Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-12-23
IN GENERAL.


Texas now has 900 miles of narrow. orooo |
railroads in operation, as much more buiid- |
ing, and an illimitable quantity protected"
-Cotton-seed oil seems to be rapidly gain.
ing favor in the South for cooking, in place
OF lard, and one merchant at Selma. Ala. Of
fers II for sale for that purpose.
Two thousand Nova Scotians have died
OF diphtheria within year, and the Govern
ment authorities are becoming alarmed AZ its
ravages and are seeking means TO check Il.
"A farmer in blowing recently over the
site OF granary burned by Indians in 1855
in Douglass County, Oregon, found quanti-
~ OF wheat in good state of preservation.
Since 1910 the Atlantic steamers have
increased their average speed from S3 knots
to 1876 knots, or nearly double, while the
consumption of fuel per horsepower has
been diminished about 60 per cent.
The Virginia natural bridge has got into
the hands of company of which Gov. Cor
nell OF New York is president and railroad
is to be built to it and other improvements
made, with view to making it great pleas.
ure resort.
"A resident of st. Paul, Mimi, saws that
when he went there in 1861 there was not a
steam engine in the place, and that when he
built house five years later, he could not
find in the city the pipe he needed for sewer
connections.
Licenses to sell liquor in Nebraska are
hereafter to cost ZOO. There is hot and
bitter contest over the law, and the Liquor
Union has raised considerable money to con-
test its consttutionality and prevent its en-
forcement
The Prohibitionsts of Mississippi are
again active, and will try to induce the Lepis
lature at its coming session to submit to the
vote of the people at the next election pro-
hibition amendment to the Constitution of
the State.
-Du Chaillu M very fond of children, and
they are very fond of him. His limitations of
cries Of animals are correct, and he is good.
natured. To little boy who asked him to
pronounce his name, he said, ''Shall you do
or Du Chaillu." He is 46 years old.
Mexico is in the postal union, aud sends
letters all over the world for five cents but
the rate TO the people is 25 cents, and the
postmaster ticks the stamps. The purchaser
must be known to the postmaster in order to
get stamp at all, and then it cannot be used
at another office.
The Humboldt (Cal Times says that
man who was employed to hunt wild animals
that prey upon the sheep at Mr.. Hansen's
ranch, between Sept. l, 1879 and Oct %,
1881, killed lS1 bears, % psnthers, l51 wild
cats, lab foxes, 36l coons, coyotes, and 10
bald eagles.
Sir John Lubbock, who has made
special study of bees, says they can distin-
guish colors, and that they have a decided
preference for blue He reached this conclu-
sion by placing honey on pieces of paper of
different colors and depositing the paper on
lawn where the bees came for food.
The worst small pox report is from the
little town of Spring Hill, Mimi, which has
had 1876 cases. The people are nearly all
German Catholics; they had never been vac
cinated, and the disease ran for nearly three
weeks before anything was done to check it.
Thirteen hundred pounds of glycerine
exploded in magazine at Kinzua Junction,
Pa, the other day, apparently from sponta-
neous combustion. A forest covering nearly
three acres was torn to splinters, and a shock
like an earthquake was felt at great distance.
"A girl in Alliston, Ont, was heartlessly
Tilted after seven years of engagement, but
she didn't cry her eyes out nor call the other
girl names. She loaded some peppermints
with strychnine, and went and talked with the
young man in friendly way, and finally got
him to try her confectionery. He was pump
ed out, however.
"A Pittsburg inspector has brought Ia
light q new fraud. It appears that one bar.
rel of genuine oysters can be so increased in
bulk by proper admixture of lime and water
that 1t will sell for two barrels. The Pitts
DuEB nave not nebltAteu 10 aQO &c
their profits by this scandalous device. They
are to be prosecuted
I'm an Erie penn school, one day re
Gently, little boy being locked in an unused
room as punishment for some slight fault
was attacked by sewer rats, overpowered anC
nearly killed before assistance summoned by
his cries arrived. The terror and pain have
made him a maniac, and it is feared that ht
will never recover.
"A canary bird at Kingston, N. Y, imi
tates the notes of bobolink so exactly anC
with such liquid sweetness, that, unless seen
a person would suppose that bobolink wa
singing. This is remarkable, as even mock
ing BIRDS it is said, cannot reproduce bob
olink's peculiar liquid melody. The canar.
learned it by being associated when younl
with bobolink.
The opinion advanced by biologists oil
theoretical grounds that an enormous deposi
of salt reaches from the Luneburger Heide h
the coast of the Baltic has been establishes
by actual tests Borings have shown that on
branch of the deposit extends from Luneburg
under the Elbe, and across the Grand Ouch
of Mecklenburg and another in the direction
of the Duchy of Holstein, by the way o
Legeberg to Elmsboro. In one place tn
salt is more than 100 metres thick.
-Rebecca Bates of Soituate, Mass, VIII
will be remembered as long as stories of 1871
are told, died recently at the age of So
She and her cousin Abbie were the heroine
of the British scare" when hidden benin
the rocks on the beach, with fife and drum
they sounded the roll-call and struck terror +
the hearts of the boat-loads of troops tina
were going to land from the British man-oi
war in the harbor. Abbie still lives, aged 8
years.
The recent death of j. G. Holland hs
II. -
he was very much interested, for the estat
lishment of coffee-house in New York city
Several other well-known gentlemen were IL
terested with DR.. Holland in this enterprise
but the doctor had its entire management
None of the other gentlemen feels that
can take the necessary time from his bushes
to attend to its management.
"A Long Island woman, who was appa
emily about TO die, was very solicitous for tn
future of her children, and implored her hui
band TO marry her younger sister. He prom
ised TO do so, and the sister consented; b.
the dying woman, fearing that there might
some mistake about it, entreated them TO |
married at once, and, worn out by her in
portunity, they consented, whereupon the II
valid was SO contented that she proceeded
get we'll and now there are some very curiol
questions to be decided in that family.
"A Montana merchant advertises in b
local paper that he is aware that he is brea
ing in upon old customs by closing his sto
on Sunday, but urges that he needs one di
of rest in the seven, and firmly believes
the sacredness of the Sabbath He accor
inRly asks his customers to make their a
rangements to do their trading on week day
and promises to make the prices and qusli
of his goods the better for such an obserVan
of the Sabbath day.
One hundred COWS on q grand drunk
the astonishing report from milk farm ne
Berlin. In watering the COWS the contel