Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-16
NO. 33.
IN GEN ERAL.


To work on the Nicaragua canal
A company has been found for the
utilization Of the water power at Niagara
Falls
The value Of the Columbia river salmon
catch for this season is estimated at 81, 100.
900.
The silk crop of Japan is increasing ev-
cry year. The industry pays well, and the
government is fostering it as much as pos.
sible
All the monuments erected at the battle
field Of Gettysburg to mark the positions
| OF the Pennsylvania troops will be dedi.
Gated on September 1 and 12.
1t is said that a part Of Queen Victoria's
savings has been invested in real estate in
New York city, and that each year she
draws handsome income from the rentals.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is
sued an order extending the age limit of
appointment Of letter carriers in non-civil
service post offices from 3j TO 40 years of
age.
To Chicago friends Minister Lincoln
writes that he finds his new cares much
less exacting than he feared they would
prove, and that he finds time for recrea-
tion without sighting any official duty
The bigness of the West stands forth
again in the boast of the people of Custer
county, Mont, that their single county is
larger than New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut put together.
For the second time in the history of New
York, century plant is in bloom there
The thick green stem is thirty feet high,
and there are fifteen hundred buds and
blossoms surmounting it,
The past six months were the most disas-
trous for railways since 1885. Eight roads,
with a total length of 2690 miles. were
bankrupted. There were also eight fore
closures during that period.
1t is stated that DR.. II. c. Brainard, an
eminent practitioner at Cleveland, o., has
experimental with DR.. Brown. Sequard's
elixir of life on himself and others with
highly satisfactory results
A drunken g. A. r. veteran who was
asleep on the railroad track at Pawtucket.
X l., was struck by locomotive and hurl-
ed 40 feet into the air, his body passing
through several trees. He was not serious
ly injured.
Two rooms in the Cook county hospital
at Chicago have been set apart for the treat
ment of hydrophobia according to Pasteur's
method. DR.. Antonio Lagorio, who has
studied five years with Pasteur, will have
charge.
The size of Millets famous picture.
"L'Angelus, which is coming to this coun
try at a cost, including the duties, of S149,.
80, is only %! by 25i inches 1t contains
514 square inches and the valuation is $500
per inch.
The falls of Niagara are changing in
shape through the eating away of the soft
shale rock that underlies the hard rock
forming the bed of the rapids. Within a
few days large section of rock fell from
the very centre of the falls.
Tennyson has horror of the biographer
He keeps no diary and has destroyed his
correspondence and all records of it, He
is reported to have said to a friend recent
ly when l am dead l will take good
care they shall not rip me up like a pig"
There is dolorous interest in the annals
of an undertaker's business Jacob Coo
yer, an undertaken of Cbambersburg, Pa,
who died on August 8, stated Just before he
died that he had buried in 10 years 3. 900
persons.
Idle curiosity drew crowd to the Con-
gregational church at Bar Harbor last Sun
day, but President Harrison disappointed
the fashionable church-goers there and
agreeably surprised the congregation at
Northeast Harbor, dozen miles away.
In the territory between Dobbs Ferry
and Tarrytown, n Y, distance of only
six miles, there reside at the present time
63 millionaires 1t is doubtful if any such
cluster of rich persons can be found in
similarly small suburban territory in any
part of the world.
West Virginia claims to have the strong
est man in the world. His name is Matt
Cramer of Putnam county. He is said to
have raised few days ago, apparently
with ease, a pedestal weighing 1900 pounds,
and held it aloft above his head for several
New York city has succeeded in placing
another loan at a very low rate of interest.
1t was for 81 400, 900 at 3 per cent, and the
bidding of lenders was so active that sew
eral times this amount was offered at pre-
miums ranging up to % per cent. The
bonds run from IS to 30 years
Great excitement prevails in Albany, -
Green county, Wis, over the finding of
clam shells in the Sugar river. They are
Of all sizes, and single ones have been sold
for as much as $15 and 500. One ship
ment of $500 worth has been sent to Chi
cago
Alabama is said to possess a natural
bridge as perfect, and in some respects
more remarkable, than the famous natural
bridge of Virginia. 1t is in the mountains
between Lynn and Delmar, ON the Brming-
ham, Sheffield and Tennessee river railroad.
The length is 17j feet, width % feet, and
thickness from to feet. 1t is of pure
sandstone. The distance to the ravine be-
low is go feet
Ferdinand Gdzman, the worst bandit in
Spain, is dwarf who at one time kept a
small store in Granada. He became an
gered at some action taken by the authori-
ties and took to the mountains. He is hid
eouslY ugly in appearance and utterly un-
He has gathered about him
crew of the worst cut t-thrOats in Europe,
and over them he reigns supreme
The estimated losses by the fire at Spok-
lne Falls have fallen from $l5, ,000, 900 to
s., 900, 900. Though the blow is still Sc
we're at the reduced figures, the inhabitants
have not succumbed under it. The price
IF real estate in the burnt district has ad-
vanced and the municipal councils have
taken measures to insure the rebuilding of
the business part of the city of brick and
stone.
United States Consul Griffin, stationed
At Sydney, N. S. W, says the aborigines of
New Britain have peculiar custom of con
lining their girls in cages until they are old
enough to be married. The cages are
made of the palm tree and the girls are
put into them when two or three years of
age. These cages are built inside of the
houses and the girls are never allowed TO
cave the house under any circumstances.
The houses are closely fenced in with a
sort of wicker work made of reeds. The
girls are said to grow up strong and health
,ul in spite of these disadvantages.
A well-dressed man riding large sorrel
lorse, rode up to jewelry store at Kansas
Jity, Mo-, few days ago and dismounted,
citing the horse stand without hitching,
md went into the store. He asked to look
1t some diamonds which had previously
1een shown him. The tray was handed to
him, when he grabbed handful and made
l dash for the door. He sprang for his
lorse, but the animal became frightened
md ran down the street. The rObber
Jumped into hack and drove rapidly away,
pursued by the police. He had not been
,aptured. The diamonds are valued at Sl5-
100.
General Grenfell, the English commander
n-chief, or "sidar," of the Egyptian army,
eems to have won a notable victory over
he fanatical horde of Soudanese dervishes
Who are invading Egypt, One-half of the
emi-savage mob was killed, and the brave
lervish chief, Wad-el-Njumi, was among
he number, Yet it would be rash to con
'lude that an end has thus been put TO the
'enewed aggressions of the Soudanese. If
'ver there was band of men who freely
devoted life to a desperate cause, it is these
doslem Arabs of the Upper Nile, who defy
like the sacred authority of the Sultan and
he political authority of the Khedive, and
ire resolved to conquer Egypt for their
aith.
First Love.
The moon rose slow in silver spendor,
One great star glowed alone above,
AS murmurtng In accents tender,
wandered with my little love.
We two alone. The restless ocean