Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19
IN GENERAL.


The Greenbackers in Rhode Island cast
$50 votes ut the late election.
The value of the property Of the church
of England is estimated at 5000, coo, 900.
-Four thousand houses were burned at
Toxic, Japan. March Il, at loss Of 500.
600.
The income of the cx-Empress Eugene
is $3.50, 900 per annum, and she affects the
simplicity of Victoria.
The photograph building on the Ccntcn-
NAL grounds, Philadelphia, which cost Slj,-
600, was sold at auction recently for $40.
The telephone has been adopted by the
Chinese, the telegraph being useless, as they
have no alphabet. Five hundred miles have
already been spoken over in China
A wen-to-do farmer in Ulster county, n
Y, who wanted "A wife. took a woman on trial
fora week, to ascertain her housekeeping quail
tiles. She suited, and he married her.
An Alabama negro woman gaped so en-
orgetically that She dislocated her jaw, and it
required the united efforts Of two doctors and
her selt-sacrifcing husband to get it back in
to place.
There was a sudden end of festivities at
n Middleton (England) wedding recently
One Of the guests upset a table, aud in falling
bottle severed his juyular vein, causng
death in few minutes
A female defendant in q suit at Rush
vile, Ind, during the trial the other day be-
came angry at the plaintiff, man, and rush
ing at him struck him ON the head and
knocked him senseoss
The Swiss Republic is staggering under
n debt Of nearly two millions of dollars, the
result of several years deficiency in the reve-
nues, and with its limited means the question
of removing it is a serious one
The Life Guards are the tallest soldiers
in the world" boasted an Englshman
"Whew!" retorted Paddy: ''you never saw
the South Tipperary Artillery Militia they're
so high that when they look to the ground it
makes them dizzy"
The famine and the consequent distress
in the northern province Of China continue
unabated. Gov. Hennossy Of Hong Kong
gives $40, 600 Of public funds toward the re-
lief of the sufferers. contribution of Slj,-
600 has been made from Japan.
Fifteen or twenty train robbers stopped
a train on the Texas Pacific road at lIusquto
station on Wednesday of last week took the
engineer and fireman and placed them under
guard and plundcrcd the express and mail
cars. None of the passengers were injured.
1t costs the people of England no less
than $50, 900, 900 year to maintain ''an eff
cient navy" The estimates for the current
year are 500, 265. .455. An iron-clad costs
some so, 600 a year to keep in repair.
The British steamer Chdwall Hall was
wrecked at Sagres, Portugal, recently, on her
voyage from Liverpool to Bombay by way of
the Suez Canal. She had crew of forty-fve.
and eight passengers. Twenty-seven persons
were saved, and the fate of the remaining 2G
is unknown.
The copy of the the Bible which Martin
Luther used daily the leaves of which are
covered with annotations made in his own
hand, is now in the Brandenburg museum.
which gave $3.50 for it. The book was print
ed in Basle in 1903, is bound in leather. and
is in good preservation.
In order to cover the expense of sup
pressing the late rebellion. which amounted
to S42, COO. 0OO, the japanese government has
resolved to issue S27, 900, 600 in paper money,
and to make large savings in the ordinary
civil expenditures. The national debt of ia
pan at present amounts to $3.50, 0OO, 900,
An affable gentleman entered the bank
of Jacksonville, Fla, last week during the
temporary absence of the president and an
other officer at dinner. He engaged the cash
Ter in conversation, first on business matters
and then on politics, loudly bewailing the sad
state of the country. Meanwhile n confeder-
ate slipped in, stole 81, 800 from the safe and
escaped.
Among the attractions of the University
of Pennsylvania is its situation near n lovely
location for accidents. The announcement
sent out for the present year mentions the
advantages for clinical instruction at the hos
pital, and concludes as fo'ows lowing to
its being situated within n very short distance
of the great railroad depots, the hospital is
especially rich in cases of severe injury"
A long coaching trip is under contempla-
tion by the young mems coaching club of
New York city. The club has accepted an
invitation to visit Mr.. Fairman Rogers of
Philadelphia and will drive across New Jer-
sey. Nine changes of horses will be stationed
at various points along the route, and it is
thought the trip between the two States can
be made between o'clock in the morning
and ! in the afternoon, with a stop for lunch
at Princeton, - miles from New York.
Henry Meiggs, the South American rail,
road king 80 far from dying bankrupt, as
has been alleged, left an enormous fortune to
his sons, Henry II. and Minor X. Meggs
who, inheriting also their fathers energy
have already entered into contracts with the
Peruvian government involving an outlay OF
millions. One project likely to be completed
is the Sutro tunnel beneath the famous silver
mines, which is expected to give access to the
greatest mass or silver ore in the world.
-Brigandage in Spain is again very preva,
lent all along the frontier between France
and Catalonia. TwOor three weeks ago band
of three or four men captured bank
named Roger at night, as he was returning
from ball, and he was at once carried of
into the mountains, from whence an emissary
was despatched to his family, demanding
ransom of 500, 900. A tax collector captured
by the same gang was held subject to a ran
som of $4,000.
"A curious amusement of the Chinese i,
cricket fighting, which amounts to passion
with the sporting Celestials, The insects ar,
carefully trained, being kept singly in earth
enware pots and carefully dieted ON fish, Ger
tain kinds of small insects, honey, boiled
chestnuts and rice. If they become sick from
overeating, insects called hunchung are giver
Them if from cold, they get mosquitoes; il
from heat shoots of the tea plant, and il
they manifest difficulty in breathing they ar,
fedon butterflies. Large sums are bet upon the
contests and a cricket that has won many vic
tories is, when it dies, buried in a small sill
yer coffin. Crickets which display great fight
ing powers are frequently sold for large sums