Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14
NO. H..
IN GENERAL.

INC Wisconsin Legislature mas made Cltl-
zens of the Chippewa Indians by giving them
the right to vote.
About dozen merchants in Lewiston,
Me-, whose funds are limited, are trying to
charter box-car to take them to California.
Their plan is to board themselves on the way,
doing their cooking in the car.
"A Georgia paper reports that on South
bound trains two-thirds Of the passengers in
most instances are people Of the North visit
ing the Sunny South"-some on business,
but the majority pleasure-seokers.
Mr.. Edison is quoted by a correspondent
of the indianapolis journal as saying that the
electric light sis Just as certain as sunrise"
They must give me time for it," he added,
'and if they don't, | shall take time. have
never said would have it done in week"
1t is estimated that there are now four
murders day in Texas, and it is charged that
the government is so weak that it does not
dare to protect its own witnesses in the
courts.
John c. Howard, who died last wednes-
day in Paris, Ky, was the talest man in the
state, being feet and l15 inches high. He
weighed two hundred and sixty seven pounds.
His parents and children are all more than six
feet high.
At Joliet, ILL.,, a few days ago the ., 800
children attending the shools with their teach
ers, were taken out for a sleigh-ride in 400
sleighs and cutters, headed by band of mu.
sic. Fifteen barrels of apples were distrib-
uted among them.
The poorer people of New Orleans have
now become so suspicious of silver dollars,
from taking trade dollars for wages and hav-
ing them discounted at the shops, that they
refuse to accept even the dollar of the fathers,
and insist on receiving greenbacks or bank
notes.
The experimental trial of the electric
Light at the works at the port of Havre has
given complete satisfaction. without waiting
for the report of the committee nominated by
the French Board of Works, the Chancellor
Of Commerce at that place has authorized the
establishment of ten lights in the outer port.
The emperor of Brazil keeps up regu-
lar correspondence with the savants, artists
and literary men of the principal European
centres. He compliments any notable work
10y asking for a copy of it, and in this way he
has secured at Rio quite collection of books
and pictures, compensating the donors. in re-
turn, with jewels and orders.
One of Charles Dckeus's daughters-n-
law, Mrs Alfred Tennyson Dickens, has Just
met terrible death in Australia, where her
husband has for several years been living and
prosperng. Mrs. Dickens was driving out
with her little daughter, when the horse be-
came frightened and running away, finally
ed, and the young wife was so'dteadfully in
jured that she died in few hours.
Our Government, in view of the viruent
and contagious character of the Russian
plague, has taken wise precautions against
the introduction of the disease in this country
Hereafter, until further orders, vessels arriv-
ing in American waters from any port of the
Black Sea- the Sea of Azof the Mediterranean
or the Red Sea, will be subjected to a rigid
III.
ly disinfected.
Elias Black, farmer near Doyleston,
Penn, has sixteen harvests of hay and grain
rotting in stacks ON his farm. When farm
produce began to rise with the breaking out
of the war he held his crop for still higher
prices. When prices fell, embttered by dis
appointment, he kept on stacking until he has
$4,000 worth of hay and grain on his hands.
According to the French census the pop
ulation of France is increasing but slowly,
the problem being how to increase wealth.
Nineteen millions of the population subsiSt by
agricultural industry, 1000, 900 by commerce,
6,O00, 600 by the arts and trades. 3, ,0OO 900 by
manufacture, and l,jOO, 600 by professions.
Over 1000, 600 live wholly on their revenues
E, A. Cowper, an English mechanical en-
gineer has invented machine by which a
hand writing III one place can produce at the
other end of the telegaphic line the precise
characters which it originally traces, so that
the letter when thus written will be aS dis
tnctly the handwriting of the telegrapher as
one produced at the same time by his own
pen.
Another collection of one million cancelled
postage stamps is explained. Some time ago
a Philadelphia gentleman offered to obtain for
an old lady a life residence in Il home for the
friendless if she would collect such an amount
of stamps. The undertaking enlisted the at
Of I II
ford, Conn, who began to assist the old lady.
The result is that the million of stamps have
been gathered the sum of $500 has been paid
for them, and the collector is now enjoying a
comfortable home in the Methodist House in
Philadelphia.
The passage of the amnesty bill by the
French assembly will release from New Gale
donia, or restore from exile, about 5000 Com
munists, Among them will be General
Cluserct, the mysterious officer in 'Lothair,"
and who has passed his life in hot water;
Henri Rochefort of La Lanterne NJ. Megy,
now of New York, who was concerned in the
death of the Archbishop of Paris Paschal
Grousset, one of the chief ministers of the
commune, and others who are less known but
equally determined.
Nothing can exceed the popularity of the
German emperor. He can hardly enter any
theatre without the audience rising to their
feet to hurrah and chant the national hymn;
and such is the ceaseless stream of gifts kept
pouring into the palace by his affectiOnate
subjects that the aged monarch has Mt last
been compelled to remind the public of half
forgotten order in council forbidding the
presentation of books, music, objects of art
and industry, etc, without leave being pre-
viously asked for and obtained.
John Ericsson, whose name is linked
with the fame of the ironclad Monitor, is now
an old man living in New York at the age of
20 years yet still absorbed in scientific and
mechanical studies, and never leaving the
house wherein his laboratory is except for ex-
ercise or pressing business Social recrea-
tions he does not care for, and he accepts and
gives no invitations. For nearly forty years
he has kept diary, giving a single page to
each day, until the work has reached its fifty
seventh volume, comprising now over II, 900
pages In this diary only twenty days are
missing in the forty years, the omissions be-
ing due to an accident in 1886, which depriv-
ed him of finger on the right hand.
A Belgian professor predicts another del
uge. At certain regularly recurring intervals,
he maintains, the waters of one hemisphere
are suddenly preciptated across the equator,
and flood the other. The last of these del
uges which was that of Noah's time, was
from the North. Hence the great prepon-
derance of heat in the Southern hemisphere,
and OF the general trend of the continents.
The next deluge will be from the South to the
North. The cause, he argues is the alternate
increase and decrease of the ice-caps at the
poles and consequent change of the earth's
equilibrium. Since 124S the South Pole has
been continually enlargng, while the North
Pole has been proportionately diminishing,
to-day the diameter of the Southern glacier
being about 5000 miles and that of the North
ern 1900. The accretions at the South Pole
will eventually destroy the equilibrium and
cause deluge.
The BEST LESSONS. What shall l teach
my child? Teach him that it is better to
die than TO lie that it is better to starve than
to steal it is better to be a scavenger or
wood chopper than TO be an idler and dead
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