Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-08-29

MT MOTIFS sargent, OF New Bedford,
Mass, % years old, rides bicycle every day
Mrs. Helen Hunt jackson, known to the
literary world as II. H., '" fell down stairs at
her home at Colorado Springs, a few days
since, and broke leg in three places.
Ono of the most remarkable telographic
febts on record was the recent delivery OF a
message from Melbourne to London in %
minutes. The message went by land and sea
over l3, 39S miles of wire.
"A breeze of Lake Erie recently blew the
lake flies into Cleveland until it was said that
1000 bushels lay rotting in the streets. These
flies live but a day, cannot bite, but are 50
stupid az to make most intolersble annoy
ance.
According to a report presented the other
day to the French academy OF science, bal
loon has lately been steered against the wind
near Versailles, and then veered round and
brought back to the starting point. II this
is true the long studied problem OF mrial nav
igaiion must be very near practical solution.
The baggage masters of the country at
their recent convention passed a resolution
asking everybody who travels to have trunks
or Ratchels marked with name and residence.
Then If the baggage goes astray it is sure to
get back some day.
The Oldest and largest tree in the world,
30 far as known, is the chestnut near the foot
of Mount Etns. 1t is hollow and large
enough to admit two carriages driving abreast
through it, The circumference of the main
trunk is 2l2 feet. The Grizzly Giant, mon
arch of the Mariposa Grove, measures 92
feet.
Step by step the leading food products Of
Europe are being reproduced in this country
Macaroni is made by Italians in New York,
Neufchatel cheese by Swiss in New Jersey,
Schweitzer kase by Germans in Ohio, Albert
biscuit by Englishmen in Albany, and oavisre
by Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of these
are exported to Europe, and there sold as do.
mestio manufactures.
Rev. Brooke Hereford protests in the
Boston Advertiser against any stigma being
placed on the Greedy men because OF their re
sorting to unnatural food in their extremity.
"Our pity, he says, SHOULD be deepened not
changed into rebuke; and our admiration
should not be lesFened, but only coupled with
an intensified sense of the extremity of their
su1erings."
The electrical street-car motor recently
put in operation in Cleveland, Ohio, is prov
ing success. The president of the street
car company estimates that with an expendi-
ture of $3.50, 600 for the plant-enginos, boil
ers, dynamos, motors and conduits-a saving
of something over $50, 600 year can be ef-
fected over the present cost of operation by
horses, beside securing to the company and
the public the benefit of rapid transit.
"A recent article in the India Times re-
veGls the fact that the custom among Bonn
bay husbands of the lower class of cutting
the noses of their offending wives is SO com
mon as to call for the most stringent repres.
sive measures. The miserable women who
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dered hideous ever afterward, and, because
they are women, it is simply impossible TO
calculate the misery and degradation that
they experience during the rest of their brief
lives.
California in tho sixteenth century was
tho general name applied to all the region
northwest of Mexico. II was said to have
originated in an old Spanish romance very
popular in the time of Oortez, in which ap-
peared a character called California, Queen of
the Amazons. The Mexicans told the Span
iards that most Of the gold and precious stones
came from country far to the northwest.
Cortez, therefore, turned his attention in that
direction and sent out several expeditions to
explore the CALIFORNIA;. All these adventur,
ers returned empty handed from the very re-
gion whore, three centuries after, the world
was startled by the finding of a land of gold.
Interest in the famous Tichborne case has
been now aud then revived in England by Of.
forts to secure pardon for the man who was
convicted of falsely personating Arthur Or
ton, the missing hrir to the great estate. The
Sydney (Australia) Herald of June 25, tells
of a new claimant in that country, and, from
the evidence produced, it looks as If the real
Orton had been found. He is known as Will
liam Oreswoll, aud he has just been released
from confinement as q lunatic at the solioita.
tiou of his brothers, Edward and Charles Or
ton. Many witnesses of good standing have
testified that Creswell is the Arthur 0rton
who sailed from England in the bark Middle
ten in 1852 and they point out scars and per.
sonal peculiarities upon Oreswell to support
their convictions.