Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-12-29
NO. SO.
VARIETIES.


---"Pa, camo near selling my boots yes
terday." "You did, Sirl We'll, It's lucky
you didn't sell 'em. How did you come
near doing it?" Il had 'em half soled."
The Pekin Gazette is one thousand
years old. The editor is never bored with
a visit from the man who has "laken your
paper since 1t started"
"A married couple resemble a pair Of
shears, so joined that they cannot well be
separated, moving often in opposite direc-
tlons, hut always Furnishing whatever
comes between them.
-Chlor0form has been administered to n
child during sleep, and painful operation
was performed, the child sleeping on, aud
awaking in the morning, unconscious of
anything unusual having occurred.
Paste for cleaning prass Rotten stouo,
two ounces; oxalic acid, half an ounce
sweet oil, three.quarters Of an ounce tur-
pentlne, enough TO make paste. Apply it
with a little water.
The subject of pure water has as much
interest 10 railroads as any other industry.
One locomotive with l6x24 inch cylinders,
will evaporate 0OOO gallons Of water per
day, or, 10000 gallons per year. Ifthis
wafer contains 81 grains of solid matter per
gallon, there will be ten and a half tons Of
deposit in the boiler.
"A bunion remedy: Use pulvorized
salipeter and sweet oil obtain at the drug
gisps five or six cents worth Of ssltpeter,
put into a bottle with sufficient olive oil 10
nearly dissolve it; shake up well, and rub
the inflamed joints night and morning,
and more frequently il painful. This is a
wol-tried remedy.
An Englishman, several members Of
whose family had been sick with typhoid
fever, had a room repapered, anl found
that there was no less than 25 wall papers
on the wall. The presence OF this mass OF
decomposing paste and paper sufficiently
accounted for the disasreeable smell that
was always noticeable, although drains
and water closets were well trapped.
Little Charles has been misbehaving at
boarding school, and the stern master for
bids him, as punishment, TO write more
than a letter OF fvo lines 10 his mother,
who will expect long epistle on hor birth
day. The ingenious youth buys roll Of
wall paper and writes his letter thereon.
There are just fvo lines, but each one is
thirty-three feet long
There is a church built of paper. near
Berlin, Prussia, which can contain nearly
one thousand persons. 1t is circular with
in, octagonal without. The reliefs outside
and statues within, the roof, ceiling, the
Corinthan capitals, are all pdpier mGche,
rendered water proof by saturating in Wit
riol, lime-water, whey, and white of eggs.
When We think of psalm sung by thou
sand voices pealing through splendid ed.
itice made of old Rags, we feel as though
we had lost the right 10 be surprised at any
achievement of science and art.
The music of "When this cruel war is
over" was FIRST written for a song begin
ming Darling, meet me in the greenwood"
bat n OF published, and the author, Henry
Tucker, brought it from its hiding place,
in 1861, and in connection with his friend,
Charles Carroll Sawyer, wrote the after
ward popular song. Tucker, who now
lives in Brooklyn, cleared $4,000 from the
song, the first few months, and thinks he
would have Melted $4,000 If his rights had
been respected, but it was reprinted in
England, sent TO the conlederacy, and
thence found its way over the whole coun-
try.