Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-06
NO. 10.
MISCELLANEOUS.

-OVer l2OO persons signed the temper
ahce pledge at Boston, Sunday evening, af-
ter temperance lecture delivered by Rev.
P. Henneberg of San Francisco.
Charles Lamb, whom speaking OF one
of his rides on horseback, remarked that
call at once his horse stopped, but he kept
right on"
There are over 14,5O0,00O children Of
the school age in this country. We spend
annually for schools over S95, ,000, 900.
"A little girl in Des Moines wants to
know why there are no he dolls. Sure
enough, why not.
The fact has been ascertained that wa
ter that remains in lead pipes over night
contains one-tenth of grain Of lead 10 the
gallon.
The amount estimated TO have been
paid as passage money between this coun-
try and Great Britain last year is $40, ,O0O,-
900.
"A coal mine in Saxony has been burn
ing for over three hundred years, and the
gardeners overhead are enabled to raise all
kinds OF tropical fruits.
-Arithmetical.-How to become practi-
cally acquainted with the "Rule Of Three"
Live with your wife, mother, and mother
in-law.
The call to religion is not call 10 be
better than your fellows, but 10 be better
than yourself Religion is relative TO the
ndvidual.-Beecher.
Theodore Hook, once talking of a man
| just buried, said: Eyes, was out that day,
and met him in his private box going TO
the pit"
A Michiuan n1anuf,otursr ,oa 10 non
brooom-handles ready for shipment. This
| ought to set husbands thinking about COM
ing home early.
In seventeen years Spurgeon has re-
ceived $4,000 persons into his church, erect
ed thirty-six chapels in London, and sup
piled the same with ministers trained in
college OF his own founding.
Mr.. Greeley did not invent the phrase
"Go West" as is generally supposed. The
original of the remark was when Ruth
said (many years B. C.), "where thou 20
west will 60"
-Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned as the
first Granger, but incorrectly. Eve, who
made reputation in the apple business,
and who broke up Adam monopoly, was
the first to patronize husbaudry.-Cinein-
matt Times.
"A new plan is to be tried with the
Michigan convicts. The striped garments
are to be abolished. Tho prisoners are to
be allowed to correspond with their friends.
Those who are uneducated are to be taught;
and, when liberated, each man is to receive
new suit of clothes and $40, with what
ever he has earned by overwork.
Poor septuagenarian Samuel Ulm, after
almost 20 years in the Michigan State pris-
on on life sentence for the murder of one
Estabrook, has now the satisfaction of be-
irg pronounced innocent. But what can he
| do with the fag-end of his life? Like the
| prisoner released when the Bastile fell, he
will mourn for his prison home.
ANY one who desires to speak Of the
Siamese Twins learnedly will call them
Xiphopages of the class of Terata-anacata-
| didyma, or for short, Omphelophagus
| Xipho,lidymus, and return thanks 10 the
Philadelphia doctors.
The Journal of Chemistry says that
chain OF compressed cakes OF gun cotton
tied around the trunk of large tree and
exploded will cut 1t down instantly by the
violence of its action. The cut through the
trunk is as sharp as that done by the keen
| est axe.
The Detroit Free Press says, that pair
of lovers in that section, have been known
to sit up half the night and not burn as
much kerosene as the family use in half an
hour during the evening.
Two o.d ladies travelling on the New
York Central railroad, recently, greatly
troubled the conductor, the one protesting
that she would die if the window were
| open, and the other protesting against
shutting it, when an experienced traveller
advised the conductor to settle the matter
in this way: "Open the window and kill
one, shut it and kill the other, and we shall
| have peace"
The wedding anniversary celebrations
occur as follows: Three days, sugar; sixty
days, vinegar; 1st anniversary, iron; 5th
anniversary, wooden; 10th anniversary, tin;
18th anniversary, crystal; Goth anniversary,
china; 18th anniversary, silver; 90th ami
versary, cotton; 35th anniversary, linen;
doth anniversary, wooden; 45th anniversary,
silk; 50th anniversary, golden; 18th ami
versary, diamond.
| -"one thing at a time," is an injunction
that has been drilled into the minds of our
youth from time immemorial. But 1t isa
rule that mustn't be followed as blindly as
did the boy, who, attacking a capacious
bowl OF soup, was told Of the death OF his
mother. "Hold on" said he, "till finish
this soup, and I'll give the biggest yell you
ever heard"
The man who cheats the printer
| Out of single cent,
VIII never reach the heavenly land
Where old Elijah went.
HoWil not gain admittance there,
By devils hen be driven,
And made to loaf his time away
Outside tho walls Of heaven.
Without man to greet him,
| Without pleasant grin,
The happiness that he will reap
VIII be almighty thin.
He'll have to eat the thistle
OF sorrow and regret
He'll have to bu Ok around right smart
with cussedneSs, "you beti"
n.