Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

MI. moses dupont, OF lioiyohe, mhsS',
and his % brothers, have, between them,
800 children.
Only one passenger in million was
killed in passing over the railroads in Pen
sylvania last year.
Eve was the prototype as well as pro-
genitor of women. ribbon(e) was the
making OF her.
Blond hair Is worth more than its
weight in gold. The metal costs about
eighteen dollars an ounce, while the hair
sells for from twenty TO thirty dollars.
The London Garden says that the roof
of Westminster Abbey, in which Chestnut
was used, was examined some time ago
and found to be perfect. 1t has stood eight
centuries.
A married friend of ours said he would
always have remained single but he could
not afford It. What it cost him for gals
and ice cream was more than he now pays
to keep wife md eighteen children.
To see how eagerly human being will
catch at a straw 1t is not necessary to wit
ness a drowning. The phenomenonis now
manifest chiefly within saloons, where one
end of the straw is immersed in tumbler.
When crowd of iayhawkers started a
disturbance in Texas church, the other
day, the preacher raised up shotgun and
said: civilian Dello, sit down or I'll
make it painful for you" William sat
down aud was as quiet as a lamb.
A Pennsylvania preacher returned
thanks, lately. for the prosperous condition
Of the crops, but carefully put in Except
ing o Lord, the corn, which Is backward,
and the oats which are mighty thin in
Spots"
A Walduboro, n. H., boy attempted TO
fix the COW that switched her tail in his
face while he MIXED. He tied her tail Sc
curely to his leg, but the bovine got fright
ened and watzed him over a l0-acre lot till
| his recovery is doubtful.
The Fourth of July tornado which Wis
| tied the West came upon a marriage cere-
mony in Wisconsin and killed the preach
Ell inst as he came TO the words: II now
pronounce you-.'' The couple are in
some doubts as to the precise character of
their relation.
The near. sighted hen who ate sawdust,
supposing it to be cornmeal, then went and
laid nest full of bureau knobs, sat on EN-
three weeks and hatched out complete
set of paror furniture. was n pretty fair
hen.
The Newton gas well, six miles from
Titusville, Pa, discovered last year, still
continues 10 pour forth its gaseous treas
ures at the rate of three millions of cubic
feet of gas every day Of twenty-iour hours
Ebony wood weighs eighty-two pounds
to the cubic foot lignum vitae, the same
h hickory, filty-two pounds; birch, forty
five pounds beech, forty pounds; yellow
pine, thrty-eght; white pine, twenty-five
pounds cork, fifteen pounds, and water
sixty-two pounds.
A schoolboy being asked by his teach
er of what the German Diet was constitute
cd, replied, Sourk rout, schnapps, lager beef
and nix cum rous The lad must be {
cousin-german to the boy who, when shown
picture of Luther at the Diet of Worms
said, Papa, see Luther, but where dr.,
the worms?
"A wicked wretch in Madison, Wis.
took seat in church directly behind hi
rival who had "got away" with Sarah Jane
and during the service slipped an activ,
clinch bug down his back. 1t made thu
fellow so uneasy that he was compelled t
leave the church, and the other fellow wen
home with the gill.
An inscription on a monument il
East Tennessee, winds up with the follow
ing touching obituary:
"She lived life of virtue, and died o
the cholera MOI bus, caused by eating greer
fruit, in the hope of blessed Immortality
at the early age of q years, months AM
lG days! Reader, Go thou and do like
wise.'"
The subject of impressions at first sigh
was being taxed over in a family circle
when the mother of the family said, II al
ways form an idea of Il person on frs
sight, and generally find it correct" "Manl
ma" said her youthful son. "Well, IN
dear, what is il ?" II want to know wha
your opinion Of me was when you first SAY
me-"
The wealth of As,ur is now compute
at S200.000000. The property of old job
Jacob Astor, the father of William b. As
tor, was left by him in trust for the benC
tit of his heirs. After the expiration Of til
, trusleeship, which will occur at the end {
the third generation-that is, after the CRANE
children have passed away-it will then
divided among all he descendants of I'll
| Old man, the law not allowing trusteeshi
, of that kind TO extend for a longer perio
of time.
An experienced husband in Lafayett
, Ind, sent two switches home TO his vii
from which she was 10 make selection
, but before doing it he changed the tag
putting the twenty-five dollar one on Il
ten dollar switch and vice versa. After
4 critical examination by herself and lad
, friends, the choice fell upon that labelt
y twenty-five dollars, and she decided
a keep it, Notwithstanding her husband
p plat ntve protest that he could not afford
pay out more than ten dollars for such
n article Did you ever?
/. A remar kable boy, seen at the Mas
u. Vile depot, is one of the greatest curios
i, ties of the age. He is half white and la
black, not in The mulatto and miscegn
- ton sense, but the lower half of his boo
is whittier than white folks are, while Il
70 upper portion is as black as midnight. ii
. mother is a coal black negress. He is b
d three years old, and has learned to nal
q money ont of his peculiarties. There is
round patch, about three inches in diam
l. ter, of perfectly beautiful hair on the top
= his head, which is surrounded by a iii
= kinky negro wool.
l. The Springfield Union remarks: -
lie is certainly very discouraging about tho
agricultural colleges. Here is this one
ID at Amherst; il turns out as fine young m
st as any institution going, champion oal
~ men, promising civil engineers, lawye