Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-05

The Prince of Wales gives his brother
$25, 600 piano as a wedding present.
-Krupp, the German iron king, has added
5000 recruits to his industrial army, which
now numbers 10000. Krupp is probably the
largest single employer Of labor in the world
An army of blackbirds completely de-
stroyed q twenty acre field of corn at Sumter
Ga, a few days ago, taking only one after
noon to complete their work Of destruction.
The consumption Of horseaesh as food is
increasing in Paris. There are now forty
horse butcheres in tho city, and last year
$500 horses aud 400 donkeys were devoted to
the shambles
England seems pretty well provided with
railroads. and yet Parliament has bills under
which it is proposed to spend S22G, 900, 900 in
building new lines and $ls4 900, 600 enlarg-
ing the facilities Of those already existing.
"A wagon at Ottawa, Kan. contained
handcuffed thief on his way to prison, his
crazy wife on tho way to an insane asylum,
two children started for the poor house. and
dead baby being carried to the grave.
For the first nine months of the current
fiscal year the issue of postage stamps, stamp
ed envelopes, etc., amounted TO $50, ,G97 ia,
an increase Of Si,G66, ,915, or 1S per cent,
from the figures of the corresponding period
last year.
William II. Vanderbilt intends to build
on Staten island 5000, 600 family mausoleum
20 feet high and covering an acre aud half
of ground The site is large knoll just out
side of the cemetery and fronting the Moravian
church. The mausoleum, if built according
to the designs, will be visible on clear day
20 miles at sea.
Among the arrivals at Castle Garden last
week were party of some 800 Hollanders,
large majority Of them families, who are 60
ing to form a colony in Minnesota all Of
them are well provided with money and cloth
ing Also a large party OF Frenchmen who
arc going to work in the vineyards Of Cali
fornia.
At Bowling Green, Ky, man from
''among the hills stepped INTO q store and in
quired of the clerk If he had seen anything of
a woman wearing a calico dress and a sun
bonnet, and being told that she had not been
seen, burst into tears and said "Yes, gol
darn it, l told her she'd lose me in town :"
and weeping like lost boy, he renewed his
search for his wife's apron string.
"A baby repository has been established
at Cleveland, o., where working women can
leave their infants, and have them cared for
at a cost Of FIVE cents per day. The Chicago
Inter Ocean thinks that this is so much cheap.
er than keeping the babies at home that such
an institution might become popular with all
classes, and incidentally lead to great boom
in native born population.
Darius s. Fisher of Reading, Pa, aged
26, was a theological student. Six years ago
he began the study OF the Old Testament,
and having wonderful memory, made rap
id progress. His ability to quote chapter af-
ter chapter, aud book after book, was aston
ishing In all the six years he applied him
self assiduously nearly 10 hours a day. As
result his mind has given way, and he has
been taken TO the county insane asylum.
runarrtitiouu paop1a ~ GI,aeto ,o,,,,
ty, Cal, have recently been exercised by the
ghostly ringing of bell in thu fields border
ing the bayou, and sometimes seemingly in
mid-air At last one citizen more courageous
than his neighbors, bent on investigation, dis
covered that the sound came from common
cow.bell, which in some unknown way had
become fastened around the body of large
buzzard.
Henry NJ. Stanley's present expedition TO
Africa, which is his third is in the interest of
the Belgian commercial company, and is de-
signed to effect the opening of a way to the
heart Of Africa along the Congo river He
started on the expedition in September, 1879,
taking with him up the Congo n men, armed
with the best modern rifles and necessary tools
for their work. In May, 1891, ho was so Sc
riously III that he believed death to be at
haud, but he soon recovered.
"A modern Jonah whom prosperous COM
I
shaken the dust Of Nevada from his feet. Be
fore starting thence for Oregon he made THE
concise but comprehensive statement OF the
| ill-luck which has bounded him Il went to
Florida and tho frost killed all the gardens
and orchards l went to Mississippi and they
had food l went to California and the
| people began to die with smallpox Since 1
struck this state the Comstock mines have
never paid dividend, and If l 60 to Oregon
l am willing to bet they will have a drouth."
1t is said that, notwithstanding the St.
| Gothard tunnel has been opened, the monks
| will not abandon their hospital on the noun
tIins, but that its doors will be kept open as
heretofore. 1t is not generally known what
| extensive service this noble brotherhood has
| performed. Their records show that during
| the past year alone no fewer than 10 $50 per-
sons found shelter within their doors that
IS, SOB rations were distributed that Z, 95G
lodgings were supplied that 1913 persons
were attended as patients, and that a large
quantity of clothing was given away to needy
travellers.
William Walton has started from Earl
| ington, KY, upon tour of the world which
he has no idea Of completing in eighty days,
his object being very different from that of
Phineas Fogg, He intends TO unfurl in every
capital the stars and stripes and to secure the
| autograph of every ruler who is able TO write
his own name. "When l have finished my
trip" he says, 81 shall be the only man who
ever went around the world without winking,"
his eyelids having been blown off by an ex-
| plosion in q coal mine several years ago. Mr..
Walton acknowledges that he is IAN eccentric
eoon," and il is not impossible that he will
accomplish his purpose, for he is possessed of
much money and inefable assurance.
Herr Krupp, the great gunmaker, is a
staunch believer in the efficacy of vaccination.
| Ia " unH IN aF,lO da
sire that they should all submit to the opera
ton, small pox being prevalent in the neigh
borhood of Essen. Only six of the six thous-
and barred their arms to the lancet whereup-
on Herr Krupp issued an ultimatum to the
effect that every workman must either be
vaocinated or leave his establishment. He
made the terms of surrender easy, however,
by promising that the operation should take
place during working hours, that it should
cost them nothing, and last, though not least,
that only animal lymph should be used. They
surrendered at once, like sensible fellows
There are not many establishments in Ger
many where each workman has a model cot
tage and bit Of garden attached, a pension
fund, "a relief fund and dozen other funds in
which he can participate in case of accident
or superannuRtion.
The latest mails from Australia describe
the fearful heat and drouth which still pre-
vailed at the time of their departure. For
several months scarcely any rain had fallen,
and widespread disaster seemed unlikely to
be averted by the steady and lasting down
pour which alone could prevent it, The heat
in the inland districts had been terrific, the
mercury once reaching 124o in such shade as
was obtainable. Morning after morning, for
weeks together, the sun had risen in cloud
less sky and set at night 'like huge red
ball of fire at the edge of a copper dome. "
The losses of station owners extraordinarily
heavy, and the grain harvest will be below
the average all over the continent, though in
isolated districts the crop is good one, ow-
ing to heavy local rainfalls. In Queensland
3 | had hrokan M and baavv HnOde