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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-04

On MARRIAoE-To THE YOUNG MEN,
The true girl has to be sought for. She
does not parade herself as show-2o' DIS. She
is not fashionable. Generally she Is not
rich. But Oh what heart she has when
you find her so large, so pure, so woman
ly! When you see 1t you wonder If those
snowy things outside were really women !!
If you gain her love, your two thousand
are a million. She will not ask you for
carriage or a first-class house. She'll year
simple dresses, and turn them when neces-
sary, though vulgar magniticence frowns
on her economy. She will keep everything
neat and nice in your sky parlor, and give
you such welcome when you come homo
that you'll think your parlor higher than
ever. She'll entertain true friends on a
dollar, and astonish you with the new
thought, how little happiness depends on
money! She will make You love home Cf
you don't you're a brute), and teach you
how TO pity, while you scorn, poor fash
ionable that thinks itself rich, and vainy
tries to think itself happy.
Now do not, pray you, say, any more,
81 can't afford to marry" Go find the true
woman, and you can! Throw away that
cigar, burn up that switch cane, be sens-
BILE yourself, and seek your wife in sens
ible way.-Dr. Crosby, in association
Monthly.
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waters be lowered by 1875 fathoms, and
the northern part of the Atlantic would be
reduced TO n small triangular Caspian"
situated between the Azores, the Bank of
Newfoundland, and the Bermudas.
Though the Pacific Ocean is scarcely 15i
miles in depth, IL is known 10 be in one
part nearly nine miles deep, or so deep that
two of the highest mountains on our globe
might be piled one on top of the other, and
sunk into 1t, and yet scarcely emerge above
the surface. The depth of the Pacific has
not only been ascertaine1 by numerous
soundings, but Professor Franklin Bache
calculated, from the rapldity with which
tho great tidal wave accompanying the
earthquake of 1854 in Japan crossed the
ocean to California, that the Pacific has be-
tween tho shores of japan and the United
States, mean depth of about 23i2 fathoms.
The highest part of the continents raised
above the surface of The waters Is of much
less elevation than the depth Of the sea
and we can estimate the land above the
level of the sea at only about fortieth part
of the mass of waters, and as much of this
land Is unavailable by mankind, we gel
here some notion of the very limited use
which we arc, as yet, able 10 make of the
planet we inhabit.-From Hdrpers Maya
zine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-04

A NOVELTY IN BUTTER MAKING.-Tho
Providence Journal discourses appetizng-
ly of certain pals of butter which have
gladdened that market, coming all the way
from an Illinois dairy, sweet, fresh, and
possessing a delicate aroma, uniform in
quality and hardly distinguishable from
each other though made in summer, au-
tumn and winter:
"They contain little salt and no butter
milk. This perfect butteris churned daily
from fresh milk. Here lies the secret.
Milk one hour-butter the next No set
ting of milk pans and skimming and stor-
ing up of cream. No subsection of milk
and cream to atmospheric, electric and Their
NAL changes. No expensive cellars with
running water TO secure fresh air and equal
temperature, or, in default, a perpetually
fiuctuating product of butter. In place oil
the hand churn, the power churn. In place
of the inefficient hand working of the but
ter, jaws worked by power, squeezing out
the buttermilk, just as the melted Stag
is squeezed out of the softened iron pud-
ding"
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S.s.vD-STOR.uS. s.vD Iy.fTRR-
SPOUTS.


