Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-01
NO. s..
IN GENERAL.


try yards west of the Alleghenies.
-Photographing on silk and linen is now
successfully practiced in London. The i'm
preston is made on the cloth from the mega
tive, and, it is said can be made indelible.
The old house selected by Dickens as the
scene Of his story, the "Old Curiosity Shop"
is about to be destroyed, having been an OBJ
ject Of interest until it collapsed from CON-
plete dilapdation.
The German government has made ar
rangements for taking care of the drunkards
in the empire. Each town must keep rec
ord of the hard drinkers, and they are to be
subjected to vigorous course of treatment.
"A call for contributions for the erection
of an infant asylum at Copenhagen makes
the extraordinary statement that over 2OOO il
legitimate children are born annually at the
Danish capital, which has O population of
$50, 900.
The Indian population of the country is
increasing instead of diminishing, and the
land allotted already is not of sufficient quail
ity and quantity. Until the Indians are
taught to take care of themselves the govern
ment will be in quandsry.
A recent letter from Salt Lake City,
Utah, says that within q few years past 80
schools with 1870 teachers, have been planted
in the strongholds of Mormondom by money
from New England and elsewhere and that
the number is rapidly increasing.
The colored people of South Carolina
are said to be quitting the state in all drec-
tions in large numbers. The exodus is con-
sidered so serious that the Methodist confer
ence at Sumter appointed a committee to in
quire into the reasons for it.
A Bavarian newspaper editor goes to jail
two months for writing an article courteous
y expressing regret that the king did not sp-
pear in public oftener. This is under the ju-
dicial assertion that mo person has right to
criticise the kings actions"
The Emperor William, upon expressing
his amazement that eyes could be drilled in
such minute objects as needles, was asked for
a hair from his beard. An eye was instantly
bored through this and the hair threaded wns
handed back to the astonished monarch.
The most magnificent gift to the English
people ever made by any person WAS that
given by the late Mr.. Holloway, the pill man,
amounting to s., 900, 900, part of it to estab-
lish a sanitarium for mental unsoundness and
the rest for college for women.
An Ohio girl who wanted to obtain mar
rage license so that she could wed Ken
lucky youth in spite of a vigiant mother,
placed the figures IS in the bottom of her
boots, so that her witness could conscien-
tiously swear that she was lover 49,"
The use of beer as an article of ordins.
ry diet has been discontinued in at least p
psuper lunatc asylums in England, and in
no case has the effect been detrimental. On
the contrary many of the superintendents
say that the change has been a decided bene-
fit
-Innumerable snow "muffs" were formed
by the wind in Oneida and Herkimer conn
. ~. vi 4. ,,,,t.k- IL,
we're cen on an acre, the largest being about
eighteen inches in length, foot in diameter,
and in some cases hollow in others solid and
so firm that they could be handled quite
roughly without breaking.
In Brazil, it is said where the inhabit-
ants take coffee many times a day. alcohol
ism is unknown. Immigrants gradually con-
tract fondness for coffee, and their children
fall into the same habit, and never contract a
love for liquors that are so fatal in other
countries The number of cafes in the large
cities is enormous while the drinking saloons
are very few.
Gov. Kuott's assertion that murders are
not more common in Kentucky than in other
states calls out some interesting statistics. 1t
is shown, for instance, that Garrard county
alone has had 27j murders in 20 years and
but one execution, and at the last term of the
less than 2 murder cases on the docket-one
for every 5SS of population.
Mrs. ]. ]. Astor has sent 1903 homeless
children to the south and west in the last few
years, at an expense of nearly $4,000. The
reports show that in an immense majority Of
the cases the transfer of the children to new
surroundings has resulted in great good to
them, and to the satisfaction of the families
to which they we're sent.
Louis E. Solomon, president of Hayti,
is a broad -shouldered giant, six feet six inches
in height, with the physical proportions of a
gladiator white locks, keen, restless
eyes, high intellectual forehead, and is erect
as pillar of stone, with dignifed air. He
was educated in Paris, and is brilliant con-
versationalist, lingust and crafty diplo-
| matist.
A lubberly fellow of six feet four walked
into the Omaha police head quarters with
strong apprehension expressed in his counte-
nance, while close behind marched a woman
of four feet six with cooked pistol aimed al
| the mans head in her hand and lead in heI
eye. She was Mrs. Martin, wife of rail
road hand, had caught the giant trying tC
rob her house, 'got the drop" and so run
him in Search showed three pistols in hil
pockets.
Since the last cold wave western news
| papers have been comforting themselves with
| this item: The Mediterranean sea- the gull
| of Venice, the Black sea and the Baltic sen
| have all been frozen over. So have all the
rivers of Italy. Ice 1G feet thick was madt
in the river Po in 1916. In 1882 houses il
Austria were entirely buried by snow. II
| 1890 snow storm in Scotland lasted l3 day
and nights. An entire army crossed the Dan
ube on the ice in 4G2
| A buuuv drummar talls bu ii
ness secrets Eyes, we make buggies thai
sell as low as $50, and nice looking ones, too
! We make 'em by the thousand-Cincinnat
makes more carriages than any other city IL
the world. Everything possible is done b.
machinery, and, of course, the materials ar'
cheap. We start out with a string of n
buggies to sell to farmers, and take what VI
can get. I've sold as low as $50 to one man
a good bargain maker, and got $65 from hi
next neighbor OF course our buggies wea
ont in half the time of high priced article
Peoria, ILL.,, has stuck a feather in he
cap which is labeled whisky" She proba
bly, leads the world in the production of thi
liquor, her distilleries last year producing 7,
252, 72O gallons. There are u large distiller
les and new one nearly completed, but onl
eight are running so as to prevent overprc
duction. The money invested in the busi
ness is $l2, 900, 600, and a small army OF rev
onue officers is stationed there, one factor.
alone keeping II government officials con
stantly busy.
An English clergyman recently invited
brother minister from distance who calle
to spend the night with him. The invitatio
was accepted and the clergyman asked hi
guest to step into the house, while he CAV
orders to have his conveyance ready in tn
morning. AS the visitor entered the hous
the clergyman's wife mistook him in the dus
for her husband, and seizing the pulpit Bibl'
which was on the lobby table, brought tn
full weight of it across his shoulders, 81
claiming emphatioally, Take that for askin
the ugly wretch to stay all night J"
A curious thing in the Texas school syI
tenn is the community" organization. Ihel
are no districts, and no geographical sub-d
visions at ALL but as many persons as ohoos
may unite for school purposes by registr
ton, and are then recognized as ''commui
I ity" and given a share of the public none.
There is no local taxation and no regulate
as to the size of the communities. AS ma
ter of fact they vary greatly, and oVerla
each other so as to make endless practical IL
convenience. A man once included in cor
munity cannot leave it for another except |
= permission of a court.
r The Wentworth Falls, in New Sout
8 Wales, are reported to surpRss Niagara
o beauty and grandeur. At first the wat
+ leans distance of 700 feet, as though falliI