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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
HITS AND MISSES.
Painful suspense-Hanging.

Painful uspense-Hanging.
Woman's writes-Postscripts
An ex-spurt-A dried-up fountain.
Winter comes when autumn leaves.
Straw hats tell which way the wind blows.
Epicures have rather an eat style about
them.
A lawyer is often strongest when he is fee
blest.
Musicians are apt TO be men of sound prin-
ciples.
n pleasant smile.
after-A cake of soap.
Cats in the country have nine lives and
hole under the door.
1t is no sign because farmer is growing
sage that he is becoming wise.
A pig born in May does not turn into May
hoganY any way you can fix it.
1t is the poorest way to get up in the world
to be continually down in the mouth
Language which is considered bad in youth
when used by old people is often called bad
image.
A young lady gives her excuse for using a
parasol in these words II raise my parasol
to parry SoFS rays.
1t is said that the ancient Romans were
very fond of music, because they never wea-
ried of a stab at martyr.
Young man, in walking match you "go
as you please" but in a courting match you
must please as you go.
By the way, is it not rather remarkable
that there were no book agents or lightning
rod peddlers in the bronze age
The interim between the parasol and muf
season is very trying one to the ladies'
They don't know what to do with their hands
"Why do summer roses fade ?" is a ques-
tion asked by the poet Because there is
no way of releaving them" is the answer of
the gardener
young man in Nebraska sent an offer of
marriage to a girl whom he fancied, and in
reply received telegram Come on with
your minister"
"Sympathize with me !" exclaimed q mer-
chant who had failed. "Regret my embar-
rassment You'd better sympsthize with
my creditors, and mourn over their embar-
rassment.'
The reason more poor poetry is printed dur
ing the summer than in the cold months of
winter, is because editors take down their
stoves in the spring, and don't put them up
again until late in the fall.
THE difference between honor and discre-
ton, said bully, ''is that honor tells you
not to hit man when he is down, and dis
cretion warns you to be careful about hitting
him when he isn't down"
'Fullness under the eye denotes language"
we are told. So it does, and we fear, bad
language, too. at times. In a recent in
stance fullness under the eye denoted that
the possessor had called man liar.
A man who died suddenly left on his desk
letter to one of his correspondents. His
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
NEW PUBLICA7IONS.

Harper & Bros. have supplemented their
other good works in the way of providing
pure, elevating and entertaining periodical
literature for the people, 10y bringing out an
illustrated weekly paper for boys and girls,
called HABPER's YoUNG PEorLE, the first
number of which appeared last week. The
new paper is of just the kind to please bright,
intelligent boys and girls, with uncorrupted
tastes, it being varied, instructive and enter
tanning in its contents, without being dull on
the one hand or sensational on the other
precisely what one might expect, in fact,
from the great New York publishing house.
We expect to see its success prove that the
natural instincts of the young lead them to
prefer the good to the bad when it is to be
had in attractive guiso at the same price.
THE SATURDAY MAGAzISE. This lively and
popular cheap eclectic weekly has now sue
cessfully assumed distinct position in our
magazine literature. Its selections are all
short and bright Nothing continued 1t
gives a wide range Of information and amuse-
ment. It's first year is now drawing to a close,
and now is the time to begin the second.
50. 30 year cents single number Very
liberal discounts to teachers, clergymen,
agents and dealers. Fred b. Perkins, Editor,
| 81 Hawley Street, Boston, Mass.
The PRINCETON REVIEW for November-De-
cember contains a series of articles from able
writer's, which ought to satisfy the most ex-
acting demands of those who delight in ''sol
id reading" A list of the contents, with the
authors names and titles, will at once sug-
gest the variety and excellence of the discus
| sions in the present number, viz. Prof
! Huxley's Exposition of Hume's Philosophy "
| by President Porter of Yale College Uni
versity Questions in England, " by Prof Gold
win Smith Toronto PROF. Tyndall Upon
the Origin of the Cosmos by Mark Hopkins,
| ID. D., ex-president of Williams College {;
| Comparative View of American Progress,
by Robert p. Porter, Esq, of Chicago; The
Prori Novum Organum of Christianity"
by Lyman II. Atwater, d. D., of Princeton
College "Bimetalism," by Prof. William T.
Sumner Yale College Points of Contact
Between Science and Revelation" by Prnci-
pal j. W, Dawson d. G, L., Montreal, and
''Herbert Spencers Data of Ethics" by Pres
ident McCosh of Princeton College, ID. D.,
LID. Published at Park Row, New York,
at 81 q year. Single numbers 80 cents,
The publishers of the ATLANTIC MONTHLY
announce their purpose, in the forthcoming
volume, to increase the number of pages in
each monthly issue, and to give particular at
tention to the discussion of industrial topics.
superb life-size portrait of DR.. Holmes has
been made by Mr. ]. Z. Baker (the new ar
tist who made the Atlantic portraits of Long
fellow, Bryant, Whittier and Lowell), which
will be furnished to Atlantic subscribers only
| for 81.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

