Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-21
IN GRNRnAL.

TO wine, ale, and beer.
A man named Dennis Butler swan the
East river from New York to Brooklyn, q
few days ago, with hands and feet firmly
tied, for wager OF $3.50.
In Saline county, Neb., two weeks ago,
practical woman closed her husbands eyes
on Monday, buried him on Wednesday, and
married his successor on Friday.
Defeat and disaster do not daunt the Arc
tic explorers. No less than four well-equip-
ped expeditions are TO set out from Germany
the coming fall in quest of the North pole.
A young Scotch woman arrived at Car
rington, OAK, the other day, having travelled
alone from Scotland, nearly 5000 miles, to
meet lover. He was on hand and they were
married on the evening of her arrival.
That indefatigAble Methodist 'churoh
extender,' Chaplain O. @. McCabe, set out to
raise million dollars for mission work thie
year, and now announces that up TO date he
has SslO,OOO of it positively in sight"
The number of railroad accidents in the
United States during 1884 is given at 1871.
OF these, 4i5 we're collisions and 6Sl derail-
ments, while Go are recorded as various"
There were in all 3S9 persons killed and S760
injured.
A windmill with its sails moving laziy,
is pretty and picturesque feature 10 q sum
0bT lhnubthpd, anu 80 "a ElDn Ethluoub III
Maine town has his wind mill operated by
steam, so that the arms 20 round whether the
wind blows or not.
The liquor men in Habersham county,
Ga. tried TO influence the recent local option
election by sending round an agent TO con-
tract for the apple and peach crops at liberal
prices, in case prohibition was defeated, but
the ingenious attempt failed.
DIR. u. Sigmondy, an experienced tourist,
who recently published book on The dan
gers of Alpine climbing" has been killed by
falling over a precipice, after climbing the
Pic de la Ney in the Hautos Alpes, which had
hitherto been considered an impossible feat.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that while
the Northwestern wheat crop of 1885 will
fall considerably below the great yield of
1884, it bids fair to be a good remunerative
crop. The spring wheat will be an average
yield, and only little less than the average
quality.
According to a Tennessee statistician,
there are in that state 800, 900 worthless dogs,
which consume every year food enough to
make 80, 900, 900 pounds of bacon and feed
100 600 able bodied men, to say nothing of
preventing the farmers from keeping 2, 2,0O0,-
900 sheep.
-Four men were recently stationed at Full
ton street and Broadway, New York, TO count
the vehicles passing through Broadway at
that point from A. NJ. to p. NJ. The total
number was %, ,30s for the period of IL hours
about 1000 an hour, SO a minute, or
every two seconds.
One of the most difficult transfers of
heavy structures yet attempted has been suo-
cessfully performed at Salem, Mass., where
six men and two horses moved q brick facto-
ry-chimney, ninety feet high and six and
half feet in diameter, a distance Of hundred
feet, and set it on new foundation.
Antique furniture that came over in the
MAY flower is given q dark and time-stained
appearance by being shut up in an airtight
room, and subjected to the fumes Of ammo
mia, which penetrate the pores OF the wood
and tinge it so deeply that a shaving removed
shows the same ancient color below.
The Clyde river, in Scotland, burned for
36 hours recently. A fisherman who was
his pipe, and while still burning threw it in
the water. Gases from the mineral workings
underneath the rivers bed had found their
way to the surface through fissure, and
lighted up at once.
The beggars of Paris support bulletin,
the Guide, by monthly subscription of eight
sous. 1t contains such announcements as
Tomorrow at noon, funeral Of q rich man
at the Madeleine; ;" "At l, marriage of
clerk no Importance !" Wanted, q blind
man who plays the flute :" or, "a cripple for
watering place.
The story is circumstantially told by the
London Times that certain baronet, watch
ing to catch the thief who nightly stole eggs
from his pantry, saw rats removing them by
an ingenious process. One rat clasped an egg
with all his legs, turned on his back, and was
drawn off with his load by his companions,
who held his tail between their teeth as a tug
rope.
Ground has been purchased for the erec-
tion of q cremAtory in Cincinnati. An ornate
stone building, 6s feet long by 30 feet in
width, appropriately prepared and decorated
for the use intended, will be erected. The
furnace is designed to produce a heat more
intense than the Siemens steel furnace, reduc-
ing human body of average weight to ashes
in thirty minutes.
An Englishman ha 8 obtained a patent
for extracting gold from wheat straw; the
| straw is first stepped in warm water for ten
hours and strained off into a shallow pan it
is then kept in a moderately cool place for
| twenty. four hours, when thin scum arises
on the surface of the liquid, and this is again
taken up ON cool surface, and when the
scum is dry the result is thin films of gold. 1"
Over year ago sailor belonging to an
English vessel at West Indian port suddenly
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shark was caught with his tobacco box in its
stomach. This box was sent TO the wife of
the seaman as an incontrovertible witness of
his terrible end and she mourned over it un-
| til he dropped in to see her the other day. He
had deserted, he explained, and had lost his
box overheard in getting into the boat TO go
ashore.
The most recent volcanic eruption in the
| United States was that which half filled Feath-
er Lake, Cal, about the year 1850. This To-
cality has lately been visited by Professor @.
Il. Dutton, who says that the lava sheet pour
ed out was over 100 feet thick, and covers a
space about by 80 miles in extent, in the
centre OF which a cinder cone 600 feet high
covers the rent. The lava sheet is rough and
jagged in the extreme, but shows "a yet no
trace of weathering. For space of 400 TO 200
yards from the cone the trees were all killed.
"A writer in Science describes a natural
| bridge, almost as interesting as the Virginia
curiosity, spanning a canon, about 20 miles
north of the point where the Atlantic Paci-
fic railroad crosses the boundary between New
Mexico and Arizona. This bridge is So feet
long and 10 feet wide at the narroWest point
1t consists of tough grit rock, underneath
| which the softer aandstOnea have been worn
away 10 depth of % to 40 feet beneath the
arch. Near by is a petrified forest The
stone tree trunks lie Just beneath the soil, or
half exposed, fallen in all directions. This
point had never before been visited by q
white man.
Intelligence from the picturesque village
of Lenk, Switzerland, on the upper Rhone,
in the canton of Valois, gives the death OF
one Gabriel Emery, aged 90 years, Swiss
soldier in the contingent Obliged to be furn-
ished TO the first Napoleon. Last summer
he was able to shoulder muskst in the ranks
of local review and was delighted 10 be
there He was in the horrible Borodino
fight, in the eheerless Moscow campaign, Al
the celebrated passage of the Beresina, and
was taken prisoner at Leipsio. His longevi-
ty and physical strength after such hardships
are regarded as wonderful. Mountain tour
lists often went out OF their way to visit
and hear him talk. He was buried with mil
itary honors.
According to Moscow newspaper, one
of the most severe conflicts between prisoners
and their guards that probably ever occurred
in Russia happened last month while party
of sixty criminals sentenced 10 hard labor
were being escorted by detachment OF sol
diers from Tashkent 10 Tchimkent. Forty
five out Of the number, all natives of Turke
stan, at pre-arranged signal suddenly made
furious onslaught upon the guards, whom
they tried TO disarm In order TO make good
their escape. Two Of the soldiers were wound