Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
IN GENERAL.


saved the British public $50, ,O00,0 600.
French paper-makers have begun to use
hop vine fiber, aud call it the best substitute
for rags yet discovered
1t is no longer customary TO place the
mystic letters II S. V. p. on invitation cards.
Well-bred persons need no such hint.
Every pententiary in Texas is provided
with kennel of three or four bloodhounds
for the purpose of hunting escaped prisoners.
The Washington authorities contemplate
taxing the residences owned by three foreign
legations. It has been the practice to exempt
them.
"A Corean woman has no name. She is
always somebody's daughter sister, wife or
mother. Her individual existence is not rec
ognized, even by name.
"A new rose, possessed Of manifold attrac-
tions, perfect in form and color, uneqnaled
in fragrance, hardy in habit and a perpetual
bloomer has been named by its originator
THE American Beauty"
Five young women aud eight men we're
baptized in a mill pond near Milford, N. j.,
last Sunday, the ice on the pond having been
cut for that purpose. About 800 people wit
messed the ceremony.
The sudden and unusual ringing OF a
school bell at Monticello, N. Y. the other day
was explained by the circumstance that the
new teacher used the end of the bell rope to
correct refractory pupil
"A Kansas criminal, indicted and convic-
ted upon three distinct counts, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for three years upon
the first charge, for ten years upon the sec
ond, and for the rest of his natural life upon
the third
The deepest gold mine in the world, says
the Alta DaIiforpta Ia ba Enraba In Oatifor-
mia, which is down 2290 feet, or 500 feet be-
low the level OF the sea. The deepest silver
mine is the Mexican, on the Oomstock, which
is down $500 feet.
"A steer was recently sold in Cincinnati
weighing 1850 pounds. The animal was ais
ed near Decatur, Ind, is of fne form, per-
fectly developed, six feet four inches high,
grths II feet, and measures u feet in length.
1t is six years old, beautiful roam, and in
perfect health.
"A dog in Wansqua, N. j., who for some
tine had been noticed to take his breakfast
in his mouth and run away with it unesten,
was followed, when 1t was discovered that he
took his meal to a decrepit and emsciated old
dog in covert in the field, who eagerly de-
voured the food thus provided for him.
To counteract the effect of a dose of
poison accidentally administered to a man
near Beatty, KY, there being no emetic rem
edy on hand q woman thought the nicotine
found in pipestem would answer the pur-
pose. She broke an old stem, scraped out
the inside, and gave it to the patient, who
died 10 ten minutes.
-Te1asis paying $50, 600 year in pensions
to 600 alleged survivors of Sam Houston's
command in the war of 1857. New appli-
cations are coming in all the time IA we're
received in one day recently, and the legisla-
ture is trying to repeal the law on the ground
that one. half or two-thirds of the claims now
being paid are fraudulent.
The wife of the Japanese Minister at
Washington receives her guests with a pretty
and graceful English welcome. She is a tiny
lady, not much above four feet in hight, with
clear, creamy complexion, straight eyes, arch
ed eyebrows and an abundance of coal black
hair. She dresses in rich French toilettes and
converses through the medium of an inter
prefer.
The Tennessee legislature has ordered
an investigation into alleged abuses in
the treatment of convicts. The prisoners of
the pen nitentiary at Nashville were leased in
1888 by the Tennessee coal and iron compa-
Gy for six years at $lOs, 900 per anpum. 1t
is charged that the convIcts are punished by
the lash, that their dead bodies are sent to
medical colleges, and that crimes between
the sexes are permitted.
Vienna telephone people have practical
way of putting up their wires, using neither
poles nor house tops, and yet not placing
Them underground. There are affixed to the
walls OF the houses on either side of the street
small and very neat iron frames, holding from
eight TO sixteen porcelain insulators. The
wires are then strung along the fronts of the
buildings on these insula'ors, between the
second and third story windows.
One of the curlosiies of the New Or
leans Exposition is an air flower from the
City Of Mexico. 1t is two inches long, and
resembles beetle with wings and horns.
The wings are of light ses-green color, dot
ted with specks. the horns are white, and
at the points very short. The body of the
flower is pale yellow and deep orange, and
gives a slight hyacinth perfume. Including
the broad banana shaped leaves, the entire
plant looks as though moulded in wax.
1t has been estimated that the poor buying
in small quantities incur unnecessary expense
in this ratio For an ounce of washing soda
the poor trading at small shops in New York
pay l cent grocer will deliver it for three
cents pound. For -four by the pound they
pay a sum equal to $3.50 barrel for So ar
ticle They buy butter at the rate of $5
tub, which would cost $3.50. A half pound
VI sugar COslo lucu u Cculst Nuho pOuuu
would be but cents more. For 25 cent
tea they pay 40 cents. For a 15-csnt coffee
they pay 80 cents.
"A Chinaman was caught in clever trick
at a jewelry store in San Francisco
short time since. He bargained for 800
diamond ring, and offered in payment what
appeared to be five $50 rolls of silver. He
took up the ring and broke one of the rolls
which contained half dollars. He pushed
over the other four, but there being some
thing suspicious in his movements, the store
keeper sent for an officer, who took charge
of the ring, money, and unopened rolls
When the latter were undone it was discov-
cred that they were lead rolls, at each end of
which q half-dollar was placed.
"A writer of Canadian District, this nation,
says that the ice is piled up 80 feet high on
the Arkansas river sand bar near the Rev.
John Sewers place, and that it will be plen-
tiful there until next August. He says, too,
that the snow and ice gathers so thickly on
the heads and necks of chickens at roost that
they lose their equilibrium often and topple
over and fall to the ground as dead. More
over, that the cattle carry so much snow on
their backs that they look like moving trains
of white topped wagons aud that they fire.
quently frighten at the sight Of each other
and stampede and cut up all sorts of antics.
This item is from the IdhHQudh (fndidn
territ0ry) Cherokee AdU0cdte,
-Faels relating to the wardrobe of the Em-
press Eugenie have recently come to light.
The story above the Empresss apartments
was devoted to her wardrobe The rooms
were lined with presses in new oak. A room
was given up TO boots and shoes, another to
hats and bonnets, third to furs and opera
cloaks, fourth to dresses, hfth to laces, a
sixth TO silken stuffs that had not passed thro'
the couturiere's hands and over the dressing
room there we're figures exactly her size stuff
ed with bran, which we're dressed daily in
the toilets that she meant to wear between
the early morning and the evening. Every
thing that should go with the robe was put on
the manikin, which, when il was wante T. was
let down by a lift into the dressing room.
The Burlington Hawkeye thinks the most
striking thing about the roller-skating rink is
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