Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24
IN GEN ERAL.


ference.
The order of Reliable Fellowship. six
months endowment order with headuuart-
ers at Boston. has collapsed, and its presi-
dent j. Hollis Kenney, has left for parts
unknown with $1,000 of the funds.
The great treasury vault at Washington
covers more than quarter of an acre. and
is II feet deep. Recently there was 500
100000 in silver stored there-an amount
that weighed 1000 tons and would load 175
freight cars
In 1858 there was a sale of Madeira wine
in Paris, when a bottles were bought by
Rothschild for their weight in gold. The
wine was from the famous 1914 pipe of Ma
deira, which had lain at the bottom of the
sea for 36 years.
-Four boys of Birdseye, Ind, found an
old coat near the railroad, and began toss
ing it about and beating each other with
it. bank note slipped from beneath one
of the patches. The boys ripped the coat
to pieces, and out came STILL
Mr.. Robert Bonner of New York city
has celebrated his 3jth anniversary of turf
life. He has spent more than 5000, 600 for
horse flesh since his advent to the turf.
His reason for taking up that recreation is
that in 1856 his doctor advised him to drive
for his health
While the funeral of his wife was being
attended in the Methodist church of Tow
err Hill, near Shelbyville, ILL.,, Sunday. the
Rev. w. i. +. Corley suddenly fell from
his seat and died in few minutes The
/ funeral exercises were suspended ard Mr.
and Mrs. Corley were buried together.
1t is estimated that 90, OOO,OO ties. equiv
alent to more than 36j. 600. 600 cubic feet
of raw material, are used annually in rail
way repairs throughout the United States
From 13,0OO,OOO to 20,OO0OOO ties are sup
posed to be used annually in new railway
construction, making in the neighborhood
of SO,OO0,OO ties consumed each year. at a
cost of S30, 100000 to So. 100000.
Legal action involving hundreds of
/ thousands of dollars worth of property in
Augusta, Maine is soon to be brought.
James Howard was one of the original set
/ tiers of Augusta, and had grants of 1900
acres of land. This land covered what is
now the leading business section of Au-
glsta, and the suit TO recover its value is
brought by the heirs of the fourth and
fifth generation from the original Howard
Lyman Abbott tells how, when Phillips
Brooks graduated he went TO the then
president Of Harvard college to consult
with him respecting choice of profession
/ 1T is a good PLAN" said the president
blandly, sin attempting to decide this diff
ticult question. to lay aside at first the i'm
possible professions. For instance, in your
case, you never could become preacher
owing to the inpcdiment in your speech.
For the successful treatment of his wife
in a dangerous surgical operation perform
ed by Dr. Nicholson of Wiesbaden, Herr
Won Bonner. merchant of Hamburg. has
placed at the disposal of the authorities in
/ Hamburg, as a thank offering. the sum of
10000 600 marks. This money is to be cx-
pended in the erection of IA hospital in
Hamburg, in which DR.. Nicholson is to be
installed as chief physician.
Philadelphia is to have a clock which.
for size, will be one of the wonders of the
world. 1t is to be placed on the tower of
a public building now in course of cree
ton. The dial is to be - feet in diameter
The distance from the street to the centre
/ of the dial will be 35l feet. The bell is to
weigh between 10000 and 1000 pounds
The minute hand is to be II feet and the
/ hour-hand 9 feet in length, while the Ro-
man figures on the dial will measure , feet
inches in length.
There are said to be only three complete
collections of autographs of the sgners of
the Declaration of Independence in exist
ence. One of these belongs to DR.. Thorn
as Adds Emmett of Chicago. who is prrs-
dent of the Irish national federation of
America. The costliness of the autographs
is in the ratio of the obscurity of the sign
ers. One Of the least distinguished sign
erS was Thomas Lynch, Jr., of South Car
olina. Only three examples of his writing
are known, uninteresting business notes.
and for one of them DIR. Emmett paid over
5000.
They had great times the other day in
the quaint little village of Savoy, mp in the
Berkshire Hills. Last spring Farmer Dem
ing covered an immense snOwdrift with
hemlock boughs and sawduSt. and a few
days ago it was utilized in a monster maple
sugar 'eat" The snow was as clean and
white as when it fell, and generous quanti-
ties of the luscious b--we mean maple
. sugar-were served to every one at the low
price of p cents. Fun reigned supreme
and every one who has been present at
genuine New England sugar "eat" will re-
greet that he was not one of Farmer Dem
ing's guests the other day.
An engineer of the Southern Pacific rail
way, who has examined the change in the
channel of the Colorado river which is the
cause of the remarkable flood in the Colo
RADIO desert in southern California, saws
that, while the tracks of the Southern Pa
citic company are in no danger. it will be
impossible to stop the flow of water. In
his opinion the flood is permanent. Should
this prove to be the case the natural at
fractions of one of the greatest states in
the Union will be vastly increased. Great
inland lakes will be formed, and the moist
ure which they will supply ought to make
the desert bloom like the rose. Whether
there will be a change of temperature suf-
ticient to injure the tropical products of
the region, as some fear, the event only can
prove
"A feather in his cap signifying honor
and distinction, arose from the custom
prevalent among the ancient Syrans, and
perpetuated to this day among the various
savage or semi-civilized tribes of Asia and
America, of adding 4 new feather to their
/ headgear for every enemy slain. In the
days of chvalry the maiden knight received
his casque featherless, and won his pumes
as he had won his spurs. In a manuscript
written by Richard Iansard in 1898, and
preserved in the British museum, it is said
of the Hungarians that it had been an an
cient custom among them that none should
wear feather but he who had killed Turk
and to such only it was lawful to show the
number of feathers in their caps. In Scot
land and Wales it is still customary for the