Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-12-07
NO. 40.


| Thanksgiving day.
Paul Tulane has given million dollars
to the university of New Orleans.
An ex.Chief Justice Of Arizona is report
ed to be now serving as a waiter in q Califor-
mia restaurant.
M. de Lesseps has contracted with Eng
lish shipowners to either enlarge the present
Suez canal or build a new one.
France produces 500, 600 900 worth Of
lace annually. Lace makers in the principal
regions average 30 cents a day.
If the area Of the United States was az
| densey settled as that of France, there would
be room here for $50, OOO 600 people.
The New England Institute fair building
at Boston has been transformed into an i'm
mense roller skating rink.
Two freight trains, one containing lot
Of laborers collded near Saint Meen, France,
last week Eighteen persons we're killed and
10 seriously hurt.
Gov. Buffers buckskin charger "Phil, "
which carried him through the rebellion, is
one Of the sights of Lowell. The horse is
| 80 years old and Gov. Butler has owned him
| - years
1t is said that nearly all the idols wor-
SHIPPED in Africa and India ere sent from Eng
land, and that the freight on them is more
than that on all the Bibles and other books
sent 20 those countries.
"A state convention OF the colored people
Of Virginia has been called to meet in Nor.
folk Dec. 10 to expose ''the methods of the
Bourbon party" and to give TO the public
| ''the true history of the Danvile massacre"
Engineers in building new bridge over
| the Rhine at Mayence have come upon the
foundations Of the old bridge built by Charlie
magne 100 years ago. Some 30 piles from
10 to Is feet long have been taken out in good
| preservation with iron rivets still in them.
Gen. Phil Sheridan told the Chicagoans
at the farewell banquet they rendered him,
| that if they would spend more money for
| good streets they would need to spend less
for hospitals, and in course of time would
make theirs the most beautiful city in the
| world.
Prof. Brooks of the Red House Observa-
tory at Phelps, N. Y. discovered Wednesday
evening of last week, a wonderful shower of
telescope meteors, and thinks they may have
some connection with the remarkable red
light lately seen near the sun at sunset and
sunrise.
The colony of Hebrew refugees from
Russia which was established in Middlesex
county, Va, year ego has proved q disas-
trous failure, after an expenditure of about
| $4,000. The failure is attributed to lack of
agricultural knowledge and dislike of farm
work.
The "wishbone" wedding has become
the correct thing. The couple stand beneath
a floral wishbone. After the ceremony the
bride and groom are given the wishbone to
pull. The tug results in break somewhere,
and whoever holds the long piece is absolved
from getting up to build fires in the morning.
A man of scientific turn gave a COW at
| Binghamtou, N. Y, a quart Of whiskey in a
bran mash the other day and awaited devel-
opments. When the fluid worked the old
bossy started out and made things so lively
with her horns that the whole town Joined in
suppressing her, and when calmness returned
she jumped down a bank and broke her neck.
"A party of rowdies had their own way
in railroad train near Columbus o., and the
timid conductor was at his wits end to know
how to protect his passengers when a
powerful man with q Scotch cap came for
ward and led the attack. After the disturb
ers of the peace had been put off the train
the conductor asked the name of the strang-
er, and found that it was Joseph Cook.
Mr.. Moody was found fault with in Lon
don the other day for not adopting the tradi-
tional form and order in his services but he
retorted in his next great meeting that "bish-
ops and such people are fond of order and
routine" and furthermore, that 'to the Phar-
isees of his time Jesus Christ was out of Or
der, and so was the man who baptized him" 4"
His audience actually applauded him.
Several weeks ago L. G. Priest, steward
of the City hotel at Keene, N. H., boxed up
and sent by express cat to friends in Cam
bridgeport Mass, via Boston. 1t reached its
destination all right, but after two or three
weeks was missed, and last week the cat re-
appeared at Keene and expressed great salts
faction at again meeting with old friends. 1t
is a mystery how the animal found its way
back.
The national banks have been enormous
ly profitable to the government every year
from their creation down to the present time.
Their actual cost to the government from
1868 to 1888 accordingto to Comptroller Knox =
report, has been S., 60 669, and during that
time they have paid in taxes the sum of $l24
1Sl, 479 ST. exclusive of their taxes to munio-
ipalties. The state and local taxation amount
ed to nearly as much more.
Col. Frank Wolford, congressman from
the Kentucky mountains, is "a character. y
When he entered the room assigned to him
in Washington hotel he proceeded to re-
duce its furnishings to military simplicity.
He had the 'cyarpet' first taken of the
floor. The next to go were the hair mattress
and wire springs. He wanted straw bed on
stats and straw pillow. The curtains were
torn out Of the windows. Then Congress
man Wolford moved in his baggage and was
ready 10 see his friends.
The rivalry between two clothing houses
at Cleveland, Ohio, has reached such pitch
that they are Offering extraordinary prizes to
customers. Finally one hitched fine horse
in the store aud announced that the animal,
together with house and lot, would be Civ.
en- away to customers at drawing 20 occur
next February. The other firm came prompt
ly forward with a house completely furnish
| laa l., kha ina falk ha
competition of these houses SO much thai
they got them indicted for running lotteries
but owing to O flaw in the indictment the case
was thrown out when it came into court.
-Krupp has just taken out a patent on q
fat.headed artillery projectile. The pointed
proiectiles, as is well known, are apt to de
fleet when striking iron plates or water at Ger
tain angles. The new projectile, slightly Ia
pering at the butt will not only pierce the
plates all the more easily but is also calculated
to hit the ironclads below the water line. IL
order that the resistance of the air against the
J hlttened head may not impede the celebrity o.
the projectle, the latter is provided with {
pointed tin cap, filled with grease, which cal
: drops of on striking the object, and, greasinl
the head of the ball, facilitates its entrance.
Because railroads make the change o
: time standards at their termini the dividing
line between the eastern and central distriot
, bends about over range of more than fou
degrees 1t touches Port Huron, Mich.
where the Grand Trunk comes in, and theme
runs to Detroit, Buffalo, Erie, Pittsburg
? Wheeling, Parkersburg Huntington and Au
gusta, and all these places must of cours
have the confusion of two standards an hou
! apart On the line between the central an
d mountain divisions the towns are of cours
j. fewer and smaller Toyah, Dodge City, Wa
lace, North Platte and Bismarck
: -Pere Hyaeinthes first sermon in Ne'
York before q French Protestant Episoopl
. church naturally turned upon the church Q
:, Rome and the Protestants. He likened Catt
olicism to the centripetal force in the reli(
ious heavens, and Professionalism to the ceI
d trifugal influences, finding them both doin
Q their proper work. He has not weakened /
d all in his enmity to the corruptions of Rome
}, but he significantly said that religion cannC
IS be built upon negation. He has a MOTTO
d that authority and liberty can be 80 joine
q that the new cathedrals chimes will sun
mon Catholics and Protestants to one commo
g worship"
3 Exploration of a great prehistoric noun
n in Kanawha county, West Va, has reveale
!, some interesting facts. The mound is
n feet high and covers nearly an acre. Il
g sinking shaft to the crypt in the centre tw