Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-02-05
IN GENERAL.

mus canal.
The bodies of 81 Of the 80 miners who
we're buried in a coal mine at Newburg, Va,
have been recovered.
Herr Franzi, one of the actors at the
Concordia theatre in Berlin, a 20 years.old
Tyrolean, is eight feet six inches tall.
North Dakota, 10 years ago described in
the government reports as "the uninhabita-
BILE alkali desert Of the Northwest" supports
100 newspapers
A New Haven dentist has been hued $40
and costs for tossing his fat colored cook
outdoors in fit Of anger and jamming her
head into a snow-b bank"
The Congo railway syndicate has appoint
ed Mr.. Henry NJ Stanley manager Of the
work of laying the line of railway in the
Congo country.
A recently married couple at Miles, Mich
start out with an active capital of 20 chill
dren. The husband contributed II to the
stock, and the wife H..
The richest woman In the world is a Ia
dy Of Chilli, and her name is Dona Isidora
Cousno She is a widow, but refuses all Of
fers though only ~ years Of age. Ode Of
her mines give her AN income OF $50, 900 per
month.
The largest dog in the country is said to
be Il st. Bernard, owned at Glen Cove, l.. l.
I 4 !
bis nose to the tip of bis tail, stands % inches
high and weighs 1872 pounds.
Live carp, served on bed Of moss snd
crosses, is highly esteemed dish at Japan
ese feasts. Morses and flakes of raw Ash
are lifted in the deftest way from the hshs
back aud passed to the company.
A Russian physician has Experimental
on dogs to find out the proper treatment for
restoring a frozen person Every dog when
| placed immed atey in a hot bath recovered
| quickly.
--Minda Cambell, mother Of the fugitive
| slave, Simms, whose trial in Boston in 1850
created such excitement, died recently at Sa-
vannab, Ga, eyed "a years. Simms is now
a bricklayer in Washington, ID. @.
A remarkable importation at Victoria,
| Is. G, lately, was 600 pounds Of shaviugs, all
| the way from New Jersey. The apparent in
cougruity Of such An importation to a coun-
Try full of saw mills is explained by the fact
that the shaving are Of red BIRCH to be used
| in the manufacture Of vinegar.
! Two young men OF Lowell, Mass, have
gone to the Holy Land on a novel errand.
Alr. Greene is an enthusiastic botanist, and
his plan il to collect half a million flowers in
the Holy Land bring them to London, mount
them and sell them. His motive il partly to
help ministers and Sunday school teachers to
! 90 theT NOfk DelleT
A western medical journal records the
case Of boy who swallowed an open pen
| knife three and half inches long and yet
was saved from the slightest injury. The
doctor administered hearty meals Of mush
| aud buckwheat cakes, which thoroughly i'm
pactvd the instrument until it was recovered.
yellow Hawk 10 years ago painted
savage, is nov the pastor Of Congregational
church in Dakota, living on his own farm Of
| 1860 acres. under fence, well stocked and in
good cultivation, with garden and flower beds,
his comfortable house and furniture being as
civilized as those OF most white settlers on
the frontier,
The studious men of figures have found
out that since 1913 wars among the civilized
nations have caused the death of 1, 470. 900
men. The number Of those actually killed
in battle was comparatively small wounds
hardships and disease being the great causes
of death. The bloodiest battle IN tine period
named WAS that OF Borodino, where II, 900
men were slain.
The Garden says that the weeping viii
low seems to have had romantic history.
The first scion was sent from Smyrna in a
box OF figs to Alexander Pope. Gen. Clin-
ton brought shoot from Pope's tree to
America, in the time of the Revolution,
which, passing into the hands Of John Parke
thus becoming the protector of the weeping
willow in America.
A remarkable cavern, half a mile in
length, has been discovered in Kinney coun-
ty, Texas. The ceiling varies from 100 to
to 200 feet in height. The largest chamber
i, 800 feet wide, aud the ceiling l1j feet high
in the centre The stalsctite formations are
grand and beautiful. One feature of the
place is a cascade 20 feet high, formed in
pure white limestone.
Austin, Tex, experienced singular phe-
homenon Tuesday afternoon of last week.
Toward o'clock from out Of clear sky a
shower Of very fine dust began falling. There
was no wind at the time The shower in.
creased toward nightfall and contin ued
through half the night. The dust had pc
cular effect on the lungs and throat causing
irritation and hOarseness in some instances
A similar phenomenon was witnessed eight
years ago.
A Methodist minister named White, al
La Sale, H., prevented u panic and probs
bly, saved many lives one evening last week
by starting up song just as the floor of {
hall back of his church began to sink beneath
the weight Of 600 people. The momentary
pause gave chance to dsperse the crowd in
small details, and prevented rush which
would have caused the building to collapse
They are taking up a subscription for him.
Next Easter falls on the latest date a
which 1t can possibly occur, April %; unde
the rule of the Council of Nice, which de
crees that Easter shall be observed on the
Sunday after the full moon following the 2ls
of March. Its earliest possible date is Msrcl
-. 1t is 152 years since Easter day has beeI
so late 1t will not again fall on that day til
1913 Ash Wednesday will fall this year Oh
the 10Th of March.
Dennis Jackson, farmer at Pilot Grove
No, severely whipped his son, aged II, TO
disobedience. At 4 O'Clock the next morn
ing the boy got up, took his fathers sho
gun, went TO his room, placed the muzzl'
against bis fathers side and fired. The faith
er was not killed instantly, and attempted Il
get pistol from under his pillow. The DO,
again fired at his fathers head, killing him
HIS mother was in bed at the time and wa
slightly wounded Jackson is said TO hAv
been rough man. The young murdere
made no attempt to escape and was arrested
The Misses Drexel, the three daughter
of the late f. A. Drexel, tue Philadelphia
banker, have purchased a tract OF land com
prising POO acres, near Bristol, upon whcl
they will establish an industrial school fol
orphan boys. to be placed under the care o
the Roman Catholic order of the Christian
Brothers. These young ladies inherited from
their father nearly s. 600, 600 each, and it i
said that under the terms of the will thei
fortunes will revert to Roman Catholic chari
ties unless one Of them should marry, whe
the whole fortune would go to the issue o
that union.
"Piokaninny," little trick eleph ant ex
hibitng in a museum at Cleveland, o., ha
gained distinction by testifyipg in court Hi
trainer, Patsey MeaRheT, arrested TO
cruelty to animals in proddiDg him, and Il
prove that he bad not hurt the animal be le
'Pickaninny" before the judge. When aske
by Patsey if no had been hurt the elephan
shook his head, and when the court asked
his trainer used him well the elephant nod
ded and squeaed an energetic affirmative
Patsey WIS discharged The elephant CAV
a snort of delight, saluted the Judge wit
his trunk and was led out of the room.
An Euglishman in Madras has, by
lucky accident, made photograph of a tiRe