Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-12-05
IN GENERAL.

Six thousand persons applied for place
in Paris bank which paid only S22j year.
-Au egg-canniug business is opened in st.
Louis. The eggs are broken and dried, seal.
ed up, and warranted to keep three yesrs.
Sir Moses Montehore, most illustrious of
centenarians, shows some signs Of failing
after ALL He remarked the other day "a
man of my age oughtn't to grumble, but
feel my eyesight isn't as good it was
Gov. Cleveland will keep away from
Washington until March in order to avoid
the office hunters. He has engaged rooms
at the Genessee hotel, Buffalo, from Fe5rua-
ry to the day before the ilauglrltlon.
"A national bank, known as the Gov
ernment Bank of Chins," has been establish
ed at Pekin with n capital haif Chinese aud
half foreign. The board of management is
composed Of Chinese and foreigners equally
divided.
The railroad up Vesuvius has already
paid for ITSELF Trains run both night and
day. and are well patroniz ID by both natives
and visitors. All go to the top now, while in
the old time climbing was SO hard that few
undertook it,
Mr.. Blaine has eight gold-headed canes
as mementoes of the recent Presidential cam
paign, the eighth one having been presented
to him last week by Father Anderson of Gin
Cluuhl III DeuaI OF llb CaLuOuC COuBreGa-
ton to which he ministers.
The apex of the Washington monument
will be of aluminium, and the block has al
ready been cast. 1t is about Ave inches square
by seven high, aud is the largest ALUMINIUM
casting ever made. Lightning rods will run
from this to the ground.
An English physician is using frog skin
for grating over granuiating wounds with
great success human skin being dlffi;ult to
obtain. Frog skin retains its vitality for
long time, and can be carried to a distant pa.
tisnt by the surgeon in his pocket.
-Sewer.digging in Schenectady, n. Y,
has uneRrthed at a depth OF 16 feet remains
of the military corduroy road built in 1880,
running to the forts on the lakes. Some mol
low logs were also found, well preserved
which we're laid to bring water to the town
in 1906.
A mandarin at VI. San Shan China, Sc.
lected army recruits by competitive exAmiua-
tion. He had trench dug six Chinese feet
wide and deep enough to probably break the
neck of any one who fell IN, made all hands
jump over it, and took those who landed
safely on the other side
Gov. Clevelaud's election threatens to
deprive an old gentleman in Caldwell, n. j.,
of his house aud home. He lives IN the
house where Cleveland was born, and tue rel
ic hunters are chipping it to pieces. Big
chunks have already been taken from the
front steps and piazza.
About year ago the barque Maggie N.
Rivers of Maine, lumber laden, for Washing
ton, was abandoned in the Gulf Stream dur
ing severe storm. She has since then drift
ed about in all directions in the track of 9TH
er vessels and at last has been towed into
Bermuda by two British war vessels.
The New York Medical Times says that
| since the production of cider in New Eug-
land has fallen off there has been a marked
| increase in rheumatism and stone. Europe
an observers have called attention to similar
facts abroad. The records of hospital in
Normandy, where the ordinary beverage is
J cider, show that only four cases of stone were
received in 80 years.
In order to check the frightful increase
of intemperauce in Switzerland, tue Federal
| Council has decided to make the duty on i'm
| ported brandies so high as to absolutely bar
them from the country, and to tax all domes-
| tic manufactures of the liquor except those
| expressly made for export so heavily as to
make the procurement of brandy in any form
| by any but the very rich practically impossi-
BILE to Switzerland.
The only vegetable life on the reputed
site of the Garden of Eden, at the junction
of the Tigris and Euphrates, is a clump of
date trees near very small and dirty village
| called Gurna, where the Turks maintain
garrison aud telegraph office. The inhab-
itants point out to strangers the tree of knowl-
edge-a most sickly specimen, bearing a
small green berry which would cause even a
| goat to turn away in disgust
Kaiser Wilhelm went the other day to
| call on Russian lady So years old. On tax
ing his leave he said sat our age people say
| 'good-by when they part l am two years
older than you, aud you are S." True, Your
Majesty; but you appear infinitely younger
than do" "But l have have had great
many severe fatigues," said the Emperor.
They hardly count" replied the old lady.
| "Where would you be If you had borne eight
children as l have ?" The Emperor went
away laughing.
| Natural gas as fuel s driving coal out of
| Pittsburg. II costs no great sum to dig
| we'll, with the flow once started the only ex-
| penss is in maintaining the pipes, and hence
| it is impossible for coal or nything else to
compete with the gas on its own ground.
Manufacturers are using it more and more,
and a well boring concern in Allegheny coun-
ty has bought 10, 600 tons Of pipe to be laid
in the cities of Allegheny and Pittsburg, and
il is said that II the supply of gas holds out
coal will disappear from use in all that part
of the state. As to the permanency of that
supply no one can guess.
"A party just returned to Quebec from an
exploring excursion into northern British Co.
lumbia report the discovery of a new lake
hitherto unknown. 1t is situated about
500 miles north OF Quebec, and is larger than
Lakes Erie aud Ontario combined. The wa
ters of tho lake swarm with fish of all kinds,
and fur-bearing animals are abundant. The
climate is agreeable and the region is suita-
BILE for agricultural purposes. II il said that
! iba HudaOu Raw haVa had n
there for upward OF 100 years, but have kept
the fact secret that a large lake Of such di-
mensions ever existed in that part Of the
country.
FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS it will pay you well to go
to Boston to select from 900 artistic fancy pieces
furniture at Paine's on Canal-st.