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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31
HITS AND MISSES.

Unmarried ladies of uncertain age are said
to be interested in marry time events.
Boatmen never row with their roars of
laughter, though they are usually merry
blades.
Another young man missing. But then the
sleighing and moonlight naturally turn q
young mans fancies to thoughts of love.
The irony of the law is shown when black
smith is sentenced for forgery.
When man gets bald in Colorado they say
his head has got above the timber line.
There is believed to be only one thing slow
er than molasses in January and that is a la
dy making room for another lady in street
car
When you can't remember what your wife
told you to bring home, get hair-pins. They
are always handy in the house.
A gossip ought not to rank as the equal of
a sagacious clam; for the clam knows TO
nicely when TO shut up, but the gossip does
not.
How do you make a Maltese cross ?" was
the question before the institute And one
of the school-marms answered; Tread ON
her tail.
Pants for s. ?" said eedy-looking man,
reading the sign in the window of a clothing
store he was passing-"so do /. never pant
ed so for 50 in all my life"
physicians little daughter, called upon
for a toast, gave The health of papa and
mamma and all the world" But she sudden
ly corrected the sentiment, mot all the
world, for then papa would have no pa
tients."
Hostess Whispering to distinguished
amateur)-'I want you to sing next" Dis
tinguished amateur (whose voice is not quite
what it used to be)-"I thought l wasn't to
sing till quite the end" Hostess "Ycs-but
there are not ices enough, and want some of
the people to 60"
A great many years ago poor beggar ex-
planned his ragged appearance by observing
Il have no money to buy new clothing, and
mend can't" And his class have been call
ed mendicants ever since.
The dreadful peryersity of types is again
illustrated by the case of a sentimental novel
ist who, describing his heroine as one who
always kept modestly in the background"
was Mortified to find it recorded in print that
she always kept modesty in the back
ground"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

The CALENDAE-OL STYLE AND NEw.-A
little less than 300 years ago yesterday would
Lave been the first of the new year (under
the old style. The arrangement which makes
New Years Day come n week aft r Christ
mas Day dates from 1852. Up to thattime the
Julian Calendar, by which dates were regu-
lated throughout Christendom. assumed the
solar year to contain 800 days 6 hours the
Gregorian Calendar made the year consist Of
800 days , hours - minutes, an estimate that
differs only few seconds from the true val
ne. and this error Is compensated for by the
institution of leap year. Notwithstanding the
almost perfection of the calendar introduced
by julius Caesar 4G b. c., it involved an an
nual error Of II minutes. a difference which,
after the lapse of CPS years, had grown to
the portentious one of ten days. If this had
been allowed to 90 on, the time would have
come when the months would no longer have
concluded with the season. December would
have fallen in autumn, the month of May
have been most dismal instead of merry,
June have retrograded into midwinter. and
Christmas have been celebrated in the dog
days After consultation with the leading as
tronomers and mathematicians of the age
Pope Gregory MI. brought out q new calen-
dar, which is the one now in use in all coun-
tries except Russia. This change was made
Oct. II, l"s2 but England clung with such
fervor to her Protestant principles that she
continued the use of the old style until 1852.
The last Protestant country to abandon the
Julian calendar was Sweden. The Eastern
or Greek Church still refuses to adopt the
new style, although we believe steps have
been taken looking toward a change in this
respect. Owing to the year 1900 not being
considered as leap year, the difference be
tween the styles is now II days, so that yes
terday was the beginning of the new year in
Russia " y Times, Jan. II.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31
Miscellany.
The WIND and the Moon.

