Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-16
IN GENERAL.

Philadelphia is credited with having erect
Ell twelve thousand new buildings during
the past year at an expense of S26, 900, 900.
Blind Tom is dying of consumption, and
the S1OO, 900 which he earned by his skill as
pianist has mysteriousy disappeared leav-
ing him pauper inmate of lunatic asy-
lum.
During the past year about 254 farmers
in Franklin county have grown 122 acres
OF tobacco in / of the 2G towns In 1889.
i44 acres were grown
Among the largest sums paid out by the
pension agent in New York city are those
received by Mrs. George B. Mcclellan and
Mrs Ulysses S Grant. The former re-
ceives $4,000 annually and the latter 5000.
The golden poppy has been chosen as the
state flower of California by the floral So
clety of that state. 1t is of a deep orange
or golden hue, typifyng at once the orange
groves and the gold mines.
Senator Dolph of Oregon is tall, broad
shouldered and is nearly always dressed in
black frock suit He has a broad. high
forehead. clear gray eyes, straight nose,
while the lower part of his face is hidden in
long gray beard.
The Cunard steamship company has CON
tracted for the building of two new ocean
racers, which will make the VOYAGE he
tween New York and Queenstown in five
days and eight hours and New York and
Liverpool under six days The ships are
to be built on the Clyde, to cost s., O0O, 900
each, and TO be ready in 1892
The richest man in Prussia, according to
the tax estimate recently laid before the
Prussian Landtag, is Herr Krupp, "a citi-
zen of the district of dusseldorf" Herr
krupp, who is none other than the owner of
the great cannon factories, pays an annual
tax OF 1000 marks, or almost $40 600 on
an estimated income of 5000, 600 marks.
he rs the only representative in the tax
. lass numbered l2S
Sol Colson, negro, living near Hawkins
vile, Ga, went to sleep with dollar in his
mouth and swallowed it, but fortunately it
lodged in the oesOphagus Missing the dol
lar on awakening he first thought some one
had stolen it, hut was soon reminded by
the distress it was giving him that he had
swallowed it. He started for town post
haste, and was relieved of his trouble 6y a
doctor, whose breath he afterward almost
hugged out of his body in his relief aud
gratitude.
The Manufacturer : Record, of Baltimore.
Nd. publishes letters from manufacturers
IT, /
and Demmler, Pa, and BROOKLYN, n. Y.
who are either making tin plate or prepar-
ing to do so. When all are in full opera
tion their weekly output will be $50, 900
boxes. All believe that if no change is
made in the duties on tin and tin plate i'm
posed by the Mckinley bill, this country
will soon make all the tin plate it consumes
from American iron and tin at a price low
er than what has been paid for imported
plates,
new method of "annihilating" smoke
from boiler and other furnaces is now being
shown on the Thames Embankment, Lon
don, The method consists in drawing the
smoke from the smoke box by fan and de-
livering it into a box half filled with water.
BY means of "a rotary paddle the water is
churned up into spray, through which the
smoke passes The value of the carbon,
tar, ammonia and sulphuric acid ending in
smoke in London in one year is estimated
at $4,000, 900, and the new system is an
attempt 10 capture this value out of the at
mosphere.
The water-towers used by the city fire
departments are very simple in principle.
There is an iron tube so pivoted over one
end of truck that its top may be raised
To a height of go feet above the street
pavement Inc upper enu terminates in "A
nozzle. Connected with the bottom of the
pipe is very large hose From two to four
engines may be coupled 10 this hose. and
their united streams forced up through the
pipe and ont Of the nozzle The nozzle is
controlled by man on the truck, so that
solid two-and -one quarter inch stream may
be directed through the top windows of a
six story building with ease and certainty.
A curious story is told Of the method
used by the Princess Ghika, the sister Of
the Queen Of Servia, in the bringing up of
her hoy. She is passionately fond Of girls,
aud IN order Ia preserve the boys girlish
appearance beyond the years of babyhood,
where this is possible aud not unnatural,
the big lad Of nine or ten was running
about last summer in a German watering
place with flowing curls, low neck, short
pulled sleeves, and in fact, dressed ex
actly like a girl, and called by girls
name IL remains % be seen whether the
princelet turns out a namhy pamby' or
whether, by the Law Of reaction, he grows
up into rowdy viveur