Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Thomas Sutton, the photographer,
states that, If calico is dipped for an instant
in dilute sulphuric acid, it is rendered wa
terprooE
The diamonds and point lace worn by
! the wife Of fex-Congressman Ben Wood at
| the Roman Catholic Orphan asylum ball
in New York, last week, were valued at
over $4,000.
Senator Sumner Is sitting or rather
standing TO Mr.. Ulkc, German artist, in
! Washington, for full length portrait,
which has been ordered by the Hayten
Legislature for its hall.
That unlucky Spanish frigate Arapiles
isn't out of her troubles yet. The injuries
she received, the other day, in drifting on
to the rocks in East river have proved to
be so serious that she will have to go on
the dry dock again for repairs.
Gen. Sickles will pass two months in
London on his way home from Spain. His
wife, who is a native Spaniard, has acquir-
ed knowledge of the English language,
and has presented her husband with fine
boy, who is named ai(er Secretary Stanton.
"A number of young ladies out West
having determined not 10 marry man who
uses tobacco in any form, the young men
of the place have come TO a resolution not
TO marry any lady who uses cotton in any
"form."
In Prussia for two hundred years the
religious ceremony has been obligatory in
marriage and the civil rite optional. The
new civil marriage bill changes this and re-
quires people to get married by the civil
form. They can go TO church or not, as
seems best TO them.
"A sensitive official in England recent
ly took a fatal jump out of window be-
cause some one accused him of dishonesty.
If a similar sensitiveness prevailed in New
YorL, the commercial Advertiser thinks,
it wouldn't be safe for foot-passengers
around the City Hall.
A returned soldier at northampton,
swears that he saw The following inscrip-
ton on brown slab above the grave of a
deceased wife in the White River region OF
Arkansas, during his campaigns:
"she washed the children fed the fowls,
An d made her home resound with bowls.
The new Temperance law of Indiana
fines a drunken man heavily and compels
him to tell, besides, where he procured his
drink. One inebriate paid his fine lately,
but, refusing to turn informer, his case was
carried up 10 the Supreme Court, which
pronounced the law unconstitutional.
President Mott, in his wise old age,
once took newly married pair aside, and
said: ~ want to give you this advice, my
children; Don't try to lie happy. Hap
piness is shy nymph, and if you chase
her you will never catch her. But just go
quietly ON and do your duty, and she will
come TO you"
The London Medical Record says that
during the past year there were 433, ,295
cases of cholera in Hungary, and that of
this number 247, us persons recovered, 1872
$40 are dead, and 2,97s remain under treat
ment. The population of the countries of
the crown of st. Stephen amount TO lG,000,-
600, and since ii is estimated that altogether
| they have lost this year 100000 souls by
| cholera, it follows that one in 80 of the in
! la bitants has fallen beneath this terrible
scuurgc.
st. Helena, the island prison of Napo-
leon Bonapare, and possession OF Great
Britain, is just now in n very unfo rlunate
condition. Mountain floods have destroyed
many of the village and what the water
spared has been destroyed By the ravlges
of the white ants. The population has de-
creased by one-fifh within eighteen
months, and those remaining are in a semi
state Of starvation, while the fields remain
uncultivated and industry is at a stand
still.
Horse flesh is still consumed in large
quantities in Paris. During the first six
months Of 1873, 5ls5 horses were sold for
eating. The heart, liver, brains and tongue
are eaten like those of the OK. The horses
purchased for the market bring S25 to $50
in gold. This new trade increases the val
ue OF used up horses not diseased, by more
than $50 each. So that the wealth of France
is increased by about eighty millions by
the use of horse flesh as food.