The Wind and the Moon.
Said the Wind to the Moou 81 will blow you out.
You stare
In the air
Like ghost in chair;
Always looking what am about:
hate to be watched; will blow you out
The Wind blew hard, and out went the Moon
So, deep
On a heap
OF clouds, to sleep,
Down lay the Wind, and slumhered soon,
Muttering low "Iye done for that Moon"
IL turned in hi bed: she was there again
On high
In the sky
With her one ghost eye
7 Moon shoue white and alive and plain.
said the Wind, "I'll blow you out again.
The Wind blew hard aud the Moon grew dim.
'With my sledge
And my wedge
have Knocked OF her cdrcl
II only blow right fierce and grim,
The creature will soon be DINNER than DIM"
He blow aud he blew and She thinn,d to thread.
zone pun
Morc's enough
To blow her to suunl
One good puff more where the last was bred,
And glimmer, gmmcr, glum will 60 the thrtadH
He blew great blast, and the thread was gone;
In the air
Nowhere
Was mouubeam bare;
Far on and harmless the sky stars shouc:
Sure and certain the Moon was gone!
The Wind he took to his rcvels once more;
On down,
In town,
Like merry mad clown,
He lcaped and halocd with whistle and roar.
"WhAts that2" The glimmeriug thread once more!
He few in a raEe-hc danced and blew;
But In vain
Was the pain
Of his bursting brain;
For still the broader the mOOn-scrap grew,
The broader he swelled his big cheeks and blew.
Slowly she grew till she filed the night
Aud shOue
ON her throne
In the sky alone,
matchlcsE, wonderful, silvory light,
Radiant and lovely, the queen II the night.
Said the wind, "What marvel Of power am II
with my breat',
Good faith!
I blew her to death
First blew her away, right out Of the sky
Then blew her in: What strength am II
But the Moon she knew nothing about the affair;
For high
In the sky,
with her one white eye,
Motionloss, miles above the air,
She had never heard the great wind blare.
Georf, MaSDodtid.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

GEN. "JoE' HooKER.-The third command
er Of the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Joseph
Hooker, is living in even more obscurity than
either Burnside or Mcclellan. He has cor
ner room in A. T. Stewards hotel at Garden
City, n. V, with servant in a room adjacent,
and there the old General who has paralysis in
one side and walks with some difficulty, sits
down with his secretary and reads works ON
military science and the memoirs of the va
rous Generals. Federal and onftderate who
have been publishing since his day. Hooker
is quite well of that is, he has an income of
perhaps $4,000 year and 10 posterity or
wife. He lives with young man who acts
as his clerk and groom. At the close of the
war he married lady of amiable mind and
excellent character and Independent fortune,
the sister of Mr.. Groesbeck, the Cincinnati
lawyer Not long after the marriage he was
stricken with paralysis His devoted wife
nursed him so faithfully that she broke down
and died leaving him her heir, and making
the old soldier independent for the remainder
of his broken days * Cor. Exchange
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

BABYLON Nor SO VERY DEsoLATE.-It is
usual for travellers to dwell upon the utter des-
olation of Babylon and to paint its site as a
strip of desert, especially woe-begone and un-
fertile. But they could not have seen it in
the middle of April. The date groves and
gardens along the banks of the Euphrates are
then things of beauty in their fresh spring
verdure and the plain itself is laid down with
crops. Irrigation canals cross it here and
there and give trouble to the horseman. No
grass grows upon the mounds, and there are
patches of the level white with the inter
which is to be found here as in other parts of
Mesopotamia; but the surface of the soil is,
on the whole, green and pleasant to the eye
The glad waters of the river flow on in the
bright morning sunshine, with palm and null
berry langing over its banks, drinking in it's
sap and life. The great city, which counted
its population by millions and filed the world
with reuown not yet forgotten, has disap-
peared under the dust of twenty centuries,
but nature is as fresh and iocund as when
Babylon was still unbuilt. - Gedrg. in
"IHr0ugh A@dtjc TuTkeyn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

A Blow AT THE MErHUsELAHs Every few
weeks the public prints record the death of
some man or woman reported to have reach
ed 40, 10, and sometimes l2O years. They
are also very prone to furnish accounts, pc
riodically, of persons who are still living Mt
astonishing ages-as great sometimes as 1870,
and even 40, We have even seen lately
detailed recital of negro in Baltimore who
had passed his one hundred and forty ninth
year. 1t is observable that all the persons re-
ported to have attained such wonderful lon
gevity are ignorant, humble, comparatively
unknown, and that nobody can, in conse-
quence, contradict or correct their statements.
They may think that they tell the truth
probably they do think so but very ignorant
people, odd as it may seem, do not, as n rule
know their age, and have no perception of the
passage of time. They are very apt to exag-
gerate. When they are 80 they imagine they
are over 100, and becoming objects Of curios-
ity, their vanity is stimulated TO represent
themselves much older than they are. They
tell their tales so often that they soon come to
have faith in it themselves, and they inspire
others with faith in il by force of assertion.
A large proportion of the AIethusolahs of the
day are negroes, who, unless educated, have
very seldom any notion of their age. We
never have any account of a man or woman
of intelligence or position who has lived for
l2O, 1870, or l4O years for men and women
do not reach any such age. The extreme
limit of human life is said upon good author
ity, to be l0j and l0G, which is altogether ex-
ceptional. The man who claims to have gone
far beyond it either deceives himself or 9TH
ers-perhaps both. All the stories in cireula-
ton of people more than 1O5 or 1OG are base
less, and even many of the stories of persons
living so long as this must be received with
allowance. N Y Times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31
NO. 5.