Not less terrible are the great sand-storms
which sometimes sweep over the vast
deserts OF Africa and Asia. The Hungarian
savant, Arminus Vambery, who Travelled
through many countries of the East in the
disguise of a dervish, graphically describes
one OF these tempests, encountered while
traversing the desert between Khiva and
the Turcomans and the Oxus, his caravan
penetrated tho sandy waste. The fatigue
of marching was terrible. Camels and
asses sank nearly to the knees in the fine
sand. The second morning they camped
at a station bearing the charming name of
Adamkyrylgan (Which means "the place
where men perish"). A dismal prospect
extended on every side. Let the reader
picture to himself a sea of sand stretching
out to the horizon, on one hand rising in
to wave-like hills, on the other smooth and
level as lake. Not bird was visible in
the air, not sign of living creature on the
earth-nothing but traces of death in the
bleaching bones of man or beast, thrown
into heaps, the ghastly guide-posts OF the
caravani After five days OF weary march
ing, during which tho water gave out, they
neared the limit of the desert and all eyes
were searching eagerly to discover shep-
herds hut or a drove of cattle, when the
leader drew attention to an approaching
cloud of dust, and ordered every one TO
lose no time in dismouning from the
camels. The poor brutes themselves dis
serned the coming ofthe terrible "Tebbad,"
or sand-storm uttering loud cry, they
fell on their knees, stretched their long
necks along the ground, and strove TO bury
their heads in the sand. Vambery and his
companions intrenched themselves behind
the crouching animals, lying there as under
cover of a wall and scarcely had they
done so when the wind rushed over them
with dull Gathering sound, leaving them,
In its rapid flight, covered with a crust of
sand two fingers thick. "The first parti-
eles that touched me-" says Vambery,
"seemed to burn like rain of fiery fakes"
Had they encountered the storm deeper in
the desert, all must have persisted. Tebbad
is o Persian word, signifying fever-wind.
1t lis most to be dreaded In the sandy deserts,
where 1t may not only bring the torture of
fever, but overwhelm every thing under
dense volumes of sand.
Less destructive in their effects, but
hardly less terrifying to the beholder, are
the enormous sand columns raised by
whirlwlndsinih The sandy deserts of Asia and
Africa. They sometimes assume the most
fantastic shapes, and move with almost in
credible swiftness. We can easily imagine
that the superstitious children of the desert
saw in these monstrous phenomena the
manifestation of supernatural power, and
that the whirling columns of sand and
dust took shape in their minds as the dread
cd genii and afrites Of the Arabian Nights.
Unlike the great sand-storms OF which we
have just been speaking, which som, times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-04

area over vast trdcts of fertile land, these
sand spouts, as they may be called, rarely
produce much mischief. M. Flammarion
relates several instances where the whirl-
wind or tornado which occasions them has
done great damage to villages in France.
Analogous TO the sand columns are the
water-spouts frequently observed at sea,
and sometimes also on land. They are
columns ofcloud or water, generally in the
shape of double cone, having its least
diameter in the middle, and reaching from
low cloud to the surface of the land or
water. When formed at sea by the action
of the wind, they generally begin to form
at the surface OF the water, rising gradually
until they meet tho upper portion, which,
neatly at the same time, begins TO descend
from the cloud. On land they almost in
variably commence in the under surface
of a cloud and descend rapidly until they
reach the earth. AT sea the spout or
spouts, when formed, move in the di-
rection Of the wind, with n horizontal
whirling motion; and when several of
| them are observed together, as Is frequent
| ly the case, they present majestic specta-
| Gle. Even when there is apparently no
| wind, the spouts may be seen TO move
| along the surface of the water, sometimes
| in different directions, and to bend and
twist as If violently sgitated by some in
terror force. Some observers say that the
| formation Of these spouts is accompanied
by a dull rumbling noise, like that of a
heavy cataract heard from distanc, the
parting is sometimes followed by loud
report. The column sometimes disappears
as if 1t were drawn up into the cloud from
which it depended, sometimes in a heavy
fall of rain, and at other times in solid
mass of water, popularity known as "a
cloud-burst." The sailors theory that a
water-spout can be dissipated by cannon
shot is not generally accepted.
| Many Of the most remarkable water
spcuts have appeared on land, and these
are frequently very destructive in their
march. We have an account of one which is
saidto have broken in Lancashire, England,
which for the distance ola mile tore up the
earth to the depth of several feet, as If il
had been furrowed by some gigantic plow
In the Autumn of 1859, a waler-spout burst
near Calcutta, India, inundating grassy
plain 10 the extent of half square milo tc
the depth OF six inches; two weeks were
required to drain off the water.
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a remarkable speech. He seized the moose
dramatically aud, shaking II before the
crowd, said: "Just remember that rope II
you go into saloon and get tight. See
what that liquor will bring you to as we'll
as IL has brought me to. Remember that
now, and look out for yourselves" What
more impressive Temperance lecture than
this was ever delivered!
-Beecher, Whittier, Wilson, oliver
Johnson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and n
number of other prominent men and wo-
men, unite in a letter 10 William Lloyd
Garrison, asking him TO write his autobi-
ography; in reply, Mr.. Garrison express
es his qualification at tho complimentary
terms in which tho letter aludes to him,
hut says that his poor health renders it
very doubtful whether lie will be able 10
undertake the task.
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We wish some of our "home-made"
poets would take notice of the following
from the Golden Age: "The faculty for
rhyming is essentially the same as the fac
ulty for dress making; that is, 1t is simply
a low order Of constructive ingenuity, APP
piled in one case TO words, and in the 9TH
err to things. The poetic faculty is wholly
distinct from this"
The other Sunday morning a stranger
entered Christ church, at Indianapolis, and
there being no usher just at hand, was per-
mitted TO occupy standing position for a
moment or two. At length he was APP
preached by one or the brethren, when he
inquired: "What church Is this?" "Christ
church, SIR" sis he in2" The stranger
was led to conclude that he was from The
fact that he was Immediately shown to a
seat.
George Driver, who was executed on
the 18th inst. for the murder of his wife, at
Chicago, Just before he was turned of made
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-04

