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

Poor Andy johnson had about 100000
on deposit at the suspended First national
bank at Washington.
-Garvey, the Tammany ring plasterer
of unsavory reputation, is living in retire
ment at Battle Mountain, New.
Mrs. Charles Sumner has taken her
maiden name. Skipping two husbands,
she now calls herself Alice Mason.
Boss Tweed is making tour of Cali
fornia, for health and pleasure, with an eye
ont for good chances for investment.
The most important needle-work ever
done in the world is supposed to have been
done by the mariners compass.
"A Des Moines woman gave her hus-
band morphine TO cure him OF chewing to-
bacco. 1t cured him, but she Is doing her
own fall plowing.
The measures spoken of in music re-
fer generally to time. An exception is
made in the case of hand organs, which fur
nish music by the barrel.
-Unfaithful cashiers in England get Sc
verely dealt with. An employe of the new
British iron company who grabbed $500
has been sentenced to five years penal
servitude.
"A Louisville journal POLITICALLY re-
marks: ain Montgomery, Alabama, the
other day, four negroes got on a spree, one
took out his little jack-knife, and now there
amt but three"
Where is 'parts unknown?" asked a
correspondent of the Danbury News, to
which Bailey answers very truthfully,
"where they don't ADVERTISE
Two young Indians were recently adj
mitted as ministers TO the Methodist con-
ference in Oregon. Five hundred of the
Nez Perces Indians were recently convert
ed; all of them gave up the use of tobacco.
The wedding cake for the marriage of
the Duke of Edinburgh and the daughter
of the Emperor of Russia, will be seven
feet six Inches in hight, and weigh two
hundred and thirty pounds. They are 60
ing TO board themselves.
The Burlington Gowa) Hawkeye says:
"There is no law in this State for hanging
a man who murders lightning-rod ped
dler or life insurance agent. Let the op-
pressed people remember this and exer.
else their privileges"
Such is the marvellous ductility of gold
that single ounce of the pure Iuetal may
be drawn out into wire thirty-three miles
in length
Fifty years ago the following adver-
tisement appeared in a Cincinnati paper:
Passengers wanted-A wagon will start
for New York City in about two weeks.
Five passengers will be accommodated at
S25 each.
The fact that nature is full of compen-
sation is beautifully illustrated by recent
bit of scientific information, which an
nounces that the house fly is tormented by
parasites, of which it cannot get rid, and
that it suffers dreadful agonies from their
tickling.
The Shah declared that European rulers
were not kings at all, because "they con-
suit the will of the people and have no
power over the lives of their subjects. They
cannot take money when they want it, and
are kings only in name. An Eastern mon
arch can do rs he likes; he is not bound to
please any one, and comes and goes as he
wills"
The most appalling case OF deafness
outside of an asylum was that of an old
lady who lives just across the street from
the Navy Yard gate. The other day they
fired salute of thirteen guns. The old
lady was observed to start and listen as the
last gun was. fired and then she exclaimed:
"Come inv'