Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-03-16
BREVITIEs.

the sixth Rear Admiral who has died since
the first Of January.
Josiah Henson, the original of Mrs.
Stoves "Uucle Tom," was received ny
Queen Victoria aud the royal family ut
Windsor castle, Monday.
Montreal detectives inform tho Phila-
delphia police that they think the long lost
Charlie Ross lives with a woman at ST.
Jean Baplistc, village near Montreal.
Mrs. Malloy, the Indiana temperance
lecturer, is speaking to large audiences In
Montpelier. Since she began work there
the reform club has increased its member
ship 400, and II now numbers about 1000
The eternal fitness Of things Is Illus
trated in the announcement that Rev. DIR.
Simeon, who has recently arrived in this
country from jerusalem, is the guest of
Rev. DR.. Shurtoff.-- Worcester Press.
"A curious fish is found in Walow's
Lake, California, which are blood-red in
color, very fat and Of superior delicacy TO
salmon. There are only four known lakes
in the world where these fish are found
Lake Payette in Idaho. lake in Maine,
one in Scotland and Wallow's Like above
mentioned. Wallow's Lakeis 1000 feet deep,
and the fish suddenly appear in August
and disappear in December.
1t is proposed to drain Lake Okeecho-
bee 10 Florida, into the Caloosahatchie riv-
err. The lake is forty five miles long aud
twenty-five miles wide, and the marsh
which surrounds it is of still greater d.
mansions. The water is nowhere over ten
feet deep, and is so stagnant that not even
an alligator eau live in it. If drained, the
land would yield splendid rice crops for
several years, and after that would support
sugar cane.
The reports of unusual losses of cattle
by cold and starvation on the western
plains this winter, are said to bo greatly
| overdrawn. Large dealers estimate that
the loss in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colo
RADIO will not exceed l per ceui, cai i'll
not over 20 have been found dead during
| the winter. The Nebraska herds now ag.
| gregate nearly 1000 cattle, and this years
eastern ship ments will be larger than ever
before. The snow is gone on the plains
grazing is good, and water plenty.
The blue glass mania is now undergo
ing practical test of its efficacy in curing
weak backs, fattening pigs, and stimulat.
ing the growth of plants. At PittsburG
| several factories are TO work on the ceru.
lean article, and sending their goods as
rapidly as made to Western cities. The
New Jersey window glass factory at:Glass
boro is making almost as much blue as or
binary glass, and the demand for it is de-
ser ibed as persistent and most exacting.
"A discovery of large quantity of an
tique coins has recently been made at VeI
ona, in Italy, in making some excavations
They are many thousands in number ant
were contained in Two large stone vases
The most of them are of bronze, but SOM
are of silver, aud all are in a good state o
pres ervation and bear evidence of having
been current in Rome in the reign OF SOM
of her emperors when the city was "mis
tress of the world"
In certain Baptist church in New Jer
sey, recently, the preacher, in praying
for the country in its present distracted
condition, remarked: Thou knowest, OIL
Lord, that ii looks decidedly hazy." Al
audible smoker went through the church
and after the service several OF the olde
members called the clergyman to accoun
for his pun, but he disclaimed any inten
ton Of having used the word shay" in
facetious sense, or that it was used other
wise than as relating to the political frma
ment.
One forgets in this frigid latitude tina
below the equator an August Temperature
prevails, even in the temperate region
toward the South Pole. The dog-day heat
of January dispersed so many of the mem
bers of the Gillian Congress that quo
rum could not be had, aud the President 0
the Republic betook himself TO Vina de
Mar, the Chilian Long Branch. ChiliaI
journalists don't think of disturbing tn
Presidents repose down by tho cool Pa
cific waves by suggestions that he had bet
ter remain in the swelterng capital durin,
the January heats.
"A sad tragedy of the centennial la
come to light near Philadelphia in the ind
ing of the badly decomposed body OF
well-dressed, unknown man, party buriet
in rubbish in the ravine near the graugers
centennial encampment. 1t appears that
room in the granger's hotel was founC
much dlsarranged, one morning early il
November, and blood was spattered abou
the room and the corridor, but the matte
was hushed up. The man was probabl,
murdered with a Ratchet, and robbed, ant
the burning of the building, later, ma,
have been the work of the murderers L
conceal their deed. Search is being mad
for the bodies of missing men, who, it i
feared, may have shared the fate of the un
known dead, as the neighborhood was th
resort Of a gang of robbers.