Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-11
~ GENERAL.


-Rober1 Bonner's wealth Is reckoned at
$1,000 900.
Vermont has 10 camps of Sons of Veter-
ans, with membership of about 500.
The average ocean steamer burns 100 tons
OF coal day, and some twice as much.
Type writing has been introduced in the
Chicago public schools in an experimental
way, and class of 20 has two hours a week
on the machines.
An anti-pie society has been formed in
California, and the legislature has been petit
toned to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of pies as unhealthy.
"A large bald d-headed eagle has destroyed
many lambs near Climax, Mich. After kill
ing lamb the bird invariably took out its
lights and heart and left the CARCASS untouched.
An Erie, Pa, woman whipped her dsugh-
ter so vigorously for staying out late at a pic
mic that she herself fell dead from the eIsr-
ton. Girls ought not to stay out late at pic
MICS.
New York receives 800 barrels a week Of
white mineral from Mount Mitchell, in west
ern North Carolina, which is called "deoep-
tion rock" because 1t can be crushed into a
powder and safely used to adulterate sugar.
"A California paper says that sound con-
fined by the walls of the Grand Canon of the
Colorado is transmitted TO remarkable dis.
tances. A train of cars crossing the bridge at
the Needles is heard, on quiet day, at Cot
tonwood Island, eighty-four miles away the
music of fife and drum at Fort Molave is rec
ognized at Bulls Head, an equal distance
the sunrise gun at the fort awakens light
sleepers at Ell Dorado Canon, ninety-six miles
beyond.
There are 1885 paper mills in the world,
which turn out annually /, ,904, 900, 900 pounds
of paper. Half of this is used in printing
generally, while COG, 600, 900 pounds are used
for newspapers. An average Of III pounds
is used by every Englishman and 104 pounds
by every American.
Two concerns at Bismarck, Oak, have
shipped 800 tons of buffalo bones within q
year, and it is estimated that this represents
the remains of 1000 animals. A full skele-
ton weighs so pounds, but in many cases only
ped from all along the Northern Pacific In
great quantities, and come east to be ground
up for fertilizer.
Lizzie Brasey of White Cloud, Kan, the
woman who undertook to commit suicide by
starvation, succeeded on Sunday morning of
last week. She wholly abstained from food
for SO days, during which time she also re-
| fused to speak. When she took the strange
freak she had a quarrel with her father, and
this, together with the loss of a little niece
whom she had reared, so affected her that she
resolved upon suicide. She first tried chic
raj, and that failing she quit eating.
DIR. Taft, a leading homeopathic physi-
clan, died at Hartford Ct., last week. He had
supposed for many years that he was the vic
tim of pulmonary difficulty, and that one of
his lungs was entirely destroyed Upon this
theory no had lived for years on brandy and
raw beefsteAk and died at the AGE of 64 The
autopsy showed that his lungs were perfectly
sound, and that his death was caused by high
feeding His overworked stomach collapsed
aud he starved to death. The supposition
among physicians is that at the time his lungs
were examined, when young man, and one
of them declared TO be gone, he had at that
time temporarily lost the use of 1t and that
afterward 1t had resumed its functions un-
/ known to him.