THE WAY OF THE PLUMBER.-I think L
must have spent $500 or $4,000 this winter
with the plumbers. We have done moth
ing but thaw out, freeze up and bust the
last four months. The pipes at least were
honorable aud above board. They would
all of sudden begin TO sizzle in visible
and get-at-a able places, and then, when we
were somewhat prepared, the grand kitch-
en- Niagara or bedroom Montmorency com
menced. That carly Stage Of integrity has
passed away, and with the incoming Of the
Credit Mobilicr bribery and corruption,
our water pipes have taken to disreputably
bursting in the walls. We hear faint
murmur behind the plaster presently
word comes the water Is coming through
the drawing room ceiling-and then the
trouble commences-cornices dropping,
paper-hangipgs failing, carpets coming up,
and pals and tubs coming in. The plumber
comes in, and Immediately tears off all the
plaster on the basement. When we timid-
ly assure him that it is from the second
floor the dampness had come, he says,
every likely" and goes directly to work
at the drawing room ceiling TO make sure
before he goes TO the top of the house and
peels things right straight down 10 the cell
lar. This carnage and slaughter this time
cost S250-we ack knowledge the row TO be
worth it-but the plumber has to come
every few minutes to stop an insignificant
| leak around the boiler or out under the
tubs. He brings n boy and an old carpet
bag, with about a hundred pounds OF
wrenches and files and barrel hoops pack
ed inside. These are all emptied on the
kitchen and dining room floor. The range
may be red hot, but il seems no fire is
practicable for plumber, but nasty lit
tie as-emiting blaze he gets up with much
difficulty and swearing in two quart pot
stove which is carried in hand to balance
the carpet bag. Then some rosin is fried
till we all smell like singed fiddle bows
| Then some lead is boiled Till the odor of q
battlefield reaches the third story. Then
the plumber lights an entire edition of the
New York Herald, and puts his head In
all the pot closets and files spots for future
leaks in all hidden places along the pipes
When he comes to the proper place for his
surgery, he proceeds TO cauterize an6
anoint, and finally comes out all cobwebs
and turns on the water, gathers his tools
and towards night departs. Three day.
thereafter, amid the distractions of a shoT
full of pumps and bars Of solder, he max o.
out a bill-for three and a half days fol-
man, S23; for the assistance of boy three
and half days, $3.50; to eighteen pounds
of solder at Sl1 a pound, S157; to use o
wrench, 81. And that's the way we stol
leaks in New York N. Y. Letter.
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A NEW ATLANTIC CAnLE.-The

A NEW ATLANTIC CADLE.-The Great
Eastern is now lying in the Midway, taxi
ing on board new Atlantic cable, of which
1857 miles are already stored. The eastern
terminus of the new line will be Mounts
Bay, in Cornwall, near Lands End, and
the western terminus, Halifax harbor.
From the latter place line will be laid to
Montauk Point Long Island, and thence
carried overland to New York. The line
is to be owned by the company which con-
trolls the French line, and as this Is in COM
bination with the English lines, the public
can expect no diminution of the rates, such
as might result from the establishment of
a rival company. The Great Eastern Will
be IN working order by the Goth of June.
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LOST OCCUPATEOyV'S.