The LAST OF CLEopArRAs NEEDLES Gen.
Loring, lately of the Egyptian army, in an in
terview with a reporter of the St. Paul, Mimi,
Pioneer Press, few days ago, gave some in
teresting particulars of the obelisk which
Lieut.. Gorringe is preparing to bring to this
country. He says it is the only object Of
great historical interest left in Alexandria,
and is the first object one sees in approach
ing the city from the sea. The obelisk that
went to England had been buried for hun
dred years in the sand some thirty feet from
the one standing. Both were brought from
Heliopolis by Cleopatra and placed in front
of the palace of the Caesars. The New York
obelisk is much better preserved than the
English trophy and the writing on it is more
distinct 1t is one of the oldest obelisks in
the world. and was constructed during that
splendid era of the twelfth dynasty, thous-
and years before Joseph. Not man in Egypt
could realize that the Khediye had given it
away They were all wonder struck. When
England was moving her obelsk there was
general rejoicing in Egypt when the rumor
came back that it was lost at sea. The obelsk
is the color of brown stone front on Fifth
avenue. 1t came from the famous quarry six
hundred miles above Cairo and is about sew
enty feet high. The granite, fresh from the
quarry, sparkleS ike Jewels. Inc Branuest
of all obeiisks is still sacred in the Temple of
Karnak 1t is hundred feet high and is the
most boautifully-cut and engraved of all
known obelisks. The one in Paris was in
this temple and is the second in height in the
world. There is one in the quarry like the
one at Karnak The New York obelisk is a
thousand years older than either Of the others.
The most interesting one, historically is still
at Heliopolis. 1t was cut 3OGi years Be,
and preserves all the style and grandeur Of
the finest sculpture of that brilliant epoch
of Egyptian art 1t is the only object left Of
the splendid city Of On. 1t stood in front of
the Temple of the sun, of which Joscph's IA
ther was the priest, whore Moses learned his
Egyptian wisdom and where Plato, Scion and
Pythagoras learned their philosophy. Gen.
Loring also says that the ex-Khedive was
very much surprised dwhen England paid the Al
ALBANIA claims it persuaded him that no coun-
try in the world so fearlessly held England
responsible for her acts as the United States
Thcreupon he imagined that American friend
ship might avail him something and he made
us present Of the obcisk
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

The oldest postmaster in the service is Ed
ward Stabler, of Sandy Springs, Montgomery
county, Md. His commission is dated De-
cember IA, 1880, nearly forty nine years ago,
when Andrew jackson was President. His
salary last year was 1897, and has never been
larger than that sum.
Since the above was in type the following
Washington item, dated Nov. 10, has come
to hand;
Roswell Beardsley, of North Lansing, lit
tie village in Tompkins county, N. Y, is now
thought to be the oldest postmaster in the
United States. Until recently this honor has
been accorded to Edward Stabler, of Sandy
Springs, Montgomery county, Md. In reply
ing to a circular letter of inquiry sent out by
the Department the other day, Mr.. Boards
ley incidentally mentioned the fact that he
has been postmaster at North Lansing for
more than ffty-one years. Curiosity led to
an examination of the records in the bond
room, from which it was learned that the
bond of Mr.. Beardsley was dated June %,
1928, while that of Mr.. Stabler bore date of
December II, 1880. Mr.. Beardsley's title to
the patriarchate of the postal service seems,
therefore, to be established.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

