Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-07-28
VARIETIES.

Montgomery, Ala, has a white owl on
exhibition.
Men who play croquet are now called
the third sex.
Very few substantial thermometers
break when they fall.
The quality we call moral courage is
necessary TO finished success.
Tho early risers nowadays arc tho
thermometer and the house fly.
"A farmer near Savannah, Ca, has cot
ton on his farm six feet high.
There is nothing more unfavorable TO
female beauty than late hours.
Japan Is 10 have this year q great Art
Exposition, lasting hundred days.
Apple trees In Berks county, Pa, arc
in bloom for the second time this season.
Language and powder are dangerous
playthings. Both can blow one up.
Rev. Mr.. Smashall expounds the gos-
pei in Michigan. His pulpit is insured.
No woman, whether so or is can afford
TO let her dress go without study and care.
Expert bathers dance the Laneers and
play Leap Frog" in the surf at Long
Branch.
Too much sleep is almost as hurtful as
too little, and is sure 10 give the person un-
wholesome fat.
No man can become thoroughly &C.
quainted with his family history without
running for Office.
The cost of coal in England has return
ed 10 nearly what it was in 1872 Iron, too,
is extremely low.
According 10 Humboldt, an acre in ba-
nanas will produce as much food for man
as twenty-five acres of wheat.
The New Orleans Republican says that
boys should be taught to say mo" and the
girls 10 say "yes'' to get along in this
world.
-Msgnolias first appeared In New Or
leans this season in the latter part of the
month of March. and are not yet tired OF
blooming.
-E .sy chairs belonging to private indi-
viduals stand on the balconies of watering
place hotels, marked Preserved for The
ownei."
Ice machines in New Orleans, aqua
ammonia process, make 200 tons Of ice per
day, and this amount can be doubled if
necessary.
-Trip!ets we're born In Mechanicsburg,
Pa, says the Pittsburgh Commercial, few
days ago. One ofthem was named TIlden.
1t died. No remarks.
"A poor haggard-looklng beggar at On.
tario, Wis, has turned out 10 be Nevada
detective In search Of q murderer. He has
captured his man afler q pursuit of three
years. t.f .t
From the published reports 1t appears
that 46 persons principally women,) died
from starvation in London last year, and it
is thought that many other cases were not
recorded.
"A little lady Ia Schenectady recently
sent word 10 her absent pa. in New York,
that she must be excused from writing q
long letter, as she had spent very restless
night with a sick doll.
"A Poughkeepsle IN. ~ young lady
visited = dentists but could not get her
courage up. The promise OF a new hat
from her mother did the business, and the
troublesome tooth was extracted.
| 1t is said that the authorities Of q GER
tain town in Texas, tax persons who use
profane language, and on one occasion q
man with balky horse ran up little bill
OF $50. 900 before he could prevail upon the
animal 10 carry him over the line.
| Concerning low corsages without
sleeves, Philadelphia fashion writor says (:
We can simply say that not one woman in
a hundred has a neck and shoulders fine
enough to show, and the more they can be
covered the better.