Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-12-04
IN GENERAL.

wheat that was standing in the held ninety
minutes previous.
Harrison, the 32-years-old hoy preach
er," who is reviving Milwaukee, gets 300
week for his preaching and adds TO bis in
come by selling hymn books and his own
photographs.
The entire adult population Of Sse. Mar
the village near Montreal recently voluntarily
assembled in church and pledged themselves
to abstain from alcoholic beverages for one
year The village contains 20O0 people.
An Illinois farmer left q can Of nitro.
glycerine on the table Of his cottage. II is
supposed the cat pushed of the can, for af-
ter a tremendous explosion she was found
clinging to tree 500 yards away, nervous,
but almost uninjured.
-Au idea OF the extent of the coal mining
industry in Illinois may be gained when II is
stated that 40 counties have 1856 mines and
that the annual product Is o, zoo, 600 tons.
Twenty Ave thousand men fnd employment
in and about the mines.
The cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, lost
money last year. The Augusta mill sunk
$40 900, and its stock which was sold for
best condi ion OF any of the mills Of the city.
Sou bern cote n factories are not proving the
bonsnz IS they we're expected to.
A S,merville, Mass, teacher put some
red pepper in the mouth Of nine-years-old
boy rs a punishment, and his mouth was 80
burned and sore that he caught cold in II and
died. The family will not prosecute provi-
ded the teacher leaves town.
President Cleveland has promised John
Il. Whitley of London, Eng, president Of
the American exhibition to be held at West
Kensington next year, that be will put the
exhibition machinery in motion May ! BY
touching an electric button at Washington.
1t is said that so people have been killed
and Is injured by the street-cars In Boston
within year. The whole number of pas
sengers carried by the street railways Of the
city during the year was 81, III, 259, an in
crease over the previous year OF 4, ,356,633
Fifteen tramps who we're confined in the
calaboose at Denton, Tex, for refusing 10
work, were waited upon at night by q mob
of unknown men who overpowered the
guards and took the tramps out aud admins
tered 80 lashes, well laid on to each, and then,
told them to git" They got"
Thomas James, colored, of Gainesville,
Fla. has been married three times and has @
family of 81 children. 1t is common, Of
course, for children as they grow up to quit
the paternal roof and strike out for them
selves, but 33 of Mr.. Jsmes's offspring still
remain with him to cheer his freside and TO
warm his fathers heart.
The daughters of the late Francis A.
Drexel of Philadelphia, who are said to be
worth nearly 81 OOO, 600 apiece, are unosten.
tatiously religious and charitable, giving to
the poor five times % much as they spend
upon themselves. Besides, they are trained
TO business and maintain a personal super
vision over their vast estate.
Becky Jones, the woman who spent 40
weeks in Ludlow-stre Jail in New York be-
cause she wouldn't testify in will case, has
remembered the kindness of Warden Herman
by sending silver tea-set to him and his
wife. Kiernan is a bachelor, but he is deter
mined to get him wife forthwith in order
to properly enjoy this testimonial from the
miraculous Becky
Wood intended for paper pulp is shaved
so finely by an ingenious machine devised
for the purpose that it takes $50 thicknesses
to make an inch. The fneness Of this cut
ting can appreciated when it is understood
thai 200 thicknesses of ordinary paper make
an inch. The cutting knives of the machine
ara kept sharpened while in operation by Q
unique arrangement of whetstones which are
constantly at work upon them.
The annual catalogue Of Harvard Uni.
versity shows that the institution is flourish
ing under its liberal and progressive policy.
62 more than last year, and there is general
increase in the professional and special
schools. The whole body of students num-
bers l, ,662, aud there are 1874 persons engaged
in the work of instruction.
The recent death of WalIingford C1nn.,
spinster recalls an episode in her life Of IL
years ago. She was engaged to be married.
The day was set and she, with her intended,
began to put down the carpets. She wanted
them down one way, and the man wanted
them another way. Consequently he sWore
little and they separated. The man died
shortly afterward and she never married.
The Palma Oristo plant, now being ex-
| tensively planted in parts of South Carolina
as a substitute for cotton, is as easily cultiva-
ted as corn, requires no particular care in
handling the seed, and yields a large profit.
| The climate of lower South Carolina Is all
that could be desired, and on the sea islands
the plant attains remarkable growth without
labor or attention.
"A Wisconsin cranberry grower has this
year expended $4,000 for artificial irriga-
tion, the problem being to flood 600 acres Q
foot deep at night, in five hours, on the ap-
| proach of frost, and to draw of the water in
the same time next morning TO permit pick
ing. Two 175 horsepower engines, with q
ditch 1000 yards long, so feet wide and 6
feet deep, have proved equal to the task.
Mrs. Isabel T. Fruncshua has instituted
| a suit against the city of San Francisco to
have the defendant declared trustee for her
of tract of land, bounded by Franklin,
Lyon aud Union streets and the water front.
This tract includes 100 squares of outside city
lands, valued at about 81, 900, 600. The
plaintiff claims that the tract mentioned was
granted to her father, Gabriel Castro, by the
| alaalda nf old nuahln Varha Ruana in
1886.
The st. Paul PIONEER Press publishes
some interesting statistics showing the rapid
ity with which Minneapolis has attained bel
position as one of the most important whea
markets in the Northwest. As q reoeiVin(
market she has already outstripped Chicago
ST. Louis, Milwaukee, Boston, Detroit and
Kansas City, and is close upon the heels o.
New York. The total receipts at Minneapo
lis for October were G, ,SSl, 500 bushels against
4,39S, 900 in the corresponding month in 1884
"A correspondent of a western journA
says there is no surer way of predicting
change in the weather than by observing thu
habits of the snail. They do not drink, bu
imbibe moisture during rain and exude |
afterward The animal is never seen abroAC
except before a rain. The tree snail, as It i
called, two days before the rain will cimi
|
ing to be q hard and long one will get on th,
sheltered side of a leaf, but il short rain OF
the outside. Then there are other specie
that before a rain are yellow, after blue. Il
other snails deep indenlRtions, beginning 4
the head between the horns and ending viii
the juncture Of the tail, appear few day
before a storm.
The introduction Of the megaphone ol
shipbosrd-a sort of telescope for the ear, o
machine for magnifying sounds said to b
boon in prospect for mariners. Its desigi
is to enable person to hear or carry on con
versation with people at distance, and It l
constructed Of two huge cone shaped tubes
eight feet long and three in diameter at III
large end, which diminish to an apex 4
g the form of rubber tubes small enough I
place in the ear. Bstween these tubes ar
two smaller ones, constructed in the sam
manner, but not more than half the diameter
By placing the rubber tubes In the ear AM
speaking through the smaller cones the pei
son can hear and be heard at long distance
aud it thus aids the mariner In listening TO
the sound Of breakers, or carrying on CONVEX
sation with persons on shore or on Othe
vessels at a dis anoe.
AT Deggendorf, where the Danube hoW
through rich and beautiful valley, there is