Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-17
NO. 81.
IN ERAL.

the same backwards as forwards.
A sensible lady is Mrs. Garfield. She
refuses to have her photograph sold or her
portrait engraved.
There is Chinese baby newly arriv, at
Cambridge, Mass, little Ko-Kun- Hua the
son of the Chinese professor.
"A young lady in South Carolina lately
hanged herself from modification at the de-
feat Of her father for the Legislature.
An Irshman, who was very near sighted,
about to fight duel, insisted that he should
stand six PAGES nearer TO his antagonist than
the other did to him, and they were both to
fire at the same time.
-Ex. Queen Isabella, now fat, ungainly,
but good .natured looking woman, drives about
Paris in handsome landau, drawn, not by
horses, but by four mules.
buddhism is rapidly losing its hold in
japan. Since 1873 in single district seven
ty-one temples have been diverted TO secular
uses. It is estimated that in the empire more
than 700 temples have been thus secularized
within the past nine years.
Of the 40, 900 colored men who emigrat-
ed from the South to Kansas last year, not
500 are now receiving aid from any relief as
sociation. This speaks well for their thrift
and industry 1t is fairer showing than is
usually presented by like number of immi-
grants from Europe.
The opening of the St. Gothard tunnel
will render useless the hospice on the top Of
the mountain, which was founded in the
fourteenth century. The ride through the
tunnel will cost only about twenty cents, so
that not even beggars will be likely to cross
on foot. The hospce will therefore be closed
in about two years.
--Vcsuvius has other dangers besides
streams of burning lava. A short time ago
| tho lessee of the Nesuvius railway was at
tackled not far from the observatory by three
bandits, bound, and violently robbed of mon
| cy and other valuables.
More than 500, 600 acres of land have
| been reclaimed from the water in Holland
| since the beginning of the sixteenth century,
aue the work still goes on at the rate of about
eight acres per day. Since 1850 the Lake Of
HARLEM has been drained and now the Zuy-
! der Zee is to be pumped out which will sur
| pass all previous endeavors.
A terrible tragedy is reported from Clar-
ion county, s. c., where young woman was
! brutally murdered with her unborn babes by
! three negroes one of them a woman, robbery
| being their motive. An assemblage of white
7 and co,ored men decided to execute the cul-
prits by Lynch law, and the trio were soon
swinging TO the limbs of tree.
Two hundred and sixty-six horses are
named that trotted in 2:30 or better in 1880.
OF these 1874 were new to the turf at the
opening Of the year, ~ reduced their previ-
Gus records and 60 did no better than in pre-
vous years. But the most notable event of
the year was the achievement of the unequal
ed time of 2:109 by the six-year- old Maud s.
| Twenty three horses now on the turf made
record of 2:3O or better during the past sea-
son.
In speaking of the recent annual dinner
of the old settlers of the Niagara Falls dis
trict, a Canadian newspaper says: The
knowing ones, after a careful inspection of
the falls, expressed great surprise at the al
teration which had taken place in the Horse
shoe Falls since their last visit. They say
the Canadian Falls have changed more this
year than in the previous % or 80 years. 1t
is known fact that the Horseshoe Falls in
the centre have fallen back some 70 to 100
feet
The people of Pensacola, Fla, have suf-
fercd n terrible visitation of fire, which con-
sumed seventy-fve buildings, comprising the
greater part of the business portion of the
city, all the newspaper and telegraph offices,
the total loss being estimated at half a mil
lion dollars. With characteristic American
energy the flames are scarcely extinguished
before the sufferers announce their intention
to rebuild and resume The result will be
|
lecture having disappeared from the heart OF
Pensacola a more modern and pretending
style will take its place.
Hon. William E. Dodge, President of
the National Temperance Society who has
been a larger contributor to the cause of tenn
perauce than any other living man, says there
is no greater error than TO suppose that the
work of temperance societies has been in
vain. He claims that in the past fifty year,
the cause has made tremendous progress in
every part of the country. Even in New
York the old practice of profering the glass
of wine to every visitor to the household has
become extinct, and he thinks the custom Of
''wining" guests on New Years Day is being
effaced, although the fashionable people have
become excessively extravagant in the use oi
rich wines.
The improvement of the public schoo
system of South Carolina, as disclosed by the
report of the superintendent of education fo
that state, and the spirit and purpose of tn
people in regard to it, as evidenced by the
tone of the press, are among the most hope
full indications of new and better order o
things at the South. Within three years th
: number of schools has increased 400, of teach
! ers 497 and pupils 3l,676. The averag
! length of the session is only three and one
, half months, a gain of but two weeks, but it i
promised that this shall be improved upol
q now that the large school debt, incurret
, prior to 1877, has been paid or greatly reduc
' ed, in many counties. The superintendent
, reports greater efficiency among school OF
ficers, increased interest in education anon
all classes of people, and better training AM
higher aims on the part of teachers"
= Wayne county, Pa, boasts Miss MeT
rill aged 1s, who can row boat, shoot
gun, or trap bear as skilfully as any man il
the county few days ago she started
, row across a pond, carrying her rifle slun
over her back, when she discovered an oh
ject moving in the water, and upon approach
e ing closer found that il was an immense five
pronged buck. She drew her rifle and fired
As she pulled the trigger the buck made
sudden movement, and the ball, instead G
. reaching its mark, entered the animals mech
making an ugly wound The buck, enrage
: at the pain, struck the boat with one of hi
c forelegs, shattering the frail bark. The boa
sank, leaving Miss Merrill in the water wit
= the infuriated animal. However, she wa
[. plucky and could swim. She grabbed tn
6 buck by the horns and deliberately DRAWN
s her hunting knife, she plunged it into th
. deer's neck, killing it instantly. She the
: swan to shore, about an eighth of mile
g When dressed the buck weighed over p
{ pounds. This is the eighteenth deer Mis-
9 Merrill has killed.