Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-09-27
NO. 80.
IN GEN ERAL.


is again moving westward from the home
Of the disease in India 1t is reported 10 he
prevailing in Persia and several cases have
appeared in Greece.
Daniel Lamont. ex secretary of President
Cleveland, is said to be getting rich very
fast. He is much engrossed in business,
and says he likes New York far better than
Washing gton.
NJ. Eiffel, builder of the tall tower. is ex-
pected in Quebec shortly, to build $1,000
600 bridge across the St. Lawrence, which
will make a continuous roadway from ocean
TO ocean on Canadian soil
Farmers who refuse to accept the teach
ings of science are liable IN get left" if the
vernacular Of slang most expressive may be
employed to convey an opinion founded in
truth.
An effort is on foot to combine the five
Central American republics Of Guatemala,
Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua and
Costa Rica into one confederation, 10 he
known as the United States of Central
America.
Strain and set milk as soon as practicable
after being drawn from the cow If allow
ed to cool while standing in the pail, less
cream will rise to the surface This has
been proved over and over again, and while
it is an elementary fact it needs to be often
repeated
A succession of destructive storms has
visited Mexico during the past two weeks.
Scarcely a single Mexican state has escaped
floods and washouts, with damage to crops
and other serious loss of property.
The will of DR.. F. A. Barnard, for many
years president of Columbia college, gives
the bulk of DR.. Barnard's property, includ-
ing his library, to the college The greater
part of the estate is to 90 to the college IL
brary and to endow a fund of $1,000 to
perpetuate the giver's name.
The great Australian python that escaped
from its cage on board the steamship Den
mark, some weeks ago, was found dead un-
der one of the engines of the steamer some
days later. Its glistening black and white
garters were singed and discolored, and its
head had been severed from its body by
rats.
1t should be remembered that we make in
the United States some millions of pounds
of butter more than our people consume
especially is this true when so much oleo
and butterine are used as last year There
were thousands of tubs of butter left over
last year, that sold for 10 to ~ cents per
pound long after new butter was in the
market last April.
Milk shipped to the markets of New York
Jersey City and Brooklyn now nets produc
ers about 2i cents per quart ON the average
for the year. In August, G2G so cans of
milk were shipped to Boston and AL, ,9S4
cans sold The surplus was thus 14g $50
cans, of 8! quarts each, or n per cent. Of
every 100 cans of milk received ~ were
made into butter, realizing about u cents
per can, out Of which must come freight
and other expenses.
Prof. W. d. Cunning estimates that the
average amount of water passing over Nj
agara Falls, taking account of the varying
height of the river is Is, 900, 900 cubic feet
per minute. Allowing 62l pounds to the
cubic foot, this would give total of jG2,-
800 tons per minute, or %, 3l2, 800 tons in
45 minutes, of which somewhat more than
two-thirds passes over the Horseshoe Falls.
Other estimates place the total amount
passing over both falls as high as 100, 0O0,-
600 tons per hour. In comparison, the
flood at Johnstown was only a rivulet
Joseph Matz was killed at New York a
few days ago by coming in contact with
live electric wire. A spectator attempt
ed to bring Matz to the street and received
a severe shock the moment he touched the
linemen appeared, and after cutting the
wires removed the body. The hand which
clutched the wire was burned to the bone,
and other parts of the body which had come
in contact with the net work of live wires
presented a sickening appearance.
The senatorial investigation into the beef
packing industry at Kansas City and Chi
cago is developing some ugly secrets of this
trade. 1t is clearly shown that the bust
ness, while nominally in control of compet-
ing firms, is really trust, and that both
beef-packers and cattle-growers are at its
mercy. 1t is not possible for private indi-
viduals to compete with this great combina-
ton. Even in Atchison, Kan. only short
distance from Kansas City, it was impossi-
BILE for local butchers to do business until
the city authorities passed law requiring
that all meat sold should be first inspected
on the hoof If this condition exists where
cattle are plentiful, it is no wonder that
Eastern people are at the mercy of the beef
packing combination.
serious accident happened at Chatta-
noOga. Tenn, last Friday, which cast
gloom over the meeting of the Army of
the Cumberland in session there A heav-
ily-loaded car was going up the steep in
cline of the electric road which runs up
Mission ridge, the historic battle-ground,
and when near the top the electric current
gave out. The brakes could not hold the
car, and it ran back down the incline with
frightful rapidity. The conductor shouted
to the passengers, half of whom were wom-
en-, to leap for their lives. Many of them
did so. One woman was killed, man fell
into barbed wire fence and lost an eye,
besides receiving other injuries In all,
ia npOnla DI
seriously. Those who remained in the car
were uninjured, as its speed was checked
after being relieved of most of its load,
The completeness of the collapse of the
Southern California real estate boom is il
lustrated by the fact that in Los Angeles
county alone there are no less than 60 towns,
comprising 20, $50 town lots which have
total population of only 235l. All of these
towns were laid out within three years. Ap-
plications have been received for the aban-
donment of six of these towns, as they do
not contain a single inhabitant Chicago
Park was laid out with 22SG lots A hotel
was built there and arrangements made for
public school buildings The only resident
of Chicago Park left is the solitary watch
man in charge of the hotel. Sunset is an
other town having one hotel and one nhah-
itant. At many of these town sites were
spent vast sums of money (mostly Eastern
money! upon churches, school-houses and
hotels, and recently one of these empty no
tells, costing 500, 900, has been given to a
college. Los Angeles county makes the
worst showing unless it is San Diego coun-
ty, but property all through the southern
and central portions of the state has suffer
ed more or less by the BOOM
The great mysterious lake of Labrador
Mistassini, has finally been explored, and
found 80 devoid Of animal life, in some
parts, so inhospitable, so bleak, that most
of the Indians have come to look upon it as
mystery, and naturally haYe commun-
Gated their ideas 10 the settlements at Lake
st. John, from which place all the stories
about the lake appear in the past TO have
come.n 1t was confidently predicted that
the lake would be found TO be much larger
than Lake Superior. On the contrary, it
is scarcely one third the length of Lake
Superior, which, with its length of 300
miles and its area of 30 600 square miles,
remains the undisputed monarch of fresh
water inland seas. The Labrador lake sys-
tenn, including Mistassini and its sister
lakes is about 300 miles long. The drain
age, however, as estimated, is only one
tenth that of Lake Superior.
Enquiries as to the value of negro indus
trial labor in the South, sent TO 300 leading
manufacturers brought answers which rep
resent 5000 negro employees, of whom $500
are skilled. The average wages paid com
mon negro labor is 40 per day, and skill
ed labor runs from Sl.15 to 81. % per day,
| although several correspondents pay color
ed puddlers, beaters and rollers as high as
81 and s. per day, and many blast furnaces
pay as high as 50 80 The replies, without
a single exception, show that there is no
difference at all between the pay Of whites
aud blacks for the same class of work. The
manufacturers are practically unanimous
in the opinion that for common labor in the
Southern states the negro is more efficient
and useful than the white man, and, with