Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-10-25
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IN GEN ERAI.


Y, weigh 12j pounds Mrs II who is the
better half, weighing ! w.
Many vessels are to be built the coming
winter for use on the Great Lakes, where
traffic is rapidly increasing.
Sewer diggers in Ticondcroga, y y. re
Gently came upon the bones Of Lord Howe.
killed in battle there on July =, 1853.
By utilizing the gases which once escaped
from furnaces, Great Britain is said to save
4, 600, 600 tons of coal yearly
Mrs Elliot f Shepard will build a seven
story building for a Young Women's Christ
ian Association of New York
The wedding Of ex Secretary Thomas f.
Bayard and Miss Clymer will take place in
Washington on Thursday, Nov. !.
The existence Of lake Of petroleum is
reported in Mexico, the oil from which the
natives use in lamps.
Mr. Joseph Cook has purchased the sum.
nit Of Mount Defiance, Ticonderoga, where
Burgoyne's batteries stood aud will erect
thereon a soldiers monument.
Mr.. Wanamaker has announced the cs
tablishment Of new post office in Wyo-
ming which he has named Grover. The
name of the postmaster is Thurman.
Maine papers are Of the opinion that the
W washington COUNTY Std NubAuiH nv Hh0
swapped "A runaway wife for Sli9j has
made good bargain.
a Pittsburg firm has got the government
contract for hard steel rolls for the Phla
delphia mint which has been held for years
by Krupp, Of Germany.
A company has been formed to lay a ca
BILE from Marselles to Buenos Ayres. 1t
has capital of , ,OOO, 900 sterling, with in
ha 4 la.
ment.
1t is said that there are more deer in the
Adirondack region now than there were
ten years ago, and some old people say more
than fifty years ago. This is said to be due
to the enforcement of the game laws.
The Chinese have not the ready money
and are prejudiced against accepting for
eign aid, so the construction of the Pekin
railway, mentioned in these columns recent
ly, has been deferred.
A Kansas farmer, who has raised white
Bermuda sweet potato five feet and five in
ches long and seven and one-half inches in
circumference, is the envy of all his neigh
bors.
The original official record of the sale of
Manhattan island to the Dutch has beer dis
covered in Holland by Mr.. Van Peet of New
York, secretary to our minister to the Meth
erlands
One of the visitors to the Eitfel tower has
expressed in the Paris Figaro his sense of
its height. 81 would throw myself down
from the top but that am afraid of dying
from hunger before | reach the bottom
The land in the Florida Everglades which
is being reclaimed by drainage is said to
have a rich soil from eight to twelve feet
in depth, peculiarly adapted to the growth
of sugar cane The crop can he cultivated
year after year without replanting.
The German Emperor's next journey is
to be made to Greece Since his accession
to the throne, in June, lSSS, he has visited
Russia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Sweden
and England as well as the pincipal cities
in the German empire.
A swindler named Mott has been work
ing 'the pension racket among the ne
groes in Mississippi. For an advance fee
of 50 he engaged to secure them a federal
pension He secured a considerable sum
of money, and got away with it before the
fraud was discovered
DIR. w. NJ. Tett of Nicholson Miss, shot
and killed F. c. Collins in front of the
court house steps at Nicholson Monday, and
was himself fatally shot by brother-in
| law of Collins who witnessed the assassin
alton from an upper window The shoot
| ing was the outgrowth of a previous local
tragedy
The unveilng of the statue of the French
explorer La Sale which was given Chica-
| 20 by Judge Lambert Tree, ex United
Minister to Russia, took place in Lincoln
Park recently III the presence u large
crowd. The statute, which cost $50, 900, is
of bronze, and is the work of a Brussels
sculptor.
The Bangor Grand Army boys make the
generals and colonels, as well as the high
privates, get into the harness. They have
appointed Hon. Hannibal Hamln and Hon.
c. A. Boutelle ON the committee to solicit
doughnuts, pies, cake, fancy work and 9TH
er availables for their coming fair
In st Louis, recently, as friends were
sitting around the coffin in which lay the
remains of jeremiah Mccarthy. ready for
burial, they were startled to see the eyes
of the supposed corpse open aud then CLOSE.
4 moment later the head looked over the
side of the coffin. Physicians were sum
moned and the funeral was postponed.
The steamer City of Peking, which re
Gently arrived at San Francisco, brings an
account of a tidal wave in some of the
more distant japanese provinces, in which
nearly 800 persons lost their lives, and
about 20OO houses were washed away. The
disaster occurred ON the same day, Sept
II, that Yokohama was so severely dam
aged by typhoon.
A Young colored woman of Charleston
S. c., on her way home from church one
night last week, was horribly burned 10y
vitriol or concentrated I've which wai
thrown in her face by another coored WON
an The victims eyes were burned out anC
her face was horribly SCARED 1t is saiC
the vitriol thrower was rival in love.
A large number of ncendiary fires whicl
have taken place at Kansas City, Mo, hav,
been traced to a band of boys who calleC
themselves Capt Kidd's pets They were
bound by blood curdling oaths, and all thei
plans were carried out according to writer
orders, signed in the blood from the arm
of the young desperadoes The leader
were arrested.
King Mtesas country in Africa is a grea
one for unbleached cotton CLOTH of whicl
thousands of yards are buried with an.
member of the royal household who dies
As the king has about three thousand wives
and kills them off frequently, funerals ar
numerous, and cotton cloth is in immens
demand
A phonograph was exhibited the othe
day to the imperial circle at Berlin, an
when it came the turn of Prince Adalbert
the emperor's third son, who is still in frock'
to speak into the instrument he seized tn
; opportunity to shout, "Will papa pleas
i give me a pony Z" The adroit maneuvr
! made the whole court roar with laughter.
4 A French statistician figures it out thl
a human being, of either sex, who is II moo
, crate eater, and who lives TO be 20 year
old, consumes during the days of his iii
a a quantity of food which would fill 20 ord
nary railway baggage cars. A good ea
Z err however, may require as many as II
t Philadelphia has added practical work I
the public school curriculum. The schoo
. are now teaching 10000 girls how to sew
8 and about the same number are also bein
taught, at the public expense, the art {
cooking. There seems to be no good reaSu
why the Philadelphia girls may not be Il,
r. pended upon 10 make good housewives.
h A monster wheel, said to be the large
in the world has been built at Scranton
=, Pa, for the Calumet and Hecla minIu
+ company. 1t is "a feet in diameter az
=. weighs 200 tons. 1t will he used for liftiI
=. and discharging "tailings' or waste of Il
mine into the lake 1t is capable of liftr
sufficient sand every 2l hours to cover Il
d acre of land a foot deep.
Z, Miss Clara Barton, who is at the head
" the Red Cross society, says that since Ju
ID over 10000 persons at JOhnstown ha'
received aid at the hands of the Red Gro
representatives Three Thousand famili
have been supplied with the articles nect
"A sary for establishment of home life. :
re houses have been furnished, warmed IA
r lighted aud passed into the hands of 10,
physicians for the use of homeless 81
needing shelter and care. But few cas-
remain demanding relief aud the socie
will soon Withdraw from active work thel
The death is announced of W, W NJ
Nair, for over 20 years connected wi
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