Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-11-23
IN GENERAL.

line pOpumuOn OF L rance Is set down at
3G, 905, 73S.
-The Paris Exposition buildings will be
all under one roof. or succession of roofs, and
will be over five miles in length.
The Emperor of Germany suffers much
from an unpicturesque complaint-the ear
ache-and has lately presented in public the
unusual spectacle of crowned head tied up
in a black bandage.
Boston teachers alTl pupils are alike dis
satisfied with the arrangement which makes
Saturday a holiday. and plead for return to
the old system, with half-holidayS on both
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
There is robust Christian element in
San Antonio, Texas. 1t whipped an inidel
who delivered a lecture against Christianity
and sent him ont of town with a warning that
hanging would be the penalty of a second at
tack on his part upon the Christian religion.
When Charles Sumner was making his
famous Civil Rights speech, Washington ne
gro was heard to say to another: ''Is you
goin' to de Capitol to-day to heah de Marse'-
chusetts lion roah ~ Chief Justice Chase
heard it and told Mr.. Sumner, and the Mas
sachusetts lion was immensely delighted.
-Leprosy has appeared i'll San Francisco,
and like every other evil thing. is attributed
to the Chinese, though all cases thus far have
e. i'eared among whites. One man lives iso-
hated in a log cabin outside of the city lest his
family should take the infection. He has
b EN- an outcast for eighteen months. and is
gradually rotting to pieces. with the conscious
ness that death in loneliness and misery is in
evitabe.
William Jones' who died in poverty few
days ago, was noted as the most expert three
card monte player in the world, and was
known as Canada Bill" He was the evil
,.Nftl tl,.., l. x
and conducted mammoth and lucrative bust
ness till the companies ruled him off their
lines. So plausible was he that he once made
an offer in good faith to the railways to con-
fine his operations to clergymen if they would
allow him to work the trains unmolested
Senator Morton's will gives the whole of
his property absolutely to his widow, leaviug
her to Use her own judgment and discretion
AS to what aid she shall give their children, in
their education and otherwise, ''she being the
sole judge of what aid shall be rendered"
Mrs. Morton is named in the will as executor.
The estate is valued at about $1,000 The
signature to the will is said to be the last writ
ten by Morton's hand.
Two little boys in Chicago, playing in the
street lost ball in a sewer basin With long
and patient looking into the basin and breath
ing its cases. they recovered the ball They
went to their home in one of Chicagos most
costly dwellings. were stricken down and died
of diphtheria. Their playmates and school
fellows came to visit them while sick and at
tended the funeral, and the fatal disease was
spread all through the neighborhood.
A Manchester ENG merchant prince"
engaged an artist to paint his portrait, agree
ing to pay 100 g'lineas, and was told it would
take about fifteen days. The portrait was fin
ished in eleven days. however. when the mer-
oh hot h.. "a baI % r,,,,
much time to it as he agreed to, saying
that he was quite ready to stand the price, but
the artist ought not to spend an hour less up
on the work. The painter took his brush
again and spent four sittings more in length
ening little by little, in the portrait, the ears
of his patron.
An exchange protests, and with much
reason, against the wanton destruction of the
feathered denizens of wood and field which
is indulged in on so bloody scale about this
time of year, when hunting matches are ar
ranged, and the test of either sides superiOri-
ty is the amount of animal life that is sacri-
feed. In recent New Hampshire hunt
twenty-five men took part under respective
and rival captains. One band brought in H.
400 dead objects and another 8, $50 though n
great deal of this CORY spoil was by no means
legitimate game The State ought on all such
matters to be bureau for the prevention of
cruelty TO animals and see that its laws are en-
forced
The Chicago Times publishes a list of IL
banks and Is insurance companies which
''have burst within few years, and which
We're proved by an examination of their re-
mains to have been little better than swindles"
Among the bank il mentions the Franklin"
which could not pay 10 per cent the bank of
Chica %, with liabilities about One-third of
million, and assets nothing; the State street
savings bank with liabilities Of $40, 600, and
assets 5000 and so on through the list. The
insurance companies make no better show,
the highest dividend mentioned being IL per
cent, the lowest o. The Times is certainly
justified in calling this shameful record"
The worst feature of it is that no one has been
held responsible for the frauds unquestionably
committed in connection with these corpora
tions.
The inhabitants of three or four of the
minor islands of the Scilly group, only half n
days journey from England, know nothing of
the convenience of monetary system, and
transact business with their more enterpris-
ing neighbors in accordance with the primi-
tive principles of barter, They catch and dry
fish and deliver it in large quantities 10 the
commercial factors at st. Mary's, but instead
of receiving coin they obtain supplies of ba-
con, breadstuffs, boots, clothing, pots. pans
and whatever they require. Taxes are un-
known there are no public institutions TO
support, and every man minds his own busi-
ness There is not even lookup on this
happy island. The police force is represent
ed by stone-mason, who is provided with an
official uniform, which he wears on Sundays
and holidays, Ordinary rows he attends TO in
his flannel jacket.