Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-13
NO. IL.
MISCELLANEOUS.

miss Shears IS dressmaker out west.
Nothing tells so much on a man as a
gossiping wife.
"A revivalist asked an African II he had
found the Lord. "Golly," said Sambo,
"am de Lord lostp"
Over sixteen thousand Hindoos have
petitioned the English viceroy TO prohibit
the liquor traffic.
The combustion of one pound of coal in
one minute is productive of force equal
TO the work of three hundred horses dur
ing the same time.
"A Southern Democrat writes TO local
paper and gives as his political motto:
Right, first; party, second wrong, new
er." But what will become of the Demo-
cratic party If its members adopt that mot
TO generally, and live up toit1
The proposed plan Of stopping whskey
drinking in Chicago by publishing the
names of citizens patronizing saloons was
given up, as the publishers OF the city di-
rectory have copyright.
The placidity of expression worn by
man who is "Nex" in full barber shop,
cannot be counterfeited.
"A Green Bay paper says that a widow
er with clean shirt on can marry in that
town in three hours.
"A young man in California has his
mother, grandmother, and great grand
mother living in the house with him.
But be will probably never fully realize
what truo happiness is until he has his
mother-in-law there too.
The Governor OF Virginia has pardon
ed convict upon the singular condition of
total abstinence from the use of spurious
liquors and into oxicating drinks ofany kind
for the space of three years.
The item of the season for the news
papers in the West is, "The indications are
that our city will do twice as much build
ing this year as it did last"
1t was an Ogdensburg boy who said.
when his mother threatened 10 sew peas in
to the knees of his pants TO keep him from
wearing them out on the floor, "well, ma,
how can pray then p
"A young man in New Jersey went a
courting, hitched his horse at the lady's
gate, but courted so long that the horse ate
off the top Of the hitching post and Bergh's
men fined the young man OF New Jersey
S25 for cruelty to animals. A sad warning.
1t is now two hundred and fifty years
since neat cattle were brought over from
England TO this country and introduced in
to the settlement Of the Pilgrims. Edward
Winslow having been sent to England as
an agent of the colony in 1919, on his re-
turn in March of the following year he
brought the first breed of neat cattle to
Plymouth.
-Tha
note is now in pretty general circulation,
and instalments of them have been sent to
the several assistant treasurers and Govern
ment depositaries. The new twenty-five
cent pote, also Of new design, but, unlike
the ten-cent, no larger than the issue now
in circulation, will be ready for issue in
the course of few days.
William NJ. Evarts tells this good story:
a few summers since, at the urgent request
of one of his younger daughters, he sent
up to his country place in Vermont, dom
key for her use. She had read about dom
keys, but was not familiar with their pecu-
liar vocalism. The animals strange noises
Inspired her with the profoundest pity for
his evident distress. So she wrote to her
father: Dear papa. do wish you would
come up here soon, my donkey is so lone
some." AS Mr.. Evarts renders this pa
thetic appeal, it is irresistible.
1t is estimated that not less than from
10000 To $1,000 head OF hogs have died of
trichina in the neighborhood of Kaskaskia
Bottom, an area of some 1900 acres of
country, in Illinois, within the past nine
months, and though the disease has, in
measure, ceased IFS terrible ravages, it has
by no means disappeared.
The largest diamond ever imported in
to this country, weighing in its rough state
80 carats, has just been successfully cut,
after five months of labor, and placed on
exhibition in New York. 1t lost about 80
per cent. in cutting, and is now valued at
about $4,000. 1t is the property OF Phil
adelpbia gentleman, and was found in the
South African diamond fields.
Probably there is no more striking in
stance of the changes which the war has
wrought ia the relative positions of the
southern white and negro, than in the fact
that Mississippi colored man named
Montgomery, is now the richest planter in
that State, being the owner of the Joe Davis
and Hickman plantations, upon one of
which he himself was formerly owned and
worked as a slave.