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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

His gross receipts are looked upon by
merchant with gross interest.
Good advice is about the only good thing
that people don't banker after.
good woman who hates tobacco gave her
husband morphine TO cure him of his bad
habit. The result was quick and satisfactory,
and her neighbors say she looks well in black.
Other people have thought it, but Beeoher
has said that in his candid opinion eighteen
out of every twenty Sunday school library
books are too boshy for any intelligent child
to read.
Louisville lady, seeing another inside
Mother Hubbard bonnet became exceeding
ly frightened, thinking she was in the pres
ence of a lunatic. When she learned that
the bonnet was fashionable she Immediately
ordered one.
A bear broke into the house of Nevada
man the other night. He was away, and his
wife thought he was coming home drunk.
She didn't stop to light lamp, but began OPP
erations When the bear finally got away, he
didn't stop running until he had got IL miles
into the heart of the mountains, and he was
such a sight that other bears wouldn't associ-
ate with him.
1t took Chicago doctor, called as a wit
ness, 40 minutes TO explain to the court how
a man feels when he's drunk. He could have
conveyed the information much more quickly
by inducing his honor to take one drink OF
Chicago corn juice.
Subscribers of the Boomerang who find
cross bones and skull, with crest of a metallic
burial oasket drawn in blood, on the wrapper
of their paper, will know that their subscrip-
tion has expired and that something has got
40 be done.-LGmarie boomerang.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

Queen Victoria, since the death of her hus-
band, Prince Albert, has always spent Christ
mas at Osborne, on the Isle of Wight. The
following narrative shows how she passes the
holiday season On Christmas eve and Christ
mas morning carols are always sung in front
of Osborne house, and the poor of Osborne
receive substantial gifts from her majesty in
the way of beef and clothing Barons of beef
and veal, boars' heads, game pies, etc, are
sent from Windsor to supply the larder. But
the Queen has no family party of her married
sons and daughters with her at Christmas, as
have so many of her subjects neither does
she have a large dinner party at Osborne
house indeed, her dinner guests rarely num-
Der above eight or ten at any time. When
the members of the royal family are present
at dinner they sit on either side of the Queen,
except when foreign royalty of higher rank is
present. When the lady in waiting or one of
the maids of honor dimes with the Queen, it is
by special command a message is sent on the
morning of the day desiring her to do so.
But there is no Christmas dinner party given
by the Queen to her household as many peo-
pie imagine. Neither is the gold plate used
at this season of the year, as is popularly sup
posed-indeed, it is only used when state ban
quets are given in the Waterloo gallery at
Windsor, and of which there have been but
few during the last 20 years. A portion of it
is also used at state balls and concert suppers
at Buckingham palace. On New-year's day
the Queen gives presents TO the members of
her family and all under her roof her gifts
include works of art, statuettes books, china
and other rare and valuable things, in addi-
tion to useful gifts. The presents are laid
out in a room, and her majesty is present
when they are distributed, while many she
presents herself
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

The RECKLESS BEE.-Au experimenter in
Southern agriculture told me the following
historiette of Northern bees in the South.
He took a colony of the little gratuitous hon
eymakers down to Florida. The first year they
revelled, throve and stored honey nearly all
the UNMARRIED summer time. But the second
year a few of the more reflective bees evident
ly turned the thing over in their minds thus;
"This country has no winter to provide
against; what is the use of laying up honey,
where the flowers blossom all the year roundY"
These bees exerted enough influence among
their friends to keep good many bees from
laying by any sweet merchandise the second
year of their exile.
But the prudential instinct so strong in the
little insect prevailed with the majority.
They evidently said to themselves Per
hal this has been an exceptional year Next
season may bring cold and snow and dearth
of flowers" So there was quite a stock of
honey laid by on the second year in spite of
few strikers. But by the third year the con-
viction had evidently thoroughly penetrated
the bee mind that it was foolish to lay up hon
ey in land of eternal blossom. They made
just enough to last from day to day, abandon
ed themselves to living from hand to mouth
as recklessly as does any tropic- born butter
fly Washington Gazette.
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NO. 81.

