Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-23
IN GENERAL.

"A Chicago newspaper heads q column Of
news from st. Louis, Notes from Sleepy
Hollow"
"A Wyoming ''glee club and literary socie-
ty" has lynched six men for horse stealing so
far this year.
New England farmers having taken TO
raising peanuts, Southern planters threaten
TO cultivate baked beans.
As q result of the planting of trees in
Dakota, birds are making their appearance
which were never seen there before.
Two trains of cars run wholly by cleo
tricity will soon be in regular operation on
the New York Elevated Railroad on the
Ninth avenue line.
While Chicago police magistrate was
administering a severe lecture 10 10.years-
old newsgirl arrested for vagranoy, the oul-
prit stole his silk handkerchief.
Many California towns are compelling
the Chinese to move out of the corporate lin
its. and the Los Angeles hotels are discharg-
ing their Chinese help and substituting white
persons.
Cremation societies have been formed in
Is cities in this country, and in Pittsburg and
Milwaukee undertskers propose to build pri-
vate crematories as a profitable adjunct of
their business.
-GoueIhl Dullet uhS pre5eutlu6ut tuhb
6S is a fatal age in his family, and that he
will not live past the year 1888. And, what
is more, he is said to be making some busi-
ness arrangements on the basis of that be-
lief.
"A deposit of sal ammoniac covering seve-
raj acres has been discovered at Churchill,
Col. Sal ammoniao is a valuable article of
commerce, and was first discovered in the
sands of Africa. 1t is worth in its crude state
$4OO per ton.
The run of Goldfish at the Lofoten Islands,
Norway, is said to be q marvellous sight.
Billions assemble and form q mountainous
shoal 12O to $50 feet high. The season lasts
two months, and on q propitous day 1000
boats bring in 1000, 600 Goldfish.
The Chicago pork packer is not the only
man who utilizes the hog. The city uses the
animal body and boots. They pull of the
hard shell which covers the cartilage of the
foot, and sell it to parties who manufacture
| springs for railroad cars. II is said 10 be su-
perior to and more lasting than rubber, for
which it is being rapidly substituted.
Berlin is becoming more and more the
centre of panorama paintings fact which is
greatly owing to the establishment of the
grand atelier in the Thiergarten by the archi-
tects Eude and Bockmann. In the same city
| the painters Bracht, Rochling and Roach are
at present engaged upon the panorama of the
Battle of Chattanooga for the city of Chicago,
| where the architects are also TO erect an ap-
propriate building.
The government reports give the cost of
spirits used in the United States at q yearly
average of about $500, ,OO0, 900. Is not the
payment by our people of this immense sum,
without adequate return or remuneration, one
cause of the present hard times2 How many
farms would this money be sufficient TO give
IL
or buy good new plows, harrows or harvest
| ing machines for?
An old physician of Buffalo, N. Y, who
had lost his windpipe, larynx and the power
of speech from the effects of a cancer, has
! had silver tube inserted in his throat, and
is now able TO articulate sufficiently well to be
understood. His tone of voice, however, Is
always the same, as it is produced by reed
which Is fixed in the end of the silver Wind
| pipe II required six weeks Of experiment
ing for the surgeon TO achieve this result
| William Cline, travelling quaok doctor
of Richmond, Ind, is charged with horrible
crime, and his partner is sued for $4,000.
| The case of his victim, Margaret Wardell is
a warning against the wandering shysters.
| The medicine Cline gave the woman not only
| killed her. but before she died caused her
flesh 10 slough of. He began to doctor her
last February, and when she died, September
22d, her nose and ears had dropped off and
her eyes had rotted out of their sockets.
Hon. John A. Bingham, late United States
Minister to Japan, says that country is ad-
vancing in civilization very rapidly. The tel
ephone, electric light and railroads are being
pushed forward, while the postal system, or
ganized within the last ten years, is as perfect
as ours. There is free press, three millions
OF Japanese children attend free schools, and
II is a crime to prevent children from attend
ing school. English Is taught In the schools,
too, and Roman letters are gradually being
adopted.
Preston, Conn, has been divided into
two violent and highly favored factions, the
onionists and anti-onionists. Mrs.S. J. II. Knapp
taught school last term in the district, and she
whipped child for eating onions for dinner.
She was instantly dismissed by the commit
tee, a majority of whom drew the line at any
interference in eating onions. Noisy school
meetings have been held and two outspoken
factions developed. The subject has been
thoroughly ventilated and new school com
mittee elected on the onion issue, pledged TO
employ no teacher not pronounced In her
views that onions can be eaten at all times and
places. Such teacher has been engaged Il
run the Preston school.
"A two-years-old child was borne away
and killed by large bald eagle at the village
Of St. Vincent de Paul near Montreal las
week Thursday. The mother was feeding
her fowls, while her child was playing
around Suddenly the eagle swooped dowT
and bore the little one of In its talons The
child screamed and stretched It's arms toward
it's helpless mother. The screams attracted
, the neighbors, who with shot-guns pursued
/ the eagle. The bird was seen TO alight will
It's prey upon the roof of barn a mile dis
tant. Lifting up its head, with one power
. full stroke 1t drove its beak into the child
: head and then begun its horrible feast. A
a the near approach of the neighbors Wit
y were firing their guns 10 frighten 1t, the eagl
/. took flight, leaving the child behind. WheI
!, the body was recovered life was extinct
5 The skull was split in two and part hA'
been devOured.