time. Everything went on as usual until it
approached Cucamonga Station. At this
point sand-storm of extraordinary violence
was Encountered. The train was soon Obliged
to stop. Superintendent Hewitt was at once
communicated with by telegraph, and n num-
Der of men were despatched from all quar-
ters to clear the track, but utterly without
avail. The train was delayed some fifteen
hours. When We state that the rails for n
distance Of three or four miles were covered
with sand to depths ranging from one to
three feet the force Of the wind may be con-
jectured. The simoom or sirocco, or whit
ever it may be called came whisiliug through
the Cajon Pass as though it were discharged
from a funnel. The incoming Yuma train
was delayed for an hour and a half through
the storm.
Some seven years ago n whrlwind poured
out of the Cajon Pass, which took snbstau-
TALLY the same course as the wind day before
yesterday. The line Of plain traycrsed by it
was about three miles wide, but it fortunately
stopped right at the edge of the celebrated
Cucamonga vineyard. For much of this
width the soil was shaved off as with knife,
being carried resistlessly over the Cucamonea
plains. Sand was piled to a height Of several
feet over the roof of the station of the old
stage company, making total sand drift of
over twenty feet high. The storm of the
other day must have been twin brother Of
that -Los IHgeles (CdL HeyoM, DE- y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

SHOOTING LOGS IN NEVADA chute is
laid from the rivers brink up the steep
mountain to the railroad, and, while we are
telling it, the monster logs are rushing, thun-
dering, flying down the declivity. They
come with the speed of a thunderbolt, and
somewhat of its roar. A track of fire and
smoke follows them-fre struck by their
friction with the chute logs. They descend
the l, 200 feet Of the chute in fourteen sec
onds. In doing so they drop 700 feet per-
pendicularly. they strike the deep water of
the pond with a report that can be heard II
mile distant. Logs fired from cannon could
scarcely have greater velocity than they have
at the foot of the chute Their average We
locity is over one hundred feet in a second,
throughout the entire distance, and at the
instant they leap from the mouth their speed
must be fully 200 feet per second. sugar
pine log sometimes weighs ten tons. What
a missile How the water is dashed into the
air Like n grand plume of diamonds and
rainbows, the feathery spray is hurled into
the air to the height of a hundred feet. 1t
forms the grandest fountain ever beheld
How the waters of the pond foam and secthe
and lash against the shore. One log, having
spent its force by its mad plunge into the
deep waters, has hoated so as to be at right
angles with the path of the descending mon
sters. The mouth of the chute is, perhaps
fifteen feet above the surface of the water
A huge log hurled from the chute cleaves the
air and alights on the floating log You know
how bullet glances, but can you imagine a
saw-log glancng? The end strikes with a
heavy shock, but glidcs quickly past for a
short distance, then a crash like the reverber-
alton of artillery, the falling log springs $50
feet vertically into the air, and, with curve
like rocket falls into the pond seventy yards
from the log it struck. -TlUckee Nc Re
publican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

