Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-03-24
IN GENERAL.

MIS- LONtlOl hluIlCu VI DtdNllts W hhil.s
is a widow Of a soldier Of the Revolution
by her first marriage and Of soldier of
the war Of 1912 by her second marriage.
A botanlst says that in the northern
| part of Greenland the Arctic poppy forms
one Of the most beautiful features in the
| floral scenery. The flowers grow in i'm
mense sheets, giving a golden character to
the country, that would, it is said scarcely
be equalled by a large field Of buttercups
or dandelions. Pure white blossoms are
not infrequent among the yellow ones
The artesian water system is now being
/ largely used in Queensland. and some very
/ successful results have recently been OBJ
tanned On the Charlotte Plains run. near
| Cunnamulla, an enormous supply of water
| has been struck at depth Of 1S4S feet. 1t
/ is estimated that the supply is between
/ 1000. 900 and 1000 600 gallons daily. This
| is believed to be the greatest artesian sup
ply Of water vet struck in Australia.
The only living descendant of Christie
| pher Columbus, the duke Of Veragua Of
/ Spain. Is expected on the New York now
en- route from Southampton. When the
| dukes distinguished ancestor came over
the first time he was on the sea II days be-
| fore sighting land, but the duke spins
]
! course. comes over to represent the family
at the opening Of the Worlds Fair.
! During a cruise of the ships of our white
! fleet the guns are fired with full charges
! once a month. But it costs hundreds of
dollars to do this, and for purposes of drill
| between times a block is fitted into the
barrel of each large gun. This block is
| perforated with a bore not much larger
/ - a. L
| fridge through that costs only a cent. At
the same time, all the mechanism of the
| gun has to be used, as in firing heavy
charges, so that the sailors get the benefit
of the practice.
An amateur in astronomy thinks moth
| ing gives a more impressive practical idea
| of the immensely of the sun than to re-
member this fact: "If the earth were
| placed at the centre Of the sun, and the
moon should retain the same relative posi-
ton It now has, the distance from the earth
to the moon would be only a little more
than half the distance from the centre of
the sun to its circumference-tha is. the
entire orbit OF the moon, $50, 600 miles in
diameter, is not much more than half the
size Of the sun, which is over $50, 900 miles
in diameter"
The pew Of W. :. Bowen in st. Agnes's
| Roman Catholic church at Westminster.
Pa, has been restored 10 him, after six
/ years exclusion, under a decision by Mgr
Satolli that parents are not to be excluded
| from the sacraments of the church or
pews taken from them because they refuse
to send their children to the parOchial
schools. Mr.. Bowen had been disciplined
by the rector OF the church for such re-
fusal, and, failing in his appeal to Arch
bishop, Ryan Of Philadelphia. carried the
case to the papal delegate.
The Chinese Six companies of San Fran.
cisco have announced their intention to
fight the Geary law in the courts They
have issued a circular advising the Chi
nese not 10 register as the law requires, be-
cause the law is unconstitutional and
against treaty rights. They have raised a
considerable sum of money engaged coun-
sci and are ready to carry test case be-
fore the supreme court of the United
States as rapidly as possible The process
will probably be to ask for a writ of habeas
corpus for an unregistered Chinaman who
has been arrested, and ii it is denied ap-
peal TO the supreme court.
battered silver whistle used by the alb
olitionist John Brown, TO summon his fol-
lowers to secret meetings shortly before the
civil war is owned by a cousin of Colonel
Lewis Washington of Georgetown. d. c.
When Brown was arrested aud searched
he gave up everything else Willingly but
begged leave 10 retain this. OF course the
request was not granted. The whistle is
said to resemble in shape a long tad
pole with a dorsal fin extending the length
of its body. What corresponds 10 the tail
is a slender pipe through which a current
OF air is blown fiutewise across the hollow
bulb at the end, giving thin yet mellow
sound of peculiar timbre that is very pen
etrating. Residents OF Harper's Ferry
said after the capture that for weeks be
fore they had heard that whistle sound at
night without knowing its meaning. But
the negroes knew H. and for them il was
the engine whistle of the underground rail-
way.
4 woman was brought to one OF the
New York city hospitals some weeks ago
suffering from typhoid fever, but one fea-
ture of the case could not be accounted for
by the diagnosis of typhoid. The woman's
body was covered from head to foot with
small star-shaped figures. Each was COM
posed of a central spot no larger than a
pin head, surrounded by five other spots of
the same size at regular distances from
each other. Such species of skin diease
had never before come under the Observa-
ton of the hospital staff, and there was
nothing to be found in the books which
would clear up this case. The woman
was too i'll to talk about it, and no light
was thrown on the the subject until the
patients mother came to the hospital to
see her. She was on old woman, born in
the Austrian Tyrol of peasant stock. She
explained how on the first day her daughter
was taken sick she had made the marks
which were still visible on her body, and
then rubbed her with kerosene as a pre-
ventive against fever. The instrument
used was a cork with five needles stuck in
| 10 it,
A Highly Accomplished Well.