Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-15
NO. 33.
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crops from being grown this year.
| p r. Barnum says that eighty-four mil
lion five hundred and forty-four tickets have
| been sold TO his various amusement enter
| prises during the past forty years.
The "official" blessing of Pope Leo has
| been given to the DE Lesseps Panama canal
scheme. The Pope expresses the hope that
the canal will prove, morally even more than
materially, bond between the old and new
| worlds
About three weeks ago the large carpet
in the adiuster's room of the San Francisco
mint was taken up for the first time in five
years and burned for the purpose of reducing
the accumulation of filings The value of the
bullion obtained was $240O.
"A small pond on farm near Glasgow,
KY, which has no apparent outlet, and is
several hundred yards from n running stream
is, strange to say full of catfsh--so full that
| when the water is low the feelers of the fish
are visible above the surface and give the
pond the appearance of being full of grass.
The saving in the making of steel by the
Bessemer process can be figured down to a
nicely on every ton made, and the annual pro-
duct of the various civilized countries is pret-
| ty accurately known. From data thus col
lected it is estimated that in labor and ma
terial the world is gamer to the amount of
800, 600 600 year by using the Bessemer
process in converting ore into steel
1t will take three years more to complete
the work of Bible revision on which the An
glo-American committee has already spent
seven years The American division has its
Office at the Bible House, New York, and the
English division at the deanery at Westmin-
ster. A good deal of time is absorbed in the
exchange of confidential copies, and in har-
monizing them when there are differences.
A young elephant was recently brought
into the Court of Exchequer in London. He
was accused of frightening horse, and
thereby damaging young lady contained in
the carriage attached thereto, but his mild
and playful behavior in court, where he
amused himself by picking hats of the table,
convinced everybody that he did not mean to
do it, aud the case was compromised.
A party Of newly arrived Icelanders are
now in New York, and although it is the hot
test part of our hot summer, they have refus-
ed hitherto to lay of their national dras
Heavy Jackets hannels and furs that must
produce the most sweltering discomfort seem
to them more attractive than the lightcst and
most seasonable costume. When generations
run into Il thousand years the force of habit
becomes prodigiously strong, and this is a
quaint illustration of it.
A gentleman who called upon Hanlan at
Toronto recently, found the sculling cham
mixing cocktails and drawing lager beer in
his saloon at the foot of York street. One
can hardly help sympathizing with the elder
" Scotchman who asked the visitor if that
was Hanlan behind the bar. Upon being
told that it was the old gentleman remarked:
Its pity to see the lad there; it takes all
the poetry out of his glory ON the Tyne"
Mr.. Lincoln's thoughtfulness of the feel
ings of others receives new, but not needed,
illustration in a letter just printed by the
New Haven Palladium, which he wrote to
firm of photographers in that city, March IA,
1860. He said Your request to take q
Photographic likeness of me while in your
city was duly received, but at time when
my arrangements were SO made that / could
not call upon you before leaving. / would
have written sooner but the matter passed
out of my mind, and now is recalled by the
sight of your note. 1 beg you will believe
me guilty of no intentional disrespect."
Louise, Victoria and Maud, the young
daughters of the Prince of Wales, rarely ap-
pear in public in any but the simplest Of
dresses. They are sometimes seen with their
mother at the theatre in plain white linen or
cotton sailor dresses, with a little red trim
ming and they are often met riding and driv-
ing in neat sailor dresses of dark blue woolen.
They went with their father and mother to
the recent French Fair in gowns of plain pink
cambric, with sashes of crimson harmoniZing
with the pink.
Great Britain has on the stocks two steel
clad ships of war which are to be the costliest
ever built. The estimate for building each,
without armament, being $1,000, 600; about
one-third OF the entire sum yearly appropriat-
ed for the American navy. Each vessel will
mount four guns, measure o. 100 tons and
run lG miles an hour. They are to be plated
with 1G inches of STEEL but their lines had
scarcely been laid down, before a conical
Whitworth bolt of chilled steel had been sent
through steel plate ~ inches thick and by
the time these steel-clads are built the money
they cost will prove to have been thrown
away.
Mention was made some time ago of
phenomenally small baby which was recently
born in Ohio. 1t is still living at the age of
four months and lacks few ounces of weigh
ing five pounds. At It's birth this babe weigh
ed Just three-fourths of pound, and an or
binary finger ring which was placed on its
arm would 60 easily to its elbow. When two
months old it weighed two pounds, when ten
weeks old three pounds, and now at four
months il weighs five pounds. 1t is as per-
feet as any child can be, and is notably
healthy and good -natured. 1t is bright, and
has more expression in its face than usual for
babes at its age.
The yellow fever has its romance, Of
course Last year, when Memphis was being
decimated, DIR. Collins, young physician of
Cincinnati, very talented but disguised with
his ill-luck in that city, volunteered to go
South and attend the sick. He said to
friend as he departed, "Ill either make
name, or never come home again" He was
set to work by the Howard Association of
Memphis, and the first family he attended
was that of a wealthy planter, all the mem
bers of which he succeeded in bringing safely
through the disease, one OF the number being
a young lady. Then the doctor himself fell la
victim to the scourge, and the young lady
went to his room and attended him through
his illness. OF course such combination OF
circumstances ended in the marriage of the
young couple The father-in-law gave DIR.
Collins handsome interest in his plantation,
and he is now one of the rising young physi-
clans of Memphis and the efficient Secretary
of its Board of Health.
A short time ago a young man died in
Philadelphia who was populArly known, from
his swiftness of foot as Deer" His story
was singular one A few years since he was
a ragged shrewd lad, peddling newspapers
about the railway depots. One day he hap
pened to be on the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, when he saw an engine rushing
down the track without any driver or tender
By some chance it had been separated from
the cars and was driving on alone. The boy
knew it would meet an express train this side
of the next station. He had about four min
utes' start, and dArted down the track after IT,
The engine was, of course, not at full speed,
vet nobody but Deer could have won in such
a race. He did win was cool enough to re-
member the signal to the station-keeper nee
essary TO have the switch placed so that the
engine would be turned on to another track.
1t was done just two seconds before the ex-
press train went laundering by. Deer, for
this service, was granted by the Pennsylvania
Railroad corporation monopoly of the news
paper and book trade on its trunk route, and
from this he derived handsome income. II
was TO the boys GOODNESS, as well as to his