Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-30
NO. 35.
IN GEN ERAL.

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He will be for time the guest Of the Pres
ident of Harvard.
II is a curious fact that there are 200, 900
people in the United States who have artf-
cial legs or hands, and this number does not
include the veterans of the Union or the
Confederate army.
When doctor was called to see a woman
at Green Bay, Wis, the other night, she
declared that she had eaten nothing but a
pint of cherries, two dishes of ice cream,
two oranges and chunk of raisin cake.
Jefferson Davis has a quarrel with his
publishers, d. Appleton & Co Of New
York, the trouble being, apparently, that
| but few people, North and South want his
book, and hence the profits are not such as
Mr. Davis would like to see coming in.
The record of ocean racing between New
York and Queenstown has been lowered by
two days, three hours and Al minutes with
IN % years. The present record held by
the City of Paris is five days, % hours and
Z minutes.
Five young men from Japan have arrived
IN San Francisco to begin a years tour of
the United States and Europe, for the pur-
pose of studying legislative methods, pre-
paratory to the establishment of a constitu-
tional parliament in their own country.
ports that two farmers of Hampton county,
5. G., have been trying the experiment of
making syrup from watermelons, and that
they are well satisfied with the result
that they have gone regularly into the bust
ness.
The new high-license law in Massachu-
sets is working satisfactorily. According
to the figures of the Boston Advertiser, the
number of licenses has been reduced in six
teen out of twenty-five cities of the state
| from 3022 to 1857, while the revenue from
saloons has increased nearly fifty per cent
The moral effect is pronounced excellent
The committee appointed recently by the
| San Francisco chamber of commerce to in
vestigate the feasibility of laying an ocean
| telegraph cable from San Francisco to Aus
tralia has reported in favor of the project,
and estimates the cost of a cable line from
San Francisco to New Zealand BY way of
Honolulu and Tutuila at $4,000, 900.
A peculiar industry has sprung up near
Albany, n. Y, since 1888 that of supply
ing crushed stone for asphalt and macadam-
ized roads. The quarry from which the
stone is taken is operated night and day.
One thousand tons of rock day are crush
| ed, and $50 cars are used in Transporting
the fragments of rock to all parts of the
country.
The venerable ex-Vice President, Mr..
Hannibal Hamlin, is enjoying life in his
/ quiet way at his cosy home in Bangor He
has big garden in which he delights to
| work, and his orchard and hower-plots are
his pride and JOY Although 81 years of
age, he is still able to walk ten or fifteen
miles a day without much fatigue, and
makes frequent trips to his old home at
Paris Hill, Oxford county.
There is a new industry at Trenton.
| n. j. the making of dynamite guns. Six
of these guns are now being constructed by
| the New Jersey Steel and Iron company.
| The guns are to be 30 feet long, II inches
in diameter and will be made in three sec
tions. They will be constructed of cast
steel plates, bolted securely together. The
guns are to be completed by January next.
1t is said that the common cowcatcher at
tachment to locomotives is about the only
article of universal use that was never pat
ented. Its inventor was d. B. Davies of
Columbus, who found his model in the
| plough Red lights on the rear car of
trains, it is further said, were adopted at
the suggestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm,
after a railway accident in which she had
narrow escape.
The growth of the cigarette habit is
shown by the fact that internal revenue
| collections were made last year upon ., 1j1,-
! 5l5, 300, which is an increase of 3SS, 7S9,-
26O over the preceding fiscal year. The
number of cigars taxed during the last fs-
cal year was 8, ,s67, 3S5, $40, an increase of
%, 658, 800, showing that the consumption
of cigarettes is increasing more rapidly
than that of cigars.
Orange county, New York, manufactures
more apple whskey than all the rest of the
United States combined, and the town of
W.. IL e q =.
the production of two thirds of the entire
amount. liking for it comes after assid.
uous cultivation, but after the taste for it
has once been formed it can be taken with
as much pleasure, and will, with lesser
| quantity, produce as much exhilaratiou and
as big head as any spirituous liquors.
One of the most surprising features of
the modern business world is the large use
of cotton seed, formerly considered worth
less. Over 800, 900 tons of these seeds are
now pressed for their oil from 3G to 40
pounds being obtained from each ton. The
consumption of cotton seed oil is increasing
both in this country and in Europe and
new uses for the oil are constantly being
discovered.
Pennsylvania has undoubtedly had the
largest share of this seasons exceptional
rainfall in the Eastern states The state
cred in one place. the rainfull in the state
this year would form a lake 1000 miles
| square and 30 feet in depth. At the time
of the Johnstown flood 7 7000, 900, 900 tons
of water fell upon the mountains and plat
eaus of northern Pennsylvania.
There is no danger of the immediate ex-
hauston of the national domain. Nebraska
alone has $500, 900 acres of fertile grazing
and farming lands open to settlement under
the homestead timber culture and preGmp-
ton acts new treaty with the Chippewas
opens to settlement 5000, 900 acres of good
| lands in Minnesota, and the treaty with the
Sioux opens II 10000 acres in Dakota.
Further details of the bursting of the
Yellow river embankments in the province
of Shan Tung, China, July %, state that
the destruction is wide spread The breach
in the river was over 2000 feet in length
and a swift current swept through, flooding
| large extent of country II feet deep.
Many houses were washed away, and dis
| patch from Chefoo states that the number
of persons drowned is too great to be count
| cd.
Rev. Calvin Fairbank, an aged clergy
man now living in Angelica, Allegheny
county, New York, was a Kentucky school
teacher back in lS40 and gained the en-
nifty of shareholders by saving a beautiful
| quduIOOu slhNe-BlIli OLe VI MS pupllS, from
| being sold South. He raised money enough
among northern friends-Salmon p. Chase
being a contributor-to buy the girl, set her
free, and send her north, where Gamalie
Bailey, editor of the National Era, adopted
| and educated her. Not long after, Mr.
| Fairbank was imprisoned in the Kentucky
penitentiary and severely hogged, ON the
charge of aiding slaves to escape,
The other day young woman suffering
with tumor presented herself at the OPP
Grating room of DR.. Tillauy, a French sur
geon. Instead of using chloroform or ether
he managed to throw her into a profound
hypnotic sleep. She even placed herself on
the table where the operation was to be
performed. For twenty minutes the sur
geon piled the knife, the patient showing
no signs of pain. At the end of that time
she was awakened, and declared that she
had not suffered in the least, or known that
anything was taking place This is, how
! ever, a rare case. Not every one can he
! affected in that way. Still it is an interest
| ing fact that under certain favorable con
ditions a hypnotic sleep, perfect and com
| plete, can be induced.
A schooner arrived at Gloucester, Mass,
last Friday from the Grand Banks, having
on board Capt. Rogers of Mansfield who
sailed from Boston July in an Is foot dorY,
intending 10 cross the Atlantic aud visit the
Paris exposition. After five days of good
weather there came three days gale, aud
when it abated he found himself ON the
Georges Slow progress was subsequently
made, as the weather was either half
gale or a calm By July % he had become
so blind from the suns glare on the water
that he could not see his compass, and he
steered by the sun for three days For the
last fourteen days his boat drifted around
at the mercy of the wind and sea- the mari