Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-07-03

Vaccination is attended 10 30 carefully in
the Prussian army that not q soldier has died
from small poX since 1876.
"A movement for closing New York retail
stores at p NJ on Saturdays during the hot
season has spread from that city as far south
as New Orleans aud a. far north as Mon
treal
San Francisco is getting TO be quite q
town. The Call of that city says the new
city directory contains 1870, 900 names, which
is about TO-, 600 more than that OF last year
or the one preceding.
The children Of MOrmouism do not know
that they live in the United States, never hear
Of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln,
and believe that the head Of the Mormon
church is the ruler of the country.
Among the converted Indians Of Arizona
and New Mexico the real hero Of the Bible is
Daniel. The meekness and lOWliness Of the
Saviour do not appeal to their imagination
with the force Of Daniels experiences among
the lions.
Jane Gatwell, an old negro woman living
in Banks county, Ga, is the mother Of AZ
children, the youngest of whom has children
OF her own. Old Jane was bonanza in slave
days, AZ she presented her owner with twins
on II separate occasions.
"A st. Louis clergyman inds that on a re-
cent Sunday in that city 10, 900 people went
to church, 40, 900 went TO Buffalo Bills show,
20, 600 to base ball games 20, 600 10 beer gar
dens, and 8, 200 to hear Bob Ingersoll.
"A lamb of white roses, with one red rose
in it's breast, into which a floral knife had
been stuck, was tribute" sent TO the fune-
raj Of a Boston butcher while for the funeral
Of cook Boston hotel-keeper sent floral
cook-stove, with pots and gridirons.
"A maple tree at Preston, Pa, made it's
95th annual flow this season. II is on record
in the annals of the family owning it that in
1880 sugar was made from the first sap it
yielded and sent to Gen. Washington, who
acknowledged its receipt in an autograph let
ter.
Tom Jones, Macon, Ga, negro, 55 years
old, is turning white, large white spots ap-
pearing all over his body. He is strong aud
healthy, and when his friends suggested call.
ing physician he refused, saying that free
dom had come and the Lord intended 10 turn
all negroes white.
"A correspondent of the Los Angeles
Times states that along the southern coast of
Mexico the people have habit Of inooulat-
ing themselves with the virus Of the rattle
snake or adder, which renders them absolute
ly safe forever afterwards from the bite or
sting of the deadliest reptiles.
President Seelye announces a remarkable
record for the ten years existence Of Smith
college. Beginning with IA students, the col
lege now has $40 on it's rolls and during the
ten years there has been recorded but one
death among the students and graduates, that
one resulting from accident by drowning.
The organ in Mrs. A. T. Stewards Cath
edral of the Incarnation at Garden City, N.
Y, is the largest in the world except one at
Riga, Russia. II is distributed in four differ
ent parts of the building, but controlled by
an electric action with 81 miles of wires and
ia Onaraiad hv ataam.nnwar has afnna
and 1852 pipes.
Rats and mice were long the scourge of
Hawaiian farmers, but they have been sue
cessfully dealt with by the mongoose, SO pairs
of which we're imported from Jamaica two
years ago into the district of Hilo, with the
result of at once clearing 1000 acres of cane
of this nuisance. One planter estimates his
saving from this cause last year at $780,
DIR. WIN. Perry of Exeter, N. H., in his
9th year, and the oldest living graduate Of
Harvard, accompanied Robert Fulton on the
trial trip of the first steamboat, Aug. 10, 1907.
The old doctor, who is portrayed in his grand
daughters Sarah Orne Jewett) story, 1.-The
Country Doctor, insists that the name of the
craft was Katherine Of Clermont.
In Ecuador there is a church, it is said,
for every 80 inhabitants, and ten per cent
of the population are priests, monks or nuns.
The priests control the government in all its
branches, and 272 days of the year are OBJ
served as feast or fast days One-fourth Of
all the property belongs to The church, and 75
per cent of the people can neither read nor
write.
New York city streets and all places of
public resort are CLEANED for cigar stumps,
which are sold to manufacturers and convert
ed into cigar "6llers," cigarettes and snuff.
One enterprising boy pays the elevated rail
road companies a stipulated sum per month
for the privilege of gathering up the stumps
in their several stations. These are pleasant
things for tobacco users to remember.
The ten finest buildings in this country,
according to a majority vote given in the
Boston American Architect, are Trinity
church, Boston the capitol at Washington
W. X. Vanderbit's house, Trinity church,
and the Jefferson Market Court house, New
York the city hall, Hartford city hall and
state capitol, Albany; Sever hall, Cambridge,
Mass, and town hail. North EAston, Mass.
The "third costliest building in the
world" is the New York state capitol. Started
under legislative Limitation of 81, ,O00, 900, il
has already cost nearly $1S, 900, ,OOO or more
than the national capitol at Washington. Six
or seven millions more will be required to
finish it, and it will then be i'll adapted TO the
purpose for which 1t was designed Politics
and business make an expensive mixture.
-WalDut, once so much in demand for fur
niture, has lost its prominence, and dealers in
wood report large falling of in the demand.
Mahogany is coming again into its old-time
prominence, and Boston dealers say that the
demand is increasing daily. Stained cherry
is much used for limitations OF mahogany in
furniture, but this wood in its natural color is
handsome enough, and at present is very pop
ular.
"A distillery has lately been started at
Charleston, S. O for manufacturing oil from
pine wood. The material is subjected TO in
tense heat in sealed retorts, and one cord OF
ii is said TO yield 15 gallons of turpentine, 80
gallons of pine-wood oil, so bushels of char
coal, $50 gallons of wOOd-Vinegar, and guam
tity of inAammable gas and vegetable asphalt
tum. The oil alone is worth about 25 cents
gallon, and is used by painters and ship
builders.
A story is published at Cincinnati of the
finding of $75, 900 in gold and silver coin
hidden in the walls and ceilings of four
story building by Louis Schertz, who occu-
pied the place for years in the liquor busi-
ness. He died recently and left his brother
a memorandum showing in what places the
money would be found. The dead man had
always appeared to be poor and bad lodged
in the storeroom. 1t is said that ScheTtz left
valuable secrets in whisky compounding
which indicate that he made his own goods
and grew rich accordingly.
The latest theory concerning Bright's dis
ease and other affections of the kidneys is
that they are due TO the immoderate use of
ice water and other chilled beverages Thir-
ty or forty years ago, a physician asserts,
when people saked their thirst with fresh
water from we'll or pump, kidney disease WAS
virtually unknown. Now, however, the gen.
eral use of ice in every household and saloon
and the multiplication of soda fountains cause
thousands OF persons to abruptly shock their
heated internal organs with freezing draughts
and kidney troubles are prevalent.
The planished sheet-iron now produced
by American manufacture is admitted by com
petent judges to be fully equal, IL not supe-
riOr to the best Russian iron. For some 80
years past Pittsbnrg firm has it is stated,
labOred assiduonsy TO perfect this description
OF iron, and have attained such a degree OF
success that, as compared with the Russian
article, the American is found to be more
evenly rolled, equally soft and ductile, more
highly polished or glanced, and equally du-
rable as related TO weather, exposure, etc. II
is also made of different widths, which give
it the advantage of being worked up more