Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-04
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Just been incarcerated in the Lavacca County
Prison for altering the mark on hogs EAR.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson is circulating
tract which shows that the people of the
United Statespay over 500, 900 600 II year for
spirituouB and fermented liquors, and only
S9j, 800, 900 for education and $iS 900
for religion.
The Jews at New York are divided on the
Sabbath question Many of the younger
business men among them, who find that the
closing of their houses on Saturday is an in
jury to their business, are in favor Of substi-
tuting Sunday for Saturday as the Sabbath
for rest and worship.
A humane writer recommends fishermen
to kill fish as soon as they are taken out of
the water by giving them n smart rap on the
head. This for humanity's sake. But fish
quickly killed are far superior in flavor to
those which are left to slowly gasp away
their lives.
A wooden doll William Penn brought
over from England as a present to one of his
girls is still cherished by a Washington fam
lily. 1t is known as Letitia Penn, the name
of the great Quakers daughter, and is a fad
ed beauty, - inches high, without joint in
its body.
-"What must people do in order to go to
heaven Z" asked a Sunday school teacher of
her youthful class the other day. ''Die, l
suppose" was the prompt reply of little
mite and the teacher questioned her no fun
ther.
The great cost of the cashmere shawls is
due to the fact that the long silky hairs of
which they are made has to be separated by
hand from the finer matted wool with which
they are mixed, the fine wool being the
growth close to the skin of the goat.
IIo11a,,A ,,rn1,,n.a u, coon aF q,
bacco per annum, which is exported chiefly
to Austria, Italy and Germany. 1t is used
largely for the outside of cigars, and COM
mands almost as high prices as the best Hava-
ma brands.
The Canadian crops are all in splendid
condition. and the harvest will be bountiful
one. The hay crop will be unprecedentedly
large, wheat. oats and barley above the aver
age, and fruit at least an average. The pota-
to crop has thus far escaped the ravages of
the Colorado beetle.
The railroad suspension bridge at Mag
ara Falls is to have its woodwork replaced
with steel except the flooring and ties, less
ening its weight about POO tons and adding
greatly to its beauty. The work is to cost
$50, 900 and is to be finished by the first of
November without interfering with the run
ming of trains or travel on the carriage way.
-Chas. Dickens's beloved dhome-the dream
of his youth, the delight of his prime Gads
Hill Place. is now for sale. He bought it for
$500, but improved it so much that it will
now bring five times that sum. When he
died, a reserve price of $50 600 was put on
the property at which price it was secured
by his eldest son Charles, who now offers it
to the highest bidder.
-Apropos of the Rev. Kalloch's candidacy
for the Mayoralty on the Kearney ticket in
San Francisco, the Philadelphia Times re-
calls the fact that Pittsburg (Pa.) once dis
graced herself by electing Barker, the Dennis
Kearney of that day, as Mayor when he was
serving term in prison, and Gov. Johnson
had to pardon him out to allow of his inau-
guration.
Confession may be good for the soul, but
James Burns of Gainesville, Ga, vainly tried
all his life to convince his neighbors that he
murdered man. He had no means of prov
ing his guilt, and worked two years collect
ing evidence against himself. When he made
his final death bed confession the other day,
he was finally believed to have told the truth
Seven years ago there was not Protes-
tant church in Japan now there are 43, with
a membership of 100. There are, besides
40 preaching places, 30 boarding and day
schools, "a Sunday schools with 1000
scholars and three theological schools
with 10. students. The number of
missionaries is 81, the number of native as
sstant preachers 95, and the number of or
dained native pastors ten.
Edgar D. Thomas of Providence went to
Valley Falls, Il. l., one night last week, call
ed at the house of his father-in-law, asked to
see his wife who had refused to live with him,
aud having had an interview with her he shot
her in the head, the ball entering the mouth,
passing through the tongue and palate and
probably lodging in the muscles of the neck.
The wound is not necessarily fatal. The hus-
band escaped.
The London East India company, being
made up of merchants, saved every bit of pa
per bill memorandum and what not from the
start in 1899. This accumulated mass of
paper" covering nearly four centuries, has
just been turned over to an English scholar,
Dr. Birdwood, for inspection, and he is un-
earthing host of curious things. He finds
that this company, out of which sprang the
great Anglo-Indian empire of to-day, was Or
ganized because the Dutch raised the price of
pepper from three shillings pound to six.
A wonderful cave has been discovered
near La Crosse, Wis, on the farm of David
Samuels. 1t is 30 feet long by s wide, and
its walls are covered with hieroglyphics and
rude carvings of men, animals and various
Indian implements. The cave had been COW
eTeu long ago viii a lhuu-Slut, anu Tue num-
Der of coons caught at a small hole left open
led to the search for the cavern where they
hid poplar Is inches in diameter had
grown out of the land slide and rotted away,
which is considered conclusive proof that
men have not occupied the cave during the
last century or so.
The invention of Prof Royal f. House.
of Binghamton, n Y, will if it accomplshes
all that is claimed for it, revolutiOnize the
transmission of telegraphie intelligence. By
means of machinery. he claims TO be able to
send messages quicker and cheaper than by
the old or Morse method, and with absolute
accuracy. The presence of an operator, at
the other end of the line, TO receive the mes
sage, is not necessity, as an automatic in
strument will record whatever is sent, and
prevent the error of copying. Again, mes
sage can be transmitted to one or all the sta
tions ON the line, and one or all may know
the contents as the operator may elect.
The British Islands, with a coast line of
1892 nautical miles, have 455 lighthouses,
harbor aud local lights, and 5S lghtships.
The United States has a coast line ON both
oceans of about $500 miles, with 5000 on the
lakes. For these she had at the beginning Of
1873 provided 655 lights There are 5000
miles of inland river navigation, for which
there were sos lights, besides lghtships and
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5000 buoys. The cost of this work of pro-
lection reaches about two millions and half
each year. In this country, as in France, it
is freely paid for by the whole people for the
benefit of the whole people in England tolls
are levied upon shipping.
One of the most extraordinary natal
events on record has recently occurred in
South Australia, where five children have en-
tered the world at one birth, and bid fair to
remain, as all are strong and healthy. The
The father is German settler named Jacob
Schuler, and the mother weighs PA pounds
and is six feet four inches high, and has be-
fore given birth TO twins and triplets. The
CONSERVATION of the father on seeing the last
wholesale addition to his family was most lu-
dicrous TO witness He sat stupidity down.
and gazed mechanically from one child to the
other, calculating at intervals, 'Mein Gott
Mein Gott !" as expression of his emotions
A contribution for the family has been started
in the colony, and has already assumed gen