Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-05-06
IN GENERAL.

Emile De Girardin, the great French ed
itor, died at Paris on Wednesday, aged rs.
The New York worlds fair project ap-
pears to be on its last legs.
John Gorham Palfrey, the celebrated
historian of New England, died at his Cam
bridge, Mass, home, April 26th, aged So.
The health officers of Chicago have declar-
ed the lake water to be so charged with Or
ganic impurity washed out from the streets
and sewers, as to be fit for drinking only af-
ter being thoroughly boiled.
In Oregon it is penal offence for man
TO take drink at public bar without taking
out $5 license, and the newspapers publish
interesting lists from time to time of the men
who have obtained licenses.
In Germany the mischief done to grow
ing boys by the use of tobacco has been
found to be so great that the German gov
ernment has ordered the police to forbid lads
under sixteen from smoking in the street.
Levi Robbins of Copenhagen, N. Y,
aged 1O2, has just signed the temperance
pledge. There is nothing like forming good
habits when one is young. When Mr.. Rob-
bins gets to be an old man he will not regret
the step he has taken.
Statistics show that over $500, 600, 900 is
annually spent in Great Britain for intoxicat-
ing drinks. The total annual rent of cultiva-
BILE land is $24O, 600, 900, or less than half the
expenditure for beer, wine and spirits.
Col Fred Grant is to be president of the
Texas Western narrow-gauge railroad, line
660 miles long from Houston to Ell Paso, of
which AZ miles only have been built Cap
ital has been subscribed for the entire line,
and 200 miles are to be built, it is said, this
year.
The Maine prohibitory law, even II it
has not stopped drinking, has at least brought
considerable money into the public treasury,
81 residents of Portland having paid in near
ty SOS, 900 in fines since it went into force.
OF the sum two brothers paid $11, ,479.
The Galveston CTexas) News says:
''That immense bodies of fresh water underlie
a large portion of Texas is well known. 0c-
cssionally some portions Of it find vent in
rivers-like the San Marcos, San Antonio,
and others-which burst forth in full volume,
and, unlike most rivers, are larger at their
heads than their mouths"
AT Sunday school in Granville county,
North Carolina they have what they call the
Sunday school hens nest. 1t is hat with
straw inside, placed near the pulpit. The
little children who cannot raise pennies bring
eggs instead and put them in this novel con-
tribution box.
king Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands
nub DCCA ANCShCu WIN kEchb culuuuAhnn III
Japan, the Emperor entertaining him elab-
Orately. One of the delights provided for
him was military review Whereat the King
was much admired for his excellent seat in
saddle-though his martial carriage, it is re-
lated, was somewhat marred by the puny di-
mensions of his charger, an ordinary Japan
ese pony.
The Vienna papers record terrible death
which lately befell an artisan. The great
steam boiler in some works at Pilsen required
cleaning. During the operation a young man
named Kaczander, worn out with fatigue,
went to sleep In huge air-pipe running un-
der the main furnace. He was not observed,
and the masons brioked up the end of the
pipe, when the fires were relighted. At
night Kaczander was missed, but 1t did not
occur TO any one till the next morning that
he might have crept into the air-pipe. The
heading was removed, when the charred
skeleton of the unfortunate man met the hor-
rifed gaze of the searchers. Brieked up in
the air-tube, he had been slowly baked alive.
1t is reported that party of body y-snateh-
ers met with an unexpectedly warm reoep-
tion in Plain City, Ohio, the other night
Not long ago daughter of Russell O'Harrel
died and was buried in the cemetery at that
place, and a torpedo was placed in the grave
for the purpose of interfering with any at
tempt to remove the remains. On Sunday
night some scoundrels, or devotees of medi-
cal science as they would probably prefer 10
be called, were endeavoring TO steal the body,
when the torpedo exploded The ground
for considerable distance around the grave
was torn up, and the indications are that the
desecrators were injured by the explosion,
one of them perhaps fatally. A few more
experiences Of this sort would probably con-
vince the men engaged in this devilish busi-
Ness that tha aoianoe of ANATOMY can oct
along without rObbing graveyaria.