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

"A fossil Dodo, exhumed at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, has been purchased for the British
Museum.
A mother in Maine was Mortified the
other day to SEQ her three year-old boy
striving to shave himself with his fathers
razor. She finished the job herself by lath-
ering the youngster and then strapping
him with the paternal calf-skin.
Tho London Standard has an account
ola new electric light, recently tested in
that city, which it describes as one of the
most remarkable scientific achievements of
the day. 1t gives light equivalent to TO-,
its constancy; the current being absolutely
unntermittent.
1t is understood that Chief Justice
Chase was worth sl5O,0OO to $780, 900 at the
time of his death. In will made two years
ago he bequeathed a considerable sum TO
Dartmouth College, and to a university for
colorcd people at Worthington, Ohio.
These bequests may have been changed by
the codicil.
One of the most important and useful
discoveries ever made by American arti-
sans is that announced by Messrs. Rogers
& Burchfield of Pittsburg, who claim to be
BILE to make the famous Russian sheet
iron. The latter is made in Siberia by a
secret process, which no other nation has
hitherto been able to obtain.
A gentleman who knew Chief JustiC c
Chase in his youth, remembers the day
when, STRIPPING, h9 babe his mother a.
dieu in their New Hampshire home, and
started out into the great world TO achieve
q name. Said the fearful matron to the
gentleman, as she gazed at the retreating
form of her son, "Salmon is a good boy;
shoul dn't wonder if, some day, he becomes
a Governor; but" naming another son
less promising, and who subsequently
died aft er short life of dissipation, she
never will do anything; he cheps tobacco"
Capt. Hall the Arctic explorer, was a.
bout five feet eight inches in hight, with
compact, firmly knit frame, indicative of
great vigor and strength, and weighed about
| 100 pounds. He hailed from Cincinnati,
| where he was once engaged in the newspa-
| per business, publishing the Occasional
and afterward the Daily Penny Press. In
his earlier years he was abacksmith, work.
| ing at the forge, and he was in no wise a
scientific or highly educated man, but had
a remarkably practical mind, with great
deal of force of character. Capt. Hall leaves
wife and Two children, a daugter and son,
who are living at Cincinnati, Ohio.
A singular religious ballucination is
said to be spreading among the Indians OF
northern California and Oregon, who be-
| lieye that the recent victories of the Mo-
docs are the commencement of a glorious res-
toration of the prestige Of their waning
race. This is known as the Smo- holla reli-
gion, and il is being iuculcated among the
| different tribes by means of missionaries OF
! the new faith. Smo-holla is dreamer, a
sort of Indian spiritual medium, who has
drawn to himself from all tribes to Priests
rapids, on the Columbia river; a following
that has faith in his revelations. Gradually
this faith has spread, and the most remark
able fact concerning is, that Smo-holla
claims to be under spirit guidance, and to
do nothing without spiritual advice. He
teaches the tribes that a millennium is conf
ing when they shall again possess the earthi
when the white men shall disappear, and
when all that he has will be loft for the In
dians. The dead warriors of past agesare
to como to life again, armed Cap-a-pie, and
the red man will possess the earth.