socially. jackson sympathized with the Ea-
tons, and with his usual passionate prejudice
whenever his feeling had been enlisted swore
by the Eternal, his favorite oath, that they
should recognize her. The matter caused a
great commotion at the capital, and even as
sumed political Importance 1t was charac-
terized as the woman's war, and ragged long
and fiercely. jackson could coerce men, but
he failed completely to carry his point with
the other SEX He raved like hungry lion,
he employed his utmost power but he was
obliged to surrender at last to petticoats the
only time, it is said that he ever did surren-
der to anybody or anything. Mrs Eaton's
third marriage was when she was not far
from 20, with II youthful Italian dancing mas
ter who might have been her grandson, one
Buccignani, a graCeless fellow, as the sequel
proved, for he subsequently eloped to Eu-
rope with her granddaughter, Emily Ran
dolph, girl of Is, and carried off most of
his aged wife's property. OF late Mrs. Eaton
has been very poor, and has lived in retire
ment in Washington, where she once made
tempest in a teapot and where her name,
through ridiculous quarrel caused by Jack
son, arose to national notoriety. II she had
any sense of satire or contrast it must have
been stimulated of recent years in her old
home, where she had been not so much for
Cotton as never known by the present pOpu-
lation. In her youth she had physical attrac-
tions, but she was never burdened with com
nonsense Tragedy, comedy and farce were
mingled in her career, which WAS so varied
and singular that, if it had been narrated in
a work of osteusiblo fiction, it would have
been pronounced grotesquely improbable.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

The SEA-SRRPENT Shows HIMSELF OFF
NEWFOUNDLAND. Fourth Officer f. G. Row
ell, of the steamship Anchoria, which arrived
at New York port from Glasgow last Sunday,
says that on Thursday last, while on the New
foundland banks, he saw a sea-serpent which
he estimates TO have been fully as long as the
steamship, which is 408 feet long Mr.. Rock
well was walking the bridge in the afternoon
watch, when he noticed disturbance in the
water about O mile distant At first he
thought the commoton was caused by
school of porpoises, but on closer Observa-
ton, he changed his mind. When he looked
through pair of strong glasses he saw the
head and portion of the body of the sea-
serpent rising above the water. Portions of
the back of the creature could be seen rising
out of the sea at intervals as ii propelled it.
self along on the top of the water. Its mo-
tions were similar TO those Of the land-snake
as il moves along on the ground. The water
in the wake of the creature had been lashed
into foam by its tail Its head was large and
contained an enormous mouth, which opened
frequently and spat out large quantities Of
water. It's tongue, which was extremely
long, could be seen at times, but no teeth OF
fangs could be observed. The body of the
serpent was round, and its color was black,
II was moving in the same direction as the
steamship, and at a greater rate of speed.
When the creature had got little ahead Of
the vessel it sank down into the water and
disappeared.
Mr.. Rowel has made marine animals the
subject of study, and has always believed in
the existence of sea-serpents but his desire
TO see one of these animals has never before
been gratifed.-N y. Times, l0h inst.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

A Coon Use FOR HoRsE-PoNDs. David
Mehwa, the English farmer who returns from
Texas with the story of the fraud that has
been practced upon him and his companions
in enticing them to barren and desolate
country, without wood or water, will find
many Yankee farmers, who, from their own
experience, will know how to sympathi2e
with him. These lying Texas colonization
agents have been very active in the North,
particularly in New England, during the past
year. One of them induced half dozen
families in little New Hampshire village to
listen to his glowing accounts of the richness
and fertility of the Texas soil and to form
little colony. He assured them that church
es, schools and academies would spring up in
the new land, and in few years its social ad-
yantages would equal those of New England.
He collected 5000 from each family and de-
camped. His victims are unable to learn his
present whereabouts. None of them could
afford to lose the money Most of them were
poor and hoped to better their condition.
One was not only poor, but an invalid, and
was lured into the scheme by the expectation
of improved health. Cold-blooded and de-
lberate swindlers like these Texas land agents
cannot be adequately punished under any ex-
isting law. But it is amazing that the many
large and seryiceable horse ponds scattered
through our rural communities are so rarely
put to their appropriate use'-N. r. Times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

