Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-04-21
IN GEN ERAL.

IN GEN HHbAL.
The Wisconsin Legislature has repealed
the law making insanity cause for divorce.
Sixty steamboats, on the Mississippi Riv-
er and its tributaries now employ the electric
light
President Johnsons daughter, a widow,
is managing Texas farm, and making money
from it.
At recent sale Of rabbits in England the
enormous sum of 5000 was paid for one of
these little creatures
A young gentleman and young lady of
Tennessee were welded as they came out Of
the baptismal cistern.
-Somo districts in Switzerland are in dan
ger OF depopuation, on account Of the emigra-
tion of the people to this country.
A letter received at Boston, Ma5s. from
Henry NJ. Stanley states that ais African ex-
ploring expedition is progressing favorably.
The San Francisco Farmer says that q
child was born to a couple in Sonoma, on the
18th Of March, after their golden wedding.
-Yanderbilrs wealth is estimated at $780,
600, 900. In gold it would weigh 7Sl tons.
In $50 pieces he could construct sidewalk
33 inches in width and ten miles long-but
he wont do it,
A Justice on Long Island, N. Y, con-
cluded recent marriage ceremony as fol-
lows: "Them as this Court has Joined to-
gether let no man put asunder, but suffer lit
tie children TO come unto them, so help you
God"
A Venetian glass manufacturer is fdbri-
eating ladies' bonnets by the thousand, and
selling them too. The glass cloth of which
they are made is SIMMER than silk, has a finer
color, and is none the worse for heavy show
or Of rain.
The highest price ever paid for horse
in England is believed to have been paid by
the Duke of Westminster, the richest peer in
that country, who paid the extraordinary sum
of $500, 600 for an animal which he desired
to possess.
A Chinaman who was found hanging in
the basement of building at Victoria, b. c.,
with his clothing on fire and badly burned,
the other day is believed TO have been hung
by his countrymen on account of having the
leprosy, and his clothing set on FIRE to pre-
vent contAgion.
The Emperor William is necessarily
stumbling and falling, in many cases serious
ly hurting his venerable self. The cause is
said to be his rigid maintenance Of the up
right military bearing-'head up and eyes
front'-to which he attaches so much impor-
tance as setting an example of ''tenue" to his
army. He is six feet two inches in height
and weighs 23O pounds
A small boy of months, in Kingsville,
Ohio, son of Mr.. ]. N. Kinnear, is said 10
walk and talk like little man." Indeed,
the correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer
asserts that its mind is as well developed as
the average child Of ~ years old, and that he
"has thought and discretion of mind and
shows remarkably rapid developments of
mental faculties seldom witnessed"
Influenced by the important results
which have followed the examination of rail
way officials as regards their perception of
color, some German savants now propose to
subject them TO tests that will develop their
capacity Of hearing. 1t is believed that many
railway casualties happen on account of the
deafness of the employees, especially the en-
gine drivers.
-Ho Hee and Gong Jing, Cinnamon, were
batized at the Third Presbyterian church,
New York, Sunday, after answering the usual
questions regarding their Christian faith in
very good English. They were dressed in
their native costume and are described as
young men of marked intelligence. Both are
laundrymen. About 80 of their countrymen
attend the same church.
An extrd6rdinary marriage took place in
the Jail at Greenville, S. c., last week. Rich
ard Bates, under sentence of death for arson,
to be executed on the 2Sth inst, and Ann
Good, sentenced to two years imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentiary for grand
larceny. were married in q cell Of the jail
The next day the bride was sent to the peni-
tentiary TO serve her term of imprisonment,
and in three weeks from that day the groom
goes to the gallows.
A Chinese woman who had been so un.
fortunate as to lose her nose was recently fit
ted with brand-ne one, made OF celluloid,
by San Francisco dentist. When the Oper-
alton had been completed she called for a
mirror, and her delight at the improvement
in her appearance knew no bounds. In a
transport of gratitude she gave the dentist n
handful of $40 gold pieces, without stopping
to count them, and ran of to show herself to
her friends.
According to the Evening Post, the state
of New York is fast becoming the chief pc
troleum producing centre of the country.
The product of her oil fields is now 10000
barrels per day. Allegheny produces 1GO0O
barrels and Cattaraugus county 1000 barrels
The production of the state is one-third of the
total oil product of America. About one year
ago New York produced about one-siXteenth
The putting down of new wells is carried on
at a lively rate. There are now S75 wells in
the Allegheny field, and it is believed the
number will reach 1000 by the lst of July.
A London dentist, ascertaining that a
large baboon in the possession of the Zoolog-
cal Society at Regents Park had been suffer-
ing excrutiating pain from a defective tooth
for several weeks, volunteered to extract the
offending molar. The principal difficulty lay
in the creatures unwillingness TO take chloro-
form. As often as cloth saturated with the
annsthetic was held to his nose he proceeded
to lick it, apparently finding the flavor es-
pecially agreeable. Gradually, however, he
became insensible, and the tooth was extract
ed. moment later he sat up on his hauuch-
es, and signihed his relief from pain by be-
| ginning to eat voraoiously.
Great Paul, the new monster bell for st.
Pauls Cathedral in London, was successfully
rung two weeks ago at the foundry in Lough-
borough. It was swung at the time on its
own head-stock, being supported two feet
from the ground on temporary timbeEing. 1t
was lifted by 5O-ton iron crane and 10 men
were required TO ring it properly, though 4
could make it speak. While shut in by walls
and houses, the bell was heard seven miles
away. 1t is said that this is the first case OF
a bell of anything like the weight of Great
Paul being swung All the large bells OF
Russia are struek-they are never swung
while the great bell in Notre Dame at Paris il
worked by treadle or some other mechanical
arrangement.
Memorial Hall, which formed the Cen.
tennial Art Building at Philadelphia, is in 6
state of dismal dilapidation and decay. The
wind has torn off portions of the galvanized