Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-12-19
IN GENERAL.

Erie railroad has been $40, 600 year for ten
years.
The term "demarried" is coming to be
popular as "much pleassnter" word than
'divorcsd."
OF the "a, 600 newspapers printed in the
world, 32 600 are published ia Europe and
North America.
There we're 1879 10j de5erters from the
Union armies during the rebellion, aud
1O4, 42s from the Confederate ranks.
"A Chicago elevator burst recently ami
60 600 bushels Of wheat was spread out on
the prairie. But little Of it was lost, however.
"A few years ago quinine cost s. per
ounce, but production has increased so rapid
ly that it can now be bought Tor less than 3 II
per ounce.
Enough liquor was consumed in Great
Britain last year to make a lake a mile long,
a mile wide, and thirty five feet deep. What
lake Of fire that would make If lighted.
"A Louisiana negro attempted to shoulder
FIVE bundles of cotton ties at once the other
day. He succeeded in getting them nearly
up, staggered and fell dead from over-exer-
ton.
The United States supreme court has de-
cided that Cinnamon who we're in this cOun-
try when the restrictive law was enacted can
go home and return at pleasure without certi.
hcates.
Italy is doing more in the cremation line
than any other country. The incineraton
societies in that country now have more than
6O00 members, and there are beautiful and
costly cremstories in all the princpai cities.
Maj Ben Perley Poore has reduced his
weight Gl pounds by rigid attention to diet
and feels better than he has for 10 years.
David Davis, too, has been dieting till he has
reduced himself to a mere two hundred
FOUNDER.
Claus Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar
monopolist, has Just made at New York the
biggest evaporating pan in the world from
which he will be able to turn out 1000
barrels of sugar every three hours that it is
in operation.
A maiden lady of Philadelphia was a wit
ness in court the other day, and when sworn
was requested to kiss the B BILE. She refus-
I'd, saying it was so long since she had kissed
anything that she had forgotten how it was
done.
Iowa contributes an item to the marvel
ous column. farmer sawed off the horns
of a COW and a ram, and grated the horns of
the latter on the stumps of the former, and
made a living job of it. Western genius
seems equal TO any emergency.
AT East Liverpool o., where natural
gas is used in the street lamps, the lights are
put out only once month, to wash the lamps
and clean the burners. 1t is cheaper to let
the gas burn all day than to pay lamplighters
to light and extinguish them.
Musical critics in Germany are not al
lowed to be facetious. One Of them playful
ly remarked that the leader of the orchestra
in the Stettiu academy of music was ''vio-
lin scraper," and was brought to court and
fined thirty marks and imprisoned five days.
Cremation is making way in Scandinavia,
where it has at last found official recognition.
The authorities having given their sanction,
crematorum is to be built at Stockholm, and
large plot of ground around the crematorium
is to be laid out as a public park at the eI-
pense of the town.
Some 40 years ago, Prof. Tyndall pur-
chased some railroad shares as speculation,
but found that his mind was so constantly
dwelling on the stock market fluctuations that
he could not study, and be rolled off the
curse as soon as possible by selling his shares
at the purchase price.
Canadian papers report the recent death
in the Parish of Ste. Madeline of Charles
Banchet and wife on the same day in the
Goth year of their age and after a married life
of 90 years. They left five sons, one Of them
mayor OF the town 80 grandchildren, and
80 great grandchildren.
Sixty tons of rock are reported to have
fallen from the Natural Bridge 10 Virginia
within few days with a deatening roar, but
the curved lines of the bridge were not dis
turbed. This is said to have been the first
fall of rock from the bridge since it was
struck by lightning in 1883.
The Niagara park commission will report
to the New York legislature that the land sur
rounding the Falls, including Goat island, can
| ha bo,o,ht for @I 400 OOO uhich wOuld ha a
reasonable aud just apprisal." They will
ask the legislature to appropriate this sum
and make the region an open park.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that over
5000 duels occur annually in France, chiefly
among the private soldiers in the army. EV-
cry new recruit is puIposely afronted by
some one in his regiment aud compelled to
| fight in order to test his courage, but care Is
taken to prevent any serious result
The bankruptcy law in Germany is a
tough one. II a man who has failed proves
| to have been eXtravagant in his business or
manner of life he can be imprisoned two
years, and cannot start up again until he has
paid the uttermost farthinR. The result Is
that Germans never fail unless they are
obliged to.
"A paper in the far West was describing a
serious accident and neatly ended up its graph
10 story as follows "Our rising young towns
man, Doc Hinton, who was laying out the
new graveyard at the time, was hastily sum
| moned to the scene of the unfortunate acci'
dent, and under his skillful treatment poor
Billy died peacefully two hours afterward."
The dress reformed man OF London, this
season, wears blue coat with brass buttons,
a white vest and light gray trousers, and pow
ders his hair, If he is extra particular about
his toilet For change he wears brown
coat with brass buttons, shawl pattern vest
brown knee breeches, diamond buckled gar
ters and square toed, high h-heeled shoes. Sol
omon in all his glory never had any clothes
like these.
The greatest advantage of the electric
light on ships during fogs appears to be thai
it can be shut of and then put on again, thus
making lash light. 1t is not claimed for II
that its power to penetrate through fog Ii
much greater than that of the ordinary light
but it would impart a luminosity to the haze
akin TO sunlight, thus determining the sp
proXimate position OF vessel. In the even
of a collision it would also facilitate the low
ering OF boats aud the maintenance OF order.
One morning last week John P. Harden
residing near Littleton, W. Va. accidentally
shot himself, wife and four children, whil'
trying to extract load from shotgun. H'
was pounding the muzzs Of the gun on th
hearthstone to jar out thu load of slugs anC
shot when the gun went of. Eighteen slug
took effect on the various members OF thu
family. One slug broke Mrs. Harden's leg
and the baby had seven marks In the region
Of the abdomen. These two are the onl.
ones seriously hurt.
According to a recent story from the Sou
dan Gen. Gordon sent message to the NAB
di not long ago bidding him dry up the Nil'
il he be a true prophet, and then com
and take Gordon and his forces. Th'
story goes on to say that the Mahdi &C
oeptsd this challenge aud directed his force'
10 cross the river as II it we're dry land while
be remained on the bank stretching out bi
wand and invoking the aid Of Allah. Tn
result was that 5000 men were drowned, an'
the Mahdrs influence over his people wa
greatly weakened"
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