Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-05-18
NO. 20.
IN GENERAL.

-Nazaroth has telegraph ofice-the first
opened in the Holy Land.
And now Barnum he has secured the
King Of Slams famous white elephant for
his greatest show on earth"
The city passenger railway Of Montreal
Is trying to do away with horses on its street
cars, and will experiment with electricity as
a motive power.
1t is said that J. W. Mackay, one Of the
California bonanza kings, has bought the
Madison Square garden site in New York and
that magnificent hotel far ahead Of any
thing Of the sort in the city, is to be erected
thereon.
To add to the attraction of Sloan's lake,
a beautiful sheet of water near Denver, the
company which owns it has discovered that
it rises and falls about foot at certain fixed
intervals with regular tidal movement Il
is the only lake in the world that behaves in
this way.
The narrowest house in New York is only
five feet wide 1t is built upon strip of land
left by street widening The owner of this
and the adjoining lot could not agree upon a
sale, and as a result a house Eve feet wide,
100 feet doep and four stories high was built
1t is divided into two tenements, each 80 feet
long, and the rent asked for one is $500.
According to story in London paper,
the Japanese government has become so i'm
pressed by the stories of missionaries that it
sent commission to England to learn lust
what the practical working of Christianity is
IN Christian land. After Is months of Lon
don life, the commissioners are said to have
gone home and reported that Christianity ex-
eicises less restraint upon crime, especially
drunkenness, than either Buddhism or Shin.
toism. So tho state religion of Japan will re.
main unchanged.
The small boy has discovered dynamite
Cleveland man kept on hand for blasting
rocks few shells loaded with the explosive
and hid them in the barn for safety. His lit
tie son found them, of course, supposed they
were exploded SHELLS Of pistol cartridges, took
them for playthings, and gave several to bows
at school, one of whom placed a shell on the
end of slate pencil, fred the charge, and
had both hands torn TO pieces. The shells
were of small pistol calibre, a little larger
than an ordinary cartridge, and contained
pieces of dynamite about the size of kernel
of wheat.
A Spanish magistrate, shocked and exas-
perated by repeated proof of the adulteration
of food in his district, has issued proclama-
ton ahame with righteous wrath declaring
that 'all articles in the shape OF wine. GRO.
ceries and provisions, which upon examina-
lon and analysis are proved to be injurious
TO health, will be confscated forthwith and
distributed to the different charitable institu.
uons. lie has his prototype in the prosper
GUS old farmer who, when q generous mess
of green pease had been shelled for the fami-
ly dinner, told the hired man to take the
pods to the orphan asylum"
"A huge freight engine that had fallen
through drawbridge into Bush river. near
HaVre de-Grace, Md, was successfully raised
few days ago. The engine was several feet
under water and completely imbedded in mud.
Divers were sent down to dig under the loco.
motive so that heavy chains could be placed
under it. These were fastened to four heavy
scows, which were filed with water at low
tide. The water was afterward pumped out.
and when the tide began to rise so did the en-
glne. Other scows were brought, and the
operation repeated with successive tides until
the engine was lifted upon large float. II
was found to be but little injured.
The latest piece of medievalism on the
part of the czar is to practically forbid Rus
slams to leave the country for any purpose by
enormously increasing the tax on foreign
passports. Instead of ten roubles year for
whole family, the fee is to be made IL rou-
bles a month for every member of the family.
This is rebuilding around Russia the wall that
Alexander II. had the good sense to tear down,
ana II cannot fall to greatly affect the travel
to foreign countries for personal and scientific
purposes, which under the previous czar had
grown from almost nothing to nearly $50, 600
a year. Naturally good deal of unhealthy
dissatisfaction is felt at this action by the in
tuential classes in Russia.
The new West Shore railroad from New
York to Buffalo parallels the Hudson river
and Central road, separated only by river.
There are more than %, 600 laborers at work
on this line-more men than the entire army
of the United States Many of them are ut
ter strangers to America. They cannot speak
word of our language, and actually, for all
practical purposes, have no names, but wear
metallic tags, numbered, SO that a man is No.
10 or No. >, 40, or anything else that may
be- Occasionally there is an accident, and the
local papers report that IAN Italian, No. Az,
had his leg broken, or otherwise suffered. By
August the road will be completed and this
great nameless army let loose.
An interesting fact about Russia is that
in many of its coldest provinces fruit growing
is an important industry. In the province of
hazan, $50 miles farther north than Winni-
peg, and where the mercury in winter some
times falls as low CO. below zero, apples
are grown in large quantities at a profit. In
the province of Vladimir, which is almost as
cold as kazan, cherries of excellent quality
are raised in great abundance. Both apples
and cherries are shipped from these provinces
in large quantities. In these high latitudes
fruit trees are apt to be small, generally not
over eight feet tall, and are planted in clumps,
like stalks of corn. Their low spreading
cous fruit.