Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-03
IN GEN ERAL.

The contract for constructing a railway
tunnel under the st. Lawrence, at Montreal,
Canada, has just been taken by J. b. Bouil
lard for SO, 500, 600, the work to be finished
in 1855.
Coal oil is now so plenty from the beds
of Los Angeles that the California market is
overstooked. The oil belts of California from
present indications alone, may be countedthe
richest in the world.
A Philadelphia surgeon has succeeded in
supplying upper and lower eyelids TO miner
whose face was terribly burned by an explo-
sion. The upper lids were supplied by skin
from the mans forefuger, and the lower lids
by piece cut from his arm.
As young shaver of Eve or six years was
reading at school one day, he came upon the
passage, keep thy tongue from evil and
thy lips from guile" Master Hopeful drawl-
ed out, -tongue-from-evil-
and-thy-lips-from A"
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Earl of Indian
spolis, both young people and well-connect-
ed, were married with pretentious ceremonies
in 1872. In 1877 they were divorced In
1879 they were remarked, and now they are
suing for divorce again.
There is an excellent law in Holland to
the effect that when young man of property
is inclined to be fast and is spending his
y,
in and take care of it for him until he can
prove that he has reformed and will hence
forth make proper use of his means
DIR. Henry Tompkins, an English physi-
clan, says the most striking proof of the efa-
cacy of vaccination comes from the smallpox
hospitals. During forty years experience at
| Highgate, no nurse or servant who had been
revaccinated was ever attacked. The students
who attended the hospital for clinical instruc-
tion we're favored with a like immunity from
| the disease.
The Modoc Indians transferred from the
lava beds to the Indian Territory are now
among the quietest, most peaceable and in
dustrious in the country. There are only 100
left, but they cultivate AGO acres of land, have
established schools and are thriving generally.
! Scar faced Charley, one of the heroes of the
Modoc war, is now a respectable, well-to-do
farmer.
The famous Gold of Ophir rose-tree on
the Maddox farm in Eldorado county, Cal,
was recently destroyed by wind Its stem was
26 inches in circumference, and the shrub it.
self had grown around and over an oak fifty
feet high, stopping in its upward progress on
| ly because there was nothing upon which to
climb higher. When in full bloom q mass of
golden flowers concealed the oak entirely from
view.
Richard A. Proctor is not the greatest as
tronomer living, but he heads the list as an
alarmist, beating everybody but the "timists'
of the Second Advent faith. Now he puts the
end of the world only 10 years off from the
comet of 1880, which is to come back and
| / op into the sun, making such a broil that
this globe will incontnently burn up in a
minute or two. Nevertheless, Mr.. Proctor's
epitaph will probably read "GOne to meet
Mother Shipton."
A.
Brownrigg of the British ship London, with
three of his men, was recently killed near
Zanzibar while attempting to board an Arab
SLAYER which carried French colors. Eight of
| the Arabs have since been captured, and will
be tried for murder. In January Capt. Brown
rigg captured a vessel similar to the one he
| attacked last, and liberated 40 slaves, and in
all the old London is said to have freed 5000
wretched blacks.
| An eloping couple were being driven at
| furious pace through Louisville, KY, lately,
| TO catch train to Chicago and happiness,
| when a mischievous urchin knocked off the
drivers hat with SNOWFALL. The Interrupt
| tion caused such loss of time that when, a
little later, the lovers ran breathlessly into the
| station the train had gone, and before they
could devise another plan of escape, the young
woman's father and mother appeared and
carried off their daughter.
When the Italian census was taken King
Humbert himself filled up census paper in
due form, setting down the names and ages
of members of his family, together with
other particulars. The King describes him
self as Humbert of Savoy, while under the
heading profession" he has added liking of
Italy" The document will be preserved in
the archives of the Campidoglio. At the
Vatican Leo XIII inscribed himself as by
profession "Pope," and as to his means and
method of gaining livelihood added Sup
ported by the aims of the faithful"
| Respecting the absence of trees on the
| prairies, Meehan is of the opinion that annual
fires are the reason why arborescent vegeta-
tion has never had an existence on them.
Father Hennepen, the oldest writer on Indian
habits, noted that it was thei; practice in his
time to fire the prairies annually; it is proba-
bic that such had been their habit long before.
| Herbaceous plants and ANIMALS could increase
their area yearly, while trees could never get
beyond the line they had reached when the
annual fire first commenced.
Joseph Il. Temple of Philadelphia has
contracted with John Rogers the sculptor, to
| complete an equestrian statue of Gen. Rey-
nolds within one year for $50, 900, of which
| Mr. Temple contributes $4,000. 1t is in
tended to raise $40, 600 to pay the remainder
not covered by Mr.. Temples gift and buy
pedestal. Mr.. Temple expressed his willing
ness to contribute the whole amount required,
but it was thought best to permit those who
fought under the gallant soldier to contribute
TO the erection of the monument.
A baby died in commissions at Louisville
the other day-at least, every sign of death
| appeared, and the doctor, having listened in
vain for the beating of the heart, assured the
sorrowing family that life was extinct For
| fully ten minutes they sat around the bed in
dulging their grief, and then, with an impulse
of affection, little brother of the baby lean
| ed over and kissed her lips To the bewilder-
ment of all present the child gasped TWO or
three times and then began to breathe, and at
last accounts was rapidly recovering, Wheth-
er the boys breath started the wheels of life,
or natural resuseitation was merely coincident
with bis kiss, nobody ventures 10 decide, and
the doctor is rs much in the dark as everyone
else.
Reference has been made to the attack of
| a pack of wolves upon the congregation of
church at Unarre, in Spain, on Christmas eve.
1t appears that during the service a band OF
hungry wolves had gathered about the church
doors, and when these were thrown open TO
let the congregation out the ferOcous brutes,
stimulated by famine to an unusual display OF
audaeity, made desperate onslaught upon
the crowd. An indesoribable panic ensued.
| Men and women alike screaming for aid,
stroye to escape from their savage assailants;
several, while struggling frantically to reach
tho doorway, fell down and found themselves
| at the mercy of the famished wolves. The
only man who displayed any presence of mind
was the saeristan, who oontrived to Chamber
into the pulpit, and thence initiated the bark
ing of dog so effectively that the invaders
took fright and fed, but not before they had
killed three of their victims and mRngled i've
so horribly that they were not expected to re-
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