Half q century ago bellows-maklng was
a thriving trade. Every house had its pair
of bellows, and in every well-furnished
mansion there was pair hung by the side
OF every fireplace. Ipswich in Massachu-
sets, acquired quite notoriety all over
New England for the elegant and substan-
tial articles of the kind IL produced. But
as stoves and CRATES took the place of open
fire-places, and as coal was substituted for
wood, tho demand for bellows diminished,
until the business rs a separate trade quite
died out
The same Is true of flnt-cuttlng. Flints
were once necessary, not only for firearms
but for tinder-boxes, and finder box was
as necessary for every house as eridiron
or skillet. Every one who looks back 10
childhood of forty odd years ago must re-
member the cold winter mornings when
the persistent crack, crack of the flint u
gainst the steel sent up from the Kitchen an
odor of igniling finder and sulphur which
pervaded the house. ] have no more idea
what became Of the 1int-producers than of
the old man of sorrowfnl memories who,
three or four times a week, called at our
door with birthstone matches for sale at
cent The half dozen punches. Both have
as completely vanished from England and
New England as have the red Indians and
the Druds.
Then, again, are gone the pin makers,
who, though they have been in their graves
this quarter of a century, still figure in lee
lures and essays 10 illustrate the advantag-
lit; ~ lol ~, ,it,
taking dozen men or more TO cut, grind,
| point, head, polish, and whot not, as il used
| to do, pins are now made by neat little ma
| chimes at the rate of three hundred min
ute, of which machines single child after DIS
| to half n dozen.
Nail making al the forge is another los!
industry. Time was, and that in this nine
teenth century, when every nail was made
on the anvil. Now, from one hundrel TO
one thousand nails per minute are made
| by machines. The mailer who works al
| the forge has but bad chance in compel.
ing with such antagonists; and he would
have no chance at all were it not that his
nails are fold tougher than the former
As 1t is, the poor men follow an al
but hopeless vocation, and are con
demned to live in continual hand grips
with poverty.
In the days of President Madison and
Monroe, and even later, straw-bonnet max
ing was practiced in every middle class
house where there were growing families
and straw-platlng formed the staple of do
mestic leisure-work. AT my grandiather's
around the huge kitchen fireplace, Cesar
born a slave, who sat on an oak bench di
rectly under the gaping chimney, and WI
boys, who crowded upon the settle, useC
10 pass winters evenings splitting straws
while the lassies were plating them. Then
bonnets were bonnets, covering the hea'
with margin of foot or two TO spare, ant
presenting sort of conical, shell-shape'
recess, in which dimplng smiles and witch
ing curls nestled in comfort. The worl
has vanished, and will never reappear, un
less the whirligig of fashion should glid
again into the forsaken track.-4ppleton'
Journal.
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MISERABLE RICH MEN.-A few years
ago, one of the founders of the banking
house of Prime, Ward & King committed
suicide at his country seat at Astoria, N. Y.
He was a retired wealthy gentleman, and
had every means Of making life desirable |;
but the misery OF unemployed money and
abilities which should have been devoted
to philanthropy, drove him TO self-destruc-
ton. The same statement applies to the
late Charles NJ. Leupp. He had made a
great fortune in the leather business, and
lived up town in sumptuous style, possess
ing. among other distinctions, one CT the
finest picture galleries in the city. Yet this
man finished his course with suicide, while
in the funess of ma1hood, and possessed
of ability which should have given him
wealth. Previous 10 this, one of the heav-
lest business men in Exchange Place, sud-
denly arrested the course of a lucrative
business by similar use of his razor. An
9th err capitalist threw himself beneath the
wheels of a locomotive ; while Van Auken,
the butter merchant, and David Rea both
used razor. Scarcely had The latter been
buried when n familiar instance occurs in
the suburbs of Brooklyn.
Here an opulent market gardener and
land Spectator, named Ditmars Duryea,
has committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum, leaving an estate worth $4,000. OF
course he had a reason for doing this. His
wife had died sometime previously, and
had bcqueathed her estate, whose value
was 81 200, to other parties than himself
Being thus neglected he had no resort bu
| death, in which he buried his troubles
| Seven thousand dollars would not be gen.
| orally considered an inducement TO com.
nit suicide; and yet we have known rich
man TO be so distressed by the loss of $500
| that he finished the matter by hanging
himself. But mt any rate, seven thousand
was fatal sum TO Duryea. Its loss was sc
| great a cloud that ii obscured the glory o
| those possessions which were twenty times
as great, and the result is a bottle of lauda
mum and q coroner's inquest. 1t may bt
inferred that these examples indicate wha
a widespread disposition toward suicide
exists amOnn rich men,
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Some of tho newspapers predict rev.
olution in the milling business is to result
from new invention just made in Eng
land. The grain is crushed by numerous
little trip hammers, attached to the proper
machinery TO produce the results desired.
The new machinery Is very cheap, and
does up the work in scientific manner.
The -four produced is said to be far superb
or to that obtained by grinding. A pound
ing mill, costing $1,000, Will produce as
much -four every day as an old fashioned
mill costing $4,000. The new mill Is very
simple. When hammer is o.t of order 1t
can be replaced for few cents.
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