Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-24
NO. A..
IN EIIAL.


Milwaukee is queer place. A woman re-
Gently froze to death there whose husband was
| killed by sunslroke two years ago.
The first execution that ever took place in
Alaska occurred on December % at Wrangel
John Boyd being hung for murder in the
presence Of 800 Indians.
Every tenth person in Hungarian town
of 20 600 inhabitants has recently been af-
ficted with diphthera and 927 have died.
The malady also prevails in Vienna.
Tuesday morning of last week a young
lady dropped dead at Brecon Mills, Ontario.
On hearing the news her lover committed
suicide, and the mother of the young lady,
on seeing her corpse also dropped dead.
Baltimore has achieved fame She has
built a City Hall for less than the original es-
innate, and has Fire Department that has
lived for year $40, 600 inside the approprin-
ton for it,
The round house and machine shops OF
the Atchson and Nebraska Railway at Atchi-
son, Kansas, were burned last week Thursday
morning. Loss about 500, 600.
The pathetic story, worse because true, is
| going the ROUNDS that n little girl, addicted to
chewing gum, lost control of her jaws and
they automatically chewed for two days in
| spite Of all efforts to control them.
South Carolina, with its two ono-legged
Senators, is outdone by Hillsdale county,
Michigan, which has lifelong cripple for
Register, a one-legged man for Treasurer,
| and one-armed men for Judge of Probate and
Hillsdale City Tax Collector.
An Onondaga County, n Y, Jury gave a
woman SS, 600 damages in a suit for breach
of promise of marriage, whereas she had sued
for only $4,000. Her counsel came TO the
! rescue, and informed the court that his client
would be satisfied with the original amount
asked, and the verdict was so recorded
At the recent annual letting of the pews
| of Plymouth church, the total amount of the
premiums received was $27, 1913, which, with
the rentals, Sl2, 743, makes a total of $4O,-
| 72l, an increase Of between $4,000 and So
600 over last year.
-Londoners are discussing a project for
| covering Regent street, their finest thorough
fare. with n glass roof stretching above the
! caves of the houses on either side, thus af-
fording complete protection from rain, while
at the same time insuring good ventilation.
! After dark the huge arcade would be illumin-
ated by electric lights.
A man and his wife at Bells Bend, Tenn,
were murdered while in bed one night last
week, and when the crime was discovered in
the morning, two young children of the muir
dered couple were playing between the dead
bodies, unconscious of the terrible crime which
a
is suspected.
Robert Robinson, Flordas oldest darkcy,
has just dried up" as his boy of - puts it,
in his l2Oth year, having come over in an AZ
rican SLAYER in l77S. When nearing the
| Florida coast Robert escaped and swan
ashore but blood-hounds found him out in
the hollow log where he had hidden aud he
lived to become the father of ten children.
Martin Bergin, the nineteenth Mollie
| Mcguire to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, was executed in Pottsville, Penn, last
week Thursday. No reprieve arrived in this
case, Just a moment" late, nor were there
any awkward blunders in the hanging, but
everything appears to have been done decent
| ly and in order.
The Kentucky central university museum
has received piece of sandstone from South
| Carolina which is as flexible as India rubber.
bending and stretching in any direction with
| out breaking. This specimen il the finest i'll
any cabinet, and is two feet long, two inches
wide and an inch thick. This ''itacolumite,"
as the geologists call it, is found in the Ural
mountains, and in Georgia and the Carolinas
| i'll this country.
Rev. w. F. Checkley the assistant min
lister of St. Paul's church at Toronto, Ont,
died the other day, and then it was found out
too late that he had been starved to death.
The congregation gave him but 800 a year,
and on this he had to support five or six chill
dren of his own, two orphans left by dead
brother, and an invalid sister. He was so
plucky and cheory, however, that his destitu-
ton was not known until it had killed him.
The story is revived that the body of A.
T. Stewart, stolen from its grave at New York,
has been found, handed over TO Judge Hilton
and safely placed away to remain until the
crypt is finished at Garden City for its final
To 70 IL hot Co. . tI,
authority for the statement, which is similar
to that made and adhered TO by the New
| York Times The additional statement is
made that Sl00 600 were paid and no ques-
tions asked.
New Orleans doctors are greatly puzzled
by the case of little girl who left Chicago
Dec. Is, when the mercury was two degrees
| below zero, to return to her home, from
which she had been absent since last spring.
The house at New Orleans had been cleaned,
kalsomined and frescoed when the family left
it seven months ago, and not case of yellow
fever invaded it during the summer, but, in
five days after her arrival, the child was tax
en- violently sick with the fever, and soon had
the dreaded black vomit, with all the other
usual symptoms.
John Norris, who died'at Petersburg, Va,
few days ago, was the last survivor of the
famous naval engagement fought by Commo-
dore Perry on Lake Erie in 1918. He was q
volunteer in the cavalry force connected with
General Harrison's command when COmmo-
dore Perry called for volunteers to man his
ship Mr. Norris was the first to respond to
the call and served ON the Caledonia, which
captured the British brig Hunter after a hot
fight. Several years ago an effort was made
TO gather together all the survivors of Perry's
victory, but only four could be found, and all
have since died.
One of the wonders of Iowa is the "Wall-
ed Lake" situated about 15O miles west of
Dubuque. 1t covers 2SOO acres and is from
two to three feet higher than the surface of
the ground around it, The water is thus con-
fined by stone wall 10 feet high, 10 feet
wide at the base and feet wide at the top.
This wall is constructed of huge stones, vary
ing in weight from 100 pounds to three tons.
while it is singular fact that there are no
stones in the country within a radius of five
or ten miles. There is no discoverable inlet
or outlet to the lake, and the neighboring
farmers are forced to be vigilant to prevent
the water from breaking through.
The London World tells the story of how
an annoyed musician revenged himself Zone
of the most eminent pianists in London hay
ing suffered much from the irrepressible con-
versation of drawing room audiences, devised
the other day means of giving lesson TO
the town. He arranged with his violin, his
violoncello and the rest that the music should
come to a sudden stop in the midst of the
loudest passage of the piece at given signal
from him. 1t was done. The bawling and
shouting voices were left, in the twinkling of
an eye, high and dry, as it were, upon shore
of silence. Joyous, clear and distinct above
them all rose a voice from the foremost seats
the voice of Lady --; We always fry ours
in lard"
A circuit Judge in St. Louis-Judge
Gottschalk-has lately decided that man
unable to read the English language is not
qualified to sit as juryman. In a case tried
some time ago touching note, the decision
was rendered against the plaintiff. From this
decision an appeal was taken on the ground
that two men unable to write or read had sat
on the jury, and the appeal was sustained by
Judge Gottschalk, who granted new trial. 1t