Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06
IN GENERAL.

Toledo, Ohio, both on the ground of their
husbands cruelty. One was Mrs. Orrin
5. Written, and the other Mrs. Lillian
Phelps. Mrs. Written is Mrs. Phelps's
grandmother
A recent decision of the treasury depart
ment has practically ruled the word but
terine out of the English or American lam
guage by declaring that the packlng-h houses
should not use any title suggesting the
real article. Hereafter we must take our
oleomargarine straight.
The ''potato patch'' scheme worked
probably in New York city last season.
A total of 1873 acres of vacant lots, Temporal
rily loaned for the purpose and apportioned
among "a poor persons or families, yielded
$4,000 worth Of crops, the expenses being
only $500. A superintendent and two
assistants directed the labor of the planters
and tillers.
Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell, mother of
Charles Stewart Parnell, is now lying very
i'll at Trinity hospital In New York city.
She has never recovered from the effects
OF the murderous assault made upon her
last spring, but had made arrangements to
sail for Europe in November to visit her
children and live at Nice this winter. But
1t now seems unlikely that she will leave
the hospital alive.
Among the many queer happenings as
cribed to the earthquake, which shook up
the Middle states few weeks ago, is the
alteration in the flow of natural gas and oil
in several localities. In the Indiana gas
belt the supply was variously affected, in
creased in some places and decreased in
others. In the Pennsylvania oil fields there
was a marked increase in the yield of the
oil wells Immediately after the earthquake,
some of the wells having since the disturb
ance almost doubled their output.
The inmates of some of the county in
stitutions in Michigan are living high these
days, feasting on venison to their hearts
content. The game laws in that state pro-
vide that the license issued to hunter
shall have attached to it as many coupons
as he is permitted to kill deer, and a cou-
pom must be attached to every deer carcass.
When the officers find carcass without a
tag it is seized and sent to the county in
situations or distributed among the poor of
the nearest city. The slaughter of game in
the state this year is lamSntably great, and
the seizures of untagged venison by law
officers have been numerous.
The abundance and cheapness of Ameri-
can potatoes lend interest to the culture,
distribution and worlds supply of this ar
ticle of diet. The worlds average annual
potato crop for many years has been esti-
mated by experts, aided by official statis-
tics, at over 5000, 100000 bushels, exceed
ing the average annual crop of grain by
fully 750,000,000 bushels. In volume of
production the United States stands fifth
on the list of the five countries which are
the largest producers, and whose annual
average crops are estimated, in bushels, as
follows: Germany, $4,000, 900; Russia,
52l 900 600; France, 3S5, 900, 600; Austria,
2S5 100000; United States, 2OO,OOO,O 900.
A woman who CHANGED to be travelling
in the far West when the violinist Remenyi
was making professional tour through
that section relates this story of him: 1--WE
were in the same car and became very good
friends, indeed. One day Remenyi came
to me with a newspaper in his hand. He
had played some time before in Montana
town, and this was local papers account
of his performance, which he wished me
to read. 1t concluded with the words:
Can he play? Well we should snickern
He watched me anXiously while ran my
eyes over this. What does that mean@
he asked, timidly, in his broken English.
Does it mean that l pleased themY l
HldNOll aooulOd nun buob IL bhdG bhOl
were very much pleased indeed "
In his lecture in Philadelphia the other
evening Booker T. Washington told some
amusing and at the same time pathetic,
anecdotes illustrating the lamentable igno-
rance of his race in the South. The relig-
ious negroes, he said, were always dwelling
on beautiful mansions in heaven, with
golden slippers, in which to climb the
golden stairs, while they were perfectly
contented to live in log cabins and go bare
foot on earth. He said he had himself
visited log cabin home and seen an ele
CANT $14 clock on the mantel-piece, which
amounted to more than the combined value
of all the rest of the furniture, and not one
member of the family could tell o'clock
from II. The head of the family had been
induced by white mau to purchase the
clock on the installment plan.
On calm days the crew of the lightship
anchored three miles off the mouth of the
Columbia river, Ore, are able at ebbtide
to lower bucket over the side and bring
up water fresh enough for drinking pur-
poses. This fresh water spreads out over
the surface of the ocean in the shape of
fan, the apex being the mouth of the Co.
lumbia. 1t is only about two feet in
below that depth the water with which it
is filled is strong of ocean brine. There
are not many rivers in the world with
strength sufficient to send their waters so
far out to sea, the principal exception be-
ing the Amazon, which freshens the ocean
for 20 miles off its mouth, ships having
filed their casks with fresh water from
the Amazon when out of sight of land.
The following story, showing Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lees magnanimity, is told. Early
in the war, before he had proved his pre-
eminence as a general, he was severely
criticised on more than one occasion by a
certain Gen. Whiting. Whiting had stood
at the head of his class at West Point, and
was considered bright and capable man.
One day President Davis, wishing an Off
Ger for some important command, called
upon Gen. Lee for advice. "What do you
think of Whiting?" asked Davis. Lee
answered without hesitation, commencing
Whiting as one of the ablest men in the
army, well qualified in every way for even
the most responsible place. One of the
officers present was greatly surprised, and
at the first opportunity drew Lee aside.
"Don't you know what unkind things
Whiting has been saying about you?' he
inquired. Lees answer was of the best.
81 understood" he said, ''that the Presi-
dent desired to know my opinion of Whit
ng not Writings opinion of me-"
Few stranger examples of the dissipation
of money have been known than that of
Ancram Livingston, who died few days
ago in the Long Island state hospital in
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