Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-12
IN GENERAL.

rule Of the colleges there will soon be an end
to bachelor professors, In a class of FIVE
girls in the Harvard annex" two Of them
have already managed to capture their teach.
ers.
christopher Mann Of Independence, Mo-,
celebrated his 1O9th birthday recently, and is
the Oldest man in the state. He was born in
Virginia, once lived in Kentucky, where he
knew Daniel Boone, has been twice married
and had 20 children born TO him, of whom II
are now living and enjoys good health.
No fewer than 22OO trains leave the rail
way stations Of London every twenty-four
hours. OF these 1850 serve the suburbs and q
suburban region of thirty miles around the
city. Fifteen leave for Scotland and Ireland,
and sixteen for the Continent As many
trains arrive as depart and the motion TO and
fro is never stilled.
Taking hint from the successful trans
portation of oil in pipes, il is now proposed TO
pump the brine of salt springs to the neigh
borhood of coal beds instead of carrying the
coal to the salt springs for the purpose of
eyaporating the water. II is anticipated that
waste coal may bo utilized in this way, and
money saved besides in the lessened cost of
transportation.
1t is reported that carrier pigeons are
used for smuggling diamonds from Canada
into northern New York, and that in two
years the birds have brought in quilts tied to
their necks 500, 900 worth of the stones.
Federal Judge Blodgett discharged a de-
serter from the army at Chicago recently,
holding that as he was under 81 when he en-
listed he was not bound by the contract of
enlistment although he swore falsely that he
was of age.
M. Victor Saint Paul has placed $4,000
at the disposal of the Paris Academy of Med
icine as prize to any person, whatever may
be his vocation or nationality, who shall sue
coed in discovering an infallible means of
curing diphthera.
The Louisville Post checks the exulting
over the fact that Kentucky has no debt, by
remarking that the state has "a barn for a
state-house, black hole of Calcutta for a
prison. no suitable receptacle for lunatics and
pauper idiots, and embraces in her population
$4,000 voters, white and black, who cannot
read"
At one of the colored churches in Char
lotte, N. c., on recent Sunday evening" a
woman shouted so energetically that she dis
located her jaw, making her mouth stand
open to its fullest capacity. She left the
church and went through the street with her
mouth standing wide open, followed by the
greater part of the congregation in search of
a doctor, and one being found the unhinged
member was forced back into its place. She
was judiciously advised to keep her mouth
shut hereafter.
Stuffed birds are out of style for ladies'
hats in Paris and stuffed kittens heads take
their places
The Salvation Army will soon celebrate
its 18th birthday, and still the strange organ
ization continues to grow. There are now
j91 corps, against 800 a year ago, and the
Officers" number 146O against 7G6. There
has been considerable increase in British In
dia, and in Australia and New Zealand there
are 2i C orps and 40 officers Twelve news
papers, each called the "War Cry" are pub
lished in different parts of the world, and
four more are projected.
"A lady of Berlin, possessed of some prop.
erty, sent letters to all her relatives (and their
name was legion), inviting them to come and
see her ION an important family matter"
They came in expectation and in troops, and
were received at the station by her two sons.
On arriving at the house it was discovered
that the good dame had taken the opportunity
of hanging herself, and had left behind her
nothing but numerous invitations to her fu-
neral.
"A new and complete edition of the works
of Martin Luther is about to be begun under
the auspices of the German government.
The first volume will soon make its appear
ance, and the others will follow at the rate Of
two or three each year. The publication Of
the thirty five volumes which comprise the
set will thus occupy ten or twelve years.
One 2jth day of September two or three
years ago, great Mongolian philosopher fell
asleep, and his soul was transported to the
moon, where he saw play. Coming back to
earth he built the first theatre and collected
the first company of actors ever known in the
mn haf OF cd lnV,fr akttla
ing the Moon, which the Chinese celebrate
on each succeeding anniversary.
A Polish priest near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
has got himself into trouble by warning his
congregation not to spend their Sundays
drinking in the saloons of his parishioners.
This attack on their business so irritated the
saloon-keepers that they presented charges
against the priest, which we're dismissed by
the bishop, and the saloon keepers and their
customers thereupon shut the priest out Of
his own church, or rather out of the bishops
church.
When Jay Gould was a tanner near
Stroudsburg Pa, he went into town one day
and bought a suit of clothes, which he great
ly needed, but found he bad not money
enough to pay for them. In his dilemma the
wife of the local innkeeper came to the res
cue, and guaranteed the payment. In time
Gould liquidated the claim. Aud now every
year the innkeeper's wife, whose grown.up
children are scattered TO the four corners of
the country, receives passes over all the Gould
railroads in order that she may visit them.
Between Bismarck, OAK, aud the Little
Missouri is burning mine from 10 to 10 rods
square. 1t has been on fire since the first Wis.,
it by white men and no one knows how many
centuries before 1t gives red glow and
forms but little sulphurous acid. Sulphur is
akalsv vnI Nha "A NH
the crevioes. There is no smoke, but the air
quivers with the heat The "bad lands, on
which this and a number of other such mines
are situated, are themselves probably, the
ashes of extinct coal fres
A Long Island presbytery had queer
| session the other day. The ministers got
worked up into lively excitement over 9
| church trouble in Babylon, and one of them
charged another with falsehood, and then as.
serted that he was not Of sound mind, and
committee was appointed TO investigate. The
session closed with solemn vote that con-
verts from the Roman Catholic church must
be baptized over again TO be acceptable in the
| sight of God. And this-heaven save the
mark lis religion.
A government clerk has just died in
Washington who was never "short" in his
| accounts or in stocks either. Maj. L. T. Alb
| bott was "a when he died and had been clerk
over 40 years he was old bachelor, and only
few days before his death gave the family
! that took care of him a house and under his
pillow was found $33, 900 in government
per cents besides money and securities else
where.
1t is claimed that the cocoAnut is exceed
ingly valuable as an article of food, and
among other illustrations it is stated that a
vessel from San Francisco for Sydney, with
400 passengers, running short of stores, put
into Samsa, where large quantity of cocoa
nuts were obtained The rest of the passage
was stormy, the vessel became wsterlogged,
and was eighty days in reaching Sydney,
The provisions ran short, and men, women
and children were fed only upon coooanuts,
being at last reduced 10 one per diem for each
adult. Notwithstanding the diet, not life
was lost and not a single case Of sickness oc-
Cured, all the passengers landing in healthy
and well-nourished condition.
There died in New Orleans a few day
ago al aged negro, George Lafiere by name
who boasted most romantic history. La
fere claimed to be 10 years of age, and was
certainly very old, as when he was brough
TO New Orleans as a slave in 1903, eight!
years ago, he was full grown man over sil
feet in height. He claimed TO have beeI
named Myaks and to have been the prince o