Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-11-13
NO. 46.
MISCELLANEOUS.


eral Of the Vienna Exposition, declares
that the plans, buildings and work of our
Centennial Exhibition are at least six
months ahead of the preparations at Wen
ma at the same length of time before the
opening.
A woman about fftv years of aye
walked all the way from st. Joe, Mo-, to
Omaha, distance of $50 miles, in five
days, last week. She was from Atlanta,
Ga, going to her husband and son at North
Platte. She was furnished with pass
over the Union Pacific for the balance of
her journey.
1t may be said of the girls of Lansing,
Mich, as Of the man in the "Desorted VII
lage," that even their flilings lean to yir-
tues side. They indulge in handkerchief
flrtations on the streets, but it is only to
inveigle contiding yonng gentlemen into
building where temperance meeting is
in progress.
Most cruel-When young Greenman
wore tail-cOat for the first time, he gave
him self awful airs, and wanting TO pre-
tend that he had another party to 90 to, be
approached his hostess, thanked her for
the pleasant evening, and was going on
with his story when she broke in with
"Oh, I'm sorry you have been sent for 80
soon ~
Virginia City is sometimes styled bv
strangers "The City of Stove-pip
From the hills above town thousands of
sheet-iron pipes, of all lengths and sizes,
and wired and supported in every con-
ceivable manner, are seen extending
above the tops of the houses, while scarce
ly brick chimney is visible.
1t is estimated that the people who
have fallen victims to the famine in Asia
Minor number over 100000. As an in
stance of the terrible devastation among
the cattle and fiocks, il is stated tbat in one
village out of more than one thousand six
hundred sheep and goats, Just one sheep
and one goat remain aud ont of 900 cows
two remain. In another, from flock of
i 200 sheep and goats, eight are reported
and from another flock in the same village.
numbering 800, of which 700 are mohair
goats, the same number, eight, is reported.
DIR. George NJ. Beard, of New York.
who has attained considerable uotoriety in
connection with the exposure Of spiritual
manifestations, has been investigating the
wonders exhibi ed by the Eddy family, at
Chittenden, Vermont. The Rntland Her.
aid says: The doctor felt little skeptical
in regard to the manifestations and carried
along several instruments of one kind and
another to make a few tests. He was quite
successful, as he claims, in his scientific
teNts-indeed so successful that he intends
to publish book, and in that book he in
tends to show "that these sceances are
the most stupendous frauds of the centu-
ry; they are not even good trckery," and
then he Will point out one or two inter
esting physiological facts on which the sue
cess OF some of the phenomena depend"
| Last year the increase of the public
debt during the month of October was over
s3,OOO,OOO. This year, during the same
month, the decrease has been above $500. =
| OOO. While this reduction is not
very great when compared with some
months preceding the pauic of last Au-
tumn, 1t is very favorable when the gener-
al condition of the finances and the busi-
ness Of the country during the wear is TAX
en- into consideration. That the decrease
was no larger last month is due almost en-
tirely TO the lightness of the Customs re-
ceipts. The receipts from internal taxa
ton have continued fully up to their usual
standard, and it has been repeatedly OBJ
served that the consumption of tobacco and
whisky, and, consequently, the revenue
derived from the tax levied upon them 4.
the greatest when the business of the conn
70 IL I
toms receipts is not regarded by the Off
GERS of the Government as a very grave
public calamity when il is caused by small
imporlatiOns and diminished consumption
OF foreign wares Wash. Cor. ". Y. Times
An entirely new variety of murderer
has been found at Winnipeg, Manitoba
One Joseph Michaud, who was recently
hung In that distant settlement for mur.
der, not only confessed his guilt and ad-
mltted the justice of his sentence, but to-
tally abstained from the usual threat O
meeting the pious members of the com
munity in heaven. AS rule the DIVING
murderer assumes an exasperating air o
entire superiority to all the rest of the
world in point of santliness, and also ex.
pressei degree of certainty as to his sait
and speedy arrival in heaven that Is vel
calculated to make honest people doub
whether there will be any room reserved
for them in the latter locality, Mr.. Mich
aud, however, declined to intrude himsel
among the angelic hosts, contenting him
self with the modest hope that he Nigh
be permitted to visit his mother in SOM
remote and unfrequented corner of heaven
and, moreover, confessed that his life "haC
not been that of a man, and less of Chris
tian." They clearly grow better variet,
of murderers in Manitoba than they do OF
this side of the border, and the fact is on,
of which philanthropists should take no
tce.