Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-22
NO. 81.
IN GEN ERAL.


new volume of poems. He still lives on
the Isle St. Louis, in Paris, and manfests
no desire to return to this country.
Rich Miss Octavia Hill buys up lot of
London shanties every year, renovates, inn
proves and cleanses them, and lets them to
picked tenants This is her idea of practi-
cal reform.
+. L. Dickerson of Grand Rapids, Mich,
claiming to be champion lather of America,
is i'm Chicago. He laid 70 bunches-3500
laths, requiring 1900 nails-in eight hours
and thirty-eight minutes, in Grand Rapids
last October. He is now prepared to work
against the record of any living man.
The historic old log cabin in st. Louis
county, Missouri, which Gen. Grant erected
with his own hands and with logs cut and
hewn by himself, is about to be removed
! from its present site, and shipped to Chi
cago, where it will be re-erected for exhibit
! ton at the Worlds fair
The Ansonia. Conn, Sentinel tells of a
curiosity that was found in Charles Woos-
ter's quarry recently. 1t is the relic of
common toad, and the only portion remain
ing is the outside skin, the interior organs
and every particle of flesh having mysteri-
ously disappeared, while the skin remains
| perfect in form, apparently filled with air.
The toad is perfectly transparent.
The total fire loss throughout the coun-
! try for 1890 is estimated at S10S, 100000,
as compared with S144, 100000 in 1889.
For loss by fire there is really no compen-
sation, as insurance merely distributes the
tax and it is one of the most convincing
proofs of the energy of the American peo-
pie that they should be able to stand up
| against such drain on their resources.
;o mot n IL, s,fr &,
county, Ind, nor within six miles of it. Nash
ville the county seat, has 400 inhabitants,
and only one brick structure the court
house. The Jail il built of logs. The
county has not sent any one to the peni-
tentiary for several years, and there is not
a saloon within its limits.
Gen. Francis E. Spnners will provides
that a sum shall be reserved from his es-
tate for the erection of a suitable monu-
ment, to be placed in the Mohawk ceme-
terry. 1t also directs that on one side of
| the monument shall be cut in raised letters
a fac simile of his signature, with the date
of his birth and death.
The most practical method of putting up
family supply of eggs for winter use is to
take a box of suitable size and fasten the
bottom on with creased screws; put in a
| layer of salt and a layer of eggs on top;
another layer of salt and so on until the
box is filled and the eggs completely cover
ed and surrounded with salt. The eggs
should be fresh and not touch each other
Keep in a dry place and as cool as possible.
When wanted for use take off the bottom
and use the oldest eggs first.
The highest place in the world regularly
inhabited is stated to be the Buddhist mo-
mastery Halne, in Thibet, which is about
| 10000 feet above sea level. The next high
est is Galera, railway station in Peru,
which is located at a height of II, ,635 feet.
/ Near it, at the same level, a railway tun-
mel 3S47 feet in length is being driven
through the mountains. The elevation of
the city of Potosi, in Bolivia, is 1880
feet; Cuzco, Peru, 1850 feet; La PaZ,
Bolivia, 10,SS3 feet; and Leadville, Colo,
| l0,200 feet.
The longest bridge in the world is the
! Lion bridge near Sangang, in China. 1t
extends Ia miles over an area of the Yel-
low sea and is supported by 300 huge stone
arches. The roadway is 20 feet above the
water and is enclosed in an iron network.
! A marble lion u feet long rests on the
crown of every pillar. The bridge was
built at the command of the Emperor
Kieng Long, who abdicated in 1896 on
account of old age.
Numerous complaints against the street
cleaning department of Cincinnati, Ohio,
have been made during the past year, but
affairs reached a crisis in Wade street few
days ago. A woman suddenly appeared in
| the street and waved broom. 1t was the
signal, and instantly, for squares, women
and children swamed out with brooms,
hoes, rakes and wheelbarrows. In a
moment the air was full of dust, and the
work was pushed vigorously. In an hour
all was ready for the city carts. Not salts
fled with cleaning the street, the women
took a hand at the sewers. Later in the
day the board of aldermen appropriated
| $4,000 for special street-cleaning purposes.
At a well-attended Quakers' meeting in
Philadelphia recently, the 19th-century pace
at which the younger Quaker element
seems to be travelling formed the chief topic
of discussion. Many of the speakers de-
plored in strong language, the frivolity at
tending the young lambs of the flock in
their daily walks of life. As an evidence
of the path along which many were drift
ing, one speaker regretted that Quaker
colleges deemed it necessary that music
should be taught. The study of Shakes
peare called forth denunCation in the most
vigorous language.
A Liverpool steamer recently landed at
Halifax 800 steerage passengers, bound for
the United States, which they knew they
could not enter without being subjected to
inspection or head tax. 1t is officially re-
ported by treasury agent stationed near
the Canadian border that between 10000
and 10000 European immigrants have en-
tered the United States through Canada
thus far this year, and that among them
were hundreds of ''undesirables," who,
if they had come by steamship to New York
or any other American seaport, would have
been debaTed under the new immigration
law
A New York letter to the Philadelphia
Press, describing several metropolitan cler-
gymen, relates how on one occasion DIR.
Rainsford forcibly elected muscular, strap
ping fellow who persisted in disturbing one
of his meetings after being duly cautioned.
A few minutes later the bully returned, and
following him was another strapping big
fellow, who Dr. Rainsford supposed was
companion. The rector said to himself,
snow l shall have a circus; l shall have to
put them both out" The second bully began
to make trouble at once, and Mr.. Rainsford
went to him and commanded him to behave
himself or leave. He, too, was insolent,
and the minister was about to attack him,
keeping one eye fixed on the other man,
when, of a sudden, the first rowdy arose and
Tlarinu unOO tha second one said HSOV