Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-08-06
I'm GENERAL.

The Spanish government has decided to
free as soon as possible the remaining 26, 600
slaves in Cuba
There are 80 separate taxes on wheat in
Mexico from the time it leaves the field until
it reaches the miller.
William S ,ott colored, died at Baltimore
last week. The certificate of his death
placed his age at 1853 years.
The first white male child born in Kansas
is trustee of an art institution. The state has
developed as rapidly as the man, it seems.
"A remarkable heat wave has lately passed
over England and France, accompanied by
disastrous thunder storms and loss of life.
The snail is literally the poor mans oys.
ter in France. In Paris alone it is estimated
that about forty mine tons day are consumed.
Germany is said to have been secretly
training carrier pigeons in France and Gen.
Boulanger, the French war minister, has or
dered an inquiry.
The New York hop crop has been ruined
by recent rains, it is said. Good 80 hops
now bring 30 to - cents against 6 and 10
cents six weeks ago
The Netherand steamer Waesland while
two days out from Antwerp struck a sleeping
whale eighty feet long, and cut it in two.
The steamer was not damaged.
lightning struck a house in Canada last
Sunday night in which wake" was in prog
ress, SCATTERING the coffin, killing two persons,
and making most CHASTITY scene.
The soaked mails taken from the steam
ship Oregon have been found in many in
stances to contain valuable laces and other
dutiable goods, which will be confiscattd d.
"A country girl in France the other day
had her hair cut off by lightning as neatly as
If shaved by razor. She felt the shock, but
didn't realize what had happened till she got
home and took her hair off with her bonnet.
The Vermont Prohibitory party will hold
three temperance camp meetings in the north
part of the state in August, rs follows at
Mlssisquoi park, ii ghRate Springs August II,
at Morrisvile the 18th, and at Lyndonville
the 18th.
Baron Raymond de Salliere, who is now
travelling in the United States, has recently,
at the request of his family, been placed IN
der judicial CONTROL having run through his
own fortune and contracted debts amounting
to nearly S., 600, 900.
Professor Lesley. of the Pennsylvania
Geological Survey, estimates the amount of
coal in the Pittsburg region at 80, 600, 600, 600
tons. About IL, 600 600 tons are now taken
annually from its bed, of which two-thirls
are bituminOus and One-third anthracite.
There is said to be hot spring at Elko
Nevada from which an excellent imitation of
chicken soup is made by simply havoring the
water with salt and pepper. The Sacramento
Bee says there are many persons in that city
who confirm the statement aud say that the
dish would pass at table for genuine chicken
broth.
There are several towns in Montana with
out single unmarried woman and the local
papers tell piteous tales of rich and eligible
bachelors who are travelling about from town
to town looking for a wife. In some parts of
the territory, it is said commission of from
$40 to $40 is freely offered for good article
in wives.
DIR. Cyrus Edison for the sanitary bureau
of New York seizsd 5000 pounds of 80 called
tea at Front street store last week, and sent
it TO the offal dock. 1t was mixed with to-
bacoo and fifth but the firm had sold it to
New Jersey speculatOr, who would doubtless
have imperiled health by it with entire indf-
ference.
The Egyptian lotus has been naturalized
near Bordentown, N. j., where was sown the
seed some years ago The lilies now cover
half an acre of lake surface with leaves two
feet in diameter, above which the flower stalks
rise fully six feet. The blooms themselves
are six inches across, of bright peach blow
pink and deliciously fragrant.
-"The late A. Il. Stewart" says Harper's
"oeAty iOuhu ~ !" n'9 Hufnut"Be W BNo "
each head of a department of his business a
percentage of the profits made in that depart
ment in addition to guaranteed salary. One
year the head of his lace department earned
1927, 900 and the head of another department
$29, 900, the percentage being about one per
cent of the profits of the department"
The directors of the Bennington Battle
Monument association have decided not to
have a celebration when the work of laying
the foundation begins next week as at first in
tended. They have been officially called to-
getheT to locate the monument, and M soon AZ
that ia done the contract for the foundation
will be let and the work begun. 1t is under
stood that foundation will be put in for
monument 300 feet high instead Of $50 as
originally proposed,