Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
NO. 40.


A Hindoo made a wager that lac would
gaze at the sun 10 hours At the end OF
the seventh hour he fell down in fit, and
died.
A large insurance company of Paris has
warned its agents against insurng the lives
of persons who are in the habit of dyeing
their hair or beard.
1t is estimated that more than 1900 peo-
pie live in flats or family hotels in~lioston
alone, and the system has grown even more
rapidly in New York.
In Australia a tramp is called a sun
downer, because he always reaches cat
tie or sheep ranch at sundown, too late for
work, and just in time for supper and lodg-
ing.
Luis Mazzanteni, the famous Spanish
bull-fghter. has arrived at Havana bring
ing with him number Of carefully selected
bulls. He is to receive SO, 600 for fourteen
performances.
A clerk in drug store at Tlacotaplam,
Mexico. broke IA bottle of sulphuric acid
while placing it on a shelf, spilling the con
tents all over himself, and he was literally
burnt 20 death.
Maine has during the last year put up TO-
101 900 cans of corn, over S4OOOO cans Of
succotash, and over l44 600 cans Of lima
beans. Three Portland firms have done
most of this business.
In Germany and Switzerland it is re
quired by law that the pupils of all com
mon schools shall be dismissed at noon on
every day when the thermometer at 10 A. NJ.
registers - Fahrenheit.
As Henry Esterwin of Bethany, Va, was
chopping wood. his little 4-years-old daugh-
ter ran up and put her foot on the log. The
father didn't notice her until the axe came
down on the foot severing it.
A beautiful Young lady of Leipsic went
to Rubenstein and asked permission to play
for him. After the performance she asked
what he would advise her to do. Get
married. CURLY replied the maestro.
A large and sound Missouri pumpkin re
Gently cut open, was found to be filled with
thrifty vines and leaves, The seeds had
| sprouted and sent out vines, though there
was no signs of decay, the meat being sound
and sweet.
Joe Demones, Is years old, and black,
went down to the landing at Jacksonville,
| Ky, to see a steamboat go out As he
stood looking she blew her whistle vicious
". and Immediately the boy lost the power
of speech, and hasn't spoken since.
A negro well-digger in Leesburg. Ga,
was alarmed at the disappearance OF his
crowbar which he was using in the bottom
Of well. lnNeSIlgdllpn SHONeu bhdI "
thin crust of stone was between hun and
pool of cold water 20 feet in diameter.
Last spring workman in a shop fixed a
very fine wire so that his fellow workmen
would run against it and be brought up
standing He thought it was funny. One
of his fellows was caught across the eyes by
the wire One eye was destroyed, the 9th
er injured, and the pain and shock resulted
in stroke of paralysis, and the man IS
now likely to die.
Liberty Lighting the World is not the
tallest statue after ALL and American pride
takes a tumble accordingly. The Afghan
boundary commission have discovered on
the road between Cabul and Balkh, III
gorge bordered by high escalpment
conglomerate number of statutes of inbro
dha cut from the solid rock two ofments
are standing and the tallest is 113 fe,
or about 30 feet higher than our o.
erty.
A strolling gypsy told a Vest
farmer that if he would place S2j
tain hollow stump and leave it IT, e
night it would be doubled in the morning.
The farmer tried it, and sure enough he
found $50 in the stump. Then the gypsy
advised the farmer to put all he mad, SOU,
in the stump and draw out Sl4O0 in the
. morning. The farmer took this advice,
and is now looking for gypsy who he says
has stolen 800 from him.
), When John Doane, miner, died at Wag
= on Wheel, Idaho, there were no unmarried
A women in the village, but his death brought
n thither as mourners two of his sisters, who
were old maids, and his widowed mother
/ Before the flowers had withered ON John
grave the widow had been married to tn,
8 mayor of the town. the elder sister to th'
sheriff and the younger to a prominent cit
- izen The three weddings were held at thu
n same time and all the town attended.
II There is at Leeds, Eng, an ornithologica
d association Among other things they stud
If the songs of wild birds Not long ago the
l. pitted full acclimated nightingal
against Yankee mocking bird. They sam
~ together and then sang apart First tn
4 nightingale led off, until everything he san
At was duplicated and improved upon by GU
e. national songster. Then the mocking- bir
.e struck off into a new field of song. TIL
r nightingale listened, but did not repeat
He pinned away and died within a week.
RS 1t is said that whenever an eruption {
the Bromo volcano in Java takes place tn
Us natives kindle their frewood by the he
As lava as it flows down the mountain, an
| keep the fire thus obtained for year
H. Should it go out through neglect or acc
dent, they never kindle it anew frol
s. matches, but they get light from the
Mt nearest neighbors whose fire original
n obtained from the volcano. The fires
ry use, up to the late outbursts, III the natf1
'l- cooking places were all obtained from I'll
Bromo eruption of 1882.
lg jay Gould has become a willing victim
d his pretty daughter-in-law, says NJ
IN York gossip, and she keeps the family I
od roars of laughter Her stories of advel
., Il
same railroads over which she now trave
ny in grand style are very funny. They al
ng indeed wonderful roads, - she said the oth'
day I'D like to own the whole system
Whereupon Papa Gould made her "a presel
ng of S12, 800 worth of stock, with the remar
Il can't give you all of them, but here's
us little piece
lie A despatch from Berlin says a story
current that King Otto, the mad success
ne or Ludwig the mad king of Bavaria, ha
Ia ing somewhat recovered from his attack
. mania was permitted to walk outside Il
"a park of Schloss Furstenried attended on
ny ~ by Capt. Schubart, when an exciting scel
al occurred on the highway. Otto insisted II
U.s. on throwing himself on his knees in Il
=. roadway, crying that he was in Paradi
~ and that he would never return to Furste
VI ried. 1t cost painful struggle and a I
II sort to force to get him safely back in /
-" Schloss. He is now absolutely forbidden
go outside the grounds
A remarkable surgical operation was pc
formed in London last week by Sir Villa
are McCormac of the Royal college of surgeo
It'll -, ., L.. - Lod faIlaI, from, a GO,
the fold No bones were broken, but he ST
fered extreme agony. Sir William CO
cluded that the bladder had been rupture
Oh The man was put under anesthetics, AN i
cision made into the abdomen and eie dis
nosis verified The contents of the sto
We ach and perinRum were withdrawn, t
an bladder drawn out, the suture made IA
td' tested, the organs all replaced, the stoma
thoroughly cleansed with antiseptics a
the incision closed The patient emery
tn from his insensble condition relieved
pain and is now practically out of danger
Iat, A London correspondent of the N,
York Times who has talked at various tin
with score of people who have met I
=, car of Russia and are fairly qualified
we Judge what manner of man he is, says 81
" as almost invariably he is described as n b
= !, ~ burly, bearish sort of man, strangely 1
20" like any of his more recent ancestors
either side, and with face of a curl,
ude Teuton-Tartar type picturesque, but |
low pleasant. He has vast physical strength,
be the blacksmith sort, and has the kind
mind which not infrequently goes with Il
y, order of body-slow, honest, obstina
INV confding where faith is reposed, suspicit
lam everywhere else. He is amost devoted a
,it single-minded husband, and an excell'
~ family man. His tastes are simple,
,as Al Golano III q rnlonN of suarro,ys Il