Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-07
NO. 10.
IN GENERAL.


allowed lady to kiss his foot at his audiences,
always giving her his haud. Pope Leo Kill,
on the contrary, secs ladies go through the
ceremony with calm indifference.
St Peters church in Rome required for
its erection l7G years, and to complete the
structure, an additional ia years Its cost
was $50, 600, 600 in gold, and to keep it in re-
pair requires an annual expenditure of S2O,-
600.
The Emperor and Empress of Austria nro
preparing to celebrate their silver wedding,
but appreciating the fact that the Empire,
like other countries, is suffering from severe
depression, they have declared that oil costly
pomp is to be avoided
james DAILY of Marathon, Mich, told his
wife to 60 out and cut some wood. She re-
fused. He tried to whip her but failed igno-
bly,. She threw him down, tied his hands
behind him, and drove him before her to
Justices court, three miles away.
"A dagger believed to be made of meteor
ic steel, exhumed by DIR. Schleimann in tho
royal palace of Troy has been deposited by
him in the British Museum. It is the first
iron discovered by the doctor in his expora-
tions, and is of great archaeological interest.
John Richards of Philadelphia, after II
years of persistent labor, has perfected a ma
chine that will measure the twenty-thous-
huhNu VI hl luCl llA bDltCl Is W bttuTb
the incest accuracy in the manufacture Of
watches, sewing machines, frearms lenses,
etc
The municipal council of Paris, which is
radical in its republcanism, IS gradually
changing the names of streets which have
been calledafterprominent Bonapartists Tho
rue de Morny is henceforth to be the rue
Pierre Charron. The place de Chateau d'Eau
is to become the place de la Republquo and
a statue of the republic is to adorn it.
An Overton county Tenn, man was
killed in a singular fashion the other day.
He stole pig, killed it, tied it about his neck
with rope and started for home. After 60
ing some distance he became weary, placed
the pig on a stump without removing the
rope from his neck and fell asleep. The pig
slipped over the opposite side of the stump
and the man was strangled to death.
A prominent physician of San Francisco,
weary Of his wife, and infatuated with a
younger woman, is accused of going into Ar
iZona for a short time to gain an ostensible
residence and Of having bill of divorce
from his wife put through the Territorial
Legislature in an omnibus bill with II other
acts, so that the Governor could not veto it
without vetoing all the rest. This done, he
hied him back to San Francisco and married
the younger woman.
for the following rat and clam story "A
New -Berliner bought two dozen clans last
week, took them home, and spread meal on
them. The next morning he found that 80
rats in search of meal, had been caught by
tails and toes by % CLANS. The unoccupied
clam must have bossed the job. One clam
had three rats"
The Jackson Miss Clarion says that
there is no estimating the pecuniary loss the
South has sustained by the destruction of
stock, especially working animals, horses,
mules and oxen since the war, and it urges
the necessity of providing the severest penal
ty for cruelty to dumb brutes, and the rigid
inquisition by grand juries into offenses of
this kind, with view to the punishment of
the offenders.
"A second railroad to the Pacific seems to
be not far distant line GOO miles long is al
ready built from San Francisco throuhg
Southern California to Fort Yuma at the
junction Of the Colorado and Yuma rivers,
the latter being the western boundary of Ari-
zona and by next July 1t is expected that
the road will be completed eastward nearly
to the middle of that territory. Meantime
the Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
is pushing on southwest through New Mexi-
co. and by midsummer it is said that there
will not be a gap of more than 800 miles be-
tween these two roads.
The great deposit of mineral wax, or ma
tive parafine, lately discovered in Southern
Utah. is described by Professor ]. f. Clay
ton, of Salt Lake City, as occupying an area
of 60 miles long by 20 miles wide, and in
some places forming bed 20 feet thick 1t
contains more or less clay in seams and lay
ers but this is readily eliminated by melting,
the earthly matter settling and leaving the
paraffine nearly pure. 1t is quite black in
the mass, but the sections are translucent.
The quantity is said to be enormous; so great,
indeed, that it cannot be controlled by any
individual or company, but must prove a
source of wealth to whole communities.
The marriage altar is supposed to be
place to make fellows knees tremble, but
bashful Goshen (O.) young man was almost
too timid. The feast was spread, the parson,
bride and guests in waiting, but he came not.
prospective brother-in-law searched the fel-
low out, and found him at home in his work
ing clothes, so scared that he had been able
to shave only one side of his face The two
finished the shaving and sprucing up, but the
bashful lover wilted when near his intended's
home and turned back. The girls father
then visited the timd youth who said that
he would be married, if it was done by
squire at night. The father granted the
evening, but insisted on minister, and at
the second trial the ceremony came off.
A wedding service at Dayton, O., mar
rowly escaped being turned into tragedy
the other night. Allan Woolf aud Jennie Ed
wards were on their way in hack to the house
of clergyman who lived three miles outside
the town, when the carriage, containing the
pair and Edward Hayes n friend of the coup
lie, fell over q 30-feet-high precipce into the
creek below. Mr.. Hayes managed to escape
from the hack during its fearful descent and
running down the bank tore of door, pulled
out the half drowned occupants, and extricat-
ed the driver from beneath the vehicle. Had
it not been for his assistance, all three must
surely have been drowned. A brother of the
bridegroom lived near by, and to his house
the couple repaired, exchanged their wet
clothes for dry ones, the minister was sent
for, and the twain were made man and wife.
The wife of miner at Hopewell Pa,
had golden hair of wonderful length and
abundance, but though it was so heavy as to
to be a bother her husband would not let her
cut it of or sell it to dealers Latterly, how
ever, he has been outof work, ,anda mortgage
on his house was due. A stranger came
along and offer $500 for the treasured hair.
That sum would pay the note and save the
house, and the husband reluctantly made tho
sale. He could not help shedding tears when
he saw the strangers shears despoiling his
wife's head of its beauty, and she wept when
she looked at herself in the glass; but they
consoled themselves with the crisp bank notes,
and the buyer went away with the hair. A
few days afterward the miner went TO pay the
debt, and learned that the bills were all coun-
terfeit.
-"Allen Pinkerton, the dog detective ofthe
st. Joseph (Mo) police force is dead. He
was little black animal, with white hair
around his neck, and bushy tail that ourled
over his back He voluntarily joined the
police force about eight years ago, and fol-
lowed the men about day and night-frst one
member of the force and then another. Many
dark night has he assisted the officers in
discovering the whereabouts of tramps who
had concealed themselves in empty barrels
and boxes, and his terrifying bark has caused
hundreds of petty thieves to take to their
heels. He prowled about the darkest corners
in the alleys, and whenever an intoxicated
man was found a yelp or two suficed to