Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-06-19
IN GEN ERAL.

HdlStSl VII IttuIu'
A. b. Cleary, an employe of the Middle
sex railroad company of Boston, has been
a horse car conductor for over quarter of
a century during which time he has travel
ell 400, 600 miles, carried 100000 people
and turned Sl50000 over to his employees
The shipment of shoes by export from
the United States during the fiscal year
1890 were nearly 600 600 pairs. valued at
! S663, 900. About nine-tenths of this vol
ume were sold in Spanish America. Shoes
for Cuba and those countries requiring
pronounced curve to the ball and highly
arched instep are now made by machinery.
'Of our % presidents" says Mr.. Sheldon
i'm the New Highlander, "15 were college ed
ucated: Is out of % vice presidents have
| been college men; - of our b secretaries
of state, and y ont of 81 secretaries of the
treasury were college-bred men. The COM
parative number of college men holding Of
flee under the government is decreasing
An oil well sunk at Wheeling, w. Va.
is down 1000 feet and it is the intention to
| put 1t down to the depth of a mile. which
will make il the deepest well in the world
An accurate record will be kept of the stra-
ia through which the drill passes and of
the temperature. Government officers will
attend the drilling of the well to make these
observations.
The record of thieving in places of trust
for the year to June ! is given as embrac-
| ing the names of 1850 men and the sum of
! 81, 240.0O0. May was a particularly bad
month, furnishing no less than S2,370, 600,
or more than one-haf of the total stealings
of the five months But the statisticians
would doubtless bid us find comfort in the
fact that there is more money to steal and
more men to steal it now than ever before.
DIR. VIM. Seward Webb. it is announced.
has bought 81. 600 acres of land besides the
1000 recently secured for his private park
i'm the Adirondacks. The whole amount
was obtained at about - or So an acre.
and includes several lakes. As a safe
guard against forest fires. belt 1OO feet
wide will be completely cleared all around
the 77,O0O-acre tract and it will be care
fully fenced The remainder will be open
to the use of the sporting public, probably
on certain conditions.
The Ii graves of mound builders which
were uncovered at Fort Ancient O.. recent
ly. contained the skeletons of II men. one
woman and four children, five of them be-
ing well preserved These graves will be
reconstructed at the worlds fair in Chicago
without any covering of earth over the
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hut five feet and two inches in hight al
though one measured six feet and two
inches Fort Ancient was the greatest of
the earthworks of the mound builders.
\ year and a half ago Clarence J. Hunt
of Worcester brakeman on the Boston
and Providence roaI. rescued a woman
who had fallen under moving car and
probably saved her life. She thanked him
profusely and took his name and address.
The woman was Mrs. Mark Hopkins
Searle. Later Mr.. Hunt met Mr.. Searle
on the train on which he was braking As
a result Mr. Hunt has lately come into
possession of grocery store in Methuen. a
suburb of Lawrence. with horses, wagons
and all the other things necessary. and
furnished house, the gift of Mr.. and Mrs.
Scarlc. Besides this Mr. Searle, who owns
a great deal of property in Methucn, has
put Mr.. Hunt in charge of it.
\ correspondent writes to the Seattle
Post lntelligencer: "ln the matter of the
sale of poisons by druggists the method
adopted by a friend of mine many years
ago. and which | had the pleasure to rec
ommend to the legislature of Georgia. when
considering a bill of this character. will
make the law absolutely perfect. The law
as to cOlored papers and labels and the
word Poison is all very well for persons
who can read, and in daylight, but if the
present law were amended to make it OBJ
ligatory that every druggist should put poi
son in a thrce-conered bottle (the cost is
no greater), be the same pill potion or
powder, and you have an absolute safe
guard, day or night read or no read.
The breaking of a coupling link on a
float carrying ten cars of the New Haven
] .,ip Ia.
York in October last threw Owen Sweeney.
brakeman on the last car into the river
4 car followed and struck him on the back.
inhicting injuries by which he is perma-
nently crippled. He sued the company
for $50. 600, and got verdict for $4,000
The company considered the amount eX-
ceSsive and moved for new trial. The
second trial ended in the superior court at
New York recently. with verdict for the
plaintiff for $4,000, one of the heaviest
verdicts ever given by jury in personal
damage suit in New York. One of the
jurors was negro.
Lieut.. Schwatkas stories about finding
the mosquitoes in Alaska a terrible nui-
sance are confirmed by f. Hazard Wells.
the chief of the Arkell expedition. who
has just returned from our northern pos
session. Mr.. Wells and his party came
2 near starving in the summer because all
game had left the low lands of the interior
for range of gigantic mountains to the
north. Caribou, for instance, are driven
/ into high attitudes to avoid the mosquitoes.
= Concerning the killing of bears by these
5 insects, Mr.. Wells is now prepared to vouch
1 for the fact. They settle around the eyes
of the poor brutes and cause Inflammation,
which is followed by blindness. The bear
then either dies of starvation or the inham-
? nation extends to the brain"
e DIR. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur institute,
New York, is treating woman who came
e from Corenna, Mich. The manner in which
the patient received her wound badly Ia
cerated finger, is novel. Her husband was
| the owner of large dog. About three
T. months ago this dog was bitten by a stroll
t ing mOngrel, who was undoubtedly rabid
and in turn inserted his teeth i'm the flesh OF
S a goose, pig and several cows. The pig
4 and cows died from hydrophObia. The
4 goose soon evinced signs of sickness and
I refused to eat. The woman did not know
e that the goose had been bitten, and could
r not understand the cause of its ailment
\ Thinking something had struck in the
s goOse's throat, she inserted her finger t
remove the obstacle. The goose closed it,
teeth upon the woman's finger, and wher
! she released it the digit was badly lacerated
Her husband advised her to 90 to New ORR
| to receive treatment.