Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22
IN GENER AL.

ing that there will be more chances to
make money in America during the next
five years than in any other section of the
globe.
DR.. Parkhurst declares that "Christian
fidelity means patriotism just as much as
it does piety; means being a good citizen
just as much as it does being good church
member
Margaret Nelson, an old woman who
lived near Independence, KY, recently,
feeling her end near, walked IL miles to an
undertaken, bought a cheap coffin and a
burial robe and carried them on her back
to her home. A week later she died.
Brooklyn people are discussing the size
of the new East river bridge which is
about to be constructed. They want it big
enough to accommodate larger traffic than
the present bridge, and so built as to per
init of street cars running over the struc-
ture.
The great charm of the queen of NADIA
gascar is said to be her unconventionality.
She cbews tobacco, drinks champagne
uses palm oil on her hair, wears $1,000
Worth costumes, at the same time going
barefooted, and is a member of the Ortho-
dox Congregational church.
Two prize rams in Pike county, Pa,
fought a duel to the death few days ago.
Their method of combat was to back off
from each other distance of 30 to 40 feet
and then run full tilt together, head to
head. Finally one ram dropped dead with
a completely smashed head.
The influence of forests in protecting the
water supply is well illustrated in the case
of Greece. In ancient days she possessed
800, 600 acres of forest. Today she has
hardly 1000, 900 acres, and the scarcity of
water and other injurious climatic effects
are traceable to the destruction of the trees.
The stupendous work of connecting the
Black sea with the Baltic by a canal of suf-
ficient depth to float the heaviest ironclads
of the Russian navy, is to be at once I'M
dertaken. The length will be about one
thousand miles, the estimated cost 200,
100000 rubles and the period Of construc-
ton about five years.
One of Switzerland's mountain lakes,
the Maerjelen See, at the foot of the Eggis-
horn, was completely emptied in one night
during the hot spell in September. The
lake was a mile long by a sixth of a mile
wide and $50 feet deep; the water prob
ably escaped through assures in the ice of
the neighboring glaciers.
In Australia, it is said the rabbits climb
walls-built at enormous expense, under
the delusion that they were "rabbit-proof'
and run up and hide in the numerous
hollow trees, as if they were opossums.
Tender of wet feet here, in Australia they
have overcome the prejudice, and take to
the water and swim across rivers like wa
ter rats.
1t will take five years and cost S11 900.
600 to pierce the Simplon, the Alpine pass
between Northern Italy and Switzerland.
Two parallel tunnels are proposed, - feet
apart, but connected at intervals of 225 feet.
They will be about l2i miles long each-a
third longer than the Mont Cents tunnel
and quarter longer than the ST. Gothard.
Work will begin is the spring.
The Philadelphia Press says that the full
extent of the trolley party infatuation
in that city and the number of persons who
have engaged in it is shown by the receipts
of the street railroad companies of that
city from that source up to oct. l, the total
sum being $4,000. The average amount
received from each participant is estimated
at 10 cents, and this would show 100000
persons who INDUCED in this amusement.
A very delicate and rare surgical oper-
alton was performed at the French hospi-
tai in San Francisco last week when part
OF mans spine was removed. The man
was suffering from a compression of the
spinal cord, received in an elevator acct
dent, which caused complete paralysis of
the lower part of the body. The surgeon.
removed the last dorsal and first lumbar
vertebr;e, in connection with the spinou.
processes. The operation was entirely
successful.
Something quite remarkable came into
the redemption division of the treasury al
Washington a short time ago. 1t was &
thin plate of silver about two feet long. into
the surface of which a $40 certificate haC
been pressed in such a manner as to incor
porate its substance actually with that OF
the metal. 1t was a brand new bill, and il
the process had been squeezed out to abou
twice its original size. Nevertheless it was
perfectly recognizable. \ statement &C
companied it TO the effect that workman
in silverware factory had dropped thu
bill accidentally upon the plate of silver a.
the latter was passing through a rolin!
machine. This explanation being salts
factory, fresh $40 certificate was returned
TO the loser.
The consumption of spruce in the man
utacture of paper pulp increases at the rate
of over hundred million logs year. Hall
of the spruce lumber in the United State.
has already been consumed. Where tn
future supplies are TO come from begins t
be serious problem. At this rate it viii
not be long before the somewhat Unite,
areas upon which the spruce grows will b.
entirely denuded. Other woods NAV b.
found to supply its place in pulp-making
though none so good has yet been discov
cred, but if not it will obviously becom,
necessary to seek fresh material abroad
Siberia, just being opened by the Trans
siberian railway, contains the creates
spruce forests in the world, and may il
time become the headquarters of the world
paper manufacture, but it is a question
how long even those immense solitude
would supply the ever-growing demand.
A fashionable audience in Paris recently
listened to lecture on chemistry by eel
ebrated chemist, which was illustrated b,
experiments. At the conclusion of tn
lecture a lady and gentleman who wer
among the first TO leave the hall ha,
reached the open air, when the lady caugh
her escort staring at her. what is tn
matter?" asked the madame, in surprise
pardon me, but you are quite bluer
The lady returned TO the hall and az
preached a mirror. She started back il
horror. The rouge upon her cheeks hat
been converted into beautiful blue by tn
chemical decomposition which had takel
place under the influence of the case
which had been generated during the lee
ture. The majority of the women in tn
audience had suffered in a similar manner
There were all sorts of colors-blue, vel