Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-05-11
NO. 80.
IN GEN ERAI.

One hundred aud fifty buildings were burn
ed and fifty families rendered homeless
Barnes Greeley, IA brother Of the founder
of the Tribune, is a farmer in Pennsylva-
mia. He attributes his good health at the
age Of -, to the small quantity Of water
he uses, both as beverage and for clean
ing purposes
The heir to great fortune halls from
Shamokin Pa, this time. He is a poor
miner named James Bailey, with seven chill
dren and an English uncle who dsowned
him because he married poor girl has just
died and left him 81 600, 600
The French chamber of deputies has
passed the Panama Canal lottery bill. So
many of the French peasant farmers own
shares in De lesseps's great scheme, that
the deputies were under irresistible pres
sure to pass this measure for his and their
relief
j. w. Fisk, a Paris aronaut recently
made successful descent with parachute
from balloon from an altitude Of nearly "A
a mile. The parachute did not fully open
out until Fisk had fallen nearly 200 feet.
Then the descent became very gentle, and
a landing was made about "A quarter Of a
mile east.
w Irving Bishop, the noted mind read
er, Is now an inmate of private asylum
in San Francisco He went to California
several months ago, and appeared to be
partly demented. He gave exhibitions
throughout the state until his nervous pros
tration compelled him to go to a sanitarium
An Indian "jungle" is not forest All
uncultivated or waste lands in India are
called "junges.' Forests are scarce in
that country. The mountain jungles,
where the tiger has his home, and from
which he comes down to carry off people
or domestic animals, have no trees other
than low scattered bushes and rock.
W. A. Hovey relates in the Boston Her
aid how Thad Stevens won hundred dollar
bill at poker and the next day gave it to a
poor woman who solicited charity, as it was
the only money he had. A fellow member
saw the act and smiled, knowing how the
money was obtained, whereupon Stevens
said "God moves in a mysterious way
his wonders to perform
The ship Palgrave the largest sailing yes
sci afloat in the world, arrived at New
York recently from Calcutta She is of
301S tons burden, was built in 1884, and is
owned by Mr. Hamilton of Port Glasgow.
Her length is 322 feet > inches breadth of
beam, 40 feet , inches depth of hold -
feet 1 inches and she was drawing % feet
inches of water on entering the port
She has four masts with square rigging on
all of them.
The Empress of Russia has sent her coro-
nation dress to the national museum The
mantle was literally cloth of gold, for it was
a very supple gold tissue, with the heraldic
eagle Of the Romanoffs appliquGd in black
silk. The train of the dress was also Of
gold tissue, richly embroidered and the
combined weight of 50 much metallic thread
as was used in the dress and mantle caused
great fatigue to the illustrious wearer.
Charles Beyers a convict in the state
prison at Jeffersonville, Ind, adopted a
desperate method to escape work. He was
on the way to the foundry, where he was
assigned to labor, one morning recently,
when he dropped out Of line. and before
the guard discovered his object ran into the
machine shop, and seizing a hatchet placed
his hand ON a block of wood and deliberate
ly chopped off all his fingers. lie is serving
a term of eight years for burglary.
City Engineer Northway of Chicago says
Lake Michigan will probably average foot
lower this year than last, and last year the
average was siX-tenths Of foot lower than
in 1856. There is no explanation of the
fact. The averages of the depth of water
in the great lakes run in cycles of nine
years each-that is there is a down-shoot
for nine years and then an up shoot for the
same period They now seem to be near
the bottom of the down-shoot.
The borax deposits near Inyo, Col, are
apparently inexhaustible. They are usu-
ally but a few inches in thickness where
first opened, but get thicker as they are
penetrated, till they attain depth of two
feet or more. Thousands of acres are GOV
cred by the deposit. Adjoining the borax
deposits are vast beds of soda and salt
Great mounds of salt lie around glittering
] hot IN, l.. ..,f a..
salt is fit for mined. The proportion
of pure borax ranges from so to 80 per
cent From the works it is hauled in wag-
ons to Moiave, a distance of 100 miles
f. F. Ries, Baltimore inventor, has Just
secured five patents for devices for convert
ing electricity into heat, and if the inven-
tion is what Mr.. Ries claims it to he il will
prove second to none of the discoveries of
the age. He claims to have overcome the
losses arising from the high resistance, and
says that he can produce the heat at a cost
considerably less than the same amount can
be produced by the present methods. The
patents include devices for heating houses
by private dynamos or from central sta
tiOns, and for heating and lighting railway
cars.
The Christian Science" method of heal
ing has received "A bad set back by recent
utNelOpllltulS Ill MtuIOIu, MASS. Alnt Ol
the practitioners of the art Mrs Abbie s.
Connor, employed the system in the case of
her daughter, Mrs. James, aud the result
was the death of the patient with her new
born babe. When Just too late. a phys-
clan was called, who decided that the wom-
an died from neglect. Mrs. Connor is un-
der arrest for mansaughter.
A large meeting to express satisfaction
with Mayor Hewitt's policy IF displaying
none but American flags ON public build
g ings was held at the Cooper Union, New
York, last Friday The hall was profusely
decorated with the national emblem San
ford f. Church, the first speaker, said the
meeting signihed that the American people
would not tolerate even suspicion that
their flag should not occupy the supreme
a place. Foreigners were welcome, but after
they were here they could not remain for
, eigners.
A few years ago many of us thought tel
egraphy a most wonderful discovery. To-
. day we are prepared to acknowledge a
more wonderful discovery in the telauto-
4 graph, AN instrument by means of which IA
a person at one end of the line writes a mes
= sage which is produced in fac SiD,iie at the
other end. As the voice is recO snized at
the telephone, so is the handwriting at the
a telautograph. Prof Gray of Highland
Park is the inventor of this wonderful ma
" chine, which, if adapted for practical use,
will he cassed among the wonderful inven-
y tions of the present century.
= The Emperor William left a fortune of
f. a OOO, 600 marks. OF this sum his will be-
|, queaths 5000, 900 to Empress Augusta and
M | 900, 900 each TO the Grand Duchess of Ba
. den, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess
and Prince Henry. Prince Henry also re
ceves an estate which was purchased for
him for the sum of ,0OO, 600 marks by the
late emperor A clause which was inserted
in the will in the emperur's sixtieth year
a gives 10 Emperor Frederick 315, 900 marks
r and TO the Grand Duchess of Baden $50,
900 marks The crown treasury receives
IS ~, 600, 900 marks, and the remainder is alb
sorbed in various bequests
r, The Roach steel cruiser Atlanta met some
tremendously heavy gales in her winter
= voyaging in the West Indies, and accord
ing 10 Mr.. Whitney and other good Demo
craus, ought TO have gone 10 the bottom in
short order. But she perversely refused to
do so, and, indeed, acted admirably under
e very trying conditions. One of her officers
is said that the Atlanta was the best sea boat
+ he had ever sailed in 'and, he added, 81
have been going to sea in our war ships
now for over twenty years. But this con
10 vincing proof of his vessels stanchness will
IS not bring poor old John Roach back 10 life
~ again, or heal the wounds which malignant
.ying Democratic ibes and sneers inflicted
s Rev. S. h. Calthrop of Syracuse, N. Y.
II who, besides being II devoted minister Of