Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-11-12
IN GENERAL.


Arrangements nave been made by New
York business men for direct telegraph
cable from this county to Brazil.
workman named yshomsquark-
inzyski met with an accident at Oscodn,
Mich, and his name got into the newspu-
pers.
Fire crackers set fire to a peat bog t
Shrewsbury, n. j., July 4, and it has been
burning ever since. 1t is impossible To ex-
tinguish the fire
A fine full-length portrait of Henry Viii
son, the "Natick cobbler," and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, has been placed
in Mechanics hall, Worcester, Mass.
The "big trees" of California will soon be
extinct owing to the exertions of tfNlum-
Der companies, each of which owns ft0Q
1000 to %, 600 acres of redwood forest.
The empress of Japan has sent a S15, 900
order for dresses to a Paris milliner She
has authorized the women in her court so
ciety" to adopt the European garb, and has
herself appeared on a. public occasion ina
Partisan toilet
1t is said the only way an express car ON
| the Pacific road can be robbed is by collu-
sion with the messenger. The cars are lined
with boiler iron and provided with shot
gun and two revolvers and the doors so Sc
cured that they cannot be opened from
| WITHOUT III an nOuf 5 ulllle.
| While the steamship Ethiopia was bring
ing the Anchoria's passengers to New York
| from St. John one of the steam pipes gave
out. The officers declared that there must
be Jonah among the passengers, and sug-
gested that they should cast lots to see who
ought to be thrown overheard fs
An arrow point made of ivory was lately
extracted from the breast of a goose shot
near Colusa, Cal. As there are no savages
nearer than the Arctic regions with whom
! ivory is plenty, the conclusion is that the
arrow was made from the tooth of a wal
rus and shot into the breast of the bird by
an Esquimaux. The skin of the goose had
| grown over the arrow.
Two gentlemen of Bay City, Mich, went
! to a spiritualistic seance and agreed to pay
50 each if allowed to converse with depart
| ed friends whom they could recognize. One
called for the spirit of his sister Nelly, and
it came and spoke to him. The other ask
ed for his Uncle John, and was astonished
at hearing his relative voice in the dark
ened room. The first man never had a sis
ter and the other man uncle was not dead.
An elderly Chinaman attempted to COM
nit suicide by jumping into a creek but
was fished out by his son, who was after
wards obliged to appear as "A witness against
him when he was charged with attempting
his life. The Celestial magistrate dis"l1rg-
ed the parent and ordered the T. e. 1I5uSIAg-
ished with one hundred strokes OF ~ Hypesf
boo for testifying against his father.
The people of Plymouth church, BrottetN
Ign, gave a cordial welcome to Henry WiaI3g
Beecher last Friday evening. Speakineams
his visit to England, Mr.. Beecher said top
he was gratifed to find that he was IN a u I,
known there than in his own countryand Is
that his sermons We're more widely re, from
Englishmen. Here he had been turneIle t "a
of orthodox fellowship, but in Englakeys IL
had found a sympathy and fellowship Is SIG
he had never known before. of IN,
Gen. Sheridan is fond of his joke. /, isq
hash much faith in the Indian, and hal az
poor opinion of people who have. He sugve
gested to Secretary Endicott, when thu
question of finding a place for Geronimo
and his band was under consideration, that
they be sent to Fort Warren at Boston, III
recommended the Hub because he thq9gh
most of the Indian sentimentalists NE
there, and he wanted them TO have "A IItt
practical experience with the Indian -
| acter.
The expensiveness of monarchy i&Re
illustrated by the Hawaiian budget III
| population is less than go 600 but the hfus
| has salary as large as that of the Prs
dent of the United States, and, in additi
the Queen receives S17 900 per annum, tho
heir presumptive SIG 600 other royal CHI
dren S12 900 and $4,000, His Majesty ger
rotary $1,000, and $50, 900 are allowed foa
household expenses. 1t will be seen that
S413,00 are required for the suppoI'clvi9'
royalty or between six and seven dollal, ~
year for each member of the kingdom. w.
The Sanitary Engineer takes up the e.. I,
! a II (. e. =
cused of blowing out the gas. 1t bell,
that most of the cases of suffocation byh.
in hotels and lodging houses are due to
fective gas fixtuTes-tO old WORKOUT XII
that turn entirely round, when presumaN
turned off and thus suffocate those who
to bed in innocence of what may befall them
The Engineer thinks it high tsne that sysR
tematic and regular inspection of gas fxN
lures in hotels and lodging houses be insti5
tuted by the authorities in all cities. ltnEa
good suggestion.
There is large Catholic church in Wash
ington attended exclusively by colored peo-
pie, with black saints in the inches, thndI
other things to correspond. 1t is attendN
by colored aristocracy, and membe oh
in it is considered as a sign of tone by st0
There is a fine choir of negro voices
masses are sung quite as well as in u
ored Episcopal church, the rector of which,
is graduate of Trinity college and mni1
of much ability But aside from thetsF
Presbyterian churches nearly the epth
colored population worship at those oNtk
Methodist or Baptist faith.
A California ranchman who employed a
Mexican herder owed him $50 but being
short of cash devised AN easier mode of set
Element. One evening, while the two men
were in the Kitchen the American tooty
down the coffee mill and said This is W
most wonderful machine in the world.
was recently invented in the United SsaT,s'
and is valued at 500 See here nsleitP
of having 10 crush the coffee with stoi
you put it in this way and grind it up
never saw anything like it, Old man Jones
over here wants it SO bad he don't know
what TO do Offered me 500 for it, but
would not accept the Offer The Mckee
listened attentively, but assumed an alTF
Indifference The American left theF
ON the shelf When he got up the#H
morning he found that the Mexican mldH j
coffee mill had disappeared. Oh