Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-03-12
IN ERAL.

Iowa has passed law forbidding abso-
lutoly the sale or manufacture of oleomargar-
inc within the State S limits.
There are now 81 railroads centering at
Chicago, with a total length Of 15,2SS miles,
and 272 trains arrive and depart every 81
hours.
"A Boston inventor has made a machine
which makes 30 seamless paper boxes min
ute.
Slow as Kentucky is in some respects, she
has been ahead of most of the states in rec
ognizing women's rights Widows with chill
dren have been allowed to vote for school
trustees these 10 years, and the state has also
had a woman librarian for some years
American print cloths, cottons and cut
lery are making their way in the United
States of Columbia to the displacement of
British goods, being regarded as of better
quality. Our print manufacturers have not
yet succeeded in quite suiting the taste of the
Columbian seHoritds, who contrary to the
general impression, prefer dark cslors to
gaudy hues. The Mexican taste is just the
reverse of the Columbian.
The Emperor of Russia no longer wears
coat Of mail, but his carriages are plated
with iron, and such is the mysterious secrecy
with which he is surrounded that even the
nlOhl lIuhltu DOllCtlltu uTt lhlOIhul uhlA an
hour beforehand in what direction he is GO
ing The cook is watched at his work 10y
two special employees, and the kitchen door
is guarded by two sentinels The vands are
tasted by experts and only offered to the Gar
when they are convinced that no poison is
lurking in them. Fond as he is Of good ci-
gar, he is obliged, from similar motives Of
prudence, to forego the pleasure of smoking.
1t is rather a significant fact that cotton
goods manufactured in South Carolina are
now selling in New England. Manufactures
of cotton goods are springing up all over the
South, where new mills are exempt from tax
alton for ten years. The poor white trash
make excellent workmcn Houses are built
by the mill-owncrs, and free rent and the use
Of garden plot are the conditions of service.
The introduction Of manufacturing is having
most beneficial effect upon the people.
Boston capital is invested in several of these
Southern establishments,
The prospect of the construction of a
| canal across the isthmus makes timely some
recent facts regarding the Central American
states, whose population is calculated by the
Almanac Of Gotha at ., 4G2, 600. Guatemala
is the largest of the little republics. having
| LILO, 600 inhabitants Salvador, 43i, 900
| Honduras, 3jl 900 Nicaragua, 300, 600, and
| Costa Bica, 1s5, 900. From the fact that the
COrdllleras run very near the coast, principal
| ly on the Pacific shore, and that the popula-
ton is mainly resident on the mountain
slopes, it results that the culture of coffee has
| grown rapidly in extent, the facilities for ex.
| port, in the way of good roads to the harbors,
making a market always easily accessible to
the planters. Indigo is a profitable culture,
as is also sugar, the expectation of which is
| increasing
The ice-bridge across the st. Lawrence
at Montreal, over which the Southeastern
Railroad Company of Canada is now trans
porting its freight, is quite a curiosity. The
rails are laid on sleepers which are placed Oh
stringers on the ice. Owing to the narrow
place in the river below aud the rapids above
the ice packs in to a great thickness at thi,
point. which is three miles below the Nictoril
bridge, sometimes rising into consderabl,
hillocks and ridges. Engines and cars run
over with perfect security, and may contiuu,
to do SO for another month. 1t cost about
$4,000 to lay the track on the ice and, if tn,
material is not swept away and lost the cos
will be so much the less another year. A.
the company is obliged to pay eight dollars
car for all freight taken over the Nictorii
bridge, there would seem to he margin fo
profit in using the ice. This railroad trans
ports its cars in boats when the river is open