Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-17

The discovery of irregularities i'm the
Canadian department of the interior. fol
lowing close upon the revelations of fraud
ulent transactions in the department of
public works, has caused big sensation at
Ottawa.
EN-Empress Eugene of France was stop
ping in small European town recently
when the census taker called She was
obliged to fill out the blank, and this is how
she described herself: marie Eugene.
countess of Pierrefond, "a years of age 4;
born in Grenada, Spain; naturalized in
France; widow: traveller"
Hannibal Hamlin wore to the very last
the full dress suit of black broadcloth with
expansive shirt front that formed in ante
bellum days the distinctive attire of public
men. 1t was the style of suit that Web
ster and Clay were always clad in when
they addressed the Senate, and it has sur
vived in a few isolated instances. of which
Hamlin was probably the most conspicuous.
just before canal boat was run into
and sunk in New York harbor the other
day, parrot on the craft cried out.
Look out there! Murder. Wen be
drowned. The cries were heard by the
captain and his family. and, running on
deck they had barely time to pick up the
parrot and few other pets and escape to a
vessel that was alongside.
\ city boy who went to spend few
weeks with his uncle. a LeomiSter Mass,
farmer, was instructed how to catch wood
chucks in steel trap for his amusement.
The first morning the boy brought up one
all right. The second morning he came into
the yard and called out: See here, Uncle,
l have got black and white one this time,
and it smells dreadful. 1t is awful pretty,
but can't stand it to drag it any longer
The boy changed his clothes in the barn
A company of Union and Confederate
veterans has been organized at Kansas
City, Mo-, to consist of 100 men, all at
least five feet ten inches tall, who shall be
equally divided i'm numbers between the
blue and the gray. The Union veterans
will wear blue slouch hats and blue Prince
Albert coats, while the confederate vet
Grams will wear gray garments of the same
cut and material. When marching the blue
and the gray uniform will alternate in every
rank, but over all will float one flag the
stars and stripes. This company, whose
captain is Union veteran, and whose lst
lieutenant is a Confederate veteran, pro
poses TO attend the Grand Army encamp-
ment III Detroit this summer, and when
1893 comes around to teach an "obiect les
SON. at the worlds fair in Chicago
On March 3, 1881, as he sat in the SEN
ate chamber for the last time as a senator,
Hannibal Hamlin wrote this to his son,
Gen. Charles Hamlin: ~ am sitting for
the last day in the Senate, and, my son, |
am happy man. You and others may
not comprehend it, but l feel it, and in the
language of the poet may say, This is the
day long have sought, Allan G. Thur
man, whose term expired at the same mo-
ment, sat down beside Mr.. Hamlin when
he was writing to his son and said: "Old
friend, feel just as you do" Then taking
sheet of paper the Democratic senator
from Ohio wrote as follows to his friends 5
son: 'My dear Mr.. Hamlin, l have not
the pleasure of your acquaintance, but /
have known your father for over 80 years
Like him. can say this is the last day of
my political life, and / am rejoiced to go
out of it in such good company and with
my personal friend of a generation. NY
sincere wish is that you may do honor to a
father so illustrious.n