Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-23
IN GENERAL.

anco on his life.
In Sweden man who has been drunk
three times loses the right of suffrage.
Rome celebrated the 2G97th anniversary
of its foundation by Romulus on the 27th ult.
There are eight cables across the Allan
tic ocean now in use which cost $G4 400 0O0
Immigration is falling of. The arrivals
at Castle Garden are over 1000 behind the
number at this time last year.
-About3O OOOhouses, or 81 milesof streets,
are added every year in London to meet the
increase of population.
Minnesota has no less than 1000 lakes,
which take up over 2, 700, 900 acres of terri
tory.
According to a German scientists expert
ments, the healthy eye is able to perceive
about 800 differences of color.
New York city has 20, 600 people-men,
women and children-employed making ci-
gars.
The cattle market at Brighton, Mass, has
been closed after a continuous existence ever
since the Revolutionary war.
Seventeen new national banks have been
organized recently, many of them at the west
and south.
Yam Phou Lee, the bright young Chinese
student at Yale, is to edit a department Of
Wide Awake, the excellent children's mags-
zine.
There are $500 miles of completed rail-
way in Canada, and about $500 more project
ed, which will probably be built in the next
three years
There are 124, 900 miles of railroad in
the United States, or seven times as many as
there are in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain.
Some English temperance enthusiasts Of
fer prizes OF $3j, 900 and $l5,0 900 for the
production of a drink which will become pop
ular and aot intoIicate.
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the English as.
tronomer, has bought a lot Of land in st. Jo-
seph, Mo, and contracted for the erection of
house for himself and family.
A Wilcox county, Ga, man had SO neph-
| ews in the Rebellion, all of whom except
three were killed in battle.
-O'Hara the negro congressman from
North Carolina, is a graduate OF Harvard and
| a lawyer in good circumstances. He employs
a white tutor for his son.
A flower farm has been established al
Carpenteria, in Santa Barbara county, Cal.
for the production OF perfumery. A French
gardener has been procured to manage it.
The largest book ever made at the gov.
ernment printing-office in Washington, has
Just been finished. 1t is bound in sheep-skir
and Russia leather, is foot and inches In
breadth, contains 10000 pages, and weighs
40 pounds.
jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept
away by the crash of 1873, is to-day ore OF
the wealthiest men Of Pennsylvania. He
has investments in iron, coal, gold and silver
mines and railroads reaching far into the mil
lions
-Hu King Eng, Chinese girl of eighteen
has come to this country to study medicine
She will graduate from college and then take
a regular course at the Women's medical col
leRe in Philadelphia in order to take charge
of a hospital in her native land.
The man in Macon, Ca, who bought o
a confectioner for $l2 the right to eat all th'
candy he wanted for month, has reluctant
ly seen the close of the thirtieth day. Not 81
the confectioner, for the eater consumed $2l.
70 worth of his goods.
"A Methodist church in Haywood county
N. O., was built, shingles pulpit, pews ant
all, from the timbers obtained from one tre
that grew nearby.
Statistics show that not only the aggre
gate, but the rate, of losses of property b
FIRE is increasing in the United States. Te
years ago it was about SIC, 200, 900 year, O
| n l,Ob
800, 900, 600 year, or 81 900, OOO, 900 in onl
ten years.
"A society has been formed in Hartford
Conn, to provide harmless amusements TO
young men. 1t is known as the Union Rec
rsative Company, and has a capital Of $40
600 in 1875 shares. 1t will charge for lunches
tobacco, and billiards, but will have no intol
icating liquors or gambling.
A man named Case of Franklin, Pa,
travelling about with the smallest perfect locC
motive ever seen. 1t is only six inches lon
, and weighs but two pounds, and yet has a
: the parts of 40-ton article. II makes 4
, own steam from water pumped by itself, an
has every little part finished with the greats
caro-. Case worked three years making it.
, The dredge used on the Cape Cod cam
is the biggest in the world, and takes out &c
cubic yards of sand an hour. 1t will soon
q run night and day. The canal will be eigl
4 miles long, and will cost IS, 600, 900. III
q current will be loss than four miles an hou
. and the engineers have decided that locks wi
Il be unnecessary.
d The story is told that when the docto
1 were in session in Washington q week or tv
4 ago a bright Vermont doctor introduced q
Q innocent Indiana physician TO the Vermo
Q senators. The Indiana man was particular
) pleased with Morrill, because he looked
d much like Sumner. But said the We
/. monter, "Edmunds is the greater man. "B
@ sides, he thinks a great deal of doctors
l. "Why is that 7" asked the Indiana man. "B
cause" replied the VermOnter "he is an ow
Al or of one of the largest tombstone faetori
/. ! In Vermont"