Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-23
IN GENERAL.

wood, West Va, measured 40 inches around
the forehead
-Mss Elaine Goodale, the elder Of the Sky
Farm child-poets, is now teaching the Indians
at the Hampton school in Virginia.
The late Gov. Washburn of Wisconsin
left his children 81, 600, 900 apiece, and in his
mothers name endowed a hospital in Milwau-
kee with $500, 600.
One of our German consuls reports that
all the marriages between American girls and
German noblemen which he has known of, 81
in number, have resulted in divorce, abandon
ment or separation.
A Mississippi paper says while some per-
sons were boring an artesan well in Lee coun-
ty, that state, they found log 1926 feet under
the earth, which was in fair state of preser
walton and resembled poplar.
The London Times mourns the decline
of the watch trade in England, and attributes
it to the use of new ideas aud inventions by
American and Swiss workmen, while English
artisans stick to the methods of their fore
fathers.
The largest and richest nickel mines
known to exist in the world are now being
opened up in Nevada. Although these mines
have been lying for years in plain sight of
stage road, where people constantly travel, it
is only very recently that their value has be-
come known.
"A Manchester, N. H., paper, says that
young woman, a weaver in one of the mills
of that city, has started for Minneapolis Mimi,
to look over widower who wants to marry
her. He pays her expenses out, and if she
doesn't like the looks of things he is 70 pay
her expenses back.
"A Lafayette, Ind, lady-a model wife
and mother-broke her husband of the saloon
habit by walking up to the bar beside him and
calling for beer She broke the awful silence
as they walked home with the remark II
love you, my husband, and if you're going to
hell I'm going right along with you"
1t takes fully year and half to convert
tobacco into snuff and it goes through very
elaborate preparations. Like beer, it is al
lowed to ferment so as to become completely
picked, and is kept in this condition for at
least six months. 1t is then subjected to a
steam temperature of 24O', after which it is
ground.
All of the 13 New Yorkers who sat down
to dinner on November 10, 1882, to defy su
perstition, again dined together on Tuesday
evening of last week. On the left of each
guests plate was a gravestone bearing the
wine-list, upon its right coffin with the din
ner list on it, and the ghastly spectacle was
illuminated by 13 black candles.
-Boniface B. Dervo, an eccentric old bach
elor who died short time ago at Akron, o.,
left S24 600 for the erection of hospital, sd-
mission to which shall be without charge and
without distinction of race, nationality, color
or sex. If the amount is insufficient, it is to
be kept until enough accumulates. The mon
ey was amassed by day wages.
james Eckler of Albany, the Nestor 90
locomotive engineers has just left the trace
because of failing eyesight. He began work
on the Camden IL Amboy railroad in 1886, has
been in continual service ever since then, has
the longest record of the kind of any man
| living, and never received q scratch and never
had an accident of consequence on his train.
| He ran trains in southern states for the fede-
raj army during the war, and had all sorts of
escapes, but good luck everywhere followed
his engine.
"A Hartford boy, who has served his en-
ployer faithfully and whose only conspicuous
fault was excessive tobacco chewing, was Of
fered So last Saturday by gentleman who
| feels an interest in him if he would drop the
habit for a year. Two other men made SINH
lar offers, and the boy resolved to earn the Sl5.
| The next day he felt sick, on Monday he was
worse, on Tuesday he shook like a delirium
tremens victim, and on Wednesday he took to
his bed, from which at last accounts he had
not been able to get up.
| Two newly-made graves in Allegheny
cemetery at Pittsburg Pa, are separated BY
but narrow strip of green turf. One is the
last resting-place of a wife who was hidden
from mortal sight not year ago; the other
holds the mortal remains Of a husband who
walked this earth less than IS months since.
About three months ago the widow was weep
ing over the husbands grave and the widower
was weeping over the wife's grave. Quite by
chance they raised their eyes, and the sorrow
that levels all earthly forms, the touch of ma
ture that produces a universal kinship, we're
there. They spoke He told his woes, and
she related her trials. Then they wept in uni
son. The next week they chanced to meet
there again. The third week they met there
by appointment, and now they are married.
So records a local paper.
Jim Baker, the oldest and most famous
of all living frontier scouts, has just made a
visit to Denver. He left civilization AZ years
ago, and ever since has lived wild life, and
his dislike of civilization is such that it is said
he once declared that ''the country was get
ting too crowded" and moved because an ad-
venturous Irishman settled within 40 miles of
him. He was with Fremont in his explora-
tions, with Gen. Harney in his Indian cam
paign, and with Albert Sidney johnson in
Utah In fact, he has been a great deal in
government employ. OF course he has been
in multitude of fights, but never received a
scratch in any of them, although the bursting
of his own gun once manned his hands In
Denver ho spent most of his time riding on
the horse-cars. He is nearly 20 years old,
straight and active, and lives quietly with On
Indian wife well back in the mountains.
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