Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12

Forty tons of silver end three of gold are
used in the manufacture Of photographs in
this country annually.
Fort Sumter has literally fallen. Itlsnow
only one story high and has but half dozen
guns, not one of which could be used The
government pays about 5000 a month for
watchmen, who keep lights burning on the
fort for vessels
There is a new candidate for Presidential
hOnors in the field. Mrs. Belva A. Lock
wood, Washington's woman lawyer has ac-
cepted the nomination rendered her by the
"Woman's National Equal Rights Party"
There seems now TO be no room for any voter
to excuse himself from voting because his
own peculiar principles are not represented
| by candidate.
The big woods of Minnesota cover 5000
square miles, or 8 3,2OOOOO acres of surface.
These woods contain only hardwood growths,
including white and black oak, maple, hicko-
/ ry, Eastwood, elm, cottonwood tamarack
and enough other varieties to make an aggre-
gate of over thirty different kinds. The
hardwood tract extends in belt across the
middle of the state, and surrounding its
northeastern corner is an immense pine re-
| gion covering 81 900 square miles or 10, 44O,-
| 600 acres.
No other nation on the face of the earth
ever has paid public debt as faithfully or
rapidly as the public debt of the United
States has been paid by the Republican party
since the close of the war. 1t was then So.
$50, 900, 900, and is now less than 81, ,44O, 900,
| 900, and besides payment averaging more
| than 800 O00, 600 year in recent years, the
Republican party by its wisdom and its fidel-
ity to National obligations has reduced the
rate of interest 30 greatly that whereas the
| yearly interest exceeded $50, 900, 600 in
1866, it is now less than $50, 900, 600.
The city of New Orleans is getting to be
great railroad centre. The completion of
the Mississippi Valley railroad makes the
sixth trunk line converging within its limits.
Notwithstanding its unrivRled facilities of in.
land water transportation, the railroads have
already so far encroached upon the business
Of the steamboats, that the receipts of cotton.
as we learn from figures given by the Plea
yune, are larger by rail deliveries than by wa.
ter. For the year ending September l, 1884,
| S62, 600 bales were brought 10 the city by rail
and S26, 072 bales by river craft The per
fection and cheapness of land transportation
has of late years been 80 far advanced that
the railways have steadily drawn business
away from water routes
A Georgia gentleman is reported in the At
lanta Constitution as saying; ~ can take 40
Jersey cattle on good farm and make more
4AOho9 hhhu hL9 oNoT mhQo with ~
| negro slaves on the same land man who
owns a herd of registered Jerseys and
| Georgia farm is richer than man who own
| ed the same number of slaves before the war
If every slave freed in Georgia." said ne,
warming with the subject, was replaced to-
| day with good Jersey, in ten years Georgia
would be richer than she would have been il
the emancipation proclamation had never
been written. You'd better not print this,
though for if you do, the Yankees might
take notion to come down and free the
| cows"
The honey extractor now in common use
was invented by German, the idea being
suggested to him by seeing his boy tie bit
of string to piece of honeycomb, and swing
| it around his head, in order 10 get the honey
out of the comb. From this to the ordinary
extractor it was but step. The machine
consists simply Of big tin barrel, in which
turns frame upon which honeycomb may
be placed by means of ordinary gearing
the frame is turned very rapidly, and the
honey flies from the cells 10 the sides of the
barrel and trickles down. The beauty of the
extractor is that it saves the bees all the
trouble of making honeycomb, labor requir-
ing considerable time and material, inasmuch
as for every pound of comb there are twenty
pounds of honey. When the comb in the
extractor is empty, it is put back into the
| hive, and the bees, dismayed at the loss of
their stores, go to work at terrible rate, in
order 10 provide for the coming famine.
When the comb is again full Of honey it is
placed in the extractor and again emptied.
The bees can be made to do about twice az
much work when their honey is taken away
from them after this fashion as when thew
are required TO build comb. In other words,
! the yield of honey is nearly double.