Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

An attached couple-The shells OF an
oyster.
For what port is man bound during
courtship ?-Bound to Havre.
A Lowell manufactory uses 32S tons Of
coal weekly.
Hammond, the revivalist, has had him
self PHI otographed in various attitudes of
prayer.
A Nebraska man who rode in the cars
on dead congressman's pass was fined
$500 for the trick.
"A prudent man." saysa witty French
man, sis like pin; his head prevents
him from going too far
II you should lose your nose, what
would you do?-Take the first one that
turns up.
-"If all the world were blind" said an
Irish clergyman, 'what melancholy
sight it would be -
The young lady who thought she could
make her voice clear by straining it made
great mistake.
A meat company has been organized
in Texas TO can all the beef they raise, and
raise all the beef they can.
"A valuable horse at Dubuque, after
bleeding almost to death, was saved by the
injection of calves blood into his veins.
"A young lady engaged in the manu-
facture OF ladies' b-b-bustles says people
may talk as they please, she won't refuse
to take her ''back pay"
New York claims TO be the most dense
ly populated city in the world, having 49,,
900 inhabitants to the square mile. Other
cities rate as follows: London, 26, 600 Paris,
$4,000 Pekin, 2s,5OO.
William +. Cody c'Buffalo Bill'D de-
rives his sobriquet from the fact, which is
on official record, that he killed in eighteen
months 1880 butialoes, the largest amount
of game" ever killed in the same time by
mortal man.
"A petriied frog in the Greeley (Col.)
geological cabinet was shattered with a
Ratchet by some wanton boys, the other
day, and wonderful to relate, an old Atzec
coin dropped out. The date cannot be deciph
cred, but the figure of a head is plainly Wis.,
ible.
"A Western Methodist has been collect
ing tobacco statistics among the brethren.
He found that eight leading members in a
certain place paid in one year Sl95 for to-
bacco and SS3 for the support of their pas
tor, and were too poor to take religious
paper.
A Concord IN. H. man, who was en-
gagged in digging up an old fence post a
few days since, discovered settlement of
toads under the post, of all sizes from ten
cent piece, to a full grown garden toad,
and in such abundance that he concluded
to gather them in pail, and didn't stop
until 142 live ones had been collected.
The acuteness of some lawyers is aston
ishing. One in Nevada had as a client a
man accused of murder; the principal per-
son who could testify in his favor was his
wife, but her relation to the prisoner bar
red her testimony. So the lawyer got the
trial postponed, applied for divorce in be-
half of the wife, secured it, and then tri-
umphantly placed her on the witness stand
and secured the acquittal OF her husband.
Salt Williams of Detroit, having been
on three days bender in New York,
strolled into an intelligence Office and ask
ed, sis this an intelligence Officer "Yes,"
replied the keeper. "Whats your fee ?"
inquired Salt and upon being informed,
threw down dollar. "Well," asked the
proprietor, "what do you want?" 81 want
you to tell me-" suffered Salt, "where the
ID I've been for the last three days"
The greatest carpet manufacturing To-
cality in the world is in the nineteenth
ward of Philadelphia. The enterprise
mainly commenced in 1861, and from then
until the present time the manufacture and
trade have steadily increased. There are
now about $50 manufactures in the ward.
The number of looms now is estimated at
5000. On an average, SOC, 900 yards of car
pets are turned out weekly. The amount
of capital represented is somewhere near
$1,000, 900, and the claim is made that there
is more carpeting made there than in all
the rest of the United States and Great
| Britain combined.