Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-07-26
IN GEN ERAL.

The sensible owner of new Delaware
schooner christened his vessel with roses
thrown by his daughters hand instead Of
using the traditional bottle Of champagne.
A Kansas farmer has written 10 the Johns
town bureau of information asking that a
wife be chosen for him from among the
food sufferers and sent on to his place near
the town of Parsons.
The widow of John G. Heenan, once the
American champion slugger, still lives in
retirement at San Francisco. She is an
actress, and is known chiefly by her stage
name, Sarah Stevens
The Kong mountains Of Africa are about
10 follow the Mountains of the Moon, which
have been expunged from the maps. Re
cent explorations show that there is no such
range where they have been located.
In Holland an unmarried woman always
takes the right arm of her escort, and
married woman the left At church we'd
ding the bride enters the ediiice ON the right
arm Of the groom and goes out on the left
side of her husband.
The German emperor lately visited the
barracks of dragoon regiment, and while
the men were in readiness the commanding
officer was half an hour late He expected
immediate disgrace, and when evening came
he opened with trembling hand a small
parcel from His Majesty. 1t contained an
alarm clock.
A curious accident happened the other
day to a COW at Hillsdale Orange county,
n. Y. While being driven 10 pasture she
came to a place where brine had been
thrown upon the street, and while walking
along attempted to lick the ground In do
ing so she stepped upon her tongue and cut
off a piece about one and one-half inches
long
The Prince of Wales is trying to have
every dog in England muzzled "If this
were done" writes Sir Francis Knollys on
behalf Of the prince, throughout the king
dom for twelve months, the painful disease
of rabies, which is now greatly on the in
crease among us, would be stamped out
here, as has practically been done in sever
al other countries"
A curious visitation is reported at Provi
dence, r. l., after "a recent severe storm.
Myriads Of gnats and mosquitoes came, and
the city's electric lights were made dim by
their presence At the stores down town
they were so thick that gunpowder was
touched off in several instances to remove
them. Pedestrians drove them off with
fans and horse car passengers were made
frantic by their numbers.
During the Arthur and Cleveland admin.
istrations the room in the White Ilonse
where Garfield spent long days of agony
before he was carried To Elberon was kept
closed and unoccupied. The demands of
the present and enlarged presidential house
hold have, however, brought the apartment
into use again.
John Hanks a stanch friend and a dis
tant relative Of Abraham Lincoln, has Just
died at Decatnr, Ill.,, aged SS. He intro
duced the rail-splitting feature into the
campaign Of 1860, furdishing rails which
Lincoln split on his farm when young
man. Hanks spent Sl7 900 in electing his
friend President, although he had to that
time been a strong Democrat.
The son Of Millet, the French artist who
painted a. Angelus, which is now coming
to the United States, says 81 was about
eight years old when my father painted the
picture, but he was not able to sell it. An
American made all offer for it, which was
accepted but the American wrote the next
day stating that it was not large enough for
the price He finally sold it for 1900 francs,
and NJ. Secretan gave 100, 900 francs for it
some years later.
The necessary funds for building the Con
go railway, 50, 900, 900, have been subscrib
ed and operations will be promptly begun.
The proposed road will be built between the
| lower falls of the Congo and Stanley Pool,
and will be "A triile over 26O miles in length
| The Belgian government, Mr.. McKinnon,
the great Scotch ship-owner, and President
| Huntington of the Southern Pacific road,
are prominently identified in the scheme
4 car made entirely of steel, built at
| East Boston, has been sent to Laconia, y.
| H., TO be upholstered in fancy leather. 1t
weighs two tons less than the ordinary pas
senger coach. 1t will be fitted with ten
compartments and is 10 be the directors
car Of Il company of capitalists at Denver,
Col. 1t is claimed that there will be moth
ing about it that can take fire readily in
case of accident.
An average of five feet of water is est-
mated to fall annually over the whole earth,
and, assuming that condensation takes
place at an average height of 5000 feet
scientists conclude that the force of evapo
ration to supply such rainfall must equal
the lifting of 322 ,OOO, 900 pounds of water
1000 feet in every minute, or about 300,-
OOO, 1000, 900 horse power constantly exert
ed. OF the prodigious amount of energy
thus created, a very small proportion is
transferred TO the waters that run back
through rivers to the sea, and still smaller
fraction is utilized by man the remainder
is dissipated in space.
A woman was present on the market day
in Constances, France, with a horse for
sale at 81, and dog for which she demand
ed 500. People thought her daft, and told
her so. Nevertheless, she said the person
who wanted the horse for dollar must
take the dog for 500 She finally sold
them on those terms. 1t afterward trans
pired that the deceased husband of the
woman had instructed her in his will to sell
his dog and his horse The price of the
dog was to be hers and that of the horse
she was to pay over to his family.
4 cat broke up the trading in the Chicago
board of trade one day last week, although
business was in full flow at the time, She
marched out of her quarters carrying
kitten by its neck. As she walked very
| dignifiedly up the hall, a dozen or more of
the members who saw her stopped to watch.
| Then the word spread, and by the time she
had put the first kitten in its new home and
started back for another there was great
crowd formed in two lines looking at her.
Then she came forth with another kitten in
her teeth, and the boys gave her a cheer.
In another minute the whole crowd was
formed in two lines between which the old
cat marched slowly and with impressive
mien clear TO the other end The pits be-
came deserted and trade was suspended
Every time she would appear at the south
end of the line with another kitten, the
boys would give her rousing cheer, and
when she had deposited it at the other end
they would cry "Ah h-h :" in chorus FL
nally her eight kittens were all moved, and
the boys went back and whooped up the
market.