Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-15
NO. "a.
IN GENERAL.


this year than last
--Cornishvle, Kentucky village of 300
inhabitants has had 33 murders in 18 years.
Grace church, in New York, will have a
marble spire 23O feet in height, and on it will
be an illuminated cross, which will be seen
far out at sea.
The prospects for an abundant fruit crop
along the east shore Of Lake Michigan in the
noted fruit belt are said to be unusually
fattering. A large yield of peaches is ex-
pected
In 1910 there we're only seven vocations
outside the home into which the women of
New England had entered Now the women
of Massachusetts are employed in 2Si branch
es Of industry, including the arts and profess
sions.
One of the latest foreign inventions Is
| that Of the manufacture of bottles, etc, from
cast iron containing some ~ per cent OF ST.
licum, compound which is said to resist the
action of the strongest acids.
1t is reported that a gun for splitting logs
is being made at foundry in Marysville,
! Cal II is to be charged with a half pound
of powder, AMI then screwed into the end of
log and fred by means of fuse. Log guns
of similar pattern are in use in Australia.
"A method of coating the surface of wood
so as to render it as hard as stone has come
into vogue in Germany. The composition is
mixture of forty parts of chalk fifty of
resin, and four of linseed oil, melted together,
| then adding one part of copper, and finally
one part of suphuric acid. 1t is applied hot
with brush.
An old lady who does not believe in the
co.education of the sexes was reioiced the
| other day to find that, although the girls and
| boys in large seminary seemed to be play
ing some sort of game together, the school
authorities had wisely hung long net be-
tween them.
George II. Daubner, Wisconsin farmer
worth ) 900 or $j0,000, was recently con-
victed of obtaining a pension by fraud, in
cluding arrears to the amount of S3jOO, and
on Saturday was sentenced to three years
hard labor in prison. His wife was present
when sentence was passed, and both wept
| bitterly
The roof Of poor widow house in Cor
wallis, Oregon, was burned off few Sundays
| ago. All the town turned out to assist the
only engine and the hook and ladder company
in extinguishing the flames, and before they
were fairly out the crowd made up fund of
5000, which it was thought would be suffi.
| cient to repair the damage done.
When Jennie Miles, aged 16 years, was
attacked the other night on lonely street of
New Haven by burly negro she did not
Y,
stamped vicously on the negros bare feet
with her sharp boot heels, pulled big punches
of hair from his whskers and finally tumbled
him over dyke into q stream of water and
made her escape.
Information has been received at Litch-
| field, ILL.,, from a person at Milersville
| Christian county, that book containing the
name of j. F. Blackburn of Litchfeld was
picked up about a mile east of that place in
the track of the late cyclone. The book was
carried from Woodsboro, where Mr.. Black
burns house was demolished, distance of
more than thirty miles from the place where
it was found
The famous Island No. TO-" in the
Mississippi river, no longer exists, and the
place whore it stood is known only by slight
ripple on the water. Before the war it con-
tained 400 acres, fine residence a splendid
orchard and all the concomitants of pros
porous plantation. During the war the
shores were lined with batteries supported by
| 700O men.
Mr.. Blaine, in private letter, speaking
| of the liquor question in his state says "In-
| temperance has steadily decreased in the state
since the enactment of the Prohibtory law,
until now it can be said with truth there is
no people of the Anglo-Saxon World among
whom so small an amount of intoxicating
| liquor is consumed as among the 650,000 in
habitants of Maine"
"A mothers love was recently exemplifed
at Norwich, N Y. The Grand Jury found
an indictment against Dr. Jayne for admins
tering poison with intent to kill or injure his
mother, and was required to find bail in $1,000
to appear for trial. His mother a feeble old
lady of a. appeared in court aud became
surety in the required amount. The son for
whom she thus manifested her devoted af-
fection is intemperate.
There seems to be no end to the uses
which may be made of paper. Not alone is
it made to do duty as pals, tubs, tableware
and floor mattings, car wheels and railroad
ties, houses and observatory domes, but now
We hear of steamboat which has been near
| ly completed made almost entirely of paper.
it is twenty feet long and has a carrying ca
! pacity of several tons. The sheathing is
solid body of paper three -eighths of an inch
in thickness. 1t will be used on the Ohio
river.
The ostriches on the rancho in California
have exploded the old story that the female
covers up her eggs and leaves them to be
| hatched out by the hot sun. The female sits
on the eggs in the daytime, and the male as
sumes that duty at night allowing the female
| to seek rest and recreation while he attends
to the household duties. The male is much
more solicitous for his household than is the
female. II not unIrequenIy happens lhRt
the latter prefers to CAD about rather than
take her turn at sitting, and on such occasions
her lord and master administers to her a de-
served chastisement by kicking her heartily
around the paddock until she manifests prop
er contrition and signifies her willingness to
settle down on the eggs
China possesses the longest bridge in the
| world 1t is at Langang, over an arm of the
China sea, and is five miles long, 70 feet high,
with a roadway 20 feet wide, and has 300
arches. The parapet is a balustrade, and
each of the pillars, which are 75 feet apart,
supports pedestal on which is placed lion
! 81 feet long, made of one block of marble.
The highest bridge in the world is said to be
the railway visduct at Garabit, in France,
now being erected over a river in the depart
ment of Cantal. The bridge has a total
length of about 1886 feet, and near the mid
die of the great centre arch, which is one of
the noteworthy features of the structure, the
height from the bed of the river to the rail
| is 413 feet The viaduct was commenced in
1881, and is to be completed next year.