Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-06

"You have heard, my love, that Amanda is
about to marry Arthur" !" ~ know it, but
what can't understand is that a woman as
intelligent as she is can consent to marry "A
man stupid enough to marry her.
When an Austin schoolmaster entered his
temple of learning few mornings ago, he
read on the blackboard the touching legend
"Our teacher is donkey The pupils ex-
pected there would be a combined cyclone
and earthquake, but the philosophic peda-
gogue coutented himself with adding the
word driver to the legend and opened the
school with prayer as usual Tens SJtiags.
Thomas Schofeld, aged ninety-one years,
walked nine miles to renew his subscription
to New London paper. 1t is the general
impression among publishers that there are a
number Of subscribers who are waiting until
they are nnety-one years old TO come in and
pay for their paper. -DdHJury Ners.
The imagination of the most sensational
of French romance writers never conceived
of a scene more grotesque and horrible than
was witnessed in Jersey City last Monday.
A small pox patient escaped from his home
in a delrious condition and died in the
streets. Two drunken men, supposing the
dead man to be in the same condition as
themselves, only little worse, picked the
body up, and, supporting it between them,
walked IT to police station two blocks dis
tant.
Father" asked Johnny, what is log? z"
"a log, my son" replied Brown, stealing a
hasty glance at Mrs. B., to see if she was lis
tening for his answer, IA log, my son, is a
big piece of wood or timber. Why do you
ask, Johnny" 1T says the ship went four
teen knots an hour. What does it mean by
knots, father = Knots, JohAny-knots
Why, you have seen u iog-almogt always
covered with knUts-haven't you? Well,
that's what it means-fourteen Of them-the
ship got by fourteen Of them in an hour
That's all, Johnny, said Brown, with a sigh
OF relief that he had got out of it SO easily
Boston IrdHScriTt,
great bell for St. Pauls Cathedral in
London, was recently cast in Lecestershire.
II will take its place as one of the heaviest
bells in Europe, being about l7i tons in
weight. This mass of metal, consisting of
pure tin and copper was about St hours in
course of melting, and it was four minutes in
running into the mould. To guard against
accident the cast iron case for the latter was
made strong enough to bear pressure of 200
tons. There was great anxiety when the case
WAS being taken to pieces, the clay mould
broken up, and the mighty bell bit by bit ex-
posed to view. The casting, however, ap-
ptdItu 10 ue hlhOOlu ana uellCdte IN SURFACE
and outline. Its skin, as the outward COW
er.ng is technically called, showed no flaw Of
any kind whatever. The bell is S feet 10
inches high and feet g inches in diameter,
while the thickness Of the middle of the sound
bow is s inches. The cost, when rigged in
the tower, will be about f3OOO It will be
used for the first time next Easter Sunday.
One Of the officers Of Michigan cavalry
regiment who was present at the capture of
jeff Davis, states that private soldier of the
4th Michigan cavalry at Richmond identified
Davis house and took possession, finding the
sadde-bags and holsters filled with gold coin.
The soldier buried the gold, and, year or
more after the war, recovered the money,
brought it North and gave numerous pieces
to members Of his regiment The sum was
originally $4,000, being part Of the money
devidcd among the confederate presidents ret
iuue at Abbeyillc when crowned by federal
cavalry. An officer Of another regiment states
tha', at the capture of Davis, large sum Of
specie, understood to be $50, 600 or more,
was found by soldiers in house near the ferry
where the fugitive president and wagon train
crossed a river in Georgia. This money was
scattered among tn c soldiers and lost