Father Vrooman, he's in your stocking
Who could have put him there !"
81 think l know" said grandfather, in a
very low, husky kind of voice but all the
Simpsons and Hopknses and Hardys broke
loose at that moment, and it took them until
breakfast.tme to compare the things they
found in their stockings, and all the other
wonderful fruits of that splendid Christmas
tree
Biah was lifted out of the bag, and he got
his stocking on, after it was empty. For some
reason, he couldn't guess why, all the grown
up people kissed him, and grandfather made
him sit next to him at breakfast
That was great breakfast, and it took ever
SO long to eat it, but it was hardly over before
grandmother followed grandfather into the
hall, and they heard her say:
Now, husband what are you wrapping up
so for, just to 60 to the barn ~
Barn Why, my dear, I'm going to town.
l told Pat to have the team ready"
"To town? Why, husband"
Mother, there'n be stores open to-day.
can buy cords of toys and candy and things.
When | get to the orphan asylum, to tell 'em
what's become of Bijah, and why he won't
ever come back there again, I'm going to have
enough TO go around among the rest of 'sm
I am, if it takes the price Of a cow"
Give em something for me-"
Uncle Hiram heard it, and he shouted "And
for me, and Uncle John followed, and all the
rest, till the children caught it up, and there
was a contribution made from every stocking
that had hung on that Christmas-tree. They
all gave just as fast as they understood what
it was for, and the last one to fully understand
was Bijah.
you amt going to take me?"
His lip quivered little.
mo, Bijah not unless you want to go.
Wouldn't you rather stay here?"
Course 1 would"
That was not all, for both his hands we're
out, holding up the store of things which had
come to him that morning, and he added:
Take en-"
Something was the matter with Grandfath-
er Vrooman's beard again, but he told Bijah
he could get plenty of other things in town.
keep EN-, Bijah. Good-by, all of you.
I'll be back in time for dinner. Children, you
and Bush must be kind to Bijah He came
to us on Christmas morning, and he has come
to stay"
Bush and the children did their part, and
so did all the rest, and so did Bijah and SO it
was a perfect Christmas. .-Harper's Young
PeODLe
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

THE True CHRISTMAS, like the kingdom of
Heaven, of which, indeed, it is part, is within
us. Ii is the hour of charitable thought and
active service. 1t is our season of vision, when
eyes are snointed to see how beautiful thing
is happiness, and how easy it is to bestow it.
To most of us, indeed, an underlying sadness
must deepen little by contrast with the ex-
ternal Joy. We think of those past Christ
masses of our youth, each of which in turn
was to have seen us great, or rich, or famous,
or noble or happy, with the fulfllment of
some desire which was never to be satisfied.
We think of the friends whose greeting was
the best of Christmas to us, and whose voices
we shall no more hear. Filling the childrens
stockings, we long unutterably for the child
who was TO grow up only in the life to come.
But these aspirations, ambitions, loves, are
not dead. Let us not try to forget, but give
them all place at our Christmas fire. rich,
very rich, in what we have richer in what We
fancy we have lost.-Harper's BGsar.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

tAs told by the n. Y TriOunes Broadway Lounger.l
Henry Wilson once said TO me of both
Conklng and Fenton: They are smart men
in their way, but you will not find their
names iu the archives of the country, among
the public acts, in laws, progress and the
transforming of this from provincial to a
free national society, like the two Vermont
senators, Edmunds aud Morrill,, who make
the best state delegation of our period in the
Senate"
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The best thing Congress can do with the
whisky and tobacco taxes will be to let them
severely alone. What the people want is re-
lief from some of the petty but burdonsome
internal revenue taxes that were imposed
twenty years ago on account of the dire ne
cessty of the government. but they do not
want legislation in the interest of whisky dis
tileries and tobacco manufacturers. If the
congressman will sense this and act accord
inglY they will show good nractical wisdom.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

The CHANNEL TUNNEL.-In spite of the
recent opposition to the Channel tunnel on
the English side, work seems to be going for
ward rapidly at the French end. In fact, ac-
cording to English journals of November 2j,
unusually rapid progress had recently been
made. Starting from Sandgate, the French
company had bored to distance of 467 yards,
and was making a fair average daily advance
ment. In the early part of the work they ex-
perienced difficulty from the water they en-
countered in boring through the gault, but
they had now got to the grey chalk, and the
temporary dislocation had been overcome, so
that their greatest engineering difficulty was
now thing of the past At the English end
the work is practically abandoned.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