FIRST THINGS Amos $. Blake, now of Wa
terbury, Conn, claims that when at work
with Il. and j. Wainwright, at Montpelier,
about 1882, he constructed a locomotive for
Asa Harrington of Middlesex, Vt, to exhibit
the working of railroad. He says it was ex-
hibited in the State House, and drew a geu-
tleman and lady on n small railroad track. A
search of the newspaper files OF that period
reveals no notice of the then novel locomo-
tive, but the Hon. Daniel Baldwin, now liy-
ing, says that he remembers an exhibition of
this miniature locomotive at the Obadiah
Eaton tavern in Montpelier.
1t has long since been established that the
first steamboat in this country was construct
ed and run in 1892 or '93 by Samuel Alorey,
of Fairlee, Vermont, formerly of Oxford,
New Hampshire. Mr. Baldwin gives new
and satisfactory testimony, Fulton success
fully run his first steamboat, the Clermont,
in 1907. 1t was, of course, the subject of
conversation all over the country. In 1S0S,
four citizens of Oxford and Lyme, New
Hampshire were employed with Mr. Bald
win in finishing the first State House here.
They were Solomon Washburn afterwards an
architect in Boston,, Solomon Conant, John
Strong and Benjamin Franklin. These all
spoke from personal knowledge of the fact
that Morey's steamboat long ante-datcd Full
toms. But there is better evidence still, to
wit Several years later than 1908, Mr.. Bald
win met the father of A. b. Norris of Barnet,
the father being then more than so years of
age, who informed Mr. Baldwin that he aid
ed in the construction of Morey's steamboat,
and accompanied him on the first and sue
cessful experiment, steaming up the Connec-
ticut river about three miles, and then back
again Mr. Norris added another fact, which
tends to relieve Fulton of the odium of steal
ing Moreys invention. Shortly after his sue
cessful experiment, Morey started, ostensibly
for Washington City, it was supposed for the
purpose of obtaining a patent. In about a
fortnight Morey returned without a patent
but his pockets filed with money out of
which he paid all the men who had been em-
ployed by him. The inference seems to be
fair that Morey sold his steamboat invention,
1t is certain that Morey obtained patents for
the use of steam, and actually constructed
and operated steam mill, but there is no
evidence that he obtained a patent for a
steamboat e. p, w., in Montpelier Watch
man.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
A Aumnner Reauiena .

Spirit of SummerI thou whose honeyed sweets
Meier fail fulhllment Of their promise fair;
Thou at whose smile Earth's odorous voices rise,
To hl with bamy breath the glRddsned air;
Where are thy songs, thy melodies, thy lays,
That cheered our weary hearts and soothed our pain
Silent thy music now, thy sonRsters fed,
And nothing but their memories remain;
Faded thy blossoms, all thy buds decayed,
While hollow winds moan sadly through thy bowers.
Yet though thy smiling gardens bloom no more,
Wen not forget the perfume Of thy flowers.
Gone are thy cloudless days; thy happy skies
Are dim nd fearful now meath Winters frown;
DsrObed thy trees, the fast dying leaves
From naked boughs come slowly huttering down.
How sad to wander through thy sodden woods,
Gray with brooding mist, damp with decay,
Where Summers leaves lie rottng at our feet
Or by the chilly blast are borne away.
Now faint the scent Of dead and dying plants;
Now ciings the fungus to the humid stone,
And croaks the frog from yonder Weedy marsh,
For all the woodland happiness is gone.
II on the blackened stems some wntry ray
Athwart should fall and linger there awhile,
'TWould be but as the echo of q song
The shadow Of a once familiar smile.
Our brightest joys are ever quickest fed,
As fade the rainbow coors in the sky;
We do not prize our happiness enoughi
We scarcely feel it as Il passes by.
Though looking always for some JOY unknown,
To-day must ever incomplete remain,
And not till past know how sweet II Was.
Spirit of Summer, visit us again
Chdmbers's Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