A SPECIMEN B1r OF NoErHwEsrInS Conf
rLAcENcY.-l is within the limits Of candid
moderation to say that no region north of
Memphis and between New York aud the
Rocky Mountains, has suffered so little from
the late visitation Of cold rs that embraced by
IA radius of one hundred iHits from ST. Paul
aud Minneapolis as centre. In this section
the thermometer has ranged for week or
more between five and twenty five degrees
below zero but no individual, enterprise or
corporation has suffered the least pain or in
convenience from the weather. The clear
dry air Of our favored prairies has rendered
harmless a degree Of cold which would make
the damp winds of the lower lakes or sea
coast messengers of icy death. We have sim
ply exchanged fall for winter overcoats, kid
gloves for fur mittens, and gone on handling
wheat and cutting wood in the country, trad
ing and manufacturing in the town, without
a thought of complaint of the weather. Not
a single case of freezing has been reported in
St. Paul or Minneapolis. Only one case has
been noted in the country and that was a new
born babe abandoned upon a door step. Not
a single business enterprise has been hinder
ed or suspended. Travel in city and country
is facilitated rather than checked by frozen
roads, smoother and easier than the most
costly Nicholson. Not railroad train has
been stopped or delayed from one end of the
State to the other. So far As information
goes, not a locomotive has been frozen or II
brakeman frost bitten While not u train has
been delayed in Minnesota, there is 10 con-
tinuous travel between Chicago and the sea-
board Central New York cities are shut of
from the world thirteen locomotives cannot
bring a train into Buffalo it is death for
car load Of passengers to be caught out Of
depot and freight helplessly piles up III ware
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31
Owed IN Winter.

Go! get thee gone, Old Winter! / make bold
(Whe others praise thee) TO declare the truth:
Thou art tyraut, without Christian ruth,
Capricious, crusty, and "confounded cold"
Thou art a clustering blstering bullying wight;
A burglar entering every cottage door:
Borne by the rich and hated by the poor
A very rascal in a cloak of white!
Thou hllst the farmer with foreboding fears;
Thou bitest sharply at the school-boy's toes;
Thou reddenest e'en the dainty lady's nose,
And pinchest rudey everybody's ears
Thou makest TiUs without the slightest reason,
Unless it be to raise the price of coal;
And, buster as thou wilt, upon my soul,
Tuou art most unreasonable season!
,Tgbu O. Sdre-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

When the collection box threatens, an au-
dience would sooner dsperse than dis-purse.
A preacher in Kentucky the other Sunday,
becoming exasperated, paused in his discourse
to say Ladies' and gentlemen if you will
give me your close attention | viii keep
lookout on that door, and if anything worse
than man enters will warn you in time to
make your escape"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

of by a companion. When the barrel race
opens the contestants skate Mt full speed
across the rink toward number of hcadless
barrels. Partially sliding for the last twenty
feet, they cndeayor to dart through, but the
refractory barrels persist in rolling over and
over the miuor-like surface, while tho display
Of anatomical cXtremities is something re-
markable. Hdrpc,'s t6r FtJrudrB
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-31

A RAILROAD TRAIN STOPPED BY A SAND
SToRM.-Day before yesterday afternoon the
outgoing Yuma train left Los Angeles on
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-15

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
tl-Default has been made in the conditions of that
certain mortgage executed and delivered by Eliza
beth Oden and Thomas s. Odel, her husband, n ort-
gagors, unto Morris Lamprey, MORTGAGE, of date
November 49, A. D., 1877, duly recorded in the Office
of the register of deeds of the county of Ramsey in
A. D., 1877, in Book 47 of mortgages, page &c. as
mortgage. The said Morris Lamprey, deceased at
said county April Sth, 1879 interstate, and Eve Lam
prey duly appointed administrative of the estate
of said Morris Lamprey May It'll, 1879, by the pro-
bate court of said county, and has duly qualified as
such and is such administrative. There is claimed to
be due, and is due, at the date of this notice said
pv and the debt T;Fs
attorneys fees. agreed in and by said mortgage
to be paid in of foreclosure thereof the sum of
twelve hundred and forty.one and 65-1OO dollars
No action or proceeding has been instituted at law to
recover the debts secured by said mortgage, or any
part thereof; that said mortgage contained full
of sale and by reason of defaults in the cond
Nov, therefore, notice is hereby given that under
and pursuant to the power of sale in said mortgage
contained, and the statute in such case provided,
the said mortgage will be foreclosed and the real
sey, in said State, and described as follows towit:
Lots fve SIX seven, eight and nine in block sixty
-four, in West st. Paul, according to the original plat
thereof in the Office of tho register of deeds, in the
county Of Dakota, and also in the county of Ramsey
in said State and all the rents, income and profits of
said premises and every part thereof and oil the ap
purenances thereof, will be sold at public vendue by
the sheriff of said county of Ramsey at ten of the
clock in the forenoon on Saturday, the 9th day of
August A. d. 1879, at the front door of the old court
house, in the city of st. Paul. in said county and
State, to the highest bidder, to pay said mortgage
debt, attorneys fees and costs, by law allowed.
Dated June Oath. A. D., 1879.
EVE LAMPREY,
Administrative of estate of Morris Lamprey deceased
EDMUND r. HOLLINsHEAD.
Attorney for Administrative, st. Paul, MINI
june M-7W-Tues
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-15
BILL ALIENS PEACH BRANDY.

