Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-04-11
NO. 15.
IN GENERAL.

Slides
Herbert Spencer's health Is failing and
he has been advised to take a trip abroad.
He will go to Australia and New Zealand.
"A limo Of railway cars, TO be drawn by
camels will shortly constitute one Of the pc
culiar features Of travel and transportation
in Central Asia.
Kaiser Wilhelm always appears before
his people in brass buttons and military cap.
1t is only at Ems that he allows himself the
negAge Of civilian dress.
Charles Reade, the novelist, who has
been passing the winter at Cannes, has re-
turned to London in very Ill health and is
said to be rapidly sinking.
The furniture Of the once famous st.
Nicholas hotel of New York was recently sold
by auction, and the hotel will be used hence
forth for wholesale business purposes.
"A Providence beggar has created sens
alton by sleeping In family vault at the
cemetery. The light Of his candle led the
police to think they bad frst-class nest Of
grave robbers.
-Four ponies we're accidentally imprisoned
25 days without food in a coal mine near Air
drie, Scotland, recently; but they all came
out alive and little the worse for it except for
the loss of flesh.
Ada Kurtz, daughter Of Sheriff Kurtz
Of Chambersburg Pa, has been made dep
uty sheriff. She is % years old, and said to
be accomplished and in every way qualified TO
fill the position.
"A negro woman named Glenn got excited
in a revival meeting at Helena, Ark, the 9th
or day, began TO shout uproariously, and kept
on until she shouted herself to death in spite
Of all that could be done.
"A shark recently captured at Tabogar
Panama, was 80 feet long, and had a mouth
large enough to take in q horse. A photo
graph Of the carcass was taken with a man
standing upright between the jaws.
"A j. Westherby was married at Weiser,
Idaho, last week, to Mrs. A. ]. Weatherby,
his former wife, from whom he had been d.
vorced for 20 years. They had son and
two daughters by their former union.
Capt. John Traynor of Bath, Me-, who
will try to row across the Atlantic in a 13.foot
dory, has gone to New York, from whence he
will start for Bristol, Eng, about June 1st.
He expects to be IS days on the trip.
This glorious country produces one-ffth
of the iron and one fourth of the steel of the
world, and furnishes half the gold and silver.
Taking all mining interests together we have
3G and Great Britain 33 per cent, to 81 for all
the rest of the earth.
1t is estimated that there are now in this
country $4,000 manufacturing establish
81, 800, OOO,O 600 capital, and that the product
is worth $8, 900, O0O 900 year 81, 900, OOO,-
600 more than that of Great Britain.
The first patent ever issued in this coun-
try was exhibited at the recent inventors con-
vention iu Cincinnati. II was dated New
York, July 81, 1890, and is signed by George
Washington, president Edmund Randolph,
attorney general and Thomas jefferson, SEQ
retary Of state.
"A narrow gauge railroad Is being built to
the top of Pixies Peak, in Colorado. Six
thousand people climbed to the top Of the
mount ain last year, and with the aid Of the
railroad it is believed that 80, 900 will make
the ascent next year. The road will be finish
ed June LIST.
There is about an acre of ground in the
Blue Ridge mountains in West Virginia which
never freezes, snow melts a. II falls there
and vegetation on the tract starts In the spring
a month earlier than anywhere else in the vi
cinity. Biologists talk about volcanic fires
as the cause of itall
Thomas Dowling. quarrymsn of Mena-
aha, Wis, kept the earnings Of 23 years in
his cabin, and when that burned had q char
red bundle which was once 5000 In bank
notes to show, but the treasury department
finally identified every one of the bills, and
Bowling gets his money.
mia, has accurately photographed a fash of
| lightning, although it is supposed to have
been demonstrated by experiments that the
| phenomenon lasts only millionth of a SEQ
ond. The spark is distinctly shown, travel
ing more than mile, and with 1t the land
scape.
Lament Dupont, who was killed In the
recent dynamite explosion at Thompson's
Point, near Philadelphia, is said to have been
worth $l3, 600, 900. He had a controlling in
terest in the manufacture of nearly all the
high explosives that are made in the United
States and Canada east of the Rocky Noun
| tains.
The cyclone sometimes acts as q moral
rtnovator in Georgia. When a cyclone pass
ed through the Stevens Pottery neighborhood
near Milledgeville, in 1875, there was no
church in the locality. Some of the people
thought it was a judgment sent for their evil
doeds and Immediately started subscription
and built church. Now there are none more
pious than the people of that vicinity.
Mrs Alfred Chadwick of Michigan gets
a divorce for no reason in the world but that
she was tired of being yoked up with an OF
10 pillow while her husband directed affairs for
the good of all three with whip. Mr. Chad
wick seemed hurt by his wife's action, and
told the court that his system of plowing was
| IOlOWeQ Dy all tn6 III Hobt-
ern Canada, and he was astounded to have q
fuss made about it.
An isolated mountain 800 feet high, called
the Deshebel Naibo, in Bona, Algeria, is fast
becoming a mere hole in the ground. There
is deep hollow around its foot, and the en-
tire mass of the big hill is fast settling out OF
sight There is supposed to have been sim
liar phenomenon in the same district about a
thousand years ago. as the present Lake Fer
rara did not exist in ancient times, and upon
its bottom there has recently been discovered
the ruins OF Roman town.
Nearly all of the important buildings In
jamestown, st. Helena are built Of iron and
slate, because the white ants are so destructive
to wood The insects work on the inside, and
sometimes eat out large log so that only the
skin remains before their presence is suspect
ed They often ruin large buildings, and cui
furniture so that it is no uncommon thing tc
see chair or sofa collapse and become mere
heap of dust and splinters, although appRr
emily sound and whole a moment before.
The running of buildings skyward In
large cities increases the Ere danger, and at
tempts are being made to limit the thing. The
New York city council has a bill forbiddine
the erection of any building higher than Il
feet on streets and so feet on avenues, and Al
association of Chicago citizens has asked th'
8 | government there 10 put limit hJ W Ieet
Some of the New York flats" coveIinl
large areas, are 10, ~, and even IA, storie
high.
"A silly new Parisian craze has reached
i this country in the canoeing and engraving
OF finger and thumb-nails. One can get hi
3 nail decorated at a cost of from $40 to $50
+ according to the elaborateness Of the design
This idiotie craze seems to be quite taking
- especially among the dudes and dudettes. Blu
married women do occasionally indulge in
g mail" portrait for their husbands. As far q
n heard from the craze is still centred at NeV
York and Philadelphia, and it is to be hope
/ it may extend no farther
s Russia has the railroad fever, and the gov
ernment, and especially the czRr, is just no'
greatly interested in gigantic scheme for
Russian Pacific road TO CROSS Asia from tn
Ural mountains, through Siberia, touehin
n Tobolsk, Yakutsk, and other important Pointi
and terminating at Nikolajewsk on the Amoc
re river, 25 miles from its mouth. Branch line
will connect with Herat, Persia, India an
II China. The railroad ia proposed mainly fC
its strategic Importance, and would offer
menace to England's possessions In ASH
which might be resented.