Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28
EDUCA TTONAL.
A LIterarN CurIosIty.

The following exercise in pronunciation q
part Of which has already been in our columns,
is published this week by request, with sug-
gestion that teachers may find it of use in
their reading classes;
A sacrilegious son Of Belial, who suffered
from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances,
in order to make good the deficit resolved TO
ally himself TO a comely, lenient and docile
young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race.
He accordingly purchased a cslliope and a
coral necklace of chameleon hue and secured
ing suite of rooms at the principal hotel he
engaged the head waiter as his coadiutor. He
then despatched a letter Of the most unexcep-
tionable caligraphy extant inviting the young
lady to matinee. She revolted at the idea,
refusing to consider herself sacrifcable to his
desires, and sent polite note of refusal; on
receiving which he procured carbine aud a
bowie knife, said that he would not now form
fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an
isolated spot, severed his jugular vein, and
discharged the contents Of his carbine into
his abdomen. The debris were removed by
the coroner.
A correspondent adds TO this the following:
These particulars were afterwards discovered,
viz: That the young man having the bron-
chitis had taken large doses of quinine, and,
being harassed in his business, had gone with
vehemence toward the rise of hill with his
comrades to see his sovereign and his war
riors, and amid scenes Of rapine aud squalor
often amused himself by reading the works
of Ovid. II he had given up his vagaries,
accepted the truths of science, given prece-
dence to Matthew the apostle, or even read
the poems of Mrs. Hemans, or studied the
Elgin marbles and the antique Laoco0n, or
used the wings of IcRrus in his flight from
Delphi to Scutari, the discrepancies in his
life would have been less apparent.
sHIBBoLETH.
A sacrilegious son of Belial had q docile
squirrel with the sobriquet OF Yvetot, which
he placed on tho frustum OF cupola OF q
glacier, with grimy divan under its juvenile
feet. This son of Belial ordered an attache
of Pinchback to take carbine and shoot
out his canine teeth.
The legislature of New Orleans, sitting
without pretense of financial concord, passed
an act to quell the revolt arising from the va
carries of this cRlcimined sojourner, whose
squalor caused even the sagacious Ben Butler
to make grimace at the mirage presented to
his squint eye. In irony, they proposed
fiaccid chastisement at the museum.
A melee ensued. in which an interesting
missionary raised point of etiquette covered
with copal varnish and printed in italics An
employG, whose leisure hours were spent in
eating quinine from fuchsia leaf or gladi-
olus flower smote his coadjutor in the abdo-
men with gimbal This caused an exqui.
site vendor of benzine, who believed in
homeopathy and homeopathic phthisic, to
gibber and thrust dsputable alias at him.
In the mean time the son OF Belial was glib
beted while eating ferine giraffe; and as a
finale, the legislature adjourned because the
committee of finance had been accused of
plagiarism by nymphean innocent, dressed
in chenille, who made a chevisance for selling
pecans at restaurant