Oh, wonderful beyond compare!
What tongue can ever tell
The mystery of childhood fair,
Gods hourly miraclel

Oh, wonderful beyond compare!
What tongue can ever tell
The mystery of childhood fair,
Gods hourly miracle
A newborn babe, whose feeble cry
Is still its sole defense,
Rests meath its mothers watchful eye
In helpless innocence.
Yet, when few short years have sped,
That child, to manhood grown,
Perchance may lift kingly head
Aud make the world mis- thronel
Thus Moses in his fragile ark,
Afioat on Niles swift tide,
Bore freedom DER the waters dark,
And Egypt's power detied.
Thus mid the flocks Of Palestine
Sweet slept the psalmist king,
Whose songs, aglow with grace divine,
Fen yet the nations sing.
Thus, Graded on sweet Mary's breast,
The Mother meek and mild,
By hands of tenderest love caressed,
The iufant Jesus smiled.
And thus, from day to day, the earth
Receives her noblest sons;
And by the mystery of birth
God sends his chosen ones.
Oh, wonderful beyond compare!
What tongue can ever tell
The mystery of childhood fair,
Gods hourly miracle!
III. ". H., in Unitarian Herald
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

while Lieutenant Wissmann pressed east.
ward. He has thus made the trip in re-
markably short time. DIR. Pogge was to re-
main at his post for some weeks, when if no
message came from the German African So
city, he would return to the coast.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22

A German arithmetioian has been calculat-
ing the aggregate number of combinations in
the game of domnoes, and finds them to be
24S, 52S, OIL, $40, Two players, playing four
games a minute, would only exhaust these
combinations in us, 200, 900 years.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe expects to pass
the coming winter on her plantation at Man
DARN, Fla. Her orange grove, which was set
out when she established herself there not
long after the war, numbers something over
one hundred trees, and from seventy-five OF
them she nov reaps an income of $1,000 a
year
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Christmas Miscellany.
Luther's ChiIdren's Song for Christ


Ither's " ChiIdren's Song for Christ
mas"
babe to-day is born for you,
of Mary virgin pure and true;
baby loyable and bright,
To be your pleasure and delight.
1t is the Lord Christ God indeed
Who'll free you from distress aud need.
lie will himself your Saviour be;
From power Of sin will set you free.
Therefore the sign Alright remark
The swaddling-clothes the mauger dark,
Tue which the pretty babe do fold
Who all the world doth keep and hold.
Who is the pretty one 80 mild2
1t is the little Jesus child.
The sinner thou hast deigned to bless:
o welcome, welcome noble guest
Ab, Lordl Thou source and fount of ALL
How then hast Thou become so small
That Thou must lie on withered grass,
The fodder Of the OK and ass?
All, little Jesus baby sweet
Make for thyself a cradle meet
And take Thy rest within my heart,
Which from Thee never more shall part.
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- The Probate Court for said District.
To all persons interested in the estate of SALLY
BEMIs, late of Whitingham, in said District de-
ceased Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this Court will decide
upon the allowance ot the account of AA Butterhed
administrator, with Wllannexed upon said estate, and
decreedistrbuton thereof the persons entitled at the
session thereof to be held the Probate office in Brat
teboro the first Saturday of Jany, A. d. 1883 when
and where you may be heard in the premises II you
see cause. so Il. W. SIODDARD, Register
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NOTICE is hereby given to the legal voters
~ in West River National Bank to meet at the bank
ing house of said bank the second Tuesday Of jan
uary, A. D. 1888, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, to
choose Board Of Directors for the year ensuing and
also an agent to make any and all deeds necessary to
be made. By order of the Directors.
JOHN A. BUTLER, Cashier
jamaica Dec. 4, 1882. 49-5l
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the following ludicrous incident of his travels
in South Africa: At point on the Zambezi
River he met DIR, Bradshaw, an English nat
uralist, who was reduced to the greatest mis-
cry, and had nothing but rags, and very few
of those, to cover his nakedness So meagre
was his wardrobe that he presented himself in
his drawers to Serpa Pinto, to whom, howev-
er, with true British formality, he handed his
card, engraved in London, before saluting
him.
Queen Victoria does not think it too great
a condescension for royalty to compete for
prizes at fairs. She has recently won, at the
birmingham Cattle and Agricultural Society 3
exhibition, premium of E20 for shorthorn
Hereford from her Windsor farm. She will
take the prize in the form of cup of that
value, and has asked to be allowed to select
personally one from a number of designs OF
cups.
Another walk across Africa has been sue
cessfully accomplished, this time by Ger
man explorer, Lieutenant Wissmann, who
has travelled by partially new route and in
Just the reverse direction from Mr.. Stanley
that is from Loanda to Zanzibar. In COM
pany with oompatriot, DIR, Pogge, he left Lo-
anda in April, 1881, to traverse the Middle
Congo territory. On reaching the Lualaba
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-30
Late kilograms.
san FeascisCO l.ems.
PLAN OF RE0RGANIzINa THE DE-
MocRAOY OF SAN FRANCISCO.


