Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-22
NO. 81.
MIsCELLANEOUs.

on the bank of the Red Sea, crossed by
" Moses & Co..
Women arc fast becoming familiar with
politics. We have heard of woman who
believes SO thoroughly in imitation that she
blows her husband up three times a day.
"A French paper points out how the pas
sion for gambling is shown in this country
50 that even in wedding notices it is neces-
sary to- state that there are no cards."
-" Kissing your sweetheart" says a
trifing young man, sis like eating soup
with fork it takes a long time to get O.
nough."
-"What Kind OF sassagcs is them ?" quo
rled an old lady of the young man Of liter
aturo and peanuts, as be passed through the
train selling bananas.
a citizen of Troy, n. Y, recently at
the point of death, issued orders to all Of
his disreputable tenants TO quit at once.
Recovering, however, he has countermand-
ed his orders.
Milwaukee Sentinel The worst feature
about this cremation business is that some
VIII ter morning, in a ct Of philanthropy,
your widows second husband may empty
your ashes on the icy pavement for the ben
eft of pedestrians.
Advice by 4 practical man: Put not
your faith in him who predicts hot season
he sells ice nor in him who predicts
cold one-he owns cheap clothing store;
nor in him who fOresees wet one-he has
umbrellas; nor a dry one-he sells beer.
A county agricultural society in Ili-
nois offers a premium of $500 TO that town
ship in tho county which has the best
roads.
A debate between two Illinois clergy
men on the subject of universal salvation
versus eternal punishment began on the
9th inst, and will continue till about the
3Oih. Any one compelled to listen TO the
whole will probably incline TO belief in
the latter doctrine.
st. Louis papers record the death of a
young child ''who ate some concentrated
lye." 1t was very eulpabe in the child's
mother TO leave the city journals around in
so careless PittSburg CONNER
cidI.
The Duchess of Lancaster, who is bet
ter known as Queen Victoria, received last
year from her duchy the substantial in
come Of 100000. In 1917, this property
brought TO h9r about Sl50,O00
Julia Sumner Hastings, the only sur
viying sister of the late Senator Sumner,
has written from San Francisco to the Mas
sachusetts Legislative Committee, thanking
them for the tenderness and care with
which they performed the funeral services
of her illustrious brother.
Rosa Mansfield Eversole, four years
old, born and resident in Indiana, is pro-
nounced to lie musical prodigy that casts
all other musical prodigies in the shade.
She has already composed several pieces of
merit, which have been published in musi-
cal papers, and is able to play operatic Sc
lections on the piano alter once hearing
them.
Here is pithy sermon " Our ingreSs
into IL" is naked and bare; our progress
through life is trouble and cale our egress
out OF it we know not where; but doing
wei here, we shall do well there; I could
not tell more by preaching year."
AS the result OF n bet, a crowd OF five
men at Truckee, Nevada, produced six re-
volvers, three derringers, and horse ps-
'''i 'A'Nh hhNN idN Oil lutlI itlSpuss
Certainly if our fair ref rmers have any
just right 10 invade gloomy saloon where
liquor is sold, they have an equal right to
invade gay parlor where liquor is drank.
What a stir it would make 10 see the pray
ing band entering Fifth Avenue mansion
at the height of some wedding festival or
brilliant reception, and suddenly giving
ont hymn, or putting up a prayer! But
the crusaders are right, they should at
tack their foe in the citadel of fashionable
life.-The Golden Age.
A lot of rats were found, the other day,
in a hogshead that had been left open in a
store at Exeter, n. II. The store cat, hav-
ing been notified, climbed TO the edge of
the hogshead, but, afer surveying the stu-
alton, jumped down and ran out at the
door, shortly reappearing with another cat.
The two looked at their foes and retired,
soon coming back with a third cat. They
now seemed satisfied with their force, and
made an attack, jumping into the hogs
head. The CATS had, however, miscalculat-
ed the force of their enemy, and two were
killed, the other being taken out in season
to save lis life.
Who says laughter is not the best of
medicines? A gentleman was suffering
from an liberation on the throat, which at
length became so swollen that bis life was
despaired Of His household came to his
bedside TO bid him farewell. Each indi-
vidual shook hands with the dying man,
and then went away weeping. Last of all
came a pet ape, and shaking the mans
hand, went away also with his hands oven
his eyes. 1t was so ludicrous a sight that
the patient was forced to laugh, and laughed
50 heartily that the ulcer broke, and his life
was saved.-The Samaritan.
A correspondent of the American Ma
tional Record gives the following theories
upon the origin of the dollar mark: /. 1t
is combination of of U. s., the initials of
the United States 2. That it is modl6-
cation of the figure 8, the dollar formerly
being called piece of eight; 8. That ii is
a ombination of p and s, from The Span
ish peso dura, signfying hard dollar; 4.
That it is derived from a representation of
the "pillar Of Hercules" consisting of two
pillars connected with a SCROLL 5. That it
is combination of II S, the mark of the
Roman money unit.
"A check for $4,000 WAS recently hand
ed the inventor of metallic tips for chill
drens' shoes, in payment of his share in
reiss nc Of the patent, wi ich he had origin
ally sold for 500. And now, with such en-
cou ragement as this, suggests tho CONNER
cial Advertiser, why can't he win the ever
lasting gratitude Of mothers by invenling
some kind of brass knee plates for little
boys trousersH
An Illinois farmer of statistical incl-
nations is puzzled ny the conundrum,
,Where does the money go Which comes