Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-09-18
IN GENERAL.

About 100 deaths from diphtheria are
reported to have occurred 10 Canadian viii
lage in the Province Of Quebec during the
past summer
1t Is said that there are 100, 900, 900 Of
acres of land on the Pacific coast Of the Unit
cd States especially adapted TO the culture Of
wheat which is practically untouched.
-Sportsmen pronounce English sparrows
good eating and they do duty 90 reed birds
in the Philadelphia restaurants at this season.
The bird is toothsome whenever he Is fat,
which Is most OF the time.
Japan possesses to-day 1000 newspa-
pers. Considering that not a single journal
Of any kind existed in the country twenty
FIVE years ego, that is a remarkable indica-
tion Of progress.
A colored washwoman at Albany, Ga,
boasts of twin daughters called by the surpris
ing names of Mary Magdslene and Virgin
Mary. Other helpless twins at Edora, Ia,
rejoice In the names Of Gasoline and Kero-
sene.
The Canadians are following suit and
propose to establish q public park on their
side of Niagara Falls, as New York has done
on the American side. The park ia TO extend
from near the suspension bridge up the river
for two miles.
1t s said that the oak ia creeping out
into the prairies and covering unocoupisd
grounds in the West wherever it Is not too
wet or sandy for It to grow. Thousands Of
acres are now covered with young oaks where
they did not grow forty years ago.
The proprietor OF a raisin vineyard Of
400 acres at Fresno, CAL, employees . force
of one hundred and twenty men 10 pick the
grapes, and will require this large number
for period Of three months. His payroll
for that TINA uvili avaraua SAXON mar nonth
The new idea in nostrums Is not to pre-
tend that particular medicine will cure all
maladies, but will positively and completely
cure the one disease for which II is designed.
The clear sighted student of human nature
who discovered this slant is said IN be on the
road to a fortune.
Statistics show that the wheat trade Of
California, Oregon and Washington Terri
tory with Europe gives employment annually
to more than 400 sailing vessels going around
Cape Horn. The passage for each vessel is
about 16, 900 miles, in an average time Of
little over four months.
Five horses were lately killed by light
ming in q singular manner at Camilla, N. Y.
They stood with their necks over q wire
fence, when suddenly the lightning struck
the fence at a distance of l, 900 feet from the
horses. The current traversed the wire, and
Street cars have been running success
fully for the last six years ct Nantes, France,
which are driven by compressed air. Cars
run upon the same system are TO be intro
duced on one of the lines of street tramways
in London. Experimental trips have already
been made which are pronounced satisfac-
tory.
There is a curious uniformity in the
number of persons killed annually in India
by wild animals and snakes. The Indian
Medical Gazette gives the number of those
killed in Bengal alone by animals, for Eve
years. at from /, ,264 to ,302 in each year.
The snakes destroyed from 9,153 to 1O,064
annually.
"A patent has been issued to Gallipolis,
Ohio, man for e pair of scales which an
nounce, with unerring correctness, the value
Of any number Of tons, pounds or ounces at
any price. The invention can be applied to
druggists scales, stock or letter scales, and
will doubtless cause a revolution in the scale
business generally.
The sensational story which recently
went the rounds of the newspapers about
some Alabama children who played hog-kill-
ing at the expense of their baby sister, proves
to have been the the invention pure and
simple of syndicate of liars" who are en-
gagged in furnishing the New York, Cincinnati
anu ON. AOuio pntohb WIN PniN oohoe-
tionsl matter, at so much per line.
Peter Ames of Belmont, Me-, had tooth
extracted the other day, and the roots were
found to have been in contact with metal.
Ames had been wounded in the face at Spott-
sylvania, Va, in the war, and the bullet was
never extracted. More teeth were drawn, q
part of the cheekbone removed, and an iron
grapeshot weighing one ounce was taken out
after being imbedded there 2l years.
THE gold and scarlet of the sun" is ri
vailed in the cupoas of st. Peters Cathedral,
Just finished at Moscow. There are Ave Of
the cupolas, and no less than 900 pounds Of
gold were used in overlaying them. The
doors of the temple cost $310. 900, and upon
the marble floors were expended 81, 800, 900.
Ten thousand wOrshippers can be comfort
able if their souls let them within this $l2,-
300, 900 temple.
Atlanta, Ga, last week Wednesday night,
WAS the scene of a triple murder. Ida Max
we'll and John Shelton eloped Wednesday
afternoon and the pair were married at
Shelton's mothers house. The girls father
and brother armed and followed them. The
old man was about to shoot the groom when
Shelton Drained the son with Q hRtohet. He
quickly fired at the old man, who shot him
at the same time, and both fell mOrtAlly
wounded.
Chicago omits one legitimate opportunity
to boast over st. Louis. With q population
of 500, 600, the schools Of the former city OPP
en- with $4,000 pupils, while in st. Louis,
with $50, 900 people, there are but 36, 900
pupils, a gain of trihe over 1000 in q year,
while Chicago gains from 1000 to 5000 school
pupils annually. Indeed, so rapid is the in
crease that the city has now IL, 900 more
children than the school houses will accom-
modate, and this number will attend but half
aday.
"A mob visited Pike county jail at Muir
freesboro, Ark, Sunday night and tried to
shoot the Polk boys who murdered peddler
last year and had been tried several times.
Not being able to get them in range, the mob
hauled a load of wood to the Jail, piled II
around the iron cell, saturated It with COAL
oil and literally roasted both prisoners alive,
nothing being left standing but the brick
walls OF the Jail. The peddler's murder ore
ated great excitement and this was the third
effort by mobs to kill the Polks.
One curious revelation of the last census
was the growth of the female population of
the large cities. II was shown that New
York contains about %, 900 more women
than men; Boston had a surplus of $4,000
women in Baltimore there are 1900 more
women than men, and 80 on in several other
OF the large eastern cities. Fifty years ago
IL WAS lu6 men WHO OhLuo W inc CltiOd "
pursue their careers, while the women stay
ed at home but more recently, women, both
in this country and Europe, have been crowd
ing to the business centers.
"A Pennsylvania despatch under date of
Sept. says A little daughter of David
Norf Of Dubois, Pa, died a few weeks ago.
Willis her 5.yeRr- old brother, repeatedly de-
clared that he wanted to die, 80 that he might
| go to heaven and see her. On Friday last he
asked his mother il he was good enough to
go to heaven if be died. His mother told
| him that she believed he was. Not long Af-
terwsrd she heard q pistol shot in q room up
stairs. She ran to the room and found Viii.
lis lying dead on the floor. In his right hand
he held revolver, with which he had shot
himself through the heart.
"A lobster, said TO be the largest brought
TO New York in 20 years, was on exhibition
in the window Of q restaurant on Fulton
street recently. The monster measured q
fraction over inches In length from the eyes
10 the tip of the tail and about 16 inches in
circumference about the middle, Each claw
was eighteen inches long, and the thumb or
underjsws about six inches The Ambula-
tory feet or claws were from 10 10 inches
long. Il was caught of the coast north OF
Cape Cod by zoologist John d. Barnes OF
Central park in q basket-trap. II weighed
23 pounds. Ordinary specimens vary in