Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-03
NO. 3G.
IN GENERAL.

"A complete set of school text. books to
be sold at cost are being prepared for Cali
forria in accordance with the vote of the
state, and will be introduced into the schools
next winter
According to the last Israelitsh Annual,
the number Of Jews in the world at present
is but $500, 0OO Of whom .. 400, 600 are in
Europe. There are $50, 600 Jews in tue
United States.
Reports have reached San Francisco OF
the discovery OF rich oil belt five miles
from Livermore, California. Competent au-
thorities pronounce the surface indications
the finest ever discovered in this country.
1t is proposed in Ohio to remove the re-
mains of ex-President William Henry Harri-
son from North Bend, Iud., to Spring Grove
cemetry at Cincinnati. The cemetery asso-
citation will give a suitable site.
Under the postal telegraph system in
England-that ia to say, management 10y the
government of all telegraph lines the mum
Der Of messages sent annually has Increased
from g. 600, 600 in 1870 TO 1000 600 in 1885.
"A demand is being made for the removal
OF ailanthns trees, which are very numerous
in New York city. 1t il claimed that the
pollen Of this tree is poisonous, and that tho
odor exercises baleful influence upon health
The Board Of Health admits that there is
measure Of truth in the statements
In his greenhouse at Auburn, N. Y,
George Oisey has century plant that is 30
feet high, and the stem is six inches thick at
the base. 1t has 80 towering branches with
over 5000 buds and bright yellow nowers
This plant was purchased by Mr.. Casey in
1887, and is about GO years old.
Superintendent Kimball Of the life-saving
bureau has receiN ed a letter from Admiral
Ward of the British navy and for many years
connected with the royal national life. boat in.
stitution of Great Britain, in which he says
that the American service shows by far the
most complete record of life leaving work.
"A warming to careless nurses comes from
Providence, where William Z Pollards
young child was left in its carriage by its
nurse, while she went into a shop. A gust of
wind rolled the carriage down the sidewalk
it overturned in the gutter, and a horse stand
ing there took fright, and in its plungng
crushed the child's skull
-Ex-President Arthur takes cheerful view
of national affairs. Il think it shows we are
strong government by strong people" he
Is reported as saying, when New York can
punish its own boycotters, when Chicago can
imprison its anarchists, when Mississippi can
arrest her own kuklux and when Missouri can
arrest and punish its knightly train-wreckers.
Henry Willard, who has returned to this
country with his family, has taken an Office
in Wall street New ork, and will represent
syndicate of German capitalists in their
American investments. His future career is
likely to be more conservative if less brilliant
than his past. Many curious stories are still
told of his extravaganza while president of
the Northern Pacific.
"A blow from wave broke the back of
George V. Sinner, a millionaire Broadway
insurance broker, while he was bathing in
the surf at Seabright, N. j., recently. He
was an expert swimmer, saw the billow APP
preaching and turned to swim with it to the
shore. But the swiftly rolling water struck
him in the back before he could bring his
body into horizontal position.
An experienced traveller says that in
sleeping car the upper berth ia cooler in sum-
mer, because there is more air stirring in the
top of the car, and warmer in winter than
the lower berth, because the warm air rises,
and there are not 80 many draughts He
might have added another recommendation.
II the berth breaks down you fail on top of
the loweT-beIth fellow every time
AT the Mechernich lead works in Ger
many the tallest chimney in the world has
recently been completed. is 40 feet high,
six feet more than the famous chimney of
the St. Rollox chemical works, near Glasgow,
Scotland, which, until the German one was
built was without rival. The fue of the
Mechernich chimneyi is IL feet in diameter at
the bottom and 10 feet at the top
So rapid is the progress of events in
this country that it is hard to believe the
first anti-ssvery man sent to the United
States Senate on that issue is still living, but
such is the fact. Joseph Cilley is the man.
and he remains on his old family homestead
at Nottingham, n. H. He is SO years old,
aud talks of the old time political struggles
with remarkable energy and clearness.
Figures, which proverbially cannot lie,
| IL. Nl.NN 4 l. Al.
| cover a territory as large as England, Scot
land, and Belgium united, while the grain
fields surpass Spain in territorial extent. The
acreage of our farm lands under cultivation
| is equal in extent to all of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, France,
Belgium, Portugal Germany, and Austro-
Hungary.
Lieutenant Stoney, who was sent by the
| United States government to explore Putnam
river. Alaska, which was discovered by him
in 1888, has found river to the north which
the natives say empties into the Arctic near
| Point Barrow. The river is supposed to be
the same as the one at the mouth of which
Lieut.. Ray established his headquarters dur
ing his observing expedition. Along the
banks of this river were Indians who had
never before seen white man.
The amount of matter in solution annu-
ally poured into the Gulf of Mexico by the
| Mississippi is estimated at $50, 000 900 tons,
at which rate one foot of land over the whole
basin would be removed in 1000 years. Sim
| liar calculations applied to the St. Lawrence,
| La Plata and the Amazon reach the result
that 100 tons per square mile are removed
| from the American continent every year.
Again, il is calculated that not not less than
one cubic mile of earth is deposited every
year in the Atlantic from America, Africa,
Europe and Asia.
Capt. Anderson and his companion, who
started some time ago from Norway to cross
the Atlantic to New York in an open boat
we're sighted by an Italian bark Just arrived
at Chatham, N. b., in mid-ooean some %
days out from Glasgow. The boat was bot
tom side up and the unlucky voyaRers cling
ing to the bottom. It had oapsized only the
day before. The crew of the bark assisted
in rigkting the boat, and supplied Capt. An
dersOn and his companion with plenty of dry
provisions and water. Capt. Anderson kept
on his course, confident of reaching New
York in due time.
The famous car Abraham Lincoln"
which carried the body of the martyr Presi-
| dent from Washington TO Springfield in 1865,
and which was originally a directors car
worth $50, 600, is now used to transfer sec
| ton hands on the Colorado Central railroad.
1t has a curious history. After performing
funeral duty, it was bought at a government
sale by Ward II. Lamon, who wished to keep
II out of the dime museums He sold it to
the Union Pacific, and il was used an Off
GERS cars till 1863, when Sidney Dillon turn
ed it into an emigTant car Since then its
fall in the social scale has been slow but
steady.
Sister Eulalie, superioress of the Immac-
ulate academy at Newport, KY, was burned
to death last Saturday morning. She was re-
covering from an attack of typhoid fever,
and was trying to take some medicine when
the mosquito bar caught fire from the lamp,
and in a minute the bed was a mass OF flames.
She sprang out and tried to get into the hall,
but found the door locked, aad in her fright
could not find the key. Occupants Of the
house came to her assistance and bad to
break down the door TO rescue her When
the FIRE was extinguished the unfortunate
woman was so badly burned that she died in
two hours.
An eminent German physicist recon-
mends for the extinguishment of FIRE in
closed places where the use of water or 9TH
or liquids would be likely to do great damage,
a dry compound, which, by its burning, alb
serbs the oxygen and quickly renders COM
bustion impossible. The compound is com
posed of powdered nitrate of potash (salt-
petre), 80 parts powdered sulphur, 80 parts;
| poWdered charcoal parts oolcothar