Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-24

Mr.. Oliver Ames, Lieutenant Governor
elect of Massachusetts,, although now q man
of great wealth, was trained to work and did
work for years in his fathers shops as a com
mon journeymRn shovel maker. The prof
cheney he attained as mechanic is shown by
the fact that for several years he alone made
all the prize shovels and other tools exhibit
ed by the firm at fairs, in this and other
countries His example is being followed by
his son, now twenty years old who daily
works at the bench and anvil
Mr.. P. S. Ellsworth and Dr. Kavet ply
sician of Erie, Pa, have made application for
a patent on a recently discovered process of
preserving the dead, supposed to be the long
lost Egyptian art They claim that partly by
accident and finally by experiment they have
discovered a certain combination of antiseptic
elements which, if diffused through dead
body even when it is in an advanced stage of
decomposition, will destroy all corruptible
matter and convert the flesh into a cartilage
nous state, in which it will permanently re-
main, retaining all the appearance of life.
Gen. Hancock's farm near Ssdalia, Mo,
comprises G60 acres All of the tract is high
rolling prairie, with the exception OF about
seventy five acres, which lie on a little creek
called Elm, and upon which there is a slight
growth of timber. The entire fence is en-
closed with barbed wire tract and there
are numerous cross fences Five hundred
and fifty acres are setin blue grass, aud the
remainder of the tract, excepting the timber
land is what farmers term pillow land. There
are two ordinary tenant houses on the tract,
but the General on a recent visit gave orders
to have a very respectable frame house erect
ed on a beautiful site. The General says the
greatest enjoyment he experiences is his
visits to this farm.
Charles Il. Vansant, who was killed on the
Pennsylvania Railroad the other evening, was
the hero of one of the most gallant epi-
sodes of the late war. He bore the colors of
his regiment at Balls Bluff, and when, during
the desperate charge, his Colonel was shot,
he bore him from the held and then returned,
amid hail of bullets, TO rescue the flag. Five
times was it captured by the rebels and re-
gained by Vansant in a hand -to-hand struggle.
At last he broke away with the flag and reach
ed the river. His enemies were at his very
heels, but he plunged into the water, dived
to the bottom, placed the flag there under a
stone and then swan to the other shore and
escaped. Afterward he revisited the spot
and succeeded in finding and restoring to the
regiment the flag he had so desperately de-
| Tended.
A very amusing trial recently came of in
the County Court at Brighton, England. A
uIeehmhheI houBht 70 IecoNet itOn u lhuy tne
sum of thirteen shillings for work done in
making a dress. The defendant testified that
the plaintiff had spoiled the dress, it did not
fit and could not be made to fit. On hearing
this, the plaintiff in an indignant tone, said I;
81 did make the dress properly, but the la
| dy has no figure whatever. How could l or
any dressmaker make her look like Venus,
when she has a frame like clothes-horse p
After the laughter had subsided, the defend
ant exclaimed "That is false have a
good figure my husband is in court ask
him." The judge did not do this, but decided
that the dress should be tried on and the
defendant, after retiring to private room to
put it on, sent back word that she looked so
badly in it that she could not come into court
again. The judge presumably took this view
of the case; for after seeing her a moment
he came out and gave verdict for the de-
! fendant.