Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-20
IN GENERAL.

metric system; it is to be used in the new
edition of the British Pharmacopeia
Final returns from the cotton-growing
states indicate a crop about two-thirds the
size of last years phenomenal crop, or
about 6,375, 900 bales of 500 pounds each.
Montana raised and sold something more
than 100000 worth of cattle this year.
The state has other resources than her
ranches and mines, too, for the value of
her agricultural products this year is esti-
mated at $12,000,000.
A suit has been brought in the Kansas
supreme court to test the power of the
state courts to enforce the death penalty.
Up to the present time the governors of
the state have in every case refused to sign
death warrant, and there are now AZ
murderers under sentence of death in the
penitentiary.
What will be the largest freight-carryiDg
steamer in the world is being built for the
New York service of the Hamburg Amer
lean line The steamer will have a dis
placement of 10000 tons and lightweight
carrying capacity of $4,000 tons. Her
length is $50 feet, beam 81 feet, depth of
hold AZ feet. She will be named the Penn
sylvania
A farmer living near Lincoln, Neb., &C
cidentally killed his eight-year-od daugh-
ter few days ago. He was trying to
catch refractory horse, and, becoming
angered, he threw a heavy club at the an
imal, but il flew wide of its mark and
struck the little girl on the side of the
head. When picked up she was uncon-
scious and died in half an hour.
After seventy years of married life to-
bor Mr. CpOwJan Eiiae aud his wife
Eliza of Sheperdstown, w. Va, died on the
same day, within few hours of each other,
last week. Mr. Files was 81 years old and
his wife was IS. Up to within year the
old man was in full possession of all his
faculties, and rode about the country on
spirited horses. Indeed, he broke several
colts when he was nearly 90 years old.
The perils of the railway are strikingly
shown in the annual report of the depart
ment of internal affairs of the state of
Pennsylvania. According to the figures,
it appears that on railroads operated by
steam in that state during the fiscal year
ending with June last, 1888 persons were
killed and 10,607 were injured. OF the
killed 447 were employees who met death
while engaged in the line of duty. The
passengers killed numbered only 20, and
the injured 612.
A young woman who is making a big
success of farming on large and varied
scale is one of the principal exhibitors in
the agricultural sections at the Atlanta
Exposition. She is Miss Annie Dennis of
| Talbotton, Ga, and is about % years old.
| She has a fine estate of about a thousand
acres, on which she has a stock farm, a
dairy, an extensive piggery, vineyard and
a canning and preserving establishment.
! She personally directs the work on the es-
tate, and has made a notable success in
every branch.
Although the proposed Paris exposition
in 1900 is accepted as a fixed fact in this
| country. il is far otherwise in France. where
so much opposition to the project exists
that there is great doubt whether the eX-
| hibition will be held. Only one member of
the committee appointed by the Chamber
of deputies to consider the project favors
| it unreservedly, while three are distinctly
hostile to it and five accept it only under
strict reservations. The French people,
who have had considerable experience with
such affairs, are quite generally impressed
with the idea that they "cost more than
they come to-" and no doubt they are right,
at least so far as the Paris exposition is
concerned. That city is the worlds great
show place all the time, and needs no extra
attractions.
The latest story of wondrous gold find
| in Alaska is of a lake whose bed is literally
paved deep with gold dust as ponds are
foored with mud. Hans Christian Pande,
a name suspciously near that of the great
teller of fairy stories, an old sea captain,
told the story of his find on his arrival in
Seattle a few days ago. The lake is 1000
yards long, 400 yards wide, and $50 feet
deep. 1t is fed by water from glacier,
and its only outlet is little stream two
feet deep, but of incredible swiftness. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Pande's theory, based on
assays of some sand from the shores and
bottom of the lake, the glacier has for CEN
turtles been bringing down gold from the
mountains and depositing it in the cup-like
basin of the lake. The assay showed IS
to $40 cubic yard and on this basis a man
could alone take out $4,000 year. Mr..
Pande proposes to blast out the side of the
lake, drain off the water, and dredge out
his gold.