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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15
SmunUleru Fooled.

Even Saxon courtesy may be carried
a little too far. When about to return
from a Bohemian village 10 frontier
town in Saxony, the occupants Of
sledge had their foot-warmers carefully
rinsed out and replenished with full
bodied Hungarian wine. Thus they
passed the guard post without let or
hindrance to the merry jingling Of the
sleigh bells. Laughing and joking at
the success of their little dodge. they
called at wayside inn for refresh
ments. On resuming their seats one Of
the party exclaimed:
"Why, the foot-warmers are quite
hot!"
Then the boots Of the inn stepped
forward and said, with trierG,y grin:
"The foot-warmers were quite cold,
gentlemen, SO, just tc oblige you, I
emptied them and filled them again
with hot water"
Jackson-''Wel1, what did your wife
say to you when you got home 80 late
last night? You know you were afraid
she'd scold."
Fairleigh-"My wife's jewel. She
didn't scold bit. In fact, she didn't
even ask me where had been or what
had delayed me; but, late as it was.
she sat down at the piano and began
to play and sing. tell you she's one
In ten thousand"
Jackson-''What did she sing?"
Fairleigh-" Tell me the old. old
story"
The townsman might endure the heat,
Nor as terror rank it,
n 'twere not for the folk who dwell
In rural haunts and blandly tell
OF sleeping meath a blanket.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

Austl aha.
The whistling buoy can be heard
about fifteen miles.
German school boys study harder
and play less than those Of any other
country.
Pious Russians do not eat pigeons
because of the sanctity conferred on
the dove in the Scriptures.
A perfectly formed face Is one-third
forehead, one-third nose, and one-third
upper and lower chin.
The entire collection Of coins and
medals in the British Museum consists
of nearly 250,000 specimens.
Ostrich tanning is a very profitable
industry in Africa; here 1t Is computed
there are over 10000 tame birds.
New Zealand has twenty-five estab-
lishments for freezing meats for Eu-
ropean markets. They can handle
4,O00O00 sheep a year.
The title of Majesty" was first CIV
en- to Lewis XI of France. Before that
time sovereigns were usually styled
"highness."
The nests of the termites, or white
ant, are, proportional to the size and
weight of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
In India there is q species of butter
fly In which the male has the left
wing yellow and the right one red.
The colors Of the female are exactly
opposite.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

A perfectly formed face Is one-third
forehead, one-third nose, and one-third
upper and lower chin.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

The value OF the gold and silver pro-
duced in Oregon during the calendar
year 1897 was 81 1854, 500. .43 and $780,
963.68, respectively. Corresponding
values for the year 1896 were $780,.
963.68 and 71,811.37.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

A physician who has been studying the
effect of liquor on the voice states
that none OF the great singers has
ever been teetotalers. Wine taken In
moderation, he believes. Is useful for
the voice, but beer thickens 1t and
makes 1t cultural.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

The entire collection OF coins and
medals in the British Museum consists
of nearly 250,000 specimens.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

OF twenty-five countries nineteen have
flags with red in them, the list in
Guiding the United States, England,
France, Germany, Austria. Italy,
Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, Chill.
Portugal, Venezuela and Cuba.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

The nests of the termites, or white
ant, are, proportional to the size and
weight Of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

The $4,000 in subscriptions needed to
secure an appropriation OF like
amount by the Georgia legislature, to
establish a textile department in
connection with the State School Of
Technology at Atlanta, has been OBJ
tained.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

Ostrich tanning is very profitable
industry in Africa; here 1t Is computed
there are over $50 900 tame birds.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

The title of Majesty" was first CIV
en- to Lewis XI of France. Before that
time sovereigns were usually styled
"highness."
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15
The townsman might endure the heat.

Nor as terror rank 1t,
II 'twere not for the folk who dwell
In rural haunts and blandly tell
OF sleeping meath a blanket.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-02-15

New Zealand has twenty-five estab-
lishments for freezing meats for Eu-
ropean markets. They can handle
100000 sheep year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
For Collector of Customs.

