Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-30

The best evidence that China has set her
face toward the morning is the appoint
ment, Just announced, of LII Hung Chang
as minister Of foreign affairs.
When a little daughter of Mrs. John
Kelly of Anderson, Ind, appeared at the
scot hG,,aa,' "a the sile. Of the house her
mother mistook her for cat ami threw
hot water over her, distguring her face for
life.
Lieut.. Peary's name will appear on the
future maps of the Arctic regions, the
great interior Of Greenland having been
named "Peary's land" The noted ex
plorer has "cut ice in that country and it
is fitting that his contributions to science
and geography should be thus recognized.
The revolt in the Philippines grows.
The Spanish are unable to make any great
Roadway against it. They are treating
their prisoners with fearful brutality and
this course is driving the rebels into furi-
Gus assaults and reprisals. This cruel
contest, added to the difficulties in Cuba,
makes Spain's future far from bright
Spain is having the utmost difficulty in
floating her new loan of $500, 100000. In
sheer desperation she is trying to persuade
Partisan financiers to take it at such dis
count that her returns from the loan would
be but Sl50,000,000. Spain's funded debt
is now 1000, 900, 900, while her floating
obligations are Sl70,000,000. She is on
the verge of bankruptcy. The struggle to
| hold Cuba has proved costly one, and
| Spain must soon surrender the island that
she has driven from her by continued
course of brutality.
A cathedral-like monument, go feet high,
has been erected at Gapland, Md, TO the
memory of the army correspondents dur
ing the war. The watchwords Listen"
and "Hasten" are cut on shields on the
large arch. Over the gable is a gold vane
of 1.-THE pen mightier than the sword" In
the middle of the gateway, on panels of red
brick, is carved "War Correspondents" in
| large letters, and in the rear, on two gray
stone tablets, are the names, Northern on
one side, Confederate on the other, thos e
of the former numbering LOG.
American people have seen fortunes melt
away in a night as the result of invest
ments in speculative stocks, but English
cousins have learned the Same lesson in a
more pronounced manner. A compilation
just made up in London shows that where
SO South African mining companies year
ago had total market or selling value, ap-
! plying NuOldllOno luCll CAlolCuI W bIlC az
gregate of outstanding shares, of S69S,
900, the current value of the same
companies is but $393, $50, 900, a decrease
of no less than S305, 900, 900, equivalent Il
As per cent.
Two oily-tOngued young men have re
Gently worked the sparsely settled portions
of Boothbay, Me-, with a new scheme
They sold what they declared to be ashes
tos lamp wicks for 10 cents each, declaring
them to be worth dollar, and that afte
their introduction that would be their price
They purchased of hat dealer 400 ha
pads at 25 cents hundred and sold thes
for asbestos wicks. They directed that tn
wlcks should be soaked in kerosene anC
camphOr for three days (until they skipped
and they would give brilliant light ant
last a life time. The swindlers cleare,
about $40 in three days.