Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-22
NO. 16.
IN GENERAL.

In the opinion Of Mr.. Bereh there should
be one whipping-post TO every ten rum shops.
1t is announced that the revised New
Testament viii be offered for sale May 20.
The Boston Post thinks there is good reading
enough in the old edition to last till then.
"A Colorado man amused himself for a
little while by throwing his revolver into the
air and catching it. A local paper says that
it slipped and went of, and he died in two
minutes.
Wee Stone, Chinese laundryman at
Iifin, o., upon becoming naturalized made
the first use of his new privileges by ,beRin-
ming on the same day suit for divorce from
his wife.
In the south of France the nurses. when
asked why their babies do not talk, always re-
| ply, that the good Lord never permits chill
dren to talk until they have forgotten where
they come from.
Telephone communication was had on
Sunday between Bangor, Me-, and st. John.
New Brunswick, a distance of PA miles.
Every word is said to have been heard dis
tinctly.
"A statue of Baal, the God of the Philis-
tines which formerly stood at Gaza has re-
Gently been unearthed from its burial place
in Palestine and is for sale. The statue is 15
feet high and its estimated weight is 10000
pounds
Two men, who had married sisters left
Montreal for Australia II years ago, one on
the day of his marriage. The two wives are
still waiting for them to return, refusing all
new attachments, but never have heard from
their husbands
The pyramid of Pueblo, in Mexico is
larger than the great pyramid of Cheops, in
Egypt The latter covers only fourteen acres,
while the Mexican one covers forty acres of
ground, and was originally 600 feet high. It
is made of sundried brick, and is supposed to
have been built 1000 years ago.
Chancellor Crosby of New York says that
in the past thirty years he has investigated
the cases of thousands of street beggars and
had never yet found an American among
them. All were immigrants. He once gave
up an entire month to these inquiries looked
into hundreds of cases, and found in every
one "a foreigner and liar"
The rapidity with which news travels
over the world is illustrated in q letter from a
Ceylon missionary published in 'Life and
Light" She says the news Of Garfelds cleo
tion reached that island Thursday morning,
which was equivalent to Wednesday evening
in America, and thinks there must have been
many people in the United States who did
not hear the result as soon as that.
AT the late Brinley book sale in New
York, the Gutenberg Bible, the first book
printed with types, by Joannes Gutenberg in
145O-5j was started at $4,000, and finally
bought for $4,000 by Mr.. Hamilton Cole, a
lawyer Of New York.
Miss Hattie Duell whose obstinate refus-
al to take food attracted attention from all
parts of the country, died ON the night of the
10th inst, after fast of about forty-eight
days. Miss Duell was ffty-fve years old,
and was taken with the whim that it was her
religious duty to starve herself to death. A
post-mortem examination was made Not a
drop of blood was found. The body weigh
ed only 45 pounds.
Now that South Africa has measurably
queted down since the settlement of the Brit
ish imbroglio with the Dutch Beers, the
northern end of the Dark Continent seems
about to take its turn as an arena of warlike
operations. The trouble this time is in Al
geria and Tunis. Tho French, who have
held Algeria as a province ever since 1S47,
are menaced by the native tribes in Tunis,
aud are on the point of sending troops into
the Tunisian territory to put down the move
ment.
A new society has been started at New
York entitled the society for the prevention
of street accidents and the police have been
notified to telegraph all such accidents to the
rooms of the organization at "a Park place.
Among the prominent men on its committees
are William II. Evarts, Judge Noah Davis
and Surgeon Hammond. Its aims are to
make loans or donations to needy persons in
jured by street accidents, to prosecute offend
ers and to compel drivers to have lights on
their carriages at night and controlling brakes.
"A young couple living near Glencoe,
Iowa, met with peculiar experience during
the last snow storm in that vicinity. They
were living in little shanty under the hill,
which WAS nOverad in drift and tho buc
band dug his way out and went over to one
of the neighbors. Another storm coming up
he was unable to find his way back, as moth
ing of the house could be seen. 1t was three
days before they could find the house, which
was finally done by sounding with a pole.
They dug through the drift and found the
young wife as comfortable as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances.
Three families at Big Lake, Dakota, at
the beginning of winter decided to lodge to-
gether as q means of mutual protection and
comfort. Very soon their supposed ample
supply of fuel was consumed, and railroad ties
and telegraph posts followed suit. Next the
houses vacated by two of the families were
torn down and burnt, then followed the furn-
iture. Finally a neighbor started with team
of i've strong horses for the nearest railway
station for load of coal but two days later
was found frozen stiff in his sleigh, his dog
uehu, lying upon MIN, ana the nVe horses
standing dead in their tracks. With many
settlers the past winter has been a severe
struggle for existence.
The robbery of a jewelry store in Fulton
street, Brooklyn, the other morning had
certain features which must fill the inhabit-
ants of the "City of Churches" with admira-
ton for their police force. Three gas jets
were burning in the store all night, SO that,
as police sergeant said, the officer on the
beat ''ought to have seen fly moving in it !"
one policeman passed it on his regular beat
every twenty minutes, and another every
hour and a half; and private watchman
employed across the street was hired TO keep
an eye on the place. In spite of these safe
guards the burglars were able to pry a small
safe, weighing four hundred pounds, from its
place at the front of the store, carry it to the
back and there rifle it and then make a
determined assault upon the large safe there,
containing about 500, 600 worth of jewelry.
They had time to drill six holes through the
fre-proof casing, being baffled by the burg
lar-proof lining of chilled iron.
DEATH OF THE "WANDERING jew. ."-"Old
Alexander, the wandering jew" who for