Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22
IN GENERAL.

the most ever granted TO one man.
A German professor has invented gun
powder which resists the action Of water, thus
rendering it unnecessary to Keep your pow
der dry"
William g. Jett, the man who led the sol
diers to the hiding place of Booth after Lin
coins assassination, has been sent to the Mary
land Insane asylum a raving lunatic.
Eleven hundred and forty trains a day
pass the signal tower Of the Pennsylvania
railroad at the junction of 18th and Filbert
streets in Philedelphia-the largest number
that passes any one point in the world.
The euphorbia tree affords an acrd milky
juice, which on being applied to a cancer is
said to cause increased pain but eventually to
heal the wound. In some parts of Africa it
is popular for curing ordinary wounds and
corns.
Nothing shows the benefit of Saving the
pennies" better than the financial statement
of the Bank of England. Theirrule is, where
fractions Of penny occur, to reckon them in
favor of the bank This fund now amounts
to SIG, $50.
Educational interests are not neglected in
Texas. Dallas is building five public school
houses at a cost Of $4,000 apiece, San Antonio
is erecting a high school house at an expense
of $34, 600, and Corsicana has just built two
school houses at cost of $1,000 each
foreign count became engaged to a
Philadelphia girl at Cape May, and borrowed
her diamond ring to take down to Philadelphia
as a sample in size of Encouragement ring he
was to purchase. OF course he did not re-
turn, and the young woman ought to be glad
to get rid of him by the loss Of her ring.
The lady newspaper correspondents who
make Washington their fruitful field Of ope-
ratiOne hava orgoniyad a rregg ciub and will
endeavor to have galleries in the Senate and
House set apart for their special use.
New Orleans is to have tine honor of being
the first city in the Union to erect monu-
ment to woman. The person to be thus
honorod is Margaret Hougherty, the recently
deceased benefactress of the orphan asylums
Of that city.
Not satisfied with possessing the largest
area, as well as the greatest amount Of tillable
land, Texas now enters the fields Of fortune
as gold producer A prospector in the noun
tains 90 miles north of FL Paso is said to have
discovered gold ore which assays SlOO 600 per
ton. A lump Of the ore weighing two pounds
contained $50 Of the precious metal.
The New York Tribune has suggested and
other papers have endorsed the idea. that. #
neither Congress nor New York will move in
the matter of purchasing for a park the land
er desecration of that spot, the women of the
country should take it up and save that, as
they saved Mount Vernon, ito be Il sacred
possession for us through all time"
Fashion now thoroughly admits the violin
as an instrument for women. At the recent
competition at the Paris conservatory Of mu-
sic, seven female pupils were allowed to com
pete with the men on the violin, and one of
them-Mllle. Hillemacher-w so fortunate
as to carry of one Of the three first prizes,
while another young lady took first accesst
"a sort of honorable mention. There are a
number of women in both classes at the con-
servatory.
The housekeeping of Queen Victorias
establishment is cared for 10y butler. who has
a salary of $500 per annum. He has four
assistants, who do the purchasing aud see that
good measures are given by the tradesmen
The chief cook has a salary of S35OO and the
two pastry cooks have $500 each The gold
and silver plate, valued at Slj, 200, 900, is car
ed for by three special servants. The number
Of household servants is "a.
Lawyer Charles S. Carter, who was VIC
tim of the Ashtabula disaster, recovered Sl7
600 for damages arising out of the accident,
and then went on a spree lasting four years
He lost his law business, and disappeared af-
ter being arrested for obtaining money under
false preteuses. His wife now sues a Brook
lyn dealer for $25 600 on the charge that he
made her husband an habitual drunkard in
spite Of her protests, aud she ought to get
her case.
Miss Lena Krke of Batavia, n. Y, has
served some eight years in q dentists office,
where she has become qualified and now has
permit to practice dentistry in any part of
the state Miss Kirke, however, prefers q
salary where she Is to the responsibility of
an Office of her own.
1t is not so generally known as it might be
that the Dominion of Canada is larger coun-
try than the United States. When the tide
of emigration that sets so strongly toward
this country has exhausted the receptive ca
pacity Of our land it will undoubtedly turn
northward. There are millions of acres OF
arabic land in Canada that offer as great in
| ducements to the settler as the lands lying
west of Lake Superior, in Minnesota, Dakota
and Montana. 1t is only within few years
past that the Canadians themselves, owing to
stimulus of railroad extension, have become
| aware of the mineral and agricultural capa.
blities of the vast territory of the northwest.
They are just beginning to find it out, and to
bring it to the attention of other people.
Mrs A. E. Dickinson of st. Louis, Mo,
gave an address at Asbury Chapel, Mt. Nebo
| Tenn, last Sunday morning, on temperance
and woman suffrage, lady speaker is a de-
cided novelty in that part of the country,
but the interest of her hearers showed thai
they were not greatly shocked at the limo.
vation. At the close of her remarks, Thorn
as Campbell, ESD, of Riverdale, thanked the
speaker in highly complimentary terms, and
endorsed the sentiments she had advanced.
| Mr. Miles Huffaker then requested those OF
the audience who had been pleased, to mani
fest their appreciation by rising to which
they all at once responded. A most encour
aging reception for the first lecture, as We
believe, ever delivered by lady on woman
suffrage in East Tennessee.
This last week has seen convention a
Chicago that may possibly mark an era il
the progress of American politics. 1t was 6
convention of prohibitionists from all the
states, and il was characterized by devotion
zeal singular enthusiasm and high courage
1t adopted platform demanding an amend
ment to the United States constitution pro
hibiting the liquor traffic in every form, de
claring for woman suffrage, the abolition o.
polygamy, also of the spoils system, favor
ing universal compulsory education, the pres
ervation of the public lands for small farms
the control of railroads by the public, tht
cessation of class legislation and of all pro
scription on account of color. The Iowa del
egates, though sympathizing with all tha
was done, withdrew because they do not ia
vor a third party.
HAY FEVER, like malaria is gradually ex
tending its habitat and driving its victims Ou
of some of their most trusted refugees. Dur
ing the last two wears scores of sufferers