Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-30
IN GENERAL.

Miss Mutfrse (Charles Egbort Craddock)
will have another serial story in the Atlantic
next year.
Irish & English" is the name of Buff
falo On Y. firm, and what is queerest about
it is that Mr.. Irish is English and Mr.. English
is Irish.
The German population of the United
States is over ~, 900, 900 and there are Ger
man newspapers published in nearly every
state and territory.
"A remarkable migration of squirrels is
in progress from Northwestern Mississippi
in the direction of Arkansas. Men are kill.
ing them with sticks, and in some cases it
is said they attack the hunters.
In Western town the other day Mr.
Dunn was married to Miss Wright, and all
the papers went and put Dunn Wright"
over the account of the wedding. But only
time will tell whether it was or not.
The German or Prussian national hymn,
''Heil Dir i'm Siegerkranz," and the Swiss
hymn, "Rufst du, mein Vaterland," have
have exactly the same melody as the English
God Save the Queen" and the American,
America"
The Jews of the world numbered 6,377-
COZ last June, according to statistics gathered
By the Geographical Society of Marseille',
and were distributed as follows Europe,
5,407, ,602; Asia, 2+5, OOO Africa, Alb, 600;
America, 300, 900; Australia, IL, 600. Nearly
third OF the European Jews live in Russia.
Mayor Hardy, of Lincoln, Neb, has
made great many enemies by his strong
stand in favor of temperance. One of them
the other night left coffin at his door as
warning. The Mayor promptly sold the
coffin for $13 and turned the money over to
temperance society.
"A monument is about to be erected at
RoxbuTy, Mass, TO Gen. Joseph Warren,
who was killed at Bunker Hill. The struct-
ure is to be 35 feet high, including a statue
of Warren in bronze, with the right arm up
lifted and roll of parchment in his left
hand.
"A mob gathered about the Pike county,
Ark, Jail one night last week where q muir
derer named Churchill was confined, saturat-
ed the lower part of it with kerosene and
fired it. Churchill appeared at the grated
window and piteously begged the mob to
shoot him, but the flames soon reduced the
building and the victim to ashes.
The following is specimen of the way
in which letters are addressed in Arabia:
''In the name of the merciful God, the bene-
ficient. This writing is from who serves
his Lord from X, the son of y. and if the
God wills it will get into the hands of our
friend Sid Musa, the son of Hamdalla the
LEubolhu, lut OuTibtlhu, III lu6 CITY OF 1uhTd-
bolus, Tripoli, the illustrious, the famous"
The Boston Advertiser shows that the
consumption of ardent spirits in the United
States is on the decrease, as compared with
the growth of population. This is largely
due to an increase in the consumption of less
fervid, though alcoholic, beverages, such as
beer and wine, but it is also evident that to-
tai abstinence is on the gain, and that the
cause Of temperance is making a certain, if
slow, gain.
In most of the cantons of Switzerland
the children of poor people are regularly
hired out by auction, lest their parents should
be compelled to seek public assistance. Re-
| Gently in the market of Biel, near Berne, in
spite of the heartrending entreaties of a wild
owed mother, her four children, ranging
from to 10, were placed" out for year
to the highest bidder by the public orier.
This rivals the crlelties of slaveholding times
in the United States.
The Flood Rock explosion was felt at
Harvard observatory, 100 miles distant in an
airline. A saucer of mercury was placed on
the solid stone floor, having speok or flaw
in it, on which was brought to bear a mi
croscope of 75O magnifying power, the spider
line coinciding exactly with the flaw. The
vibrations lasted about two minutes, the great
est swaying of the mercury being overa space
/ VI A-oNobh VI hn Alou.
In 1875 Virginia City, New, had pop
ulRtion of %, 900. The inhabitants now num-
ber 5000 the buildings are tumbling down
the $500, 600 bonanza mills are idle and rust
ing the great hosting and pumping works
have been moved away, and the whole future
of the Oomstock lode and of the city depends
upon little knife-blade streak of ore in
the Hale and NorcrOss. The Comstock
lode has yielded $2G4 900, 0OO-and nearly
that sum has been put into it.
1t has become generally known, says a
Wilkesbarre (Ps.) dispatch, that in various
portions of this city explosives and infam-
able gas from the coal mines under the city
has for long time made its way up through
the creviced roofs of the mines into the eel
lars of buildings above them, necessitating
the constant keeping Of windows open in
order that the gas may escape, as to carry
light into the close apartment filled with the
| gases would result in a terrific explosion and
the destruction of property and life. The
| quarter Of the city most Affected by these
| gases is that known as Brewery hill. 1t Is
stated that in that quarter there are cellars
which are complete reservoirs of deadly ex.
plosives, which only need the contact of
flame to spread death and destruction around.
One of these buildings is the Hancock public
school building, where 600. children are in
daily attendance The danger Is considered
so great that public prints are demanding
that the school authorities at once adopt mea-
sures TO remove il. The gas is inodoTous,
thus adding to the danger of its presence.
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