Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-28
IN GENERAL.

The Emperor William is losing his eye
sight.
-Lorne and Louise are accused of quarrel
ing in public.
-Chicago's new public buildings are to be
12 stories high.
1t will take S73 persons TO run Barnum's
circus this year, and the daily expenses will be
$GSO0
Mrs. Hannah McFeeley, who died recent.
ly in the Fayette county (Ind.) almshouse, is
believed to have been 1874 years old.
Prof John W. Clark of the agricultural
college at Amherst, Mass. has resigned, to
take effect April l. He has been appointed
superintendent of large fruit farm in Colo
RADIO.
Oregon salmon are now brought to the
Atlantic cities in seven days, fresh from the
waters of the Columbia river. They come
through over the Northern Pacific railroad in
perfect condition.
New York city's new water-works are TO
cost from S25, 600, 900 to $50, 900, 900. A $50
foot dam in Westchester county, 35 miles
from the city, will make reservoir holding
5S 600 600, 600 gallons. The city uses 100,-
900, 900 gallons daily.
The "shoe-shavings" or particles of iron
chipped off the wheels of elevated cars in
New York by the brake get into the eyes of
car drivers and other hsbitues of the street
below and produce great increase of inju-
ries TO the eye.
Mrs. James X. Polk lives at Nashville in
the old brick house bought by the President
not long before his death, and, although 81
years old, receives many visitors, takes a
keen interest in affairs, and is "a very hand.
some and intelligent lady"
There are supposed to be about 1,O00,-
900 species in the animal kingdom. Of beet
les alone over 100000 species are known,
and the whole number of insects is set at
500, 900. OF the higher animals there are
1900 manuals, 1900 birds and 200O reptiles
and 10, 600 fishes.
Tom ONeill of Pottsville, Pa, 1s years
old, aimed a gun at a younger boy and pulled
the trigger in response to some banter, sup
posing the piece to be half cooked. The
younger boys head was almost blown off hia
shoulders, and yet the coroner's jury found
O'Neill deserving not so much as reprimand
-Widower John Q. Adams of Alabama, who
has % children, goes TO Texas to marry Wild
ow Mary Ann Jackson, who has 10. John Q.
and Mary Ann were lovers when both were
young, they separated and married outsiders
with results as aforesaid, but yet olive branch
es only famed the old flame, and they came
together at last
The Navajo Indians in New Mexico num-
ber between Is, 900 and 20, 600 souls, support
themselves mostly by sheep-raising and farm
| ing, and yet of their reservation only 1900
acres can be cultivated. The agent says that
the boundaries of the reservation have never
been established, and that the government
| owes the savages $500, 900, and is in Wash
ington trying to have something done about
| it.
-Oold-blooded people will like to know
that the amount of anthracite coal In Penn
sylvania is estimated at 5000, 900, 900 tons
| enough at the present rate Of consumption TO
last $50 years. Only 46 per cent of the vein
worked gets to market, as it takes 33 per cent
of the whole for pillars to support the roof,
and "a per cent is wasted but this is batter
than the old way, under which the pillars
took Al per cent and 32 per cent was wasted.
-Forepaugh is ON hand with a white ele-
phant, which he landed in New York last
week The Siamese name of the beast is Ri
man Mankin, the "tiger-eater," but Forepaugh
calls him Light of Asia. He is the first So
called white elephant to be landed in America,
and was brought over by Mr.. Sam Watson,
Forepaugh's agent, who makes a secret of
where the creature was bought and from
whom. Light of Asia is of pale gray color,
a shade lighter perhaps than cigar ashes. He
is feet 8 inches high and weighs 2OOO pounds,
and being only six years old, will grow.
w. M. Dane, a school teacher 20 years
old, of Bentonville, Ind, became enamored
of a 13-year-old girl named Ada Swift The
parents objected to a continuance of the
mans attentions to their child on account of
her extreme youth. On Saturday night Dane
purchased two ounces of laudRnum, giving
Ada one.half and swallowing the other hall
himself. The poison failed to have fatal
effect in either case, being an overdose. The
father of the girl had Dane arrested on q
charge of attempting to poison his child, up
on which Dane procured a pistol and shot
himself. He died shortly afterward. The
girl Is seriously sick, but may recover.