Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
IN GENERAL.

A man doesn't generally get a bad repu-
tation without deserving 1t, but it sticks TO
him after he has ceased to deserve it.
Peters pence in France used to be 5000
900 francs year. In 1893 the sum con
tributed was 100000, and last year it
was less than 100000
As an indication of how the slave trade
survives in Africa, it is stated that last
summer a caravan of 10000 cames and
1000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco.
a firm in Palestine is said to be engaged
in supplying water from the river Jordan
to- both Catholic and Protestant churches.
1t is put up in bottles and sold by the case.
The rapid transit commission of New
York city has voted to 60 ahead and build
as much of the underground road as the
$4,000, 600 already allowed by law will
permit them to construct. There has been
an offer received to build the roads within
the $50 OOO,OOO limit.
Swedish post-ofiice statistics show that
Swedes in the United States sent TO rela-
tives at home through money orders an
average of over 81, 900, 600 year from 1888
down to 1895. This does not take into
account the sums sent by registered letter
and taken over by returning emigrants.
The great peril lurking in populism is
thus set forth by the Moody (TeXas) Cou-
rier: A few days ago a local Democrat
told Populist friend that the inevitable
law of supply and demand always affected
the price of cotton, and the Popuist said
they intended to repeal that law as soon
as the pops got into power.
NUo1tor Da.o,,4 l.. .,,4l,ou,t,. c,r 41,o e4oto
ment that there were 1915 new novels pub
lished last year. This estimate does not
include chidren's story books, and it shows
that Notwithstanding the worlds enormous
appetite for fiction, there is no danger that
the supply will not continue to equal the
demand. 1t also makes it clear that a great
many writer's of novels have other means
of getting living.
DR.. William X. Harper, president of the
University of Chicago, appears to possess
some of the characteristics of prodigy.
He entered Muskingum college, in Ohio,
at the tender age of 10, and graduated at
II. Then he went to Yale, and was only
- when he received his PHI d. from the
college-an age at which most students are
sophomores. DR.. Harper is now 80. The
university of which he is the head has an
endowment of S4,000,00O and has $780,
600 to spend this year.
At Willets Point, y. Y, the headquar-
tiers of the engineer corps of the army,
there have recently been conducted some
interesting experiments with the new army
rifle. One of the bullets, OF rather bolts,
was driven through As inches of pine, and
another imbedded itself in oak at a depth
of 30 inches. Iron plates tTo-thirds of an
inch thick were perforated with the great
est ease. If you feel like rioting, 60 home
when you see the regulars coming.
In the billiards which sweep across the
great plains of the Northwest the air is not
filled with snOwflakes, but with actual
needles Of ice, which sting painfully wher-
ever they strike the flesh Another phe-
nomenon peculiar to billiards is that the
wind seems to blow all ways at once, and,
whatever direction you may pursue. it is
always in your face. Such a thing as a
real blizzard is not known in the eastern
part of the United States. The so-called
blizzard of March, 1sSS, was not the true
article, but merely great storm.
The bill to establish the Gettysburg ma
/ tional park has passed both houses with
out opposition. 1t appropriates 100000
and authorizes the secretary of war to
purchase the 500 acres now held by the
/ Pennsylvania Memorial association, and to
acquire in all 3S74 acres, the area over
which the battle ragged. The park will be
under the supervision of commissioners
appointed by the secretary of war, and the
secretary is also directed to place on the
most suitable site a tablet containing a
likeness Of President Lincoln and the text
of his address on the battlefield, delivered
November 49, 1853.