Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-26
IN GENERAL.

n heSAlhtibbbp tCulhlluB Ou lub CueClb OF tue
lack OF atmosphere at the moon, remarked
that falling acorn would go through man
like Mimic bullet.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge declares
himself believer in the supremacy of Amer.
lean beauty. He thinks the ladies in the Uni
ted States are the handsomest in the world.
1t is estimated that the new buildings to
be erected in Knoxville, Tenn, in the coming
vemonth will cost 3 600 O00 Northern
capitalists are to build s 100, 600 hotel there
business men of San Francisco, Cal, are
making an effort to have a worlds fair held
in their city in 1887, aud have already held
one or two meetings in furtherance of the
project
The deposits in the savings banks Of Cal.
ifornia on the lst of July last were $50, 5O7,-
lG3, an increase of more than 50, 900, 600
within year. The number Of depositors,
Jan. l, was "A, 2j0, about one in twelve of the
population.
The Catholics in New York have bought
the church property on Bleecker and Down
ing streets for the colored Roman Catholics,
of whom there are about two thousand in the
city. The Catholics in this country have no
coored priests, but they have four colored
students studying for the priesthood
The milk cure is one of the instituti tions
of Baden. People are supplied with fresh
foaming milk at any hour of the day by man
who has quiet little establishment, with a
sunny garden and tables at the front, and at
the back stalls stocked with goats and COWS.
The King of SIAM who is only boy of
twenty years, has allowed his finger nails, it
is said, to grow until they are more than
foot in length. This deformity reduces the
monarch to a state Of absolute helplessness,
and for that reason, probably, the Siamese
regard long nails as one of the peculiar attri-
butes Of sovereignty.
1t is reported from the bureau Of ethnol-
ogy at Washington that Mr. Frank II. Cush-
ing has discovered in Zuniland long line of
caverns used by the Zunis in pre-. historic
times as sacrifcial repositories From these
caverns he has obtained more than 2OOO an
cient relics, comprising decorated altar tab
let's, bows, arrows and basket work. Also
cigarettes Of cane and corn leaves.
Mile. Van Iandt, the American prima
donna who is turning the heads Of Parisians,
has accepted an engagement to sing in the
new Metropolitan opera house in New York
next year. Her contract extends over pc.
riod of seven months, for which she is to re-
ceive Slj0,000 and the expenses Of four at
tendants She is said to possess youth and
beauty in addition to a magnificent voice.
"A resident of Wayne comfy, n y, who
did not approve Of his sons marriage with a
widow of his acquaintance, secured a post
ponement of the ceremony, after the guests
had begun to assemble by hiding the young
mans wedding clothes. The young man
avows his determination to marry the widow
yet.
The Prince of Bulgaria, the most insig-
nifcant of European sovereigns, a young man
of twenty six who never commanded reg-
ment in the field, possesses thirty sev en- dec
orations, many of them of high order, and
originally intended only for those who had dis
tinguished themselves in action.
An Englishman named Graham, who has
been making Rscents Of the Himalayas, has dis
proved the general impression that life at an
elevation of 10000 feet is almost impossible
He has demonstrated the possibility Of both
breathing and living at an elevation several
thousand feet higher thar Mont. Blanc and of
undergoing the fatigue of much longer and
more trying ascents than those from Cham
ouniX or Zermatt
--Deadwood the celebrated city of the
Black Hills, takes its name from a peculiar
incident certain man lost his wife and
ordered a first class funeral At the proceed
ings piece of the coffin was Clipped OF and
handed to the husband as a relic When af-
terward the man was sued for his bill he pro-
| duced the piece of wood with the exclama-
tion, I've got the dead wood on you. It's
not rosewood, as you have charged me, but
| pine
A telegram from Eugene City, Oregon,
to the Portland Oregonian records the mar
riage of Hulins Miler's widow the mother OF
! joaquin Miller. She is over 60 years of age,
and her new husband has Just passed his ma
! jority. The affair created a sensation in Lane
! County, where she has a son residing He
opposed the match, but the widow tersely re.
marked that she was the one being married,
and expressed herself as delighted with her
young love.
"A huge octopus, or devil. fish, recently
made its appearance in the harbor of Port
| Royal, $. @. Some one cruelty fred mus.
ket load of slugs into the creature, which in
furiated rather than manned it. Selling up
on one of the piles of the pier it lashed it,
great arms about the timber and wrenched il
from its place. The monster was finally kill
ed by pistol shots and harpoons and drawn OIL
the beach, where at low tide, it was exposed
to full view.
Peter Rhodes who found the immens,
diamond in the South African mine. realize
how man may have great fortune and ye
be poor. For three years he has been trying
to sell the stone, but nobody can afford to buy
it, and the possession brings only a burden
The diamond weighs $50 carats in its presen
uncut state, is the largest in the world excep
the Orlof gem, owned by the czar Of Russia
and is reckoned one of the very purest of al
the large stones known.
"A report is current at Fort Worth, Texas
that the fences around eight ranches in tina
vicinity have been cut within a few days
Fence-cutting and ranch burning are so prev
lent that property has deprecated in value
The governor has issued proclamation call
ing special session of the Legislature t
meet on the second Tuesday in January.
sets forth that an extraordinary occasion ex
lists for the session, which probably relates l.
the fence war, the public lands question AM
the investment of school funds under the re
Gently adopted constitutional amendments
1t may not be generally known that ther
is a society in this country known as tn
'Shut ms" 1t is composed of people VIII
arc confined to their homes by chronic dis
eases, who are not, however, incapacitate
from writing and reading Through the ei
forts of this society, ''Shut Ins" are introduC
ed to each other by letter, and many q wear
hour wiled away by the writing and readin
of letters. Sometimes "Shut In" 80 far II
covers that he or she can go out of town
visit another with whom he has become al
quanted by letter. and who has not been {
fortunate in bodily improvement.
. In New Britain, Conn, there is factor
) for the production of quassia cups-the qua
sia wood being so intensely bitter that a Gu
z of fresh water in a quassia cup will becon
very bitter in one minute-and these cul
long have been in use in some families T,
this tonic quality they impart to water. I'll
chips and shavings in the cup factory wei
thrown away or burned until some of the la
[ er beer brewers discovered that they we
/ available in the place of hops for lager beer
" then a demand arose for them, until now IL
K proprietor of the shop is making more mon'
+: out of his chips and shayings than he is ma
n ing out of his cups.
n The electric railway to the Giants Caus
j. way, running from Portrush to Bushmills
II distance of six miles, was successfully ope
d ed on September 2S, and English journ'
# speak with admiration of the energy, SIX
70 and perseverance which have overcome Z
n obstacles to its completion. The curves q
t, numerous, and there are several inclines
Z. one in thirty-fve to forty. 1t was at fiji
B. hoped that the regular rails might be used
'e convey the electricity, but it was found j
D. possible to insulate them sufficiently, and
le light rail was laid alongside the line ON sh'
ID wooden supports. The dynamo is worked
Of turbine wheel at the Bushmills end of
Dr. line and an Insulated underground cable cC
d. veys the current to the conducting rail, thr
r quarters of a mile distant.