Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-17
IN GENERAL.

A marriage license was issued in Darien,
Ga, recently, to Abram Livingston, aged
100 years, and Margaret Jones, aged S3
years.
A cave, surprising Mammoth cave of
Kentucky in extent and magnihcence, is re-
ported to have .been discovered on Lookout
Mountain, near Fort Payne, Ala.
Prof. Morse in 1914 offered to sell out
the whole telegraph business aud his line
from Washington to New York to the govern
ment for 800, 600.
Charles L. Colby son of Gardner Col
by, who endowed the college which bears his
name at Waterville, Me, has given 81 ,O00,-
600 to establish new university in Wiscon-
sin.
The Mexican government is enc ouraging
the manufacture of paper and textile fabrics
| from cactus, and has recently granted i'm
portant concessions to the individuals who
propose engaging in the new industry.
Mr. Flood, the "bonanza king" will be-
| gin the erection of a magnificent residence
on Mob Hill, San Francisco, the coming win
| ter. II will cost So, 600, 600 and surpass
Vanderblts house in splendor of interior
| decoration.
Glasgow has 80, 800 houses of one room
| each, 52 600 of two rooms, II, 700 of three
rooms GGOO of four rooms, and G200 of five
rooms or over. Two.thirds of the people
live in houses of not more than two apart
ments The operative class in these close
quarters are very prolific, and there are $50
families Of from ten to sixteen persons. This
means a population of about 10000 persons
in 1858 apartments, or more than five to a
room according to calculation by Bret
Harte.
DR. Prime has found an odd monument
| in Northern New York. A good man had
lived happily with an excellent wife until
they were well on in years, when she died.
He bethought him of some fitting memorial
to place over her grave, and the happy
thought struck him that the square stove, by
which they had been comfortable through
many long winters, would be just what she
would like to have If she had a voice in the
matter. He had the stove taken to the
churchyArd and placed over the remains of
his companion, who sleeps quietly underneath
it.
The friends of W. W. johnson, of Web
ster, Mass, hope to welcome him home next
October from an extraordinary journey. Mr.,
Webster went to California three years ago
but becoming dissatisfied with his surround
ings decided to return. He owned beauu
full young Jersey COW, which he intended tC
sell before his departure, but the man who
was to buy her having tried to cheat him, ht
determined in his evaporation, to drive he
home to Massachusetts,. He started on Junt
l, 1882, with horse and wagon and the COW
which is shod to protect her feet. At OgdeI
he had to stop for some important papers
but they were delayed so long that he decid
ed to 70 into winter quarters there. On thu
, 14th of last May he started again, and OF
August he arrived in Des Moines. He is Il
excellent health and spirits, and the COW is il
{ perfect condition, but the horse is little tn
, worse for wear.
/ The latest discovery is that of Noah
a | ark The craft had been missing for som
r time and grave apprehensions existed con
i cerning it but it has now been found on tn
: top of Mt Ararat. 1t appears that som
a Turkish commissioners appointed to invest
n gate the question of avalanches on MouI
Q Ararat suddenly came upon a gigantic strut
i ture of very dark wood protruding from
v glacier This they ascertained to be the arl
s There was an Englishman among them VIII
J. had presumably read his Bible and he saw
e was made of the ancient gopher wood {
# Scripture. Effecting an entrance into th
p structure, which was painted brown, the
d found that the interior was divided into pa
/. titions fifteen feet high. Into three of thei
3, only could they get, the others being full
te ice and how far the ark extended into u
a. glacier they could not tell. Needless to say
ii SAYS the Pail Mall Gazette, IAN Ameriof
a. was soon ON the spot, and negotiations ha,
d. been entered into with the local Pacha for
b speedy transfer to the United States.