Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-12
IN GENERAL.

The lowest recorded temperature 1893 de-
grees below zero, Fahrenheit-has been pro-
duced by Oszewski by vaporizing liquid
nitrogen under low pressure.
-SunAowers are being grown in Dakota
for fuel. The stalks are hard as oak and
make as good a Gre, while the heads which
are cut of and used separately, burn well,
being full of OIL
An l1.year old New York boy fell out of
a second story window upon q woman who
was passing, aud generously offered to let
her jump on him by way of oompensating
her for her injuries and indignation.
Floating saw mills are common on the
lower Mississippi. The saws are rigged on
small steamers, which pick up the valuable
logs found adrift in the river and sell the
lumber in the towns or at plantations.
The Tail of the Devil, the Fountain of
Love, Little He'll, the Spirit Of Purity, the
Triumph of Dynamite, the Balm Of Sorrow,
the Tempest Of the Soul and the Flight Of
Time are saloons in the city of Mexico.
1t is said that the Astors have paid at the
rate of sc, 900, 600 per acre for land in Wall
street. The land for the Drexel property,
corner Wall and Broad streets, which was
bought during the highest period of initiation,
cost at the rate of $l4 ,OOO, 900 an acre.
Iowa ranks the highest of all the states
in the number of cattle to the square mile.
She has 2,O14, 4s4 head, or 35 9 to the square
mile Illinois has 26, Ohio "a, Pennsylvania
10, New York 1s aud Texas 10 head to the
square mile The number of cattle in Texas
is 4, 234, ,923.
The American colony at Paris, Of which
80 much is said. consists Of from i've hundred
to one thousand permanent resdents-artists
students, hangers-on at the Legation and
Consulate and people of elegant leisure. 1t
is said to be the center of much small talk
and scandal.
The practice of surrendering pensions is
likely to become contagious Commissioner
Black has received letter from a woman
pensioner who says she has fallen heir TO q
fortune and. being no longer a dependent,
does not feel it right to continue to draw her
pension.
The tropical gooseberry, which is cult
vated in Florida, grows on a handsome tree
from ten TO fifteen feet in height. The fruit
is rather smaller than the Siberian crap apple,
and the shape is a fattened globe. 1t con-
tains one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is ornamental.
The Montreal Star announces that W.
H. II. Murray is preparing to deliver a course
of illustrated lectures through Canada and
the States upon Canada, its History, Tredi-
tions Legends and Resources" He has been
engaged for this purpose by Boston parties,
and will begin his lectures in Canada. They
will not be ready before September.
According to the Lyon Medical, the late
eminent German surgeon Frerichs was rath-
er tough man to consult He one day ex-
amined patient for an obscure malady, aud,
recognizing the case as hopeless, dismissed
the individual without a word. "But, Doc.
tor" said he, "what is the matter with me I"
THAT" said Frerichs, twill be settled by
the autopsy"
There are now SS miles OF narrow gauge
railway on the island of Newfoundland. The
| line commences at st. Johns and ends at Har-
Dor Grace to the westward, which has pop
ulation of about 5000, st. Johns having about
81, 900. The road was built by a company
subsidized by the government, who under
took to build the road from st. Johns to
Notre Dame bay, on the east coast, a distance
of $40 miles.
Miguel and Jules Monda, half brothers,
living at Matamoras, Tex, quArreled about
the possession of a saber belonging to their
father. The younger brother, aged 16, who
was the larger of the two, becoming frantic,
| suddenly seized the weapon and whirling 1t
in the air brought it down with such force on
his brothers neck that it almost severed the
head from the body, the young man instantly
dying. Quickly realizing the import of the
awful deed, he turned the blade against his
side thrust it into his own heart and fell dead.
Their parents are wealthy Mexicans.
The American Protestant League asserts
that the Roman Catholics, under direct orders
from Rome, and Immediately directed by
Cardinal McCloskey, have gone very far in
| Systematic effort TO capture Washington as Q
centre of political influence. The evidence
cited in support of that view is the immense
requirement of property by the Church in
| the District of Columbia. Sites for schools,
converts, colleges, churches, and asylums
have been purchased there greatly in advance
OF actual needs, and now sixty-fiv acres Of
ground have been bought for the projected
seminary, to found which q Catholic lady
recently gave $500, 900 as a beginning. The
| institution is to be under the management of
the Jesuits. The active controller of all these
concerns, however, is the Archbishop of
Baltimore, in whose diocese the capital is sit
uated, and who is to- day the heaviest individ-
ual owner of real estate in Washington. In
| all this the League sees a determination on
the part of the Roman Catholics 10 make
Washington their potent American centre
John Esten Cooke of Virginia has made
a searching investigation of the POoahontas
matter, and he is satisfied, from all the evil
dence TO be had that Smith WAS captured by
a party OF Indians in 1907 and was carried to
|
hatan ordered him TO be slain. PocahOntas
interfered to save him. She took Smiths
head in her arms 80 that it was impossible to
beat out his brains without hitting her. Pow
hatan consented to spare the prisoner, and
treated him kindly. AfterWard Smith releas-
| ed some Indian prisoners, stating that it was
| for the sake of Pocahontas. He told his
friends in Jamestown that Pooahontas had
saved his life. In q letter to Queen Anne he
I II L \ 4 II AAaa
| poison of ingratitude" II he forgot the good
ness of Pocahontas. In several letters he
gave to this girl credit for his rescue from
| death. II was on this account that Pocahon-
| tas was hatteringly received at the English
court After her marriage to Rolfe she was
baptized, and lived ''ciVilly and lovingly with
her husband"
Gen. Gordon entertained peculiar ideas
concerning the Edenio apple by which Moth
er Eve introduced death and all our woe"
into the world. The constituent elements of
this fruit Gordon held 10 be present in the
blood of every member Of the human race up
to the present day, and he contended that
| their virus could only be subdued and count
eracted by frequent participation In the bread
and wine of the sacrament But 80 material
a view did he take ofthis rite, that he thought
the more a man could INCEST, In quantity, of
the eonsecrated food, the better would be his
chances of expurgating from his physical
organism the poisonous corpuscles Of the for
hidden apple, Having foreseen that III ere
would be few or no opportunities of receiv-
ing the sacrament in the Soudan, Gordon re-
solved 10 take as much as possible of the sa-
cred elements before starting. He therefore
occupied himself on the Saturday before his
last Sunday in England in ascertaining the
hours at which communion would be admin
istered in the various churches within reach Of
the place where he then was, and, rising early
Sunday morning, he went from church TO
church in turn, partaking OF the sacrament
in each, and thus received the element some
half dozen times in succession, beginning at