Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-17
IN GEN ERAL.

-Emmons aymond, president of the Pa
sumsic railway, Is just completing at New
port handsome cottage, and one OF the largest
greenhouses in northern Vermont.
A man at Clarksville, Ark was struck by
Lightning, which rau up his arm and down
his body, splitting his boots open. Strange to
say, he was not seriously injured.
An Eng.ishman of distinction in Egypt
writes home that the slave trade is so far
from being rxtinguished in that country that
slaves are being sold almost openly in Cairo.
A resident of Kirkmansville, Ky, is a
cousin to his own children, having married
his aunt. He is uncle also to his brothers
and sisters and cousins, and brother-in- law to
his father aud mother.
Young ladies on the eve of marriage now
give "spinster dinners" at which female
friends only ara entertained. This is a fair
offset to the customary bachelor suppers."
The groom has long enough monopolzed the
pretense of bidding adieu to his follies
An eccentric millionaire of Paris, recent,
ly deceased, left 20 pairs of old pantaloons to
be sold at public auction for the benefit of
the poor. He specified that no buyer should
be allowed to buy more than one pair of pan.
falcons The profits of the sale were quite
small but each purchaser found 5000 francs
sewn into the waist Of the inexpressibles.
Jenny Lind now resides in London, the
mistress of spacious and attractive home.
Her hair is only slightly tinged with gray
her eyes bright and happy, her form well pre-
served, and, although she has reached tho age
of GO years, she looks fully ten years younger.
She retains kindly memories of the stage, but
her general advice to young aspirants is
iopt
A Nova Scotia damsel has a canary which
one day found the water in its glass too low
to reach, and after several unsuccessful at
tempts to drink, hoped on its perch, and sat
quietly for a few minutes. Suddenly it turn
ed round pulled loose feather out of its
tail, and dipped the tip into the water, put
ting its claw crosswise on the feather, and
wetting its beak in the moisture. The canary
repeated the trick several times till its thirst
was quenohed,
Sensations are transmitted to the brain
at a rapidity of about lS0 feet per second, or
at one-fifth the rate of sound and this is
nearly the same in all individuals. The brain
requires one-tenth OF a second to transmit its
orders to the nerves which preside over vol
untary motion but this amount varies much
in different individuals, and in the same in
dividuals at different times, according to the
disposition or condition at the time, and is
more regular the more sustained the atten-
ton.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has
received the annual reports of the several In
dian industrial schools. S. @. Armstrong,
principal of the school at Hampton, reports
that the total attendance during the year was
SO, and the number now connected with the
school $50 girls and "a boys. Lieut.. NJ G,
Wilkinson, in charge of the school at Forest
Grove, Oregon, reports total attendance of
9l-54 boys and 81 girls. The report of the
superintendent of the Carlisle school shows
that 1888 Indian boys and lO2 Indian girls were
in the school at the close of the fiscal year
More than $4,000 worth of wagons, harness
and shoes were made by the students during
the year. The progress of the students in
their studies is regarded as highly satisfactory.
The largest telescope in existence will
soon be completed for the Russian Govern
ment by the firm of Alvin Clark 4 Sons of
Cambridge, Mass This largest of all glasses
is for the Russian Observatory at Polkovo,
which was founded in 1899 by the Gear
Nicholas. In 1878 the Government authoriz-
ed the astronomer, Otto Struve, to draw up
on the Treasury for whatever sum might be
required The grinding of the new lens has
now been proceeding for twelve months, aud
it is expected that it will soon be completed.
The length of the Polkovo telescope will be
40 feet and the diameter of the object glass
80 inches. 1t will be mounted upon a lawn
to the southwest of the principal building Of
the observatory. II is estimated that this
new lens will practically bring the moon with
in distance of thirty.eight leagues from the
earth.