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

An English soamstress has rcckonod that
there are 20, Gi9 stitches in shirt
"A white butterfly from the Hebrides
brought So at a recent London sale, and 9TH
ers from SIS to $50 each.
The silk fibre is the longest in the world.
An ordinary cocoon from n well fed worm
will often reel 1000 yards, and one is on record
measuring 1925 yards-nearly three quarters
of a mile.
1t has been discovered at New Haven
that proud bcyelers pad the calves of their
legs. Pride goeth before q fall, and it was a
header that revealed the stuiling in a New
Haven wheelman's stocking.
-Bayard Taylors father and mother, still
living, up in the nineties in years inbabit
the beautiful country house which Bayard
built years ago at Kennett Square, Pa, and
which since his death has fruitlossly been Of
fered for sale.
An English firm of soap manufacturers
spends about $780, 600 a year in advertising.
1t employs capable artists essayists, and po-
cts and sends package OF soap gratutously
to each of tho infants whose birth is an
nounced in the London Times.
A New York experimentor made some
very fair illuminating gas from common street
garbage, at the rate of 22 feet Of gas for II
OAuCth VI EhN ulhltIlhl. lutTt WIS uOLnlnB
left but inofensive ashes, valuable as a ferti-
lizer
A company with 81 ,OOO 600 capital has
been organized by northern and western men
to work the new marble quarries near Gaspar,
Ga. Tho supply seems inexhaustible, and
with $50, 900 worth Of machinery the concern
Is already cutting 800 cubic feet of stone a
day.
Papers showing the settlement of Abra.
ham Lincoln, postmaster at New Salem, Ill.
with the government, were accidentally
found at Washington, the other day. He
was appointed May I, 1888, when he was "a
years old served three years and got $3ij
for it.
To the city of Paris have boen presented
by the Shah of Persia two diminutve camels
no larger than ponies, which belong to an eX.
ceedingly rare species, Of which the Shah
has four specimens in his private stables.
They will be placed in tho Jardin des Plantee
in house constructed specially for them.
Tho Oldest Mason in the world is found
again. His name is Simon Knowles, he Join.
cd the order at Haddam, Ct, in 1907, now
lives in Meredith N. Y, married at lG and
lived with his wife nearly so years, is now 90,
and tapped and heeled his great-great- grand.
sons shoes the other day, we'll and quickly,
without glasses.
Col. Albert G. Boone, grandson of the
famous Kentucky pioneer, has just died in
Denver at the age of 7S. lie was born in
Missouri, first went to Colorado with Gen.
Ashley's party 5S years ago, and has lived and
delighted in the life of n frontiersmsn. He
had been Indian agent and served the govern
ment in a vRciety of responsible positions,
and was very highly esteemed.
u. s. Senator Hill of Colorado is said to
be the richest man in that state. He went
out there a poor chemist few years ago
and by some good chance hit upon process
for reducing refractory ores, and no one to
this day has the secret. He built a great
smelter, which is bringing him in great
fortune. His yearly income, it is said, cannot
be less than $500 900. He lives in great
style.
An epidemic of mustache has broken out
in a southern French town. A man who was
terribly cautious about the cholera took tC
| oiling his mustache with carbolic acid to
keep the cholera microbes out of his breath
| ing apparatus. His nephew having no mus
taches of his own, got a false pair and Wort
them, irrigated with the disinf6otant. The
panic spread through tho whole family, in,
| Guiding the young ladies, who were seen
walking in tho garden with their sanitary
sub nasal cholera sifteTs. The town took the
Invention Tor BOou one ana all nAnus, ol
rather lips, have taken to wearing oarboliC
mustaches.
Gen. Grant, who is al Long Branch, is re
ported to be busily engaged in writing his
tory of the siege of Yicksburg, one of SO
rios of works on tho civil war. He tells
comical story of one of the mine explosions
Many human beings were shot high into thu
air, some of them falling TO the earth fright
fully mangled, while others, wonderful to re
late, fell back alive, though with terribl
wounds. Among those who escaped was
robust colorod man. who had been employed
on the Confederate side as a miner. lie fel
on pile Of earth unhurt. He was taken +
Gen. Grants headquarters, and gave mucl
information concerning the enemy. Whe
asked how far he thought he had gone up, b
said: ooh, Lord O. masss, went up 'bou
three to five miles, but done thank de Lor
he landed me inside de Yankee lines"