Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-20
IN GENERAL.

Little boys In Mexico who obey their
teacher in school are rewarded by being al
lowed to smoke while they study.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner will spend
three months this summer making q horse.
back tour OF $50 miles through the mountain
region of North Carolina.
Every respectable Paris pet dog has now
his travelling. box, with drawers for his pale
tots, harness, collars and boots, and for his
rice powder in case his complexion is fair.
"A Chinese doctor has just been enrolled
as practising physician at New York city,
who goes beyond the Consultation free" Of
the quack, and advertises that he will receive
pay only in case Of the recovery Of his pa
tient.
Sanford w. Robertson, a full.bloodsd Al
rican and vety pretty and intelligent white
American girl we're married by an East st.
Louis justice last week. In reply TO some
questions by the justice they both said it was
love match, and that they were but follow
ing the example set by Fred Douglass.
The Florida ostrich farm about which
such large stories were told, is in fact, a dis
NAL failure. The SIX birds which were i'm
ported at cost Of $40 900 have ell died but
one, there never WAS an egg laid after they
landed, and there appears not the slightest
promise that the business would succeed there
Those persons who have doubted the USE
fulness Of the mosquito need doubt no longer
The Berrien, Ca, News says that the life Of
Mr.. Il. Q. Houston was saved by mosquitoes
drawing the poison of q rattlesnake bite from
his leg while his companions left him in .
swamp to procure medical assistance.
The value Of small wheels for long dis
tance bicycling and ascending or descending
hills with safety and ease is illustrated In the
recent English record breaking, where j. H.
Adams rode "Facile" machine from Lands
End to John-o'- -Groat's in two days lees than
the best record. Mr.. Adams found that the
small wheel of his machine rode easier than
the large wheel on an ordinary bicycle. His
daily average was 1872 miles, and 1870 miles
were covered in the last days ride. The rec
ord is well-nigh Incredible, but comes we'll
attested.
THE man in tree," has sold his house
and lot at Washington and moved to larger
quarters of the same kind in another place.
His name is A. B. Hayward, he is a one arm
ed clerk in the pension office, and disease
and crankism together led him to live in q
tree for the fresh air. He bought q cheap
lot which had some oak trees on Meridian
hill some months ago, and built "house"
OF boards and canvas, measuring n by II
feet, and put it 13 feet from the ground, sup
ported partly by the limbs of trees and part
ly by posts. There he has lived, pulling up
his ladder after him at night, as snug as q
bug in rug His new house in another
place is 40 feet from the ground, built on the
same plan.
An achievement in telegraphy is reported
by the Telegrsphist, whose representative re-
Gently paid visit to the offices of the Indo-
European telegraph company in London, and
was put into communication with the clerk in
charge at Embden After q few signals the
line was opened to Odessa and Afterward TO
Teheran. At the suggestion of the operator
at Teheran, Kurachee was called, and the sig
mails still found clear and good. Kurachee
opened the line to Agra, and Agra switched
on the line TO Calcutta and to the surprise Of
all concerned the Calcutta clerk asked: care
you really London 2" The signals were ex.
cellent, AMI the speed not less than 12 words
minute. The total length was 1000 miles Of
wire.
The cave-in of the mining village of Poke
Hollow, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Wednes-
day of last week, was singular but not un-
precedented event. The village was located
over deserted coal mine, and while the peo-
pie were at their breakfast there was q loud
report, like that of thunder. The founda.
tions Of the houses at once began to give way
and the houses to topple over. One family
which had overslept was awakened by being
rolled out of bed. Breakfast tables were up
set, pictures fell with crash, and the bot
toms of the cellars fell out into the mine be-
low. Great excitement naturally followed
and the people fed precipitately to the hills,
where they could see their homes dropping
down into the bowels of the earth.