Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-09-06
NO. 3G.
IN GEM ERAL.

It is estimated that $4,000 Americans
have visited Europe this summer.
An appeal has been issued for school
books for the children in the Conemaugh
valley.
Two Hebrews own the site of ancient
Babylon, where their ancestors were cap
tives and slaves.
monument TO the memory of the Con
federate dead who fell in battle near Man
assas, Va, was unveiled last Friday.
Since 1860 more than a billion of dollars
has been expended in pensions by the Unit
ed States
The West End street railway company of
Boston has given Mayor Hart 30, 600 tickets
for distribution among the poor, to enable
them to visit the public parks.
The race track at Morris Park, near New
York city, which was recently opened, is
the finest in the world To date it has cost
81, 800 900, and 81, $50, 900 will be expended.
Mrs. Sheridan and her children are living
at the cottage in Nonquitt. Mass in which
the General died. Mrs. Sheridan has en-
tirely recovered her health aud strength.
The average flow of petroleum in the
Baku region of Russia is SS, 900 barrels per
day as against 25, 300 barrels in the United
States.
The japanese are learning TO eat meat.
In 1885 only 30, 900 head of cattle were
slaughtered in all Japan in 1886 the num-
Der increased to 900 in 1887 to 130,-
800 in 1888 to POO, OOO
Late dispatches received by the Depart
ment of Agriculture state that the wheat
crop in Europe is even less than was ex-
pected and that the crop Of Russia and
Hungary is especially bad.
The Inman steamer, City of Paris, beat
her own time on her last trip from Liver
pool TO New York by hours and 40 min
utes, thus confirming her claim to the cham
pionship of the seas. Her time now stands
at . days, 10 hours and 1s minutes.
The Manchester Union says there is a
stone in the Connecticut river at Woods
vile on which corner two states, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont three countless Graf
ton, Orange and Caledonia and four towns,
Newbury, Ryegate, Haverhil and Bath.
No person living will again date docu-
ment without using 80" 1t now stands
on the extreme right-1SS9. Next year it
will take second ce-1S90-where it will
remain ten years. 1t will then remove to
the third -1900-and there will rest
for century.
Three sisters, all under 10 years of age,
in Missouri, weigh together S93 pounds.
Lydia, 13 years old, is the heaviest, tipping
the beam at 373 pounds. Two of the trio
have six fingers on each hand and the same
number of toes on each foot. Their par
ents are of ordinary size.
The ease and frequency with which the
United States mails have been robbed in
outlying portions of the West by highway
men has long been a scandal TO our govern
ment, and Mr. Wanamaker has now offered
a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and con
viction of any one guilty of this crime.
w. X. Vanderbilts steam yacht Alva
which is easily the handsomest and most
perfectly appointed pleasure boat in the
world, cost 5000, 900, and the expense of
running her is said to be about Slj0,OO0 a
year The royal yachts of Europe are
mere dugouts in comparison with the Alva.
E. w. Halford, the Presidents private
secretary, has begun suit against firm of
cigarette manufacturers to prevent the use
of the photograph of his daughter Jean
ette in cigarette packages. 1t is said that
of the young lady have al
ready been sent out by some cigarette man
ufacturers, but none of them have yet APP
peared.
Celestin Paul, who died not long ago at
his farm near Reggie Station, parish of st.
Bernard, La, was said to have been llS
years old. His daughter writes to a corre-
spondent of the Scientific American that
he was Is years old when he went to live
on the farm where he died. That was just
100 years ago Some of the oak and pc
can trees that he planted are over - feet
in circumference.
The Manchester ship canal, which is to
make a seaport out of the great English
town, is to be 30 feet deep
and 100 feet wide 1t is lined throughout
with solid concrete, the walls sloping slight
ly outward, and is faced at the top with
huge blocks of cornish granite united to-
gether In digging for the canal, the skull
of woman, supposed to have lived and
died before the Roman invasion, 1000 years
ago, was thrown out
young man asked a lawyer of Montreal
to find out what was the fortune of young
woman of that city. The lawyer went to
work, and in time reported that the lady
was worth at least 10000 The client
seemed satisfied, promised to pay literally,
soon married the young woman, and sent
the lawyer a check for rather small
amount. The lawyer sent in a bill and the
young man wouldn't pay. Then followed
a lawsuit and publicity.
The Merchant and Viticulturist estimates
that the wine product of California will not
exceed -, 0O0,0 gallons this year. This
is a reduction of S,000,0 600 gallons from
early estimates of this years vintage, due
partly to damage by sunburn and mildew,
but more especially to the fact that the dry
ing of wine grapes absorbs large fraction
of the crop. The same paper estimates
that the state will produce 900, 900 gallons
of brandy this year.
A remarkable system of carrying little
children as passengers seems to have been
in practice hitherto upon the Russian rail
ways. The Russian ministry of the inte
rior has just issued an ordinance to all rail
way officials, prohibiting the further pack
ing of small children in baskets, to the num-
ber of eight in basket, and forwarding
them to the founding houses in the great
towns as hand-luggage.
A recent visitor to Madagascar says that
the queen is a small, slender woman about
% years of age, of very light color, and
very sad Her dresses all come from Par
is. On the day the correspondent saw her,
she wore a white cashmere robe with a
heavy silk train, mantle of the same, with
cut-steel buttons, hat of white silk, with
ostrich plumes and silver crescent orna-
ments, a cut-steel brooch, earrings and pen
dants, and four button white kid gloves,
with bracelets of the national Jewel" red
coral.
1t is told that when Mrs. Harrison, the
grandmother of Baby Mckee, was at Nan
tucket, she strolled into little store to buy
a souvenir of the place Taking up a
small basket she asked the price of the old
woman who keeps the shop. Marked on
the bottom" was the curt answer. Mrs.
Harrison repeated the question, ITS mark
ed ON the bottom l tell yer" answered the
shop keeper looking up from the newspa-
per she was reading. 81 can't be bothered
to stop and answer questions Pm reading
about the Presidents trip to Bar Harbor."
ayyaat nv the Tide af Familiarity