Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-17

A Baltimore arithmetic man has figured
out that the total cost of solomon temple
including building materials labor, deco
rations, Jewels and vessels of gold and sill
yer was 1921, 6Gj, 1856 in United States
money. In other words the most gorgeous
of our modern churches and cathedrals are
not lin it" with Solomon.
The agricultural department of Cornell
university claims TO have made a discovery
which will save the cheese interests of the
Empire state nearly million dollars a
year. Ii has been found by the expert
mentors that butter fat can be extracted
from whey by running the latter through
separator, and bulletin is being prepared
explaining the process.
\ very convenient new invention is to
be added to the telephone service of Cleve-
land, Ohio. As soon as a person takes
down the annunciatOr a small electric lamp
is lighted on the switch board When the
person called responds another Jet is lighted
and the two remain distinct before the
OPERATOR eyes, and in this way he can
easily tell when the conversation is closed
The new system does away with the nui-
sance of ringing a bell to call central"
Petroleum is produced in commercial
quantities in AlsaCe-Lorraine Westphalia
| Wurtemberg and Galicia. not to mention
| Siberia and China, where il apparently
exists in unlimited abundance, New fields
are being disco yered all over the world,
each one of them bringing an increment to
the wealth OF mankind greater than if they
were so many rivers of Pactolus or mines
/ of Potosi. There is not much doubt that
/ the world contains enough of this sub
stance 10 supply the needs OF the present
| and future generations, and that as old
/ areas of production are exhausted, new
ones will appear to take their place.
| One of the strangest collins ever told OF
/ is that for which the British war depart
ment is said 10 be responsible The story
/ is that a workman engaged in casting
metal for the manufacture of ordnance AT
! the Woolwich arsenal lost his balance and
fell into a caldron containing l. tons OF
molten steel The metal was at white
heat, and the man was utterly consumed in
less time than ii takes to tell OF it. The
war department authorities held a confer
ence and decided not to profane the dead
by using the metal in the manufacture OF
ordnance, and that mass of metal was
actually buried and a Church OF England
clergyman read the service for the dead over
il.
Many suppose the interior of Labrador
to be barren country, little less desolatt
than the Arctic regions, and entirely unf
for habitation But Mr.. Low of the Cana
dian geological survey, who recently Re
turned from prolonged exploration
through that region, proves this idea TO bt
erroneous. Flora almost identical witt
that OF northern Quebec is abundant Trees
of great size cover the country for miles il
almost unbroken and nearly impenetrat
able forests The rivers and lakes al,
filled with lake trout, white fish, land
locked salmon, and other valuable fooC
{ fishes. Deposits of rare and valuable ore
were also discovered. This report is quit,
/ likely to lead @ Labrador being opened VI
to settlement beyond the present colonie
: | on the shore line