Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS,

British Guiana has waterfall two thou
sand feet high.
The widow of the late Mai Gen. John
+. Wool, died suddenly, May 7th, at Troy.
aged SO.
A shocking railroad accident is report
Ell from Hungary, in which twenty-one
persons were killed.
Cerebral apoplexy, the bursting of
blood vessel in the brain, was the cause of
Chief Justice Chase's sudden death.
When Oakes Ames failed he owed sew
en- millions of d)llars. Within two wears
he paid every dollar with interest
The velocity of circular saws at the
periphery is from 6,OOO to 1000 feet per
minute, or from seventy to eighty miles
per hour.
Over one hundred and fifty kilns en-
gagged in making crockery ware exclusive
ly, exist in the United States. These kilns
are capable Of producing at the rate of
about 200 worth of ware each per year,
maxim total OF the whole OF nearly 81
100000 per year.
-"The genius of Journalism" says the
New York Graphie, Consists in knowing
paper is oitentimes more helpful to the
community and more serviceable to Justice
than anything it prints"
An eccentric old fellow, who lives a.
longside of a graveyard, was asked if it
was not an unpleasant location. "No," said
he, 81 never jined places in all my life with
set of neighbors that minded their busi-
ness so siiddy az they do"
-Triplets recently born in Ripon, Wis,
weighed all together only six pounds. The
nurse can make ring of her thumb and
fore6nger and slip it over the body of eth
er OF them. They are too small to be dress
ed, and are kept wrapped up in cotton.
Says country exchange: "The sad ef-
fects of matrimony were never more terri
bly, depicted than the other day, where
meek-eyed man who had been married a.
bout a year patroled the village streets all
day, trying to swap meerschaum pipe for
a secondhand CRADLE" ...
"A cat belonging TO w. H. Allis of
Springfield, Mass, which has been death
on rats, boldly attacked a muskrat the 9TH
or day. The muskrat received his death
wound, but he revenged himself by drag
ging the cat TO brook where they were
both found dead. .-.....
"A few days since seedy person appli-
ed toa wealthy citizen for help, and re-
ceived the small sum of FIVE cents. The
giver remarked as he handed him the pit
tance, Take it, you are welcome, our ears
are ever open 10 the distressed" That may
be-" replied the recipient, "but never be-
fore in my life have seen so small an
opening for such large ears"
"A very distressing report has come
from Newfoundland OF the failure OF the
Polaris Polar expedition. Captain Hall
died OF apoplexy in 1871, and the Polaris
| with part OF her crew Is still floating
about In the Polar seas, beset with Ice.
Tho remainder Of her crew escaped to the
Danish settlement ia South Greenland, and
will arrive here in few days. No discov-
cries OF importance were made by the ex-
| pedition. .Ht-i
| "A photographer In Portland employeda a
] woman few days since TO wash the floors
| OF his establishment. The woman seeing
a large basin null Of what she presumed was
hot water standing on the stove, emptied
the contents into her water pail to warm
the water 1t contained. Now 1t happened
this basin contained silver bath for mega
tives, and the result was one black floor.
two female arms well BACKED, n badly
frightened Irish woman, who thought "the
diyi had turned her into nagur, sure"
and loss of fifteen dollars 70 the artist.
-oberlin College is probably tho largest
educational institution in the United States
by the criterion 9f attendance, hut has an
endowment probably not much larger than
that fthe smallest college in the country.
For. the last twenty years its average at
tendance has been 1888. The total number
of students il has received has been II 900.
Tho vast majority, however, took only par
tial courses, for only 1852 fully graduated,
about third Of them ladies, The college
and seminary together have an endowment
fund Of sl75,0OO, with si55,OO0 worth OF
stock in buildings, apparatus, etc.