Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
IN GENERAL.

Capt. WOrthen Hall, who had killed 300
whales and brought into port more than %,
900 barrels of oil, died recently at his home
in Croydon, n. II.
A bed of excellent coal extending over
5000 acres has been discovered two miles
from Strawn, on the Texas and Pacific
railroad.
A curious example of fear at a rat was
cited by wild beast trainer. He said that
Me Say, huge elephant, bolted several
times from "A rat which came at it angrily
squeaking
Jersey City is to have an elevated railway
three miles long, to cost 81, OOO, 900
Three good sized rattlesnakes created
sensation by crawling out of hole in "A back
log which John Symons of Hollidaysburg,
Pa, threw ON his fireplace the other day
They were killed with pair of tongs
Susan Hawley, hat trimmer of Dan
bury, Conn, has dangerously poisoned her
self by biting off the thread used in her
work. Her lips began to swell some DAYS
ago, and she also had "A severe soreness and
swelling of the gums. Poisonous coloring
matter in the thread probably caused the
trouble
1t is stated that 1000 miles Of railroad
have been built in the United States during
the present year, or more than twice as
many as were built in 1885, The increase
consists almost wholly of extensions by old
corporations that have the money to pay
for them
balls, some as little as apples and
some as big as peck measures dot one of
the prairies in Brown county, Dakota The
balls were rolled by the wind and they may
be seen by the million mile after mile
Railroading under the sea is the latest
The first train passed through the Severn
tunnel one morning about two weeks ago
The tunnel is miles and 624 yards long
The passengers took out their watches when
the locomotive went in on the Monmouth
shire side, and when the train emerged on
the Worcestershire side just minutes and
40 seconds had passed.
The late King Alfonso of Spain is not yet
officially buried, although he has Just been
dead year. According TO rigid Spanish
etiquette royal persOnages must become
'mummifiedn before being finally laid to
rest, and so their coffins are placed in a
special chamber in the rock, where water
falls constantly upon the corpse until it is
completely petrifed So the body of the
late king is still undergoing the process.
In the report of the London Geographi-
cal society ON the deep sea explorations of
the Atlantic bed previous statements con
corning its CONFORMATION are verified, name
", that the bottom of the North Atlantic is
occupied by two valleys, the eastern ex
tending from ten to thirty degrees west on
gitude and traceable as far as the equator,
with an extreme depth of less than thirteen
thousand feet, while the western valley
reaches from the thirtieth to the hftieth de
gree of west longitude The two are sepa-
rated by a ridge in thirty degrees west lon
gitude, along which the average depth is
only one thousand fathoms, and which can
! be traced nOrthward TO Iceland and south
ward to the Azores it is volcanic in char
acter at both eXtremities. Its extreme
breadth is somewhat less than five hundred
miles, the depth of water increasing on
both sides of it according to the distance of
its axis.
A letter from Sassakwa, Seminole nation,
| |. T. tells of the recent death there of Mrs.
| Susanna Warren, the Oldest person in the
United States, if not in the world. She was
born in the old town of st. Augustine, Fla.
in 1850, and was therefore 1856 years old
when she died. She was born a slave, and
was the property of Spanish masters until
| 1918, when she, with other Spanish slaves,
| He'd from the town OF PENSACOLA When II
was taken by Gen, jackson, She lived in
the Seminole country from then until the
second treaty of peace with the Seminoles,
when she was regarded as their common
property, and was removed with them tC
the Indian territory She leaves one daugh-
ter in Austin, Tex, who is in her 9th year,
and many grandchildren, some of them
nearly 20 years old.
A recent contrvance in saws is one with
out teeth which will cut a steel rail in two
minutes. The saw in question is run by an
S0-horse- power engine, is 30 inches in di
ameter and of an inch thick at the edge
The disk is made of Bessemer steel and runs
at very high rate of speed. While in OPP
Grafton band of fire encircles the saw, the
many sparks flying from the revolving disk
resembling display of pyrotechnics. TC
keep the saw cool and prevent it from
cracking, a tank of water is placed above
the machine, from which small stream
runs down and drops ON the saw whit in
lfing in Boston this year is 1bu.,
lssian sleigh, drawn by dash Mear, Z ewt.,
gses. n bolted