HOsu 1t SaUed HIM from Failure on His
Esco animation for Admission to the Bar.
At Chillicothe, Allen, in company with his
nephew, Allen G.. Thurman, entered the
academy for the purpose of supplementing
his somewhat fragmentary early education
in North Carolina. After two yeers of aca-
IDENTICAL instruction he determined to prepare
himself for admission to the bar. When 21
years of age he resolved to go to Ports
mouth and seek admission from the supr me
court. His subsequent proceedings are thus
detailed by correspondent of the New
York Times: "When he arrived at the
insignificant little building in which
the court was held he found it
filled With people, and with many
misgivings he noticed that several young
men who, like himself, were candidates for
legal honors, failed completely, and were re-
jected. Thus, contemplating defeat, he be-
came nervous and anxious, was hot and cold
by turns, lost all control of himself, and at
last. in fit Of desperation, rushed into an
adjacent tavern, famed for its peach brandy
and honey, drink just finding its way into
Ohio from the South, and, hardly knowing
what he was doing, drank nearly pint Of
the brandy. His excitement was 80 great
however, that the liquor only had the effect of
nerving him for the examination. H. re-
turned to the court house. In what seemed
to him an instant after he entered his
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-15
Proposals for
w ELLIS.
CRY CLERKS OFFICE,
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, July 5, 1879.

CITY CLERK q OFF1CE,
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July s, 1879.
Sealed proposals will be received at this office
until Tuesday, July Is, 1879, at z o'clock P. M.
for the construction of two drive wells at such
points on the fiat in the Sixth ward of this city
as shall be designated by the Committee on
Fire Department of the Common Council. Said
bids shall be made upon and subject to the
following terms:
first-The party upon whose bid the award
is made shall construct one drive-well at such
point shall be indicated by the said commit
tee, which, when completed, shall be tested by
experiment by the said committee and the
chief engineer, and if not found satisfactory,
nothing shall be paid to the party or parties
obtaining the award for these wells on account
of their bid, award or work.
Second-If the first drive-well 80 built shall.
upon such test and experiment., be found by
said committee and engineer satisfactory. then
the party to whom the award is made shall pro-
coed to construct the second we'll, which shall
be completed and found satisfactory by expert
ment and test by said committee and engineer;
achen and not before the said contractor shall
receive the amount of the bid upon which the
award was made to him.
A bond must accompany each bid in double
the amount of same for the faithful perform
ance of the work.
By order of Common Council.
THOS. A. PRENDERGAST,
1882 City Clerk.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-15
CITY NOTICE.
Change Of Street Grade
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
SAINT PAUL, Mimi. july z, 1879.

Notice is hereby given, that the Common
Council of the City of st. Paul will at their regu-
lar meeting, to be held in the council chan, Der
of the City Hall, in said city, on the 5th day
of August, 1879, at 1880 o'clock P. NJ, order a
change of grade on the following streets, in
accordance with, and as indicated by the red
line on the profles dated by the City Engi.
neer May 81, A. D, 1885, viz:
Western avenue, from Won Minden street to
Goodrich avenue.
Dousman street, from Won Minden street to
Goodrich avenue.
Douglas street, from Ramsey street to Good.
rich avenue.
Forbes street, from Pleasant avenue to Good.
rich avenue.
Leech street, from Ramsey street to Good
rich avenue.
Wilkin street, from Ramsey street south to
the edge of bluff.
Goodhne street, from Richmond street to the
east line of Winslow's addition.
Banfill street. from Richmond street to Dous.
man street.
Goodrich avenue, from Western avenue to
Leech street.
McBoal street. from Douglas street to Wilkin
street.
Smith street, from Douglas street to Ex-
change street.
Ramsey street, from Summit avenue to Will
kin street.
Profles indicating the proposed changes can
be seen at this office.
Official. By order of Common Council.
THos. A. PRENDERGAsT,
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CITY Clerk