Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-23
IN GENERAL.

The most conspicuous case Of juvenile
vanity OF recent date is that Of q 12-years old
girl Of Woodbridge, o., who tried TO commit
suicide last Sunday because her mother would
not permit her to wear new cloak TO church.
Girls in Eastern Kentucky are frequently
married at the age Of IL years, and boys en-
ter into the marital relationship oftentimes
before their beard begins TO grow or before
they have any income TO- support themselves
and families.
Mt Washington is the most windy place
in the known world, and the mercury fre-
quently goes 2Oo below zero the signal men
contrive to keep comfortable with q huge
stove and range In one small room, which
serves as kitchen, dining. room and office.
Reports Of the inspectors Of the Colorado
cattle growers association show that 60, 600
cattle were shipped out Of the state in 1884,
and that 40, 600 were killed in the state for
home consumption. This is the first time
that accurate statistics have ever been given
of the number of cattle marketed in Oolora-
do, and they show it is not so large as gen.
orally estimated.
A typographical error brought Is persons
in California to church and conversion In one
evening recently. The Red Bluff News said
that 1.-THE prayer meeting at the Methodist
church will be hell to night" lots of people
coming and went to see, the preacher thought
their presence indicated religious interest, and
a rousirg meeting was the result.
-Pittsburg, Pa, wants Francis Murphy,
the temperance apostle, to locate there for
good. Manufacturers and business men have
subscribed sums ranging from 800 to $1,000
toward raising a working fund. A cougrega-
ton has been formed to be known as the
'church of gospel temperance, and Mr.. Muir
ply will be invited to be the minister Of this
church. Over 1s. 600 people have signed the
pledge in eight weeks
The New York Commercial Bulletin re-
ports that the fire losses for 1884 in the Unit
ed States aud Canada aggregated $l12, ,000,-
600, or S25. 800, 600 more than during any Of
the previous nine years. According TO the
Bulletin, 1884 was the worst year for fires the
country has ever known, except 1871 and
1872, which the Chicago and Boston blASes
rendered notable. 1t attributes the "waste-
full and weakening" losses to 'criminal negli-
gence."
AT Chicago one evening last week shah
billy dressed young man with basket in one
hand and a club in the other broke in the
plste-gsss window of jewelry store with his
club. and then oooly filed his basket with
the jewelry displayed in the window. Al
though the street was crowded with pedestri-
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a gentleman on the opposite side, who had
witnessed the operation, rushed after and
seized him. The basket was found to con-
tain 80 gold watches, a number Of diamond
rings, and other valuables, worth altogether
about $4,000.
During the twelve years from 1872 TO
1888, inclusive, says Science, no less than 1854
earthquakes are recorded as occurring in the
United States and Canada, not including
Alaska. OF these the Pacific slope had 151,
the Atlantic coast 147, and the Mississippi
valley 66R Thus it appears that an earth
quake occurs about once in every twelve days
somewhere in the United States and Canada,
and about once a month on the Atlantic
coast. These are exclusive of the lighter tre-
mors which do not make an impression on
observers, but which would be recorded by
an instrument designed to detect the sliRhter
shocks.
The force with which the gas issues from
some of the gas wells in Pittsburg is tremen-
dous, and in one instance a drilling machine
weighing 5000 pounds was thrown high in the
air. The pressure is irregular, too, and there
in lies the chief difficulty in utilizing the gas
for household purposes, as the danger Of
leakage and explosion can hardly be over
come, though various contrivances are en-
ployed to lessen it. The gas bearing stratum
is here bed of soft, pebby sandstone, at
depth of 1000 feet, underneath solid rock.
The rush of gas is weaker in the morning and
stronger in the afternoon, and there is also
general huctuation corresponding with the
changes of the moon.
Thirty barrels of fine New England rum
were overlooked in unloading the bark Emma
Hartman, three years ago, when she was ht-
ted out at Boston for whaling trip. Capt
Martin discovered the beverage soon after
setting sail, and he advised pleasure voyage
instead of q strictly lsborious one. The rest
of the officers aud the crew agreed to the
novel plan, and thereafter the chase OF the
whale alternated with sprees in the ports at
which the vessel touched. The owners gave
her up for lost, but at length heard of her on
the Pacific coast, and have just captured her
in st. Thomas bay. The rum was exhausted,
and the jolly mariners had periodically trad
ed for provisions all the whale oil they had
obtained.
The Japanese dentist does not frighten
his patient with an array of steel instruments.
All of his operations in tooth drawing are
performed by the thumb and forefnger of
one hand. The skill necessary to do this is
only acquired after long practice, but once 1t
is obtained the operator is able to extract
half dozen teeth in about 80 seconds with
out once removing his fingers from the pa
TENTS mouth. The dentists education COM
mences with the pulling out of pegs which
have been pressed into soft wood; it ends
with the drawing of hard pegs which have
been driven into an oak plank with mallet.
| writer in the Union Medicale says that no
human Jaw can resist the delicate but power
full manipulation of the Japanese dentist