Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-14
NO. 20.
IN GEN ERAL.

1t is estimated that seventy years and
Sl0O, OOO 600 will be required to complete the
excavations at Pompeii.
Gold is found in ffty.six counties in
Georgia, silver in three, copper in thirteen,
iron in forty three and diamonds in twenty
six.
The Khediyc of Egypt is said to have
caused q number of stones to be removed
from the great pyramid at Gheezeh for use in
building mosque.
AT the great iron works of Pittsburg, Pa,
they have succeeded in rolling iron so thin
as to resemble tissue paper, and ten thou
sand sheets are required to make one inch in
thickness
The son of the Burmese King, Theebau
for whom, last year, u cradle of gold was
made encrusted with diamonds, rubies, sap
phires and emeralds of incredible value, has
just died of smallpox.
Twin daughters of Mr. b. w. Cornell
sou, of Cherokee county, Ga. are represent
ed to be so much alike that even their parents
cannot tell them apart except by some dis
tinguishing mark in their dress.
California has about 100 600, 600 acres of
land, of which 81, 600, 600 acres are unsurvey-
ed. Not much over 4, 900, 600 acres are under
cultivation, although something more than
5000, 600 acres are inclosed with fences
Mr. Yoshida, the Japanese Minister, who
has just reached San Francisco on his return
TO this country, has sent to President Hayes
and Secretary Evarts present of forest trees
for planting at their homesteads in Ohio and
Vermont
The first needles made in England were
manufactured at London by negro who
came there from Spain during the reign of
! Queen Mary. He died without imparting the
secret Of his art, but it was subsequently re-
covered in 1865 by one Elias Growse.
Two South Carolinans, who have been
at law four years for the possession of bull,
are still at it, The costs exceed $1,000 ex-
elusive of counsel fees, and the bull is dead
Its hide has been stuffed, and is to be pro-
duced in the court.
Christmas in Melbourne, Australia comes
in midsummer, and the thermometer stands
at los degrees and over but correspondent
OF the London Times says that Australians
attack roast beef and plum pudding, in loyal
devotion to tradition.
Miss Louise Alcott has no regular study,
and is said to be Indifferent to her surround
ings when at work. She uses whatever pen
ink or paper is nearest, composes rapidly,
and writes in a free, back-sloping hand, new
er copying her MS, and rarely going back to
make alterations.
The surveying for the St. Gothard tun-
mel was so nicely done that although the tun-
mel is nine and quarter miles long the two
galleries were bored with such precision that
they met with a difference of only four inch
es in level and a lateral deviation of less than
eight inches.
If Edison is backward with his electric
lamp, lie is not by any means idle in other
respects The Western Union Telegraph
Company has just bought a new invention
from him for 800, 900. The whole secret of
this 500, 600 invention lies in a piece of
chalk
1t is claimed that when completed the
Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore will be
the finest and best endowed institution of the
kind in the world. The grounds cover an
area of II acres, and there will be 2S build
ings in the enclosure. For it and a colored
Orphan Asylum Mr.. Hopkins left S4, OOO, 900.
DR.. Mary Walker, the eccentric wearer
of male costume, has Just lost her father, Al
vah Walker, who has died at Bunker Hill,
near Oswego, n. Y, on his SD birthday
At the funeral the only son of the deceased
delivered long eulogy upon his fathers in
dependence of thought in secular aud spirit
ual affairs.
Iowa papers are telling little story at the
expense of young business man who went
TO Des Moines the other day with the inten-
tion of returning the following evening, but
his partner received a card from him stating
that he had missed the train. The peculiar
the train that the young man missed"
Gen Washington, in a letter which is
now published for the first time, refers to
Lafayette as follows: HE possesses uncom-
mon military talents, is of quiet and sound
judgment, persevering and enterprising,
without rashness, and besides these, he is of
very concilating temper and perfectly So
Der, qualities which rarely combine in the
same person"
l.
ace, 1t is said, communicates by a subterrane-
an gallery with the fortress of st. Peter and
Paul, so that in case of need, he may reach
the fortress in a few minutes and be in per-
feet safety The room of Emperor Paul l.
was provided with a similar secret passage,
but he was not quick enough for his assass-
ins, who murdered him on the threshold of
| the passage.
The happiest town in the world, inan-
cally, is Haltem, near Minister, Prussia Ow-
| ing to the value acquired by the town prop
erty, the citizens are not only able to defray
! the whole communal expenditure out of the
annual returns but are able to distribute q
large surplus each year among the citizens.
On the 3lst ult., and LIST inst, this years sur
plus amounting to II, 600 marks, was thus
divided among the inhabitants of this envia-
BILE parish.
Miss Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author,
a
ed to religious work. The profits of her book
the daisy Chain, amounting to $4,000,
she used in building a Missionary College at
| Auckland, n. H.. while large portion of
| those derived from The Heir of Redclyffe"
went to the equipment of the late Bishop
Selwyns missionary schooner, "The South
! ern Cross"
Gen Andrew jackson, few days before
his death, sent for Mr.. McCombs, Nash
will oh nd aiH fn inn
have sent for you to give you some instruc-
| tions about my funeral" "Hhen," says Nc.
Combs in a recent letter, 'as calmly as he
would discuss the most ordinary business
matter, he gave the most minute instructions
relative to it." few days after the General
was laid quietly to rest at the Hermitage.
An unusual wedding took place in the
New York City Hall a few days ago. The
bridegroom was John Sperry, a bOotblack,
aged 27 years. and the bride, Mary Broome,
aged 10. Some years ago the bridegroom
blacked boots in front of a small hotel, and
afterwards moved his stand TO Wall street.
! He became "a favorite among the brokers,
who gave him points" by which he profted
so well that he has made in speculation sew
eral thousand dollars. Prosperity has not
turned his head, however, and he still carries
| on the business of bOotblack.
A Joint committee of the Eclectic and
Historical Societies of Little Rock is discuss
ing the proper pronunciation of the name of
the State, with intent to discover whether il
should be Ar-kan-saw or Arkansas. The
members thus far seem TO be in favor of the
former method, modifying the sound of the
last syllable, however, so that the a shall be
sounded like the a in father, the final Sd5o be-
| ing considered too broad. No authenticated
method of pronunciation has ever yet been
! established.
| A singular discovery was recently made