Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-02
IN GEN ERAL.

A western member of Congress is said
to have won $40, 900 at poker since the be-
ginning OF the present session.
In Michigan factory has been estab.
lished to make a substitute for whalebOne out
Of the quills of geese aud turkeys.
A Pennsylvania woman raised family OF
2i boys Thirteen were IN the Union army,
aud one in the Confederate. Eleven out of
the - were killed OH the field Of battle, and
the one IN the Confederate army has not
been heard from. Two out OF the Is return
ed home, and one of them has applied for "A
pension.
Gen. Mcclellan is to have a monument t
in Paramount park, Philadelphia and besides
funds already secured, $50, 900 will be ask ed
from the public.
The old Freeman tavern at Morristown,
n. j.. is soon to be demolished. 1t is said
to have been erected about 17IO, and that
when the American army was quartered on
the bills about Morrstown in the winter of
HTS, Gen. Washington there took the rites
OF FreemAsenry. A grand ball was also given
there by the officers OF the army, the tickets
being $500 Continental money.
Cholera has made its appearance in Spain
and Italy and in some portions of France, and
the National Board Of Health has issued a
circular warning all seaport cities and towns
against relaxing sanitary precautions, espe-
claily in relation 10 the importation Of rags.
A Sandwich Islands doctor, a native OF
the L nited States, says that in ! , years there
will be only enough natives left to make curl
osites. Liquor and leprosy are killing them
of.
Queen Victoria's everyday life is extremely
simple aud regular. She is an early riser, and
goes out twice a day, rain or shine, generally
IN an open carriage. After a brief rest on
her return, she devotes herself to business,
and at the close of that engages in variou.
occupations. She is fond of gossip.
The latest aud best car wheels are made al
Krupp's monster works, Essen, Germany.
The tire is forged steel, with wrought-iron
coil disc centre, the two parts being welded
together form perfect indestructible vhee
in one piece. About GOOOO are now in use
in Europe. The first of them seen in Amer
lea were imported recently for the Boston
and Providence railroad company, whose
second order is now being filled.
DIR. Pliny Earle, for 81 years superintend-
ent of the lunatic hospital at Northampton
Mass, has preserved copies of the different
| ways in which his name has been spelled oil
letters received by him while at the head o
that institution. He has the envelopes neat
| ly arranged in blank book and finds thR
| there are 375 separate aud distinct methods
OF arranging the 10 letters comprising hi
name.
The dandy Of the United States Senate il
| said to be Matt. Ransom, who always dresse
in black and wears his coat closely buttoned
He seldom appears out of the Senate withou
gloves, aud makes a large display of whit
ouds. Mr. Ingalls, is one Of the best dressed
men in the Senate. Mr.. Hoar wears bust
4 oil fn
| like those OF scareeTow. Malone is tn
queerest dressed man in the Senate. His ion
pounds of skin and bone are bound rount
with clothes which make him look like
fashion plate of 30 years ago settled and ma
terialized.
The story is told of how Rev Phillip
Brooks Of Boston recently received a fin
opera. glass that he accidentally left behin
him while travelling in Norway some year
ago. The glass bore his name aud old Phila
delphia address, 2OO4 Chestnut street. bu
it fell into the hands of an honest Norwe
gian, who directed it to "Mr. Brooks 200
Chestnut street, U. s. A" The New Yor
postal officials. concluding that Philadelphia
Chestnut street was the only street of tha
name in the country that run up to such hig
numbers, sent the glass there and it ultimate
ly was forwarded to Mr. Brooks's Boston ad
dress.
The report of the civil.servioe commissio
disposes Of several illusions. Its statistic
show that the chances of success are almol
equally divided between those who are be-
posted in their studies and those who ar
most experienced in business affairs tina
only 10 per cent of the persons examine
have had any collegiate education that 4
the end of eight or ton years all the Office
covered by the law will be filled by applicant
examined under it's provisions and that, o
the average, only one person in 40 appointe
under the rules proves incapable after the 81
mouths probationary term.
The celebrated 457.carat fine white di
mond from South Africa, bought in 1884
a syndicate of London and Paris damon
merchants, was intrusted TO one of the mo
skillful cutters, who has been at work upo
it for eight months, aud expects to finish Il
cutting in April. The London Times ga!
the stone will turn ont the most wOnderf
brilliant. cut" diamond on record, surpassiu
in weight as also, ii is believed, in colo
purity and lustre, all the crown and historic
brilliants of the world The stone in its q
most finished state weighs still 23O carat
but in order TO give II the best possible shaI
aud lustre it is Intended to reduce its weig
to something under 200 earats. The Koh
. moor weighs only l06 oarats, the Regent
France 1869 carats, the Star of the South Il
oarats and the Pigott S2t earats The Gre
Mogul weighs 279 carats it is, however,
. lumpy stone only rose, cut, and II cut to
proper shaped brilliant il would probably n
. ! weigh more than 40 carats