MoeRACY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 29.-The
com mittse Of fifty appointed some
time ago to effect local reorgan-
ization Of the Democratic party in
this city, met last evening. Sew.
eral unimportant amendments
were made to the report submitted
last week by tho sub-Committae of
ten. The Committee agreed to
adopt the report of the sub-Com.
mittse, recommending the orgaui.
cation of forty.seven local clubs.
Motions were adopted fixing the
>dA.e for the organization of these
clubs on the Goth OF April; also
that the County Committee should
consist Of forty-seven members;
one from each club. The action of
the Com mittee in reference to the
plan of general reorganization will
: be submitted to the Democratic
/. County Com mittee for ratification.
A BARKEEPER MURDERED.
Hugh Mooney. aged As years,
proprietor of the saloon at No, 1888
Market street, was found last night
lying on the floor of his place of
busi uess shot through the temple.
He was alive but unconscious, He
was removed to the City Receiving
Hospital, where he died in few
hours. Two men, Dave Condor, q
noted rough, and Tommy McCor-
mick, the prize fighter, were found
In the saloon at the time. Neither
could give any satisfactory account
of how Mooney was shot. Both
snsn were arrested on suspicion OF
being concerned in the murder.
SUICIDE OF A HOTEL PORTER.
A yeung man named Harry
Theobsld, a hotel porter, formerly
special officer of the late Merritt
Boat Club House at Oakland, com.
mittsd suicide last night by jump.
ing from one OF the ferry boats.
Cause unknown. The body has
not yet been recovered.
Dr. TRgxsrt oWs at Dagger.
YUMA, A. T., March 2S.-Dr.
Taggart is able to walk from his
bed to Q chair and is pronounced
out Of danger.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-30
the Gag Ru,s before Psrliamens

LONDON, March 27.--In the Com.
mons this evening, Gladstone said
the liberation on parole of some
suspects to attend to private busi-
ness, forms no precedent for liber.
ating Parnell, Dillon and O'KelIy,
80 that they may participate In
the division upon the cloture.
Thirty-three Home-RuIers have
promised to oppose the cloture.
The proposed rules of parliame en-
tary procedure were again debated.
Gladstone said he believed it was
the general feeling of the House
that q division be taken on Thurs.
day.
John Bright moved the adjourn-
ment of debate.
Thomas Sexton thereupon an
nounced that he had a telegram m
from ParDell, Dillon and O'Kelly,
stating that they had asked Forster
for permission TO be present at the
division, and had undertaken to
refrain from any other political ac-
tion and surrender after tie divi-
sion. Sexton asked whether the
permission w0uld be granted. The
Speaker ruled the question disor-
derly. The Parnellites continued
the debate on the motion for ad-
journment, declaring that If fair
play was not granted they would
use all forms Of the House to OBJ
struct debate.
The debate was finally adjourned 4.
DUBLIN, March 27.-A shell was
thrown into house near Letter.
kenny, county Donegal, to-day,
aed two rooms were destroys
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-30
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