Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-02
NO. 81.
IN GEN ERAL.

Within two blocks Of the most fashion
able residential portion Of Kansas City is a
prairie dog town with three or four hun
dred burrows
While workmen were opening a road up
the side Of Pigeon mountain in Georgia.
they found beneath large Hat rock an iron
pot containing $1,000 in specie, 1t is sup
posed the money was hidden during the re
bellion.
The first medical degree ever given to an
American woman was given 80 years ago.
Today there are 2j00 women in the United
States having diplomas from either Ameri.
can or foreign schools
The whole number Of officials now pro
tected by the cvil-servce rules is q, ,j91, of
which number S2l2 are in the department
al service, 229S are in the customs service,
| l1,167 in the postal service and $500 in the
railway mail service.
a typewriter so diminutive in size as
almost to justify the term pocket type
writer has recently been invented Its
extreme dimensions are four inches by
three inches and its weight is less than
four and half ounces
| Ex-senator Pendleton Of Ohio, late min.
ister to Germany, is spending the summer
with his daughters at the health resorts of
Europe. He is threatened with softening
Of the brain, and there is small probability
Of his ever returning to public life.
An artesan well near st. Augustine Fla.
is said to have the largest flow Of any such
well in the world 1t discharges water at
the rate of 5000 gallons per minute, or H.
800, 900 gallons in "a hours.
Miss Nellie Flavin, Liverpool girl, is the
only woman who has yet volunteered to de
vote her life to the lepers at Kaawao She
passed through New York several weeks
ago on her way to the afflicted people to
whose service she is to devote her life and
talents She is said to be an accomplished
pianist and of an amable, energetic and
resolute disposition.
Miss Kate Drexel, the wealthy young
Philadelphia woman who recently entered
a convent of the Sisters Of Mercy at Pitts
burg, has decided to build college for the
exclusive use of colored people. She has
given $25, 900, and agreed to pay the saa-
ries of the pastor of a church and teachers
for school. The institution will be locat-
ed in Philadelphia.
The Harper W. c. 7. L. of st. Louis,
Mo-, is composed of 43 colored women.
During the past year they have raised S1311,
the larger part for a colored orphans home
which was opened six months ago There
are now in the home % children. This un-
ion visits the jail, workhouse and hospitals,
caring for those of their own race found
there.
A remarkable phenomenon is reported
near Petersburg, Va Some six acres of
land sunk suddenly the other day from 40
to so feet. The tops of trees which stood
on the level with others are now standing
intact, and come only few feet above the
level of the bluff where the sinking has oc-
CURED. The sunken area is scanned with
assures of various lengths and depths. The
most noteworthy feature of the phenomenon
is the formation Of bar in the river The
bar is 20 feet long and contains many fis-
sures. The phenomenon was preceded a
few weeks ago by something like an explo-
sion, the noise of which was heard for
miles.
1t is said that the head waiter in a large
hotel at the White Mountains is a theologi-
cal student, and his assistant is also a col
lege student. The former has had an ex-
perience of years in hotel service, and is
thus earning the money for his college ex-
penses. He looks after the spiritual wei
fare of those under him, and every Sunday
afternoon holds Bible class in a little chap
el which is part of one of the hotel build
ings. The class numbers from 30 to 80.
In 1870 Asbury Park n. j., was a will
derness of sand dunes and underbrush,
without an inhabitant or habitation Mr..
James A. Bradley bought it for few thou
sand dollars, spent few thousands more
in clearing it up, and soon had it booming
into public favor. When he bought the
tract it was assessed at 5000 fifteen
years later the assessed valuation was So
900, and today it is not less than 3d.
100000.
Miss Nightingale says that efficient wom-
EN- doctors are now sorely needed in India
for the forty millions of women who must
be treated by them or not at ALL This CON
sideration, and the hope of securing really
good hospital experience for women who
propose to devote their lives to professional
work in India are the motives for earnest
efforts to build and establish a new and
larger women's hospital in London.
The subcommittee on irrigation, auxil-
iary to the United States committee has
visited Garden City, Kan, and made an in
vestigation of the irrigation system now in
use there, and has also listened to new
theory of irrigation, the so-called under
drainage sea system. Believers in the new
plan say that there is an inexhaustible sup
ply of water in the lower strata of sands
in western Kansas, which can be brought
to the surface. The sub committee will
visit parts of Nebraska which can be irri-
gated,
A line from West Farnham, P. O., says
that on Saturday afternoon a strange OBJ
ject was seen in the river at that place.
Upon cloes inspection it proved to be a
good-sized black bear. 1t swan across the
river, came up the bank, crossed the main
street, knocked over a small boy in its path,
ran through the village near the south end
of the station, across the ball ground,
through 81 Randall's garden into the bushes
and disappeared.
Since the opening of Toynbee hall by En-
glsh university men for the purpose of liv-
ing among the poor in order to understand
their needs, there have been 81 residents,
men who have remained for periods vary
ing from three months to four years. Their
mode of life and work has been a curious
yet entirely successful mingling of the club
and college. The university men who have
made Toynbee hall their home have lived
their own life, followed their own pursuits
and made their own friends they have
differed in opinion and methods, and have
followed various professions, but their work
has been successful. One object of the res
dents has been to know the people among
whom they have worked, and to be known.
Those have done the most who have formed
the deepest friendships, showing that lit is
only through the personal service of indi
viduals who, steadied but not deferred by
the thought of their own unworthiness,
bring thought and time and care to the
consideration of every need, that perma-
nent good can be DONE