Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-07
IN GENERAL.

The saying that the Pilgrim Fathers first
fell on their knees and then on the aborigines
is credited to Bishop Williams of Connecti-
cut.
The largest peach farms are in Maryland.
On one estate there are 12j, 900 trees on an
other 100000.
John Flynn of Cincinnati, aged % years,
for thirteen years city newsboy, has sold his
stand for $22, 600, and will open hotel in
Denver.
Lieut. Switzerland of the Fifty-sixth
Regiment is the largest man in the British
service. He is eight feet four inches high,
and weighs about 364 pounds.
Mrs. Sanborn of Metuchen, N. j., ten
years ago swallowed a set of false teeth. Re-
Gently one tooth was extracted from her
shoulder and eight more from different parts
of the body.
Wolf Meyer, aged log, a veteran of the
wars of Napoleon l., died at Newark, N. j.,
the Both ult. He was a native of Western
Germany, and came to America with his rel
atives about twenty five years ago.
In the spring of 1880 the ground upon
which Albuquerque, New Mexico, now stands
was marsh intersected by irrigating bitches.
To day there stands on this ground q bustling
city of over 8 900 people.
1t is popular belief that the practice
/ OF rechOuluB lluo ItOm tue DlEln VI OuIlst
| was instituted soon after his death. The fact
is that the use of this epoch was introduced
in Italy in the 9th century by monk, Dion.
| ysius the Little, aud was not used in Gaul
and England till about two centuries later.
After FIVE years steady work the Protest
ant Episcopal cathedral at Garden City, Long
Island, built as a memorial monument TO A.
| T. Stewart, is pronounced finished. The
building, which cost o., OOO, 900 is of pure
Gothic style, aud presents superb appear
anee. There is a magnificent mausoleum be-
heath the chancel intended for the great mer-
chants remains but it is empty.
DR. A. w. Bullock, a druggist of Allie
ghany, N. Y, put up FIVE powders for Ger
man patient, one Ulster, on Monday, the lat
ter supposing he was being furnished with
quinne, for which he had asked. He took
one Of the powders on retiring for the night
He was found dead in bed in the morning
Dr. Bullock, on being informed of his fata
error, committed suicide by taking dose Of
the same poison.
Peppermint raising has been introduced
into East Mississippi, and has proved grea
success. The worlds annual consumption II
about 100 600 pounds of peppermint oil, ant
St. Joseph county, Mich. and Wayne county
N. Y, are the great peppermint centers o
the world At less than 81. 80 per pound
has not paid to cultivate it, but in East Miss
issippi it can be raised prohtably at $l.5
per pound.
Artificial eyes, in which article there is
larger trade than most people would imagine
are made at Stutzebach. in the Thuringie
/ Forest, Germany, and the industry employ
large force of skilled workmen, who imI
tate the human organ of sight with wonder
} full accuracy. 1t is a singular fact that Will
no human beings eyes are exactly like thos
, Of another, there is scarcely an eye that car
1 not be almost perfectly matched.
Never before, within the memory of thI
q famous oldest inhabitant, was so much built
b ing going on in New York and Brooklyn.
Q recent count here showed that building
t enough are going up to make homes for 10
d ia families, or 5O,874 persons. Many {
d these are immense and costly "Frenoh fiat
d houses, accommodating from 20 to 80 fam
. lies each. They range from to 10 stori'
d high, and on more than one Of them the ou
h lay counts up among the millions. In Brool
d lyn 1888 buildings, more than SIX for eae
working day. were completed last year, at
II cost of more than IS, 500, OOO In the FIR
" six months of this year ll66 were finished
g. in the same months last year 800. O.-Neio Y01
10 Letter.