men.
When men cease to trust one another, they
cease to work together, and arrangement
and loss are inevitable
An Englshman claims to have found
| the origin of the Yankee nasal twang. The
| first settlers of Massachusetts came chiefly
from Suffolk and neighboring counties,
| whore this same twang is heard and is call
ed ''Suffolk singing" and putting the two
N.ot, ,oseruer It is easy 10 draw conclu-
sion. The greater part of the colonists be-
ing from Suffolk, their style of pronuucia-
ton naturally prevailed and came to be the
only one in use.
A report has been in circulation in New
York that Whitelaw Reid of the Tribune
had proposed to Miss Anna Dickinson, and
been definitely refused A few days since,
so says the Index, Mr.. Reid wrote to Miss
Dickinson requesting her to allow him to
deny the rumor, through the Tribune. The
lady retorts with Characteristic spirit, that
if she could stand the rumor OF the propo-
sal, he ought to be able 10 endure the re-
port of the jilting.
The Canadian Pacific Railway scheme
is practically dead. 1t originated in specu-
lation, it has been managed in the interest
of political party, the contract with the
government would have proved great
swindle, and if constructed, the road must
have proved financial failure. The Brit
ish capitalists refuse to furnish money tc
help the enterprise, and the contract to
be abandoned.
The caution of the New Highlander in
giving an answer to direct question was
illustrated to me, says a correspondent, the
other day, when asked an eastern friend
of mine, whose family were not noted for
very active habits, twas not your fathers
death very sudden?" Slowly drawing one
hand from his pocket, and pulling down
his beard, the interrogated cautioustly re-
piled, "Waal, rather sudden, for him."
"A Detroit business man found coun-
terfeit fifty cent scrip among his currency
the other day, and he put it in his vest and
that afternoon gave it to a little girl beg.
ging on the streets. When he came back
from tea he found the same piece of scrip
in the drawer again, and, questioning his
clerk he learned that little girl had
brought it in, bought stick of gum and
gone away with forty-nine cents good
money.
A writer in the Californian delivers ;
Sunday-schol address, of which the follow
ing passage is an example: "You boy
ought TO be kind 10 your little sisters.
once knew bad boy who struck his littl'
sister blow over the eye Although sh'
didn't fade and die in the early summer
time when the June roses were blowing
with the sweet words of forgiveness on hci
palid lips, she rose up and hit him over thu
head with a rolling-pin, so that he couldn'
go 10 Sunday-school for more than month
on account of not being able to put his hes
hat on"
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