Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-09-20
IN GEN ERAL.

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The attendance at the Paris exhibition
now averages 5000 daily. The show
closes Oct 81.
The papers have it that Johnstown, Pa,
has resumed business with 3G grocery stores
and 81 saloons.
A mammoth sugar refinery was burned
at Williamsburg, N. Y, on the 7th inst
INVOLVING a loss of 50 2,000,000.
Joel S, Ordway, aged 80, a well to-do far
mer of Loudon, n. H., was swinded out
of $4,000 by confidence men at Concord
few days ago.
A scheme is announced for the construc-
ton of a ship canal between Edinburgh and
Glasgow The capital is placed at f7,0O0,-
900.
The Pennsylvania railroad is reaping a
rich harvest from excursions to the Cone
maugh valley to see the track of the big
flood.
Thirty thousand out of the forty thousand
people of Jerusalem are Hebrews, and the
Israelites bid fair to again become the pre-
dominant people in Palestine.
The Wild West show is in its fifth success
full month in Paris and is turning people
away at every performance, while Buffalo
Bill, its owner, is one of the social lions of
the French capital.
The greatest known depth of the ocean is
midway between the Island of Tristan d.
Acunha and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
The bottom was there reached at depth of
40, 236 feet or eight and three-quarter miles.
Over a thousand children were turned
away from the New York public schools at
the recent opening of the new school year
for lack of room in the public school build
ings The same complaint is heard in Phila-
delphia and Brooklyn.
There have been ice palaces, crystal pal
aces and corn palaces, and now the town
of Creston, Iowa, has grass palace, l6
feet high, and covering 10000 feet of
ground. 1t is made of blue grass, decorat-
ed with cereals, grasses and vegetables.
There was a remarkable exhibition of
electric force in Georgia one day last week.
A railway bridge was struck and demol-
ished, and six men who had sought shelter
in it were killed. Two men who sought
refuge from a shower under tree were al
| so killed.
The oxen owned by s. Moore of Barnet,
which were on exhibition at the state fair,
are undoubtedly the largest in the world,
weighing SO3O lbs, girting 10 feet and
measuring 3 feet 81 inches across the hips.
They are half brothers, 10 years old, and
of grade Durham breed
The county of Custer, in Montana, is the
largest county in the United States 1t
contains 13, 500, 920 acres, and is $50 miles
long and 1875 miles wide. 1t is a place of
historic interest, containing. as it does, the
site of the great battle of the Little Horn,
where Custer and his forces were massa-
cred
The terrible force of the recent dynamite
and petroleum explosions at Antwerp may
be appreciated when it is known that a vii
lage of 40 houses has vanished, several large
warehouses destroyed and the windows were
broken in buildings thousand yards distant.
There were 13j people killed and 300 wound
ed, 100 of them severely.
Karl Falkenstein is the name of the in
ventor of smokeless powder Three years
ago he was an unknown chemist in Vienna.
He offered his invention to the Austrian war
office, but no investigation of his device was
made. Discouraged by this refusal he went
to Berlin. There he sold his rights to the
German government for a large sum, and
is living in luxury.
At Madison, Wis, the other day Miss
Kate l.. Pier of Milwaukee made an argu-
ment before the supreme court. She is the
first woman lawyer in that state who ever
did such a thing. Miss Pier is a beautiful
young brunette with magnificent raven
hair, which hung in prodigious braid to
within foot of the floor. Both her mother
and father are lawyers, and the trio prac-
tice together in Milwaukee. Another girl
in the family is now studying for the bar.
John Gordon, an employ6 of the Lake
George paper and pulp company, at Ticon-
deroga n. Y, fell asleep near the machine
| .ln,v l,g l. faI.
planned to scare him for Joke and tied a
rope about his feet, throwing the other end
over a shaft which was making 1875 revolu-
tions a minute They could not cut the
rope quickly enough and the man was killed,
his body being horribly mutilated One of
the perpetrators of the Joke lost his reason
from the shock
A Kansas paper, in giving an account of
''the leading social event of the season.
the wedding of the eldest son of the popu-
lar justice of the peace of the village and
the daughter of another prominent citizen
has this mention of the wedding offer
ings "Among the many beautiful and
costly presents TO the happy couple just
launched upon the sea of matrimony were
fine double barrelled shotgun from the
groom's father and an excellent shorthorn
COW, a remembrance from the brides moth
OF ohh was allehiS posaehSeu Oh Il BODu
pointer dog, so he is now well fixed for
housekeeping"
An Italian fruit veuder met a dreadful
death by the electric light wires in New
York last week. He climbed to the roof of
his little street stand to stop the rain from
running through, A pole carrying 30 wires
stood near. His foot slipped and he threw
out his hand and caught hold of one of the
wires. Instantly he received shock that
made him utter a desparng shrek. He
could not take his hand from the fatal wire,
and after a moment of terrible struggling
he fell so that his chin caught over another
wire. There he hung in the plain view of
a crowd in the street. with one wire burn.
ing his hand and the other wire eating its
way into his neck, His body heaved con
cOnvulsively few seconds aud hung linn
and lifeless, When the wire was finally
cut and the body taken down it was found
that the mans neck had heen cut half asun.
der and his hand burned to the hone
during the ten minutes which his body hung
there