Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
IN GEN ERAL.

at Chicago last week. trOtting a mile in
2.074.
The Hebrew journal makes the surpris-
ing statement that there are more Jews i'm
three of the wards in New York city than
in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.
DR.. Alexander Schadenberg, botanst,
recently discovered the largest flower on
record in the Philippine islands. 1t was
nearly a yard in diameter and weighed
more than % pounds
The youngest officer in the Union army
to wear the 'double stars was Gen. Pen
nypacker of Pennsylvania. He was a
colonel Of volunteers at 20 and a brevet
major general when but six months past
his 22d birthday
Palmer Cox, the artist, is bachelor,
tall and thin, with light hair and moustache.
He receives letters every day from children
who write about the Brownies and ask for
his autograph, and every one of these let
tiers Mr. Cox endeavors to answer with his
own hand.
Castle Garden, New York, the we'll
known depot of immigration, is to be trans
formed into an aquarium at a cost of $50,
600. There will be $50 tanks for smaller
fish and a special feature in the shape of
large pools or ponds for sharks and other
large, dangerous fish. 1t is expected that
the aquarium will be ready in the fall.
The rain-making companies of Kansas
were dealt a deadly blow by old Jupiter
Pluvius the other day For some time the
charlatans had been trying to break the
drouth at Council Grove. but on Monday
they gave it up. Thirty-siX hours later the
country was drenched with rain that eX-
tended over hundreds of square miles. At
Fort Scott the discontinue of the com
panies was equally humliating.
The London Lancet calls attention to
the rapid spread which railroad commune
cation may give to cholera in Europe in
comparison with the former long period
which it took that dread disease to travel
overland from India, Russia and other
places where it is prevalent. The danger
that cholera will permeate Europe is much
greater because of modern rapid transit.
The danger to the United States is made
greater by that fact.
Western papers are recounting the strange
case of a man who annually falls into a
trance which lasts several days and who,
while in that state. is able to describe
minutely the location of missing persons
and things We gather from the reports
that the fit is on him now. If this is true,
the Democratic national committee ought
to hire him forthwith to discover the
whereabouts of that Billion Dollar Con
gress issue which was going to sweep the
country like whirwind.-N. Y. Tribune.
"Sster Rose Gertrude otherwise Miss
A. Fowler, who left a comfortable home
in England to nurse the lepers on the is
land of MOlOkai, and whose praises were
sung by many tongue two or three years
ago, is now in San Francisco with her hus-
band, DR.. Lutz. Sister Rose is in excellent
health. She was married about yeaT
| ago. Both she and her husband have left
the Sandwich islands permanently and will
probably remain in San Francisco.
The arithmetic man of the Philadelphia
Press, starting with the fact that the com.
mon house fly lays four times during the
summer season, each time an average OF
so eggs, figures out the product of a single
! pair of flies in one season to he 1850, 320
| He further says il has been estimated that
| il each fly Matched should live to be -four
years of age the product at the end of that
time would form solid mass around the
earth, extending to a height of fifty miles
or about the estimated thickness of our at
mosphere.
A Denver paper relates an amusing epis
ode in the recent visit of a Presbyterian
| clergyman in that city. One day on tn,
! street he thought it would be fine thing
| to shoot his kodak at a Ute Squaw: bu
| when the squaw saw the kodak pointed
| toward her she thought she was being be
witched, and pulling a large knife from un
| der her dress she made a desperate lung,
| for the dominic. He saw what was com
ing, and dropped the kodak in his fright
and made a very undgnified dive for tn,
other side of the street. The squaw capt
ured the witch instrument, and after de
molishing it, replaced her knife with sat
isfactory grunt and marched triumphant,
away.
We are now told that tetanus, or lock- jaw
is caused by microbe which is especial,
numerous in certain localities. A yOun!
woman died of lock-jaw in New Yorl
hospital the other day, the disease results
ing from a silver which she ran through
her slipper into her great toe. |
was an unusual case, and DR.. Vedder, tn
house surgeon, sold it was due to the tetan
us microbe. 1t has long been an establish
ed scientific fact, he added, that the mi
crobes of tetanus are especially prolific il
the soil of the eastern end of Long Island
in the neighborhood of South Hampton
particularly. They have been investigate,
by the medical profession and their specie
clearly defined.
The nineteenth century, which has neal
ly closed, has witnessed the abolition O
slavery in Russia, the United States, Bra
iii and other sections of the civilized world
yet it still flOurishes with all its horrid &C
cessories in the Dark Continent. A lette
from Morocco to the secretary of the Brit
ish Anti-Slavery society relates that at tn
end of March last caravan of 1000 slaves
principally young girls and boys, arrive
at Tembouf from TimbuctOO. Aucti' n
were held daily, and the number of slave
was so great that they sold for low price
from $50 to so per head. During tn
feast of Ramadan the Kaids, who viste
Marakesh in order to present gifts to tn
sultan's son, believing that the most az
ceptable gift would be some of these youn
slaves, bought each of them three slay
girls and two boys for the purpose. Their
were 43 Kaids, and therefore this yOun
man, who is only Is years of age, receive
over 200 slaves. AS he is noted for HI
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