Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-15
NO. z.


The Russian government has banished
no less than 1G5, 900 persons to Siberia during
the past ten years.
"A man at Beaver, Pa, aged 49, dug his
own grave in 1876 and has bean waiting ever
since for q summons to get into il.
The revised edition Of the New Testa.
ment has been sanctioned by the King of
Sweden and adopted by the churches
John Sweatnam Of Howard county Mo,
has twenty -four children, twenty-one being
boys, all of whom were In the Confederate
army and all Democrats.
A Chicago judge has compelled telo.
graph clerk TO produce message required in
testimony, declaring that telegraph messages
were no moro confidential than others when
the cause of Justice required their publicity
The Swiss naturalist, Arnold Henry Guy
OF, professor of geology and physical geogra-
ply in Princeton college, and author Of a So
ries of school biographies, died at his home
in Princeton, N. j., last Friday, aged 7G.
Prof. Huxley says that in his voyage
around the world, and in all his studies of
savage life, he found no people 80 miserable
wretched and degraded as those who exist In
the poorer quarters of London.
j. b. Grinnell, who founded town in
Iowa, says of It: In Griunell there are no
saloons and no one has been sent to jail, to
the poor-house or to the penitentiary for 25
years. We can stand a cyclone occasionally
il you will keep whiskey away from US.
The most complete game of poker on
record is the one recently played by Willis
Kssee and Jack Kellogg at Gunnison, Col.
Each held three Of kind each reached for
the stakes, each promptly pulled out pistol
because the other reached, both fr0d, and
both fell dead
The national emigration association of
| cOOrpd paODla has annointad an auant M
| gotiate with the proper authorities with view
to secure homes for the colored people in the
unoccupied public lands of the states of So
nora and Lower California, Mexico.
Gen. Hademan, United States minister
| to Siam, reports to the department of state
that His Majesty the King Of Siam has issued
orders for the purchase of American arms for
his army and for the employment Of Ameri-
can army officers for the instruction of his
land forces.
e. w. Fellows of Cleveland, after two
years of experimenting, has succeeded in in
venting a way of taking instantaneously and
with absolute permsnency, photographs upon
any substance having a smooth surface, by
the employment of electricity. The expense
| IS less than one cent for each picture.
The school-book publishing business in
this country is estimated as amounting to
about SIS, 900, 600 year, and is mostly done
by about % firms. Five firms do two-thirds
of the whole business, two firms in Cinoin-
natl and New York being credited with ST.
| 500, 900 each.
| -Barnum's agent in London asserted that
the Siamese minister had seen the white ele-
phant and pronounced him genuine sacred
animal, whereupon, says the Tribune's corre-
spondent, the minister publishes a letter de-
caring that the existence of sacred elephants,
white or black, is unknown in Siam. Bad
for Mr.. Barnum.
I; is said that Mrs Quincy Shaw of Bos-
ton spends $50, 900 annually out of her pri-
vate income in support of thirty kindergar-
tens and twenty nurseries which she has es-
tablished in those parts of the city where the
toughest and most squslid features reign. In
addition to this she spends $1,000 600 q year
in other charities.
A couple of missing Georgia lads are
supposed to have been murdered by moon
sinners" because they had given information
to federal officers, and the Nashville American
actually refers to the circumstance as lone
of the bloody beauties of the internal revenue
system of collecting taxes with guns and pis-
tolls"
The managers of the London Zoo pos
sess an ape which is declared to be the most
extraordinary ape ever seen in Europe 1t is
male baldheaded chimpanzee, known to
readers of Du Chalu as q Kooloo Kamba.
Du Chaillu found this ape SO rare that he
could secure only one specimen of it. 1t pos
sesses much intelligence along with danger
GUS temper. Its craniai capacity is the larg-
est an ape has been known to possess.
The trade IN frozen meat from the Aus
trOlasian colonies of England has advanced
within three years to a most important condi-
ton In 1880 only 400 carcasses were i'm
, ported, while in 1888 no fewer than 193,G45
were landed in England, 62, 733 from Austria
lia and 100, 1872 from New Zealand. Twenty
one cargoes arrived in perfectly satisfactory
, condition, seven we're not quite so good, and
three were bad. Colonial mutton is in great.
q, er demand than colonial beef.
f Cornell University gets a particularly
fine Egyptian mummy from Mr.. Pomeroy,
, American consul general at Cairo. 1t is some
/ thing over $500 years old, and the covering
: of pasteboard bears a host of figures and in
/ soiiptions which are yet plain. 1t seems that
1 the name of the man was Penpi, and a repre-
sentation of the sacred emblem of the god
Osiris has this invocation Prascyneme to
; Osiris, the god of Amenti, the good god, the
r ruler of Abydos, may he give good repose to
Q Penpi, the justified
J. The English papers continue to expose
d the evils of the pension system of that count
ry, and it must in time 6uccumb to the at
d tacks made upon it. There is a sum of e8,
r OOO 900 year, or almost one-tenth Of the
revenue, paid away in pensions. There are
" 1400OO persons drawing salaries from thu
q state and rendering no services in return. The
y system was devised chiefly ror the benefit o.
the nobility, and the scandalous waste it en-
tails, when fully understood by the people
IA will bring about reform.
+: The Rev Thomas Harrison, known a
n the "boy preacher" is holding revival ser
n vices in St. Louis, where he claims to be con
" verting souls at the rate of thirty five a day
"a The church has engaged him for thirteel
l. weeks at q salary of 800 week and his ex
"a penses The revivRlist has somewhat injuret
ar his reputation for unadulterated piety by re
q fusing TO "inaugurate" gratuitously, with
l. ten-minute exhortation, a downtown reviva
or which prominent citizens sought to organic
c. for the beneft of persons living in the cen
re trail portion of the city.
tx On recent morning Mrs. John Grant
s. living on Lyman street, Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
or went into the back yard to sift some ashes
t. leaving her three children in the house. L
ce her absence one of her little children too
49, from shelf a celluloid back comb and CAV
it to her little brother Eddie, aged IS months
to play with. He was poking the com
through a piece of singlass in the stove whei
in an instant the child WAS enveloped
flames. Mrs. Grants attention was attraote
by the cries OF the children and she ran
the house only to find her child with th
clothes burned off, and the stomach, arm
and face roasted so badly that the flesh We
falling off. The little one suffered untold al
ony until death ended its struggles at l
O'Clock the following evening
The recent death OF a worthy ShropshiI
man who weighed 420 pounds and whose co
-. fin ten men with difficulty carried TO Il
y, 90 grave, recalls the memory of William Levi
a., a Welsh squire of the last century, who die
.' while in the act of raising to his lips qua
p 20 pot of ale, his favorite beverage, of which
~ ia supposed to have consumed during his Ii
So ,SS enough to float a man-of-war, and which I
W doubt contributed largely TO his enormo
nnk size He weighed $50 pounds, and cral
~ ~. had to be constructed for che special purpo
He of getting his body from his house to
grave. But even Squire Lewis cast q smI
I'd. shadow in comparison with that of DAM
at Lambert, probably the fattest man on recor
1ill who weighed 739 pounds at the time of
or. death.
20 California is at present producing abo
SIS, ,OOO 600 year in gold and silver bullio
ng II has ceased TO have any great prominen
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