Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-09
NEWS ITEMS.

have married since their husband died
"A single factory at New Haven. Conn.
made %, 600, 900 fish hooks during last year
Illinois builds one.half of the farm ma
chinery of the country.
The railroad across the ice at Montreal
was removed on Thursday night last. after
having been used through the winter with
out casualty of any kind.
There was q very severe cyclone in some
portions of Kansas last Friday night. Seven
teen buildings were demolished in the vicinity
of Girard, and several persons were killed
and many more wounded
Moody has closed his meetings at st.
Loals and goes to Leadyille, Col. with San
key for months campaign among the
miners, spectators and hangers on of that
mushroom city.
Lord Radstock, famous Irish peer who
has been doing volunteer work as an evangel-
list with marked success, has made a convert
OF Russian Gen. Pashkoff who has in turn
become an evangelist, and is creating quite a
sensation along the Neya by his sermons
Pashkoh is one of the wealthiest land. owners
in Russia, possessing vast estates in the Ural
mountains.
The total value of church property in
the country is placed at $500. 600. 900 Should
1t continue to increase in the same proper
ton As in the past, it is estimated that its
value in 1900 will reach the sum of SO 600
600, 600. or one-third more than the national
debt The ecclesiastical property in New
York exempt from taxation is valued at SllO.-
OOO, 900
-Canada's timber supply is being heavily
drawn upon, the present seasons Weld being
estimated at l,OG4, 900, 600 feet Some of
the finest forests in New Brunswick, Quebec
aud Ontario are being rapidly cut away and
New Bruuswick's shipments for January
were four times as great as a year ago Poor
lots OF lumber which brought only IS a
thousand feet in December sold for Sl3 in
January, and the demand exceeded the sup
ply.
The New York land and ocean telegraph
company has been organized to Law another
cable across the Atlantic London bankers
have agreed to take half of the 81 600 900 of
capital stock and an English company has
agreed to lay the cable and keep it working
for one year for $500, 600. The capacity of
the cable will be 20 words per minute, md
the rate Is cents per word or less than one
quarter the present charge.
Voting in England is carried on some
what differently from what it is in this coun-
try. Voting takes place inside OF house.
Small closets are prepared into which the
voter retlres and marks against the name of
the candidate he proposes to support. He
folds his ballot carries it to the receiving Of
fcer, who accepts the ballot if the person is
duly registered. As the names of all the can
didates are on one ticket there is no ballot
stuihng, and no chance to impersonate voters.
as every man is identified.
Tucson, little place of 5000 inhabitants
IN Arizona territory, which the Southern Pa
ciic railroad has just reached, disputes with
st. Augustine, Fla, the honor of being the
Oldest city in the United States. While a
landing was made at st. Augustine in 1912.
no settlement was established there till 1865
but Tucson was organized as a pueblo, or
Spanish town site, in 1912, nearly % years
earlier, and has ever since kept up its right
to the tract of land which under Spanish
colonial law is granted to an incorporated
settlement.
"A wonderful invention in the form of
self luminous paint is now exciting attention
IN London. 1t lasts for years, and exposed
Tor time to bright light it will shine for
eight or ten hours so brightly as to illumin- |
ate a room The government is turning at
tentlon TO the invention in the hope of utiliz- |
ing it in powder magazines Water does not
prevent it from shining. and life buoys |
thrown into the sea on a dark night can be |
seen at great distance. 1t is very cheap |
and can be manufactured of various colors.
organized at Paris, which proposes to put up |
clocks in the streets and houses, and furnish |
the time at a trifing cost per day. This is
done by pneumatic pressure, the air being |
compressed by steam engines and driven at |
intervals of minute through the cummuni- |
eating tubes, so as to move the minute hands |
the requisite distance at each pulsation. The |
company undertake to pay all the cost of the |
fittings, supplying the clocks gratuitously, |
and charging only subscription,
Chicago Is to have one of the biggest |
glucose factories in the world Chicago and |
New York capitalists have put $3.50 600 CAPT |
tai into the concern and paid 500, 900 TO |
start with for location on the west side of |
the South branch. Factories costing S3OO.-
600 and employing 700 men are 10 be built |
within year, and they expect to work up |
10, 600 bushels of corn daily into 500 bushels |
Of glucose. There are already nine of these
factories in the United States, which get the |
sugar from the corn by treating corn-starch |
with sulphuric acid, boiling the mixture, and
when the conversion is complete, eliminating
the acid by the addition of chalk or marble.
dust, for which it has great affinity The
sugary solution is then drawn OFF and boiled
down to the consistency required either for
syrup or sugar.