Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-09
NO. Al.
IN GENERAL.


-Krupp has constructed q 100 ton gun
that kills at nine miles.
Minnesota has nearly 1000 lakes, large
and small within its borders.
"A Chinese sign in a shop at 5ocorro,
N. NJ. reads "Sin Was In"
There have been now about 100 900
deaths from cholera In the south Of Europe.
"A San Francisco powder manufacturer
says that 8 1000, 900 pounds Of dynamite are
used annually west Of the Missouri river.
As q result Of the tree culture in Dakota
birds are becoming numerous, and In some
counties quail have made their appearance.
"A cave said 10 be far more extensive than
the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, has been
discovered in White Pine county, New.
"A religious family of evangelical tenden-
cies recently advertised in an English reig-
ious paper for ''s parlor maid who knew her
place and feared the Lord"
An electric eel kept In New York threw
of a shock few nights ago, during q fit of
anger, that shattered the glass Of the tank
in which IL was kept and the water ran out.
tank made Of marble has been substituted.
The hard wood forests of western North
Carolina are very valuable. The story is told
of man who bought farm In that section
for $2200, and not long afterward sold one
walnut tree for 1880.
Natural gas has been found In Mendoza,
Illinois, at depth Of sixty-six feet in sufi-
cient quantity for manufacturing purposes,
If the pressure and flow remain constant.
The well is situated near the bituminous coal
fields
Fifty families who form the population
Of Greenwich, Va, are all from England,
and preserve their native manners. One
resident Is a niece Of Dickens's Oheeryble
Brothers, and she has an annuity Of their
giving.
"A London woman earns living by fill-
ing up wormholes in old books, each leaf
being separately and patiently dealt with, the
material being chewed or ''pulped" and
pressed into the hole. The charge is g six
pence hole.
"A letter written by Norfolk lady, which
had remained 80 yearu in the pocket Of an
old coat was found the other day by q rag
merchant, and by an equally strange chance
reached the person TO whom ii had been ad-
dressed half century ago.
Disastrous floods covering an area of
$500 square miles have visited the presidency
OF Bengal, the largest and most populous of the
~ main divisions Of British India. A great
amount Of property has been destroyed and
lives lost.
The largest bar of gold ever seen in No.
va Scotia was brought to Halifax from the
New Albion mines at Montague recently. II
weighed 1854 ounces, being the product Of
IA days crushing in q ~ stamp mill, and is
valued at $2O,61
-"All life is joke to the Japanese" says
Lieutenant Wyckoff of the photographic bu-
reau, who lived in Japan for Eve years.
During all that time never saw any one
angry. 1 hardly believe that they could
lose their tempers II they should try"
The attendants at the cholera hospitals
l. IL .
Sisters Of the Society OF st. Vincent de Paul.
All the regular attendants fed. All these
devoted women are ladies by birth, chiefly
from Navarro, Catalina and Valencia.
"A land agent at Rome, Ga, received
few days ago an order for 100, 900 to 500, 900
acres of desirable farm land, in q solid block,
to be interspersed with timber, but not all
forest. These lands are said to be for immi-
grants, and the order comes from London.
The measles have been raging at Vallejo,
CAL, and pupil in one Of the schools having
reported sickness In the family was sent
home. She returned the next day and informed
at home, and that the doctor wanted her TO
tell the teacher ''It wasn't catching"
Sixteen years experience In charge of one
of the largest institutions in Great Britain
has convinced q teacher Of Industrial training
that boys who will have TO earn their bread
by the sweat Of their brow ought to be taught
some handicraft alternately with their school
work, and that the brain and hands ought to
be taught to work in unison with each other
"A Wisconsin man at FAirchild, after
cyclone year ago, dug a passage under
ground from his cellar TO a hill back of his
house, in which he had great cavern SCOOP
ed out. This he has had plastered and fixed
up in the best possible shape. 1t is known
as McMillan's cyclone hole.
The cotton manufacturers In St Peters
burg have successfully applied electricity for
the purpose of bleaching cotton and fax f.
bres, as well as tissues. The material is
first stepped in water, which is then decom-
posed by electricity, the oxygen thus set
free at once acting on the fibres.
Passengers may now travel from Halifax
to New York without ferriage, by an all-rail
line. The great cantilever bridge across the
st. John river, at st. John, which has been
nearly two years in the course Of construc-
ton, is at last completed, and was opened
with due ceremony last week Wednesday.
When Bismarck made the acquaintance
of his present doctor he was sick, and pee
vishly declined to answer questions ''As
you like" said the doctor; then send for
veterinary surgeon, as such practitioners treat
their patients without asking them any ques-
TONS" The Chancellor was captured.
"A Chicago man ordered milk-toast at 10
cents for his breakfast, but added sugar to
improve the taste, whereupon the waiter
brought him 15-cent check. The guest"
protested, and was fired" out, and brought
action for $4,000 damages, but the case has
gone against him, and the principle that
sugar on toast is extra has been established.
Pierre Lorillard has expended $4,000
on kennel for his dogs at Jobstown, N. j.,
and the cost of the animals, salaries, and
houses for his assistants runs the outlay up
10 $60,000 The exercising ground is ten
acres, and 200 acres are used for breaking
The dogs In on game. Two settlers cost $4,000
zach.
According 10 Prof. Tyndalls inVestiga-
lions, the Singularly blue color of the water
Of the lake of Geneva is due TO the presence
1f small mineral particles, probably derived
rom glacier dust, brought into the lake by
drainage from glacier streams, and of such
extreme minuteness as not to settle even
Rhen the water is allowed TO stand for a long
lime.
In Ogden, Utah, a curfew law has been
ldopted. The bells are sounded at ore
T., according to the season, and after that
lour boys or girls under 16 years of age, un.
ess accompanied by parent, a guardian or
! friend, or provided with permit are liable
% arrest for misdemeanor. A similar law Is
n operation In Sacramento, MaryaVille and
JoluHa, OAi., and Reno, New.
The Canadian Pacific railroad authorities
1ave discovered that the company was the
victim of great frauds on the section north of
Lake Superior. By means Of false or raised
one contractor was paid 800, 600
90 much and another $50, 900. Engineers
who were at work for 800 q month have be-
,ome landed prOprietoFs worth $50, 900 TO
100000. The total amount which the COM
pany has suffered is not less than half a mil
ion dollars.
The interminable discussion about the
iress Of JEFF Davis when captured is contin-
led by the Atlanta Constitution, which says:
Instead of being found disguised in hoop
Ikirt and dress, and wearing a bonnet and
'ther female attire, Mr.. Davis simply had
Iround his shoulders a waterproof and wore
shawl At the time Of his capture he was
inwell, and as he went out into the night air
% meet his eaptors his wife threw these
hings around him, with no idea of Disgusting
aim, but merely as protection.
AN amusing characteristic of the Breton
peasant is related In an article describing Pont
Aven, quaint town of northern France,
which appears in Outing for October. We