Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-06
IN ENE ERAL.

A writer in the World estimates that
$3.50, 900 was spent upon Mr.. Vanderbilts
fancy dress ball
"A year-old boy in Detroit. Mich, has
died of grief at the death of his mother, a
crippled inmate of the county poor-house.
Russians use the cockroach incidentally
in certain diseases, and elsewhere in Europe
the bug has entered into practice as a cure for
Brights disease.
-Aubtious citizens of Minneapolis, Mimi,
now estimate its population at over 100, 600.
In the spring of $780, when the national CEN
sus was taken, it was 50, 900.
William and Mary college, the Oldest in
the country, is closed The one student who
attended last year has been forced to pursue a
college course elsewhere.
Mrs. Helen Hunt jackson, the well known
author, has been appointed a special agent to
investigate the condition of the Mission Indi-
ans of California, whose lands, it is alleged,
white settlers have been appropriating.
Northern capitalists are purchasing large
tracts of timber land in Alabama, and when
the Northern sources of supply are exhaust
ed extensive numbering operations will be
carried on in that state.
Sergeant Boston Corbett, the man who
killed the assassin Of President Lincoln, lives
in Kansas and is engaged in the cattle busi
ness. He has become a religious fanatic, and
in letter to a friend in Camden, n j., says
he has been directed by God to infict daily
corporal punishment upon himself as PEN
ance for taking human life.
"A late invention that promises to push
itself into general use is a door lock that has
no key-a Formulation lock which offers no
obstruction to opening the door from the in
side, but which can only be opened from the
Outgidg hy a yphn knnuc tho nornh hina
tion. The lock is so arranged as to serve as
door-bel, giving the alarm when the knob
is turned by an Impractical hand.
"A New York hardware merchant named
White has trained flying squirrel which he
carries about in his pocket. 1t will counter
felt sleep, mimic flute-plsying with quill,
jump ct the word, and do some other tricks
Mr. White has carried it % 900 miles in the
past year, and members of the geological So
ciety at London were 80 pleased with it that
they made him life member.
"A lawsuit to settle the ownership of o
large meteoric stone which recently fell in
Emmett, Ia, is about to be tried. The owner
of the land on which it fell claims it to be his
for that reason, and the man who saw it fall
and dug it up believes the court will hold his
title perfect. The stone is quite valuable as
it weighs 600 pounds.
"A plan has been proposed for lighting
the entire Swiss Canton of Vaud by electrci-
| ty. The motive force would be derived from
turbines of 5000 horse-power and, the water
supply being constant and abundant, the pro-
| jectors have good reason for believing that
gas, which is very expensive in Switzerland,
may be almost entirely superseded through
out the district.
Silver spring, in Georgia, is said to be
the largest in the world. 1t is the source of
the Oklawaha river, which is 60 feet wide at
the start, 10 feet deep, and has a current run
ming two miles an hour. All this vast guam
| tity of water comes from the spring, whose
only inlets are at the bottom. 1t is about two
acres in extent, and its mysterious depths
have never been explored.
In the swamps of western North Carolina
| there wanders o wild woman, sometimes in
| perfectly nude condition, and again clothed in
skins roughly fastened together with withes
of oak. She is described by huntsmen who
have seen her as being tall, 1.-THE and muscu-
lar, with coalbl hair falling in a tangled
mass below her waist. Recently three hunt
ers tried to capture her, but she easily beat
them of with a small sapling which she tore
from the ground.
For unblushing assurance Rev. Edward
! Cowey ex-convlct and ex-shepherd of the
Shepherds Fold, New York, is entitled to the
| uIhl BIcullulls Ilo udb hehtu lu6 leRlblhtuIo
to overturn the judgment of the court which
sent him to prison for year aud made him
pay fine of $3.50 for starving little Louis
Victor. Also, he would be pleased to have
the legislature pay the debts he incurred in
starving the lambs in his fold to the amount
of SG5OO
The great oil fields of Wyoming territory
cover an area of 80, 600 square miles, but can
not be proftably operated so long as the
| Pennsylvania oil regions hold out When the
production of the Allegheny valley falls be-
low the daily consumption and the immense
stock of petroleum now on hand is exhausted,
these Wyoming regions will be valuable prop
erty. In anticipation of the oil industry CO.
ing west, several English capitalists are al,
ready negotiating Tor large tracts of land in
the oil-producing section, which is at the eX'
treme western end of the territory.
The Middletown (N Y.) Mercury says
lady residing in this village, the mother Of
a bright little boy, was talking with him one
night, as she was putting him to bed, about
the efficacy of prayer, and told him that If he
would ask God for anything he particularly
desired, she had no doubt his request would
be granted. The little fellow knelt at his
mothers knee, and prayed God to send him
so little sisters and 100 little brothers. The
prayer was never finished, for the mother,
|
turned into an orphan asylum, tucked the
boy into bed without moments unnecessary
delay.
Mother, " said an agitated young woman
as she leaned over the PROSTATE form of an
old lady who had been knocked senseless in
a Chicago street by runaway horse and car
ried into the nearest drug store for resusoita
tion, "mother, are you hurt 2" The CROWD
fell back with ordinations of pity, and &
gentleman handed her the old lady's handbag
which he had picked up after the accident
Thereupon, saying she would go for the fam
lily doctor, she left the door and disappeared
down the street. few minutes later the olC
lady regained her senses and asked for hel
hand-b On being told that it had beeI
given to her daughter, she uttered the singh
word, "Robbed !" and tainted dead away. A
, last accounts the police were searching TO
the daughter"
t One wintry day Hawthorne received no
tice at his Office that his services would be NJ
3 longer required as collector OF customs a
Salem With heayiness Of heart, says Con
4 way, he repairs to his humble home. Hi
young wife recognizes the change, and stand
s waiting for the silence to be broken. A
length he falters: II am removed from OF
Q fee" Then she leaves the room soon sh
Q returns with fuel and kindleg a bright FIR
8 with her own hands next brings pen, pa
Q per, ink, and sets them before him. The
J. she touches the sad man on the shoulder
and as he turns TO the beaming face says
"Now you can write your book" The clou
J, lifted The lost office looked like a Gag
o from which he had escaped. The book
o was "The Scarlet Letter"