Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-05-23
IN GENERAL.

number of books and periodicals issued was
LIE, 49,, of which only A were not re-
turned by the borrowers The loss was
at the rate of only one in 40, 2S4 and the
experience of previous years indicates that
a large proportion Of the missing books
will be returned
This is a great country. Edward Akin
son says that the entire average wheat crop
of the United States can be grown on so
much of the area of the single state of
Texas as would remain after deducting the
area of the German empire.
Word comes that Sir Edwin Arnold,
author of the Light of Asia is occupy
ing his leisure in Japan with the compost
ton of a new epic poem its title to be The
Light of the World, and the subject the
founder Of Christianity and his doctrines
Dr. John H. Douglas, who attended Gen
Grant during his last illness, and gave up
his lucrative practice in New York TO stay
at Mount McGregor in constant watch over
the dying general, is now lying in the Pres
byterian hospital, stricken with paralysis,
and in poverty.
A hint of the number of careless or alb
sent minded people in the United States is
afforded by the fact that there were receiv-
ed at the dead letter Office last year / :, 900
while 400, 900 were improperly addressed
The most expensive horse barn in the
world belongs to D. f. Grouse, and is locat-
ed at Syracuse, \. y. 1t has now cost the
owner something like 500 600 Incidental
expenses will make the stable cost little
short of a round million.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland have
taken a house at Marion, Mass, for the
summer.
Gen. Sir Frederick Middleton, command
ing the Canadian militia, has been convict
ed by a committee of members of the Ca
madam parliament of looting furs valued at
$4,000 or $4,000 during the late northwest
rebellion. This is his death warrant, so far
as his future service is concerned
A factory at Cronly, village near Vii
mington, n. c., is turning out daily 20O0
yards of bagging for cotton made from pine
needles. 1t is believed that this new ma
terial for bagging will not only break up
the iute trust, but become a source of great
wealth to the south. Dry pine needles, or
straw, as they are termed, serve as well
as green ones, but on account Of the diff
Guilty of obtaining them in a sufficiently
clean state, the practice is to take the
leaves fresh from the trees, selecting the
lower and older ones, and leaving the
younger for the support of the tree.
A bridge 26 miles long is to be constructed
by the Roumanian government across the
Danube. Its great length is owing to
large tract of marshy ground on the left
bank of the river,
The Berlin gold heaters at the Paris ex-
position showed gold leaves so thin that it
would require 2S2 600 to produce the thick
ness of a single inch, vet each leaf was so
perfect and free from holes as to be impen-
etrable by the strongest electric light
Beginning ten years ago with 25 pupils
and with but a cold shoulder recognition,
the Harvard annex now has an attendance
of $50 women, and enjoys instruction from
80 to go Harvard professors.
General Alger at the close of the war
landed in Detroit without cent, and had
to borrow money to pay his board bill At
present he owns POO square miles of pine
land in Michigan, and is reputed to be
worth 500, 900, 900.
The deepest well in the world is soon to
be dug in the environs of London 1t will
be nearly 1900 feet deep, and will be fur
nished with stairs and be illuminated The
object of the well is to enable students to
observe the various geological strata.
A case has Just been decided whereby
man who fell on an icy sidewalk at Fort
Edward, n Y, gets $42S4 damages The
costs and interest which the village will
have to pay bring the amount up to more
than $4,000.
Pasteur at his Paris institute has treated
1898 persons bitten by mad dogs in the
past three years, and only 80 have died.
The usual percentage of deaths among vic