Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-03
London streets are now lighted by cleo

London streets are now lighted by cleo
tricity at one-fourth the expense of gas.
-"Itisnot righ; to spoil golden wedding"
was the ground on which a Missouri judge
recently refused divorce in a case where the
parties had lived together 40 years.
In 1880, the last year for which the re-
turns have been made up, the Irish people
paid more money to liquor dealers than to
landlords Their liquor bill was larger than
their rent bill by nearly 10000, 600.
Henry @. Spaulding, the prepared glue
man, was locked up in Indiana the other night
for drunkenness He says he sold the patent
to a company which made 81, 900, 900 from it,
but that he never got cent.
DIR. Barksdale, of the Virginia Lunatic
Asylum, reports the case Of negro lunatc
whose brain weighed seventy ounces. This
is believed to be the largest brain on record,
except that of Oliver Cromwell.
They never do things by halves in Chica-
go. The latest experiment for the benefit of
the masses is christian Army" with Bishop
Fallowes Of the Reformed Episcopal church
as its general in chief-a drum corps accom-
panyng its professions.
President Garfelds memory is so below
ed in California that no difficulty has been
found in raising a fund for a monument.
Twenty thousand dollars have been set aside
for the statue, designs for which must be
sent in before the 10th of May noxt.
Gov. Gear, of Iowa, said to a friend on
retiring from Office the other day; II am
going home aud going to work to earn a liv-
ing l am 81, 900 poorer to night than when
I came to Des Moines." And yet it is admit
ted that Gov. Gear lived only as the execu-
tive officer of the state ought to live, unosten-
tatiously at that.
An Arkansas farmer says that the actual
inconvenience of being hanged is very slight.
Robbers subjected him to the process once,
and after a slight choking sensation he be-
came insensible, and SO remained until he
was taken down and resuscitated The COM
ing too was the unpleasant part of it.
Professor Edward D. Cope, the Phila-
delphia geologist, thinks he has discovered a
''missing link" In the tertiary formation
of the Big Horn Valley, Wyoming, he dug
out the skull of species of monkey which
exhibits human characteristics in miniature,
and is vastly superior to the monkey skulls Of
the present day.
Russian finances are in bad way. There
was deficit of ca, 600, 600 in 1880, and an
other of e7, OOO, 900 in 1881. To cover the
expenses of the war with Turkey further
sum of e3, 900, 900 is needed and f5, 600, 900
have to be provided for the redemption of
that amount of paper currency. If to these
amounts the probable deficit of 1882 is added
there is more than 600, 900, 900 of uncovered
expenditures to provide for.
Professor Nordenskjold means to make
another Arctic expedition next summer. He
is far too practical an explorer, however, to
get caught in the ice-foes which held the
Jeanette prisoner for more than year. He
has no ambition to get any nearer the pole
than anybody else has succeeded in going
and only purposes to skirt the shores of ST.
IBERIA and endeavor to establish the feasibility
of sending steamers every summer to carry
on regular commercial communication with
the region.
The area of Chilli is 1872, COG square miles.
Her population is about 9, 200, 900. About S2
per cent. of her territory is either desert, pas
ture or forests, with only 19 per cent of
arabic land Her whole territory proper is
not so large as the state of California, and
her population is about equal to the popula-
tion of Missouri. When it is considered that
Peru and Bolivia, her late antagonists on the
battle field, have double the population of
Chill and four times the area of arabic land,
the pluck and staying qualities of the people
of the gallant little republic are made more
manifest.