Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS,

Theodore Brown of Whitehall weighs
400, and eats only raw egg and prunc
day.
While witnessing game of base ball
out West, a boy was struck on the back OF
his head, the bawl coming out of his
mouth.
"A woman stated TO n London magis-
trate recently that during her five years of
married life her husband had Knocked her
down ll5 times.
The constitutional convention of NJ CHI
igan has declined to admit the eligibility
of women TO any public Office whatever,
excluding them oven from the school
boards.
Industry isn't always rewarded. A
sing Sing convict worked eighteen months
on false key, and ii was taken away from
| him the day before he had IL completed.
"A negro was put upon the stand as
witness, and tho judge inquired If he knew
the nature of an oath. "For certing, BOSS"
said the citizen "if swear To Il lie, must
stick to himr'
1t has been ascerlaned in England that
The dsagreeable reverberaton so common
| in public halls can he corrected by stretch
ing wires across them from wall TO wall.
Tho Sunday opening of the public Ii
braries in Philadelphia and Cincinnati are
reported as having been attended with the
best results. Tho reading-rooms in the
latter city have been open on Sundays for
| two years.
| The courier of the associated press,
who carried the news of the Modoc hang
ing from Fort Klamath to Jack sonyille, Or,
rode 90 miles in six hours 50 minutes, and
made the last AZ miles in two hours, beat
fng his rival by 80 minutes.
| Madison, Me-, has convicted a youth
full desperate, eleven years old, of man
slaughter, in shooting a little girl with
loaded gun, which his indulgent parents
llowed him TO keep among his play things.
The parents were not tried
1.-The dearest spot on earth has at last
been located. Those wishing TO find the
"spot" will find it at the store that does not
advertise.
In Japan, man aged 80 recently COM
mitted suicide by hanging, in fultiment of
a vow which, when II years of age, he had
made TO BudGha, that if, at the age of 30,
| he had not become famous, he would die.
1t is expected that an attempt will be
made next winter TO increase the present
aggregate tax on whisky twenty cents per
gallon. II is understood that the larger
distilleries are themselves in favor of this,
and that considerable quantities of whisky
| are in process of manufacture In anticpa-
lion of this increase.
For long time in the South, and now
particularly, railroad tickets have been
and are used AS currency. Two hundred
thousand dollars worth of these are in cir
cualion in Georgia. Each one entities the
holder TO so many miles of travel, or is
tax en- in payment for a corresponding guam
tity of freight. These bills are received by
the roads in liquidation of all their claims.
A John Bull, convcrsng with an Indi-
an, ask ed him if he knew the sun never set
on the Queens dou.inons. mo-" replied
| the Indian. do you know the reason
why?" asked John. because God is
afraid TO trust an Englis hman in the dark"
was the sava2c's reply.
In decision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio on the question of the Bible in the
schools, that tribunal says, legal Chris
| tianlty is s0lccism, II contradiction of
terms. When Christianity asks the aid of
Government beyond mere impartial, pro-
| lection il denies itself"
AT Mount Uolyoke On Saturday, two
lads from Providence, brothers, the elder
about lG, were shooting ut a mark near the
| hotel The elder had loaded the gun and
| SET il down on the ground, with his hand
over the muzzle, and his brother was about
to take il, when ii was discharged, wound
ing the larger boys hand, while the entire
charge struck the younger in the head, kill
| ing him at once.
"A country school boys toothache gem
orally begins at O'Clock, reaches the high
est altitude al 81, when the pain is intense
To an extraordinary degree; commences TO
sub side at 8, and after that disappears with
a celebrity that must be very comforting to
the sufferer. If, at night, that boy has hot
got four quarts of walnuts spread out 10
dry, up stairs, it is because there is no place
/ yt,t.. 10, 10,