Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-30
IN GENERAL.

There are 347 women in England who
live by blacksmithing and actually swing
heavy hammers.
According to local paper, last year was
notable in Kansas for the number of we'd
dings and other casualties.
Gen. N Cook sharply contradicts some
Of Gen. Grants statements in a magazine ar
tice on the battle OF Shiloh.
"A Rochester patent medicine man has
contracted with the Philadelphia glass works
for 10, 1000, 900 pounds of bottles, or 500 car
loads.
The wine product of California for 1884
is estimated at $4,000 600 gallons, and the
the product for this year is put as high as
40, 900, 900.
Matter of fact item from a Salt Lake City
newspaper: "The unknown woman who was
killed at this place about three months ago by
the cars proves to be one of the wives of the
editor of this paper"
Nevada has an occasional oasis where a
COW may live. after all. A man began with
one, of the Durham persuasion, in Churchill
county, 20 years ago, and has sold $50 600
worth from her descendants, and has $4,000
worth left.
The Nicaragua canal route is 173 81
miles long. This includes II % miles Of can
al from the Pacific at Brito harbor to NicaTa-
qua lake, Sc. so of lake. 60. 80 miles in the
river San Juan, and $500 miles of canal from
this river to the Atlantic.
"A London undertaken advertises with a
procession of six men up and down the Streets
each dressed in long white garment, with a
white weeper around his hat carrying in
front of him cofin.lid with a skull and cross
bones painted in white upon it.
This country has 623 newspapers and Pc
rindiaala hliehaH in fpraior1 Of
which 4s3 are in German Al in French, 33 in
scandinavian languages, 25 in Spanish, II in
Bohe mian, IL in Dutch, in Italian, in
Welsh, and each in Polish and Hebrew.
Tom Dudging, an old trapper and Indian
hunter, was killed aud eaten by wolves the
other night about two miles from the camp,
near NJ ;tropolitan, Mich. Thirteen dead
wolves we're lying near him when found, their
bodies filed with rifle balls. His Winchester
rife by his side had one chamber loaded.
The mercury was 43' below zero.
A new textile material is looming up in
California. 1t is thread manufactured from
the fatnie plant, and the Kern County Cali
fornau speaks of beautiful specimens of
-keins of sewing thread of various colors.
only an expert would suppose they we're not
silk. 1t is stronger than silk, aud may be
applied to all the purposes for which that ma
terial is USED.
"A Texas paper remarks; The names of
Jesus and Christ sound very sacred to Eng
lish speaking people, but among the Spanish
both are very common names given aud sur
names. At Laredo the other day Jesus H.
Christ WAS registered at one of the hotels.
We remember noting few years ago that a
Mexican named Jesus Christ mad been hanged
for horse stealing"
The camphor laurel a native of China
nd ha kraa ~ f.h Of tba r,lf
of commerce is oblalued, seems to have been
introduced successfully into California, one
tree in Sacramento having ootaiued height
of thirty feet. Tue wood, every part of which
smells strongly of camphor, is light and dura-
ble, not liable to injury from insects and
much favored by csbinetmskers.
Considerable change is taking place in
the elevation of the land around the shores of
the Baltic. While the northern shore is ris-
ing the southern is sinking. Iu tins course of
1874 years the northern part of Sweden has
risen seven feet, but the extent of the rise
dminishes southwark until at the N, ,zs it is
only one foot. Tue line of equilibrium pass
es through the islands of Bornholm GOttland
and A'sads.
In Texarkana, Ark, few days ago a
man was literally smoked to death. He was
a little under the influence of liquor, and up
on returning home found the door locked,
when he attempted to crawl into the hue,
head down. The fue being of an irregular
width, the man stuck fast before he had de-
scended far, aud was held until relieved by
DEATH which was caused by smoke from a
small fire on the hearth.
-Alhama de- Granada, recently destroyed
by an earthquake, possessed the most roman
tic situation aud the most romantic history of
any town in Spain. 1t stood high upon the
verge of gigantic cleft in the mountains, the
result of volcanic action. From its position
it was justly regarded by the Moors as the
key of their kingdom of Granada, and when
captured in 1882 by the forces of Ferdinand
and Isabella the AlhRmbra was felt to be fore
doomed. 1t was that event which gave origin
to the mournful ballad "Muy Doloroso,"
translated by Lord Byron, with the sad refrain
at the close of each stanza, "Woe is me, AL
hama"