Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
NO. so.
IN GEM ERAL.

IT scientists know anything, IL would take
a cannon ball only eight days TO reach the
moon.
1t is estimated that $4,000 ex Confeder-
ate soldiers in Virginia and ~, 600 to 10, 900
in North Carolina voted for Harrison and
Morton.
In North Carolina Justice Of the peace
fined citizen s. for contempt in not bring
ing out pail of water for the magistrates
horse while he was travelling
Minister Phelps's house in Lowndes
square has been leased over his head and
he is going to live at the Buckingham Palace
hotel during the remainder of his stay in
| London
The recent bursting of a 10000 pound
gun, on its trial at Annapolis, is held to be
proof that Bessemer cast steel has not sufii-
cient elasticity and tensile strength for
heavy ordnance.
The cruel punishment Of confinement in
a dark cell is still practiced in Hungary.
Two men, convicted of taking part in a
mutiny in prison, were lately sentenced to
five years confinement in dark cell
Workers in the Indian mills of the Bonn
| bay Presidency work from daybreak to sun
| set, nearly II hours, in the summer time,
with 20 minutes to half an hour for meals,
and only free Sunday about once a month,
they being required to clean the machines
on the other Sundays.
Edison promises TO put his latest inven-
ton, the phonograph to a curious and prac-
tical use. 1t is his intention TO furnish to
subscribers a talking daily newspaper The
little instrument will be charged with con-
densation of the news of the day, and each
subscriber can listen to it while at break
] fast.
] Ilr Eigatna,,, Of nar1tn hoe
piano which, by the aid Of electro magnet
ism, can sustain increase and diminish
sound. By moving the electro magnets the
timbre of the sound is changed as, for
example, from that of violoncello to a
| piccolo.
The man who runs the elevator in the
| Washington monument, though no longer
| young, says the sight of so many bridal
couples arouses the romance of his earlier
days. He adds it's a great place for lovers,
and-'Well, if they aren't acquainted on
the way up they seem to get sort of friend
| ly afore they come down"
1t is now seriously proposed to build a
railway within the Arctic circle. The
route, which is now being surveyed is
through western Siberia and the extreme
north of Russia 1t follows the Obi river
for a considerable distance, and terminates
]
and west of Waigatz island. This line, it
is thought, will greatly facilitate the trans
| portation to England of the great wheat
harvests Of western Siberia
John Harris of Grassy Creek Ky, died
of JOY on hearing the news of Harrison's
election. He was 20 years Of age, and had
always been a Republican. drum corps
and 30 mounted men went to his secluded
home and informed him that there was no
doubt that Harrison and Morton had been
elected. The band played MY Country,
It's of Thee, and Harris, carried away by
the excitement gave one cheer and fell
down dead.
Ten sheets of paper, each containing -four
notes of the denomination of So represent
ing 5000 in all. have been stolen while in
transmission from the treasury depart
ment at Washington to the sealing division
for completion. They were probably alb
stracted by some one thoroughly familiar
with the methods of handling them. The
notes will readily pass for money, for they
lack only the treasury seal to be legal ten
ders.
Robert Garrett, the insane millionaire
occupies a suite of three rooms in the Miller
house at Ringwood, n. j., and it is estimat-
ed that the expense of keeping him there
is over $4,000 a month There are 21 ser
wants in charge of the various departments
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report OF very startling accident IN
the Yellowstone national park comes from
Bismarck, ID. ). 1t appears that an Eng
lsh tourist named James Mcdonald insisted
on gong close to the Excelsior, an immense
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