Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-05-10
NO. 10.
IN GEN ERAL.

Carl hnsa, the well known musical direc.
tor, but better known as the husband Of
Nine Parepa Rosa is dead.
A fine old oak which was blown down re
Gently in front Of the White House was
planted by Martha Washington
The license law Of Sweden prevents any
person buying drink without huying some-
thing 10 eat at the same time
Chief Justice Fuller has bought house
in Washington-the Judge Wylie house,
large, old fashioned, and in an eligible lo.
cation.
Anna Dickinson has been confined TO the
sick room of her aged mother for the past
six months, and has hardly left the house
for an hour at a time.
Queen Victoria will be 20 years old on
Friday, May "a. The anniversary will be
quietly celebrated by family reunion at
| Windsor castle.
A handsome granite monument in memo
ry of ex-President Arthur has been erected
by some Of his friends over his grave in the
Rural cemetery at Albany.
Joseph Willette accidentally fell into a
bleach tub at the Sugar River paper mill at
Claremont, N. H., last week and was
scalded to death.
A nine-years-old boy while hanging on
behind carriage at Newport, r. l., caught
his leg between the spokes and had it twist
ed off between the knee and ankle.
An eght-years- old boy at Malvern o.,
became angry with his cousin aged five,
with whom he was romping on the grass,
and seizing loaded gun, shot him dead
The balance of the passengers of the ILL.,
fated steamer Danmark, who we're left at
the Azores, were landed at Castle Garden
Sunday, by the Hamburg steamer Wieland
A merchant named Melwick shot his wife
and two children at Blair, La, on Thursday
of last week, set fire to his house and burn
ed the bodies Of his victims with it, and
then shot himself.
A fatal accident took place in game of
baseball at Dundee, Ind. last week Two
men collided at the third base, and one of
them received injuries from which recovery
is impossible.
Baron Erlanger, the European fnancier,
who has fifteen millions invested in Ameri-
can railways, is in Washington and finds
fault because the operating expenses eat up
! 20 per cent of the revenues against only 30
per cent on European railways.
A lustered Pennsylvania bridegroom slip
| ped quarter i'll the minister's hand, think
ing it $40 gold piece. Discovering his
mistake he made reparation, and afterward
told friend He took the gold piece
! with pleasure, but the mean part of it was
that he kept the quarter, too
Some idea of the crowd in New York dur
| ing the centennial week may be had from
the business done on the Manhattan eevat-
ed railway. During the three days of the
celebration >, BAG, 900 fares were taken-an
average of 1872, 900 day.
The agent and party sent out by the Min
nesota historical society to discover the
] Of ba Mtgstggi,,,,s sr;,r. l.,.
| ing discovered two lakes ll0 feet above
Itaska and seven miles distant, to which
they traced the head of the river.
The Harrison and Eureka Springs stage
coach was held up by two masked men last
| Friday morning in broad daylight, near
! Green Forest, Ark, and robbed. The mail
sack, containing the registered packages,
was cut open and the contents ritled There
were no passengers in the stage at the time.
In the future, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, every great ironclad will have its
suite, composed of a small fleet. This will
consist of two first class torpedo boats, "a
fast gunboat ram, and a very fast 20O-ton
turn about torpedo catcher" fitted with
the latest improvements for destroying tor
pedoes.
The Sault Ste Marie canal, which was
| opened in 1885, has so far cost about 3d.
! IL Is less Sllhil n lllle lOllB, Dul II
one of the most important water ways in
the world. The canal is open about 200
days in the year, and in 1888 the daily ton
mage through it was 30, 242-almost equal
to that of the famous Suez canal.
There is a grim humor about some of
Judge Lynch's executions A bank presi-
| dent in southwest Texas made away with
| all the funds under his charge, and then
posted on the door of his institution, Bank
suspended" That night he was interview
| ed by number of depositors, who left him
hanging to a tree with this notice pinned to
his breast, Bank president suspended"
A resident of Carthage, Mo-, has in his
possession an original price. list of slaves,
| the property of jefferson Daviss brother
| before the war. Babies are quoted at 500,
| children of 12 wears 5000, able bodied wom-
en- $500, and thrifty farm hands at $ll00.
| A man 80 years old was worth but $780,
and an old blind woman was set down at
zero. The document is queer reading to
the present generation.
An amateur circus, in which the perfor-
mers were all New York society people, is
the latest amusement device big rink
or riding school near the residence of James
| NJ. Waterbury in Westchester county, serv-
| ed as a circus tent the audience arrived by
| special train from the metropolis last Friday
evening the performers down to the clown
acted their parts to the life, and none of the
features of a regulation performance were
omitted.
Important discoveries have been made
near Floyd, Iowa, of remains of the ancient
mound builders. A circular mound, thirty
| feet in diameter and about two feet high
has been opened and five skeletons found.
They were exceedingly we'll preserved, the
earth having been closely packed around
them. Three of them were males, one a
female, and the fifth babe. The skull of
| the female was in good state of preserva
ton. ArchRologists claim that the meas
urements show inferority even to the cele-
brated Neanderthal skull. There are sew
eral other mounds near this one, which will
be examined.
The "celibacy assurance society is a
novel organization in Denmark, the object
being to provide for women who cannot or
will not marry. Premiums begin at the
age of l3 and end at 40, and at the latter
age an unmarried woman receives an an
nuity for life, If she marres at any time
after taking out a policy she forfeits all
claims ON the society, The profits of the
society are expected to be enough to pro
vide well for members who never marry.
Panama despatch says that the suspen-
sion of canal work has completely changed
the condition of affairs on the isthmus.
Many citizens of the United States and Eu-
rope have left for their homes or for other
fields There are, however, many yet
awaiting means of transportation, All over
the isthmus the situation is dsheartening,
and, with the wet season now on, the dis
tress will increase as the months pass, if all
without work be not offered means of trans
port to other countries.
A short tiuna A unlar,uant
surgical operation at Leipsic, after which it
became necessary to put several small por
tions of skin over the wound The skin
was taken from two white persons and as
the wound began to heal the color of these
pieces Of skin began to change, and when
the cure was completed had assumed the
ebony color of the negro's body, In order
to find out whether black skin could in the
same manner be changed into fair, small
portion of the skin of Il negro was sewn
over a wound in white mans arm. Pres
emily the dark patch began to grow pale
and at the end of fourteen weeks it had he
come so light that it could no longer be dis
tinguished from the natural skin.
Some years ago an American sailor named
Carl Benjamin was wrecked on one of the
largest of the Caroline Islands. He decided
to make the island his home, as there was
no work TO do and plenty to eat. The ma
tives who are very good natured, took
kindly TO him, and have made him their
king. He is somewhat scholarly man,
and is diligently teaching the natives Eng
lsh and the rudiments of civilized life He
has twenty wives and fifty children. Moth
ing, he says, would induce him to go back
TO his old home at Newburyport, Mass Ev
/, identity the question, "ls marriage fail
ure - has not yet reached the Caroline Is
lands.
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