Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-07-04
NO. 27.
MISCELLANEOUS,

ters daily
Why Is an overworked horse like an
umbrella9 Because II is used up.
Brief obituary. "The late John Car
penter of Marquette, Mich, knocked the
ashes out Of his pipe on the head Of keg of
blastng-powder."
"A physician advised patient TO take a
walk on an empty stomach. "Whose
stomach ?' feebly asked the invalid.
"A girl who married well Is said TO
make lucky hit, though she is herself
said to he lucky miss.
An Iowa clergyman VITO had a dona-
ton party has beans enough to last him
thirty-seven years.
Five German families, all related to
each other, and living in one school district
in Wisconsin, have seventy-five children
among them, all sound and healthy.
An Iowa criminal lawyer is referred to
by the San Francisco Chronicle as a man
who, if he has not slain his thousands, has
saved sixty-five murderers with his law
bone.
The Boston Journal says: "The SPRING
field Republican never whistles IL simply
Fuckers"
A Pittsfield, Mass, dog, having hard
fight with woodchuck, dragged the animal
TO small brook, plunged him in and held
him under water until he was drowned.
John b. Cough on returning home a
few days ago, found awaiting him, it is
stated, nearly one thousand invitations 10
lecture the coming winter. He intends to
accept about two hundred of the whole
number.
"A weekly anti-temperance paper, sup
ported by and run in the interest of the
malt liquor dealers of the country is to be
started in Washington. 1t will be called
the Sentinel.
Florida is coming up in the orange
business, and proposes to supply the whole
United States in few years. Over a mil
lion sweet orange seedlings are now under
cultivation on the st. Johns river alone.
According to the Mobile Watchman,
the Walworth parrcide is "a wholesome
lesson to brutal fathers" A modern edi-
ton of Solomon should be made TO read,
"Bring up father in the way ho should
go, and when he departs from it, shoot
him ~
"A New York man who believes in ad-
vertising paid bill of $4,000, the other
day, for years work, but it was money
well spent, for the earnings resulting from
| that advertisement, which were divided
among four persons, footed up s65O,OOO.
Judges Ingraham and Brady of New
York have decided, in the supreme court,
that man cannot recover damages for the
death of his wife, even if wifully murder
ed, but may sue for the value of her servi-
| ces and society while she is under the care
of doctor.
A Portland man was caught fishing for
| trout on another mans land the other day,
| and completely silenced the owner, who re-
monstrated, with the majestic answer,
"Who wants TO catch your trout, I am only
| trying TO drown this worm"
The Scandnavians yofthe Northwestern
States are going to build a $40, 900 monu-
ment at Madison, Wis, 10 the discoverer
of America, whose name, they say, is not
Christopher Columbus but Left Ericsson,
| and whose discovery is not dated 1892 but
| 1000.
-Jedediah Burchard, once preaching a
revival sermon, was interrupted by the
entrance Of Aaron Burr. "Here comes one,"
says the levivalst, against whom even
will testify in the day Of judgment" "Yes,
sir" said Burr, 'in fifty years of criminal
experience have always found the great
est rascal turn States evidence"
The ''pesky sarpint" is no joke in
India. Mr.. Doh, Under. Secretary of State
for India, recently stated that in 1859, no
less than IA, ,529 people lost their lives by
snake bites in that country, aud in 1871, 49,
| 77S people came 10 their deaths by various
dangerous animals there abounding, chief
| ly snakes.
A Philadelphia surgeon was called the
other day TO house uptown TO amputate
the leg of a woman. He is near-sighted
man and when he reached the house he
got into the wrong room and calmly sawed
of the limb of the servant girl, who was a
German, who had come over two days be-
fore and who thought it was one of the Gus
toms of the country.
The surface of the rock roof above the
excavations which have been made in He'll
Gate is about two and quarter acres. To
blow this up 1000 pounds of nitro-glycer.
inc will be required, the explosive force
being equal to nearly half million pounds
of gunpowder. 1t is believed the explosion
will be heard for a distance of six miles.
The person who is to ignite this tremendous
blast will stand within one hundred yards
Of the spot. Before the blast the works will
be flooded with water to lessen the vibra-
ton inland.
Three colored girls have been admitted
to the Normal College in New York, and
ten more admitted to the grammar school
in Twelfth street, and not a word of remon-
STRANGE or opposition heard from Press or
people. And all this in city that Witness
ed the riots of 1s63-less than ten years ago
when colored school-houses were burned
10 the ground and the inofiensiye "niggers''
hung by the neck to the public lamp-posts.
Who says that the world don't move, and
in the right direction too!