Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
MINOR NOTES.


The American soldiers at Manila who
could be spared from service on Tuesday
decorated the graves of their 900 comrades
who are buried there among the rice fields
at Battery Knoll. Groups of American
women were interspersed among the SOL
diers. The chaplain of the British cruiser
Powerful offered the invocation at the ex-
ercises. At Havana some American wo-
men strung the skeleton Of the Maine with
festoons Of laurel and flowers.
9The annual meeting of the American
Unitarian association on Tuesday in Trem-
ont Temple, Boston, was thrown into a
tumult by a resolution offered by Rev.
Charles G.. Ames of Boston calling on the
United States to abandon the Philippines.
Its reading was greeted with an outburst
of mingled Kisses, cheers, and cries of
"No, Mo- The document was used to
stop a hole or in other words it was not
reported by the committee on resolutions.
The Duke and Duchess of ARGOS landed
in New York from the steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse on Tuesday. The
Duke is Spain's new minister to the Unit
ed States. His wife, the Duchess, is an
American. Her maiden name was Miss
Virginia Lowery. The two first met in
Washington years ago when the Duke, be-
fore he reached that title, was an attache
of the Spanish legation.
Queen Victoria's birthday was celebrated
at Kingston, Ont, last week with dem
onstration in which many Americans from
nearby New York cities and towns joined
and there were companies of American
militia and naval cadets to swell the num-
bers IL the days grand parade. Mayor
Ryan Of Kingston welcomed the cadets in
speech in which he expressed heartfelt
rejoicing over the fact that recent events
have shown to the world how strong is the
love and fraternal feeling existing between
the British nation and the great neghbor-
ing republic" The report of the proceed
ings says that consul NJ H. Twitchell on
Tuesday night, on the arrival of the Wa
tertown company, rendered the following
toast, which 'speaks for itself :" Here's
to the civilized nations of the world; there
are but two of them"
The Central Vermont railway has issued
its 1899 edition of Summer Homes" for
the benefit of the summer tourists who are
seeking information in regard to summer
/ hotels and boarding houses in the numer-
/ Gus beautiful places among the Green
Mountains and on the shores of Lake
Champlain- To bring about the end for
which II was designed this handsome bro
chure was never better adapted than this
year. TypOgraPhcally it is a model, and
it is tillel with Interesting reading matter
profusely illusTated with excellent half
tone cuts of sO1ne OF the most picturesque
| scenery in the Green Mountain state, the
! Adirordacks snd eastern Canada. 1t con-
tains large list OF family homes, recon-
mended to health and pleasure seekers,
the SKINNER excursion rates to Lake Cham
pain, Adirondack, Thousand Islands, st,
Lawrence river and Canadian resorts, and
lis; of resorts which may be reached by
stage froU. Central Vermont railway sta
1 lions.
! The action Of the Tufts college author
1 tiles in granting a leave OF absence of a
4 year to Prof. William K. -Shipman, who
hGo been in continues service SO years
AMI wbo has held the oh air of rhetoric
longer .han any other professor in New
England, serves to recall the fact that
Prof. ShipmSl was once'e prominent edu-
Gator in vermont. After his graduation
from Nidd.soury oS.lege in 1859 he took
charge of the Green Melntan Institute
! in Woodstock where hespent four wears,
restoring to the school,G large measure of
| i;s ole prosperity. lie especially desired
that school under the control of the Uni
NersaEst denomination should be the equal
/ of any in the state, and accordingly he
| took an active part in the emovement which
| resulted in the founding of Goddard SEM
/ mary Aliddlebury college conferred upon
| 6him the degree of A. NJ, in 1862, aud 20
gears later St. Lawrence university honor
cd him with the degree OF d. D.
Very cordial recognition is due to s1The
Protectionist," into which the Home Mar
! ket Buletin has been evolved in due course
| Ol uhNuIh4 scltCllOu TO- ten years the
Bulletin has been published in trade journ-
al size, but at a meeting held in April the
| directors Of the Home Market club gave
Col. Albert Clarke, the secretary of the
club and editor of the Bulletin, authority
to change to the magazine form, toward
which all periodical publications now tend.
The general plan and the arrangement of
all details were left to Col Clarke's train
ed newspaper judgment The result is
magazine convenient in form, handsome
geographically, and admirably edited.
The opening article is by Col Clarke, dis
cussing in sane and Illuminating way
the problem which the rapid formation of
trusts has thrust upon the country. An
other article still further discusses this
problem and quotes extensively from cur
rent newspaper opinion on the subject
No More Troops 20 BE Raised for the