Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-11-14
NO. 46.
IN GENEnAL.

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-Alabamss coal fields, as yet practically
untouched, are half as large az those Of Eng
land.
The oyster exists from Halifax to Charles
ton, and the swapping turtle from Canada to
the equator.
There is not steam fre-engino in the
whole of Italy. Little engues with hand
pumps are still used.
1t is said that the bones Of 80, 600 buffa.
loes have been shipped from Dakota to the
East this season.
1t is said that of the q translators of the
new version OF the Old Testament u have
died during the work.
-Dahlias, which are of Mexican origin, are
said to have been named after one Dahl, who
introduced them into Germany.
England makes 300, ,OOO, 600 gallons Of
beer every year, Germany 100000 900, and
the United States SOC, 600, 600.
"A man at Portland, Or, obtained di-
vorce from his wife because she pulled him
out OF bed three times by his whiskers.
The area Of public land disposed of in
Dakota last year was larger than either Bel.
GUM, Denmark, Greece or Switzerland.
Birmingham, Eng, has a railway station
which cost 80 000 900. 1t is supposed to be
the largest structure OF the kind IN the world.
Horace Greeley never said Good morn
ing or Good evening"" "How do you do ?"
"Good-by," or inquired after anybodys
health.
"A Chinese doctor at Victoria, b. c., is re-
ported to have made some remarkable cures
in cases which white physicians had given up
as incurable.
A nine-ton lump Of coal, claimed as the
largest ever mined, will represent the coal in
terests of birmingham, Ala, at the New Or
leans exposition.
-Oonversation was held by telephone be-
tween st. Petersburg and Boogne, distance
Of 2i65 miles, recently. The experiment was
conducted at night.
/ Capt. John Ericsson, Of monitor fame,
is now, it is said studying up a process of
moving machinery by heat derived from the
concentrated rays Of the sun.
"A new Chinese theatre accommodating
1900 people, has been built in Los Angeles,
Cal, and winter visitors are expected to de-
velop craze for the drama.
An Indian in the Cascade Mountains re-
Gently wounded an elk, and before he could
reload his gun the elk charged on him with
his sharp feet and killed him.
They are trying in Germany to get a sub
stitute for India-rubber, and sulphur is one
of the things proposed, as it becomes elastic
after being melted teW times.
George W. Child4 of Philadelphia. is
collecting money for the restoration of the
church at Stratford-on Avon, the birth place
and the burial place of Shakspere.
"A cooperative house-cleAnng company is
one of New Yorks latest innovations. Its
plan is to put house, from garrett to cellar,
into spick and span order by contract.
Gen. Grant, who is writing an account OF
his battles, said recently that he enjoyed
writing better than he ever enjoyed anything
else in his life. more than fighting" he
was asked, and he laughed and answered
heartily, II never liked that"
There is wire enough under the ocean in
the form of telegraphic cables to run to the
moon and back five times. The cables are
altogether GO, 900 miles long, and have an av-
erage OF 40 wires each, jacket and core to-
gether.
A "poor" blind man in Troy, n. Y, was
lately robbed of $3.50 by some young rascals
who pretended to be leading him to the coun-
ty house, where he is accustomed to lodge.
The blind man is a street beggsr, and had the
money in an inside vest pocket.
The household feline is one of the most
valuable of fur bearing animals, and when
they disappear from the back yard they often
find their way to the furrier. In 1882 over
100000 house cats were used by the fur
trade. Their skins we're made into Innings.
BY most careful series of levels run by
the United States coast survey from Sandy
Hook and the mouth Of the Mississippi river
to st. Louis, ii has been demonstrated that
the Atlantic ocean at the first mentioned points
is 40 inches lower than the Gulf of Mexico.
The widow of President Polk who was
81 in September last, has watched this years
political contest closely at her home in Nash
ville Tenn. Although increasing age has
somewhat diminished her partisan ardor, she
expects to retain to the last her deep interest
in national affairs.
The Conservatory of Music in Mexico
has over 2OOO pupils, and high degree of
musical talent with all necessary means for
its cultivation, exists in that country. Nearly
every house has piano, music is taught in
the schools, and the military bands are un-
surpassed in excellence.
1t is said that the export of frozen NUT
ton from New Zealand to Great Britain this
year will amount to more than half a million
sheep, in spite of the high freight charges.
An effort is to be made to reduce the carrying
rates, when it is expected that the export of
frozen meats will reach large proportions.
Public telephone service has been estab-
lished throughout Belgium, and for franc
merchant in Brussels may converse five min
utes with friend or business correspondent
in Antwerp or Liege. An extra ten cents en-.
titles him to an additional five minutes. 1t
is thought this system will largely supersede
the sending of written kilograms.
Genuine earthworms exist in many parts
of the world which are giants of their kind.
An example of one of these has just been re-
ceived at the London Geological Gardens
from the Cape of Good Hope 1t measures
between four and FIVE feet iu length and about
hall oh hoI ay,A ha,h haaV,
stated that this particular species sometimes
attains to six feet.
Eighteen ravens we're captured near Grid
ley, CAL, short time ago in somewhat Gu
rious way. flock of 800 swooped down on
the backs of a number of sheep that were
grazing, and in the birds eagerness to get a.
| way eighteen of them got their tslons fastened
in the sleeps wool, where they were held
| captive until secured by lookers-on.
There is a religious sect in Ohio, called
the Amish, who have been banging their hair
| for l50 years. Professional BARRIERS are scOrn-
ed, and fathers cut the childrens hair, while
mothers perform the same ceremony for the
fathers. Beginning at the temple the shears
are run in direct line over the ear and down
the neck, thence up over the other ear to the
| other temple, and the result is a most beauti.
full bang.
A new aup sthetic discovered by DIR. Kol.
Ter of Vienna proves to be of great value.
The discovery, which was accidental, was that
a few drops of a two per cent solution of Co.
caine hydro. chlorate placed in his eyes rem
dered them insensible to the touch. The eff
cacy of this sn@7thetic has been tested at a
hospital in New York, in a case of double
over, mature cataract. The patient a woman
of 80, was placed upon the operating chair,
and few drops of the solution we're put into
the eye. This was repeated three times at in
tervals of fve minutes. The operation was
performed without causing the patient who
was conscious throughout, any pain. Since
that time other operations, upon the eye aud
| the mucous cavities of the nose, throat, etc,
have been painlessly performed.
In his five weeks tour in the West Mr.,
Blaine travelled an average of 225 miles day
| in all about IL, 600 miles. Not counting
the times when he merely said How do you
do 2" and "Good-by," he delivered 800 ad-
dresses. Il is estimated that he saw face to
face nearly 5,OOO,OOO people, 1000, 600 Of
whom were in Ohio. Every night he talked
by telegraph with his wife and children at
home, telling them in a few words of the
days experiences and of how he was feeling,
and then heard from them the days budget
of family and local news so that nothing of
even minor importance concerning his homo