An EXPERT FoRGER- detective with
whom reporter of the New York Times re-
Gently went fishing at Norwich, CT, and who
did not know the profession of his compan-
ion, unburdened himself Of some interesting
"reminiscences concerning criminals of which
Massachusetts, furnished the following
"One Of the most expert forgers that ever
appeared in this country was caught in Mass
achusetts lately, convicted, and sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment. He had not been
in prison more than three months when, to
the astonishment of the jailer, pardon came
for him. in due form, all signed by the gov
ernor, and properly countersigned. There
was nothing to be done but iberate the pris-
oner and he walked out. But he had not
been gone long before the .jailer discovered
that the prisoner had managed through his
friends, to get blank pardon from the gov
ernor's Office had filed it out himself, and
cleverly forged the signatures, and had then
passed it out to his friends again, to be mail
ed to the jailer in proper shape. The clever
forger had not got far enough away to es-
cape and he was arrested and sent back to
prison. He employed a young New York
lawyer whose name Is famihar through the
fame of his father. and told him the story.
They have no right TO lock you up again,
said the lawyer, having once liberated you,
without proving that the pardon Is forgery.
| can get you out. but it will cost you $500
Go ahead, said the forger. The lawyer
went ahead, gained his case, and liberated the
prisoner. 1 am going out West immediate
IT,, said the forger, as soon as he was free.
My father is a wealthy man, owns thirty
thousand dollar farm in Kansas, and he has
Just sent me this letter, begging me to come
home and lead an honest life. and telling me
to draw on him for $1,000 to pay my bills,
am his only son, and ] have almost broken
his heart but this life is coming to an end /;
shall settle down on my fathers farm aud
be an honest man, and he showed the letter,
pathetic production from an afflicted pa
rent 1 shall need $1,000 Of the money to
pay some little bills, continued the forger,
'and here is q draft have made on my father
for the $1,000. If you can give me check
for $1,000, l will give you the draft, and will
send YOU the other $500 as soon as l get
home The lawyer read the letter carefully,
drew Il check for $1,000 and handed it to his
client, and received the draft for $1,000
About ten days after the draft was deposited
in bank for collection it came back, with
the message that the man on whom it was
| drawn had been dead for eight years, and
wasn't worth cent when lie was alive"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21

A STRANGE CAREER. The life of Mrs. Mar
garet L. Eaton, widow of Gen. Eaton, Sec
retary of War in President Jacksons first
Cabinet) which closed at Washington ten
days ago, was as romantic and dramatic as
any novel or play She survived all the ac-
tors in the strange tragi-comedy, of which
she was for a good while central figure,
having completed her eighty third year some
months ago. She had been thrice married,
and it would be hard for any woman to make
more distinctive marriages, Her first hus-
band was purser in the United States Navy,
Her second was Gen. Eaton, Ian intimate
friend of her previous husband, about whom
and herself there had been so much unpleas-
ant gossip that the wives of the other mem
bers of the Cabinet refused TO recognize her
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
Miscellany.
Lines written on the Death Of william
VI. Hunt.

Lines Written on the Death OF william
N. Hunt,
AND READ AT HIS FUNERAL ny REv. !. n GREEN, BRA1-
TLKBORo, VT, SEPT. IL, 10
oh Lord our God Of LifO and Death the regnhnt
King,
Before thy mandate, awed but hopeful still, we bow
Within the circle Of thy loving will are all:
Nor here, nor there, can any go beyond thy love
But oh, (our weakness pity Lord) hearts sad.
soul Of wondrous worth and royal powers here
Lent for day too brief, too brief, alas for us;
soul twas privilege to know, twas good to love:
Back to the mystic Of life that soul has gone
All that is left to US, tho dear, is feless clay.
No moro the genial smile shall play around these
lips,
The subtle beauty of the human form no more
Shall these dun Orbs behold, or these cold fingers
paint;
The music Of his captivating speech is Btiled,
And all that made him brother and loving friend
Has gone where our dun sense never hope to
reach.
But blessed be thy gracious love, our Father, God,
Thy faithful messenger Of Truth and Grace thy Son.
Hath couched our eye Of faith, souls see be-
yond;
In spite Of doubt and fear in peaceful trust and hope
We yield our loved ones to thy messenger Of death,
Assured that there here, Thou, loving Father art
And so, tho grieyed and sad, part with friends
to-day,
We live In hope to meet them on the other shore,
Where death can enter not, and We shall part
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
FoX's Martyrs-Poultry.

Important if true-a wife.
The hackman's business is driving,
The Chinaman is not the only All Sin
the country
Pumpkin pies are cut bias this season and
scalloped on the edges.
What kind of men is it that must always
"have their glass" before they begin days
work Glaciers
1t is wonderful how silent a man can be
when he knows that his cause is just, and
how boisterous when he knows he is in the
wrong.
The just published report of an Irish be-
nevolent society says Notwithstanding the
large amount paid for medicine and medical
attendance, very few deaths occurred during
the year"