Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-09-21
NO. 3S.
IN GENERAL.

\ Kansas lad ot 10 years Is IN Jail for
stealing go horses during the past year.
no article less than 1000 year, old is al
mttcd to japanese brio hrac shows
a mountain in Colorado has been named
Mount Sheridan.
The French propose TO send pigeon mes
sages from ship to ship upon the broad seas
Savannah is now the largest cotton port
in the United States and Norfolk second.
Thomas A. Edison is studying the prob
lem Of aerial navigation.
The Florida fever has given scare to
some southern California towns and they
are busy cleaning dirty streets and local.
ties.
Madame Moreau, who died week or
two ago in Paris, made over 100000 by
fortune-teling.
Lucy Stone whose advocacy Of "Nom-
ans rights" used tp make the public press
and the lecture platform lively, has Just
celebrated her 10Th birthday and j, enjoy
ing her hale old age
Though the Empress Of Russia has
houseful Of scamStrcsses, She makes nearly
all the clothes for her youngest children
herself
John Barnes Of st. Paul, who has been
playing base ball for living, has Just
come into fortune and a castle over in
sboy.n +bis an,,ra,;at;or ~ or. ,atiorai
game.
Twenty eight persons have been drown
e,' ny uhe 'oo'S III une lyr"'' Many "'h-
''' at ''ii'9'"N'
Advices from India say that the widow
ol brahmin near Oauhpore recently
burned herself to death upon the funeral
pyre OF her husband. She mounted the
pyre unnotlced after the departure of the
lunPr"l party
Much OF the so-caled ivory now IN use
Is made out OF potatoes. good, sound
potato washed IN diluted sulphuric acid,
then boiled IN the same solution, and slow
| ly dried, Is all ready to he turned into but
tons poker chlps, and hnumerahlc other
thlnEs maze out "i ivory
VI. fasteur lame as the curer OF hydro
phobla has brought hm 50 much work that
ne rarely gets an hour for personal pleas
ure or rest. lie is credited, too, with
rapid rise IN wealth.
y new device has been introduced for the
l'erlnan army. 1t is cloak cut and fin
Iahed IN such "A way that two Of the gar
hehts together may be converted INTO
tent, the supports Tor which accompany the
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/ The steamship Colorado, at New York,
brought from Hull magnificent Russian
/ staghuund. consigned to Mrs. Cleveland.
which was sent from the Russian court at
St Petersburg The animal is said to he
/ vll' '''e9u 'l I'' Nln' ever seen III inns '"uh-
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emperor W iIlIam OF 'iermany has ap-
pointed the king oil S"eden an admiral IN
Vht ''erl'lah navy; ana the KinS mas re'lIr31-
'"lei ny I''hIhS Emperor " illah' an AT,
H'' a. ~ 'n' -" e'''S" navy IL y I'"t Ntate"
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Another alleged tact Is relegated to Tie
tlon visitor to DuXhury, Mass, has dis
covered that Miles Standish never forgave
John Alden for marrying Miss Priscilla
Mullens. y second tableauX should Ice add
ed To- the pretty scene, Nhy don't you
speak Tor yourself, John
The completion of railroad in Turkey
makes u saving of # hours between Lon
don and Coustantinople Heretofore the
Journey has occupied five days Now it
requires but 10 hours. By making close
connections person can now 20 from san
Francisco to Constantinople in III days.
Jay Gould's diet is said to be largely linz
tied TO oat meal and an occasional chop.
Millionaire Russell Sage can only take wa
termelon at the peril Of his life. aud he
carries a bottle Of pepsin to soothe himself
between his frugal meals CYRUS Field is
"A dyspcptic, and there is hardly rich man
in the country that has Il healthy liver.
Winnie Jnbusnr knov,n tn tb, ,uI,Ii,. 81.
..Bi,, Winnie " the fot cnInrad woman WIN
ha, been ON exhibition at a Baltimore dime