Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-07-20
IN GENERAL.

The fishing population of Great Britain
numbers about ll3, 900 men and boys and the
lives of about $50 fisherman arc lost every
yeav at sea.
Senator Edmunds advises every tourist to
buy guide book, aud then avoid the beaten
paths it recommends 1t leads inevitably to
where fashion has gone, and if you want real
rest and recreation you must not go there.
Gen. Sheridans mother, So years of age.
still lives in the same house in Perry, Somer-
set county, o., in which he was born.
-Krupp's works at Essen, Germany, now
employ i39 steam boilers aud 4j6 steam en-
gines, with the aggregate of $500 horse
power. There are 50 steam hammers, carry
ing weights ranging from POO pounds to 80
tons.
There is a natural bridge in Arizona which
is said to far surpass in size the well-knOwn
natural bridge in Virginia.
The art of making Vasa Murrhina, the
famous glass of Egyptian or Tyrian origin,
which was lost for 20O0 years, has at last boen
recovered, and this glass is now being made
and introduced as centres for decoration and
for panels, tiles, etc. A factory for its man
ufacture is to be started at Chicago.
Justice in Minnesota operates queerly.
man at Mcpherson bought revolver and was
going to kill his family, His wife took the
weapon tIOu nm anu gave hlL4 IA liNhihBi hAh
a county Justice fined fined her S25 for it. If
the husband has to pay the fine it was bright
idea of the magistrates, but if otherwise he
| deserved a cowhiding himself.
-Slk-worm culture is extending rapidly.
A Bloomington (Ill.) lady began the business
last year, and has been so successful that 9th
| er ladies' in the same place have followed suit.
The industry has now been introduced IN
many states and the prospect is that it will
become an important one. 1t has the great
recommendation of being a business which
women can engage in and make profitable.
Senator Edmunds was charmed by Mount
Tacoma, in Washington territory II have
| been through the Swiss mountains" he says,
land am compelled to own that, incredible
as the assertion may appear, there is abso-
| lutely no comparison between the finest eff
fect5 that are exhibited there and what is
seen in approaching this grand isolated noun
| tain"
Glass is beginning to take the place of
wood and iron in making railroad bridges in
England The inventor makes blocks Of
glass, which he bardens by special process.
In solidity il is said they leave nothing to bo
desired. The experiments already made have
! given surprising results, and the cost is below
| that of bridges of wood or iron. Moreover,
glass cannot be injured by insects, like wood,
nor rusted like iron.
A few days ago the eolored teacher of a
| public school on Staten Island for colored chill
dren became i'll, and, mo other teacher of the
same complexion being Immediately obtalna-
BILE, the school trustees assigned young white
woman TO the place until his recovery. An
uproar ensued in consequence of which the
school was closed, pending the return OF the
disabled negro teacher. The colored pupils,
backed by their parents, unanimously refused
to be taught by a white teacher
The city of Denver, COL, is so high up in
the mountains feet above the level OF
the sea-that housekeopers find difficulty in
cooking meat and vegetables by boiling The
atmosphere is so rare that water boils at q
temperature too low to thoroughly cook some
kinds of food. While strangers complain
much of the thinuess Of the atmosphere, old
settlers are not much distressed, and children
born and reared there seem not to suffer in,
convenience in any way. They race up and
down the sides of the mountains at full speed
without finding any difficulty in breathing.
Their lungs are large enough to take in al
the air, light as 1t ia, that they require.