Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

IN GENERAL.


with a heavy American piano strapped to
his back
st. Louis dwelling-house owners are to
combine and assess themselves whenever a
dwelling is burned The expense to each
owner will be very light.
The gambling bank at Monaco made un-
usually large returns 10 its shareholders
last year. There were IS suicides, but the
shareholders profits weren't lessened by
them so it doesn't signify.
Electric light is banished from the Eng
lish palaces because Queen Victoria's elder
" friends say that it makes them appear
frights Oil lamps alone are tolerated
Clarissa johnson Of Delaware township
o., has become grandmother at the age
Of %. She was married at y and bore II
daughter yenr later This daughtcr, at
the age of l3, has just given birth to a child
The Johnsons are respectable colored people
The district messenger boys Of New York
city wear flannel shirts with high rolin <
collars which can be turned up about the
ears Little pockets fit the ears and pro
tect them from the biting blast
A farmer living several miles from Du-
luth, Mimi, found in the woods the other
day stranded balloon and near it the half
branches of a tree.
A japanese horse, probably the smallest
animal of his species in the world, is owned
by Policeman Benjamin of New York. He
l. four years old, weighs only 13 pounds
and stands 30 inches high. He likes a milk
punch and a sip of beer with his dinner
Worth the French milliner, lives in the
suburbs of Paris in u palace that covers
,.
Once a year it is thrown open to his EN-
ployes, and the fate lasts day and night
On this day each Of the women employed
by Worth is permitted to select a dress
from his stock, and it is made up according
to her directions.
1t is said that in a religious way, Queen
Victoria, if anything outside the church Of
England, is stanch Presbyterian. She
likes a service without display and a ser
mon without length.
Dennis Kearney is after the Chinese
again He wants the government to stop
surreptitious immigration from British Col
umbia through Puget Sound
A Missouri farmer, learning that the
grand jury were about to haul him up for
working on Sunday, had his four sons sum
moned as witnesses against him. lie was
fined 81 and costs total of 50, while the
mileage and witness fees of his SONS amount
ed to SO. 40.
Australia has sent to this country for bees
with which to fertilize clover blossoms and
to make possible the growth of clover in
that country A large shipment of humble
bees is to be made from Kentucky next
summer.
The secretary Of the treasury has receiv-
ed letter. dated Fitchburg. Mass. incos-
ing a 2j-cent silver piece, which the sender
desired to have placed in the treasury to
the credit of conscience, because the writer
had once obliterated the canceling marks of
a five cent postage stamp aud used it again
John Walker Of Cowden, Ind, is the
champion big story teller He says that
one morning last fall flock Of wild turkeys
alightel in his corn field. The ground was
muddy, and the weather turning cold sud
denly their feet were frozen into the earth
and they were all captured.
The Channel island farmers use barrels
which will fold up when empty, and thus
having been sent to market, can be packed
into a small space on the return. The
slaves are fixed on the hoops so that they
may he rolled up when the heads are re
moved.
A Chinese woman who Kidnapped two
married women at Shanghai and took them
to San Francisco, where they were sold, on
| returning to Shanghai was arrested and
broken ON tue wheel After two DAYS of
fearful agony she died. The kidnapping
created II great excitement in Shanghai
August Gunthier, employed at the Han
cock Mich chemical works, tried to drive
a nail into board that had on it Il bit of
! nitro glycerine The hammer missed the
nail, hi5 the nitro glycerine, aud August
was fatally hurt
In seven days 231 houses aud stores in
Chicago We're robbed, six safes blown open,
seven men sand-bagged and three women
assaulted and thrown into vacant lots.
The city editor of the Knoxville, Tenn.
Journal, was assaulted last Sunday by three
men on account of an article which had ap-
peared in his paper. He fatally shot one,
wounded another, receiving himself seven
! stabs in the back and two wounds from
bullets The third asSailant ran away.
The foreman of the limestone works near
| Youngstown Pa, one day last week put q
| sticks of dynamite to warm on a stove in q
shanty occupied by Italians. The com
pound exploded, wrecking the shanty, kill
ing the foreman and badly wounding near
ly all of the Italians.
Large prices are offered for the rent Of
cottages at Lenox, Mass, the Berkshire
! Mountains resort the coming season. As
high as $4,000 for the season has been agreed
upon for some of the most desirable places
Suit has been begun at New Orleans
against the assignees of the Bank of Louis
lana, to compel the settlement of It's affairs
The creditors allege misappropriation oI
large sums of money by the assignees
amounting to over 100000 1t is sur
missed that great scandals may be revealed
When you send letters to California, d,
not use "Cal. - for an abbreviation. Gal
and "Col. " look so much alike in writing
that letters intended for California otter
land in Colorado. The better way is t,
spell out the name of the state.
The ten most successful race horses il
the United States last year won upward O
S3O6, 600, which is nearly 81, 600 more thar
was won by the ten most successful in Eng
land and $50, 600 more than than the tel
most successful in France bore to thei
credit.
The story of "A triple murder comes from
Longview, Ga. Hubbard Harrell 10, col
ored, was made drunk Thursday night at
og-killing. From the butchery scene h
built fire under it and threw a sx-years
old nephew in the boiling water lie thel
knocked four-years-old girl in the hea,
with bar and threw her into the water
He was trying TO kill third child wheI
caught. The last one was so badly injure,
that it died.
A San Francisco despatch of Jan 3
says that the greatest landslide ever know
/ in, hag toly r,lu tla q,
the California and Oregon railroad. Tn
road is new one and the recent heav
rains thoroughly soaked the fresh roadbed
so that the whole country let go and cam
down ON the track. About 100 miles o
track are covered with debris. A force O
42O men is at work but it is not expecte
they can do much to clear the track unit
spring.
Bridgeport is to be a great gamer 10y I
4 Barnum's will, which was made severa
years ago, contains 700 pages, and is an al
together unique document, lie has trie
to provide against any contest by statin
that if any legatee brings suit lie shall for
felt his legacy. But the strongest barr
cade against anything of this kind is th
sum Of 500 900, which is set aside esp,
cially for fighting, if need be. He leave
SO, ,OOO, 600 to 21 direct heirs and then L,
members his old home and that of his gree
show.
For the first time in England woma
has been buried with military honors. O
Wednesday Mrs. Fox, wife Of the quarter
master of the Connaught Rangers, wa
horne to her grave on a gun carriage, I'll
coffin being covered with the Union Jacl
and all the usual military forms being oil
served. She died from wounds receive
six years ago in the Transvaal war,
which she was made a prisoner.
An American lady who attended coul
reception at St, Petersburg writes; "N
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