Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-05-05
NEWS ITEMS.

disease at the close OF funeral sermon,
Sunday, as he turned TO sit down.
Minnesota has a singular murder law,
under which the most deliberate murderer,
If he ple4ds guilty, escapes the nsllows,
though he may be hanged II he stands .
trial and is convicted.
The young ladies oi Calhoun, Ken
tucky, are responsible for this loap-ysar
contain only twenty-five letters8 The
blushing reply is, when U and are one.
An Indianapolis couple were divorced.
The man aferward, under an assumed
name, advertised for a wife. A lady re-
piled. He sought an interview under q
gas lamp. 1t was she They were re-
married.
"A Western paper announces the illness
of its editor, piously adding: "All good
paying subscribers are requested to mem
ton him in their prayers. The others need
not, as the prayers OF the wicked avail
nothing"
There is widow living in North Car
olina, whose husband was a Confederate
soldier, and who during the war was In
prison at Elmira, N. Y, where he died.
This lady since the close of the war, has
received regularly the check OF A. T. Stew
art, the deceased millionaire, in the sum Of
| $50. Why, she has never known.
-"Ma, what is lanker2" inquired u
brigh:-looking child, the other day. "Fm
sure don't know, my son, where did you
hear the word7" "Why, at Sunday school.
You know they sing, Wen stand the
storm, 1t WON'T be long we'll tanker by
and-by.'"
Capt. Boyton, the celebrated swimmer
and lile-saving suit inventor, started, Sat-
urday, from New York, for trip around
the world, intending TO give exhibitions Of
his life-saving suit along the route, In Med
iterrauean ports, India, China, japan, and
Australia. He gives himself three years
for the trip.
The Watchman of Boston publishes an
account of homesick horse, with a vouch-
er for its truth. The horse was transport
ed long distance by railroad, and sent OF
twelve miles from where he was unloaded,
10 pasture. Afler three weeks ho broke
out of the pasture, went 10 the depot, and
attempted 10 get into freight car.
| "A Mexican walked into shop OF SsB
Antonio New Mexico) pawnbroker, took
from the counter the hat of the proprietor,
whose back was turned, and when that in
dividual was ready to attend to him obtain
ed a loan of six bits on the hat, which was
duly ticketed aud slowed away, and the
trick was not discovered Till the hat was
needed.
"A safe deposit vault just completed in
| Landau is daatna1 iuvulnarahla In
sunk forty-six feet into the ground, with
walls OF brick aud concrete six feet thick.
Inside this structure IS the safe, three feet
thick, made of fire. brick and undrillable
iron. Tho metal doors weigh four tons
each, and are swung by hydraulic powcr.
Mr.. Stewart dictated all the retail ad-
vertising of his business, which, once
week, occupied a column in each the pa
pers. This was regular Saturday after
noon employment with him. He believed
in advertising, and for his retail business
used the local papers to what less intelli-
gent and less successful merchants thought
an exiravagaut degree.
DR.. Tyndall now finds that air can be
rendered optically pure by merely leaving
ii undisturbed three or four days in a close
chamber. All the floating matter sub
sides, and the confined air will not trans
init light. Solutions placed therein remain
unaltered, though left for months, while
similar solutions open 10 the ordinary air.
swarm with bacteria in twenty-four hours
or two days.
The most remarkable instance OF alb
normal gravitation occurs at :he southern
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sequence of it, we are told, the sea at Kara.
chi, near the mouth of the Indus, is 5l4
feet above the sea at Cape Comorin, (the
southern extremity of India), the line OF
level being raised 10 hat extent by the at
traction of the mountains.
An uptown man, who believes in self
improvement, suggested to his wife, recent
ly, that they should argue some question
frankly and freely, every evening, and Try
10 learn more of each other. The question
for the first night happened to be whether
a woman conld be expected 10 get along
without a spring hat, and he took the affir-
native; but when he was last seen he had
climbed up into the hay-loft, and was pull
ing the ladder up alter him.-Nor,Oich
Bulletin.
The Empress of Brazil has become
quite Americanized. Her elegant apart
nients at the Fiflh Avenue Hotel were
shut off by temporary screens. She re-
quested that these should be removed. She
takes her meals with her suite In private.
but she indulges in promenade through
the corridors and accepts with quiet grace
the salutations of the American sovereisns.
The apartments occupied by the royal Wis
tors are both elegant and convenient.
The committee of ladies in charge OF
the Women's Pavilion on the Centennial
grounds at Philadelphia, have made an alb
surd decision relative 10 the admission for
exhibition OF full length, life-size por-
trait of the late Gen. George II. Thomas,
painted by lady. They refuse TO let the
picture appear lest its presence may be
offensive to some of our thin-skinned
"Southern breLhren"l This must be set
down as the most extreme case OF Difference
to Southern sectional feeling.
A Pennsylvanian has taught a canary
bird to sing "Home, Sweet Home" in this
way: He placed the canary in room
where il could not hear the singing of 9TH
er birds, suspended Its cage from the CELL
ing, so that It would see its reflection in =
mirror, and beneath the glass placed mu-
steal box that was regulated to play no 9TH
or tune but "Home, Sweet Home" Hear
ing no other sound but this, aud believing
the music proceeded from the bird 1t saw
in the mirror, the young canary soon be-
gan TO catch the notes, and finally got 80
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