Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-21
IN GEN RnAL.

The use of petroleum in blast furnaces
has been followed by successful experiments
in its employment as fuel on the engines of
the Lake Shore Railroad.
A Paris urchin recently tossed q lighted
cigarette into cask of petroleum and then
put his eye to the bung hole TO watch the ef-
feet. 1t was his last experiment.
A.Inuohu,, supposed to ha,e been the
lost hy Columbus off Trinidad, August 1, l49S,
has been disclosed 10y the washing away of the
land by the water
A pickpocket was arrested at a Jewish
wedding in New York not long ago, and in
his pocket was found list Of his engage
mcnts" for the week which included church
service. public funeral, church consecra-
tion, a church entertainment and two political
meetings.
The latest scientific trade wonder Of the
blue glass species is the glass bed castor, which
iusulates you while asleep by confning your
inborn electricity, aud so cures all the ills that
flesh is heir to. All the old blue glass notices
apply to it, only substituting glass castor
for "blue glass
Miss Amy Hostetter, the daughter of the
dealer in the bitters which bear his name, late
ly married at Pittsburg, Pa, Mr.. Herbert
Dupuy of Philadelphia. The presents from
the brides father alone were worth more than
; 100, 600, and lie is said to have given her be-
sides as "A marriage portion $1,000, 600 i'll
United States bonds.
Francis d. Kerr of Baltimore, while put
ting bell into church steeple in Carbon
dale, Pa, recently, made misstep and fell
a distance of % feet He struck upon coil
of rope, and his fall having been partly brok-
en- by catching rope he escaped without any
bones being broken, although he was severe
ly bruised.
The Rev James Beecher half brother of
Henry Ward Beecher, still lives with his fam
lily near Beecher Lake, in the centre of wild
tract of country among the Catskill Noun
tains The house built by the clergyman
himself, is story and half high, with n
veranda fronting the lake, There is no road
nearer than nine miles, and the nearest post
office is ten miles away.
Iceland is progressing famousy under
the liberal Constitution granted by King
Christian five years ago, and elects its new
Parliament, the second, next year. Though
taxation is light, there is a growing surplus
in the Treasury compulsory education has
| been introduced and receives popular support
aud convenient roads are building through
out the island.
About five years ago the Etna Iron
Works, near Allegheny, Pa, made an attempt
to strike natural gas near their works. but the
eUOft WAS unsucCthblul. IAtS NIilltu uoNu
1900 feet, and there struck salt water vein,
which continues to run at the rate of 5000
barrels per day. The firm is now building
large salt works, which will be completed in a
| short time.
There is still living in Fulton county,
Georgia, an old man named Gregg who en-
| Joys the distinction of having guarded the
great Napoleon during his captivity on board
the Bellerophon, previous to his departure
for st. Helena. Mr.. Gregg, who is now 81
| years of age and in the possession of un-
| impaired faculties, was one of the British ma
rines on the Bellerophon, whose duty it was
to guard the cabin door of the illustrious pris-
oner and prevent intrusion.
Alaskan explorersreport one of the largest
| rivers in the world, the Yukon, as navigable
for steamers 2j0O miles. and at 500 miles from
its mouth it receives a very large navigable
| tributary The basin formed by the con
| fuence is 2t miles wide. The Yukon is near
ly as large as our Mississippi Indians are
| everywhere, and war between tribes is a fixed
| institution. There is snow for six months,
and without roads dog sledges find good trav,
cling Game abounds, and the Indians have
an easy life.
A lion tanner, M. Karoly, who has recent
ly been exhibiting before the public of Madrid
his powers over the brute creation, had fire.
quently performed with a boa-constrictor, the
huge snake enveloping him in its folds, but
never doing him any injury. On the last oc-
casion he ever appeared the boa had, as usual
wound itself round the performers body,
when suddenly it tightened its folds. The
spectators applauded, thinking it some new
trick, but Karoly simply uttered a groan, and
in one or two seconds was dead man.