There does not apear to be any rea
son why the Hon. Olin Merrill should
not be reappointed collector of Gus.
toms for the district of Vermont. In
the first place, his retention would
be consistent with the formally an
nounced policy of the President; SO
the first considerations of national pol
itics would be satisfactorily met. In
the second place, his retention would
be in accordance with the oft-repeated
argument of previous incumbents OF
office who have sought the same op
portunity to stay in the service. And
in the third place land practically
this is the best reason of alb. Mr.
Merrill appears to be discharging his
duties to the general satisfaction OF
the government and the public and
therefore, the reason for a change is
not apparent.
The Messenger is glad to believe
that there will be no change in the
office. Certainly there does not ap
pear to be ANY occasion for any so far
as Mr.. Merrill himself is concerned
and, without disparagement of the per
sonal character of Gen. T. S. Peck, II
is not readily to be expected that the
change would be made merely to seat
him at the collectors desk. General
Peck has been in Office for a great
many years. and friends by the score
have not hesitated to say that his can.
didacy just at this time is impolitic
to say the least.-[St. Adams Messen.
ger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

Horace ]. Hayden 62, second vice
president of the New York Central
railroad was instantly killed Friday at
his home on West 10th street in New
York by falling from a fourth story
window which he had opened to get
fresh air. He had suffered
from dizziness and nervous pros.
tration and it is supposed that
he fell in faint through the
open window to the pavement.
Five little cockleshells of the navy
are to travel more than 1900 miles to
the Philippines. The flagship of this
mosquito fleet will be the gunboat An
napolis, and her consorts will be the
gunboat Vicksburg, the converted
yacht Frolic, and the tugboatsl
| Wompatuck and Piscataqua.
Arthur Weir, author of The Snow
| flake and other poems, and one of
! Carada's leading poets, whose parody
on Our Lady of the Shows" brought
! him a pleasing letter from Rudyard
! Kipling, called his wife into his room
! Monday. and, taking up a pistol, blew
| his brains out in her presence. 1t is
! believed that the cause of the suicide
was a keen sense of the family dis
grace caused by the recent imprison-
ment in Montreal of his aged father
for irregularities in the bank Of which
he was president.
Gen. Chafee wrote a letter to Count
Won Waldersee," says the Pekin cor
respondent of rhe London Post, com
planning of the removal by French
and German troops of the astronomi-
cal instruments from the wall of Pc
kin, but the letter was returned to him
on account of its tone. He has no
titled the foreign ENJOYS that all per-
sons are prohibited passing the Ameri-
can guard on entering the south gate
of the palace. owing 10 the frequent
cases of looting. The ministers are
offended at this individual assumption
of authority.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
A Young Vermonter at the Head Of the
Naval Committee.

The House committee on naval af-
fairs complimented the acting chair
man of the committee, Representative
George E. Foss of Illinois. by unani-
mously selecting him to the important
craftsmanship of that committee, made
vacant by the recent resignation of
Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine. Mr.. Foss has
been member OF Congress since 1895
and has been closely identified with
the work of the committee on naval
affairs since he has been in the House.
He introduced the bill to reorganize
the navy, in the 55th Congress. In ev-
cry way he has the cofidence of Secre-
tary Long and the President.
Mr.. Foss is a Vermonter, born in
Berkshire, Franklin county, 81 years
ago. Much of his early life was spent
in st. Adams and he attended the st.
Adams academy. He graduated from
Harvard college in 1885, studied law in
Columbia university in New York, and
then went to Chicago, where he gradu
ated from the Union college school
of law in 1889 and was at once admit
ted to the bar.
Mr.. Foss is a phenomenal worker
and in the past five years has devoted
more time to the study of warship ere
alton and other naval affairs than any
man in public life. He has become
familiar with the red tape of the navy
department, has visited all of the nava
stations Of the country, and also the
big ship building plants of Europe
He perfected the important navy per
sonnet bill, and carried through Con
gress last spring the largest naval bill
ever passed, although violently oppos
ed by Chairman Cannon of the appro
priations committee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
pIfferenee in EarnIna CAPACITY

For the past two years there has
been an average of $50 prisoners in
the house of correction at Rutland and
they earned for the state $500 per
year while the gross expenses of the
institution were $4,000 per year. For
the past two years there has been an
average of 142 prisoners in the state
prison at Windsor and they earned
for the state $4,000 a year, or more
than the cost of the institution. In
the first case the prisoners earned
$50 year; in the second they earned
5000 each.
The Vermont Marble company is
building a new mill at Center Rutland
to replace the old Ripley mill, which
was burned last February. The new
mill will be 275 feet long and go feet
wide, and will have % gangs of saws,
all on one side of the building. There
are 100 men at work on the mill end
they have the foudation almost COM
pleted.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
a SHEER AT VERMONT.
Boston Traveller

Says the Boston Traveller
when Vermont is cut off from
communication with the outside
world, by reason of snow. it is com.
forting to reflect that the outside
world isn't losing very much"
This Is funny. This is wit; Attic
wit: wit that eXddes from an attic
bedroom and twenty-one meal tickets
for $3.50. This was doubtless written
by a young man and written because
II would make six lines of type. The
man who perpetrated this probably
never saw Vermont 1t would be
ridiculous to fly in passion over such
insignificant paragraph, but there is
food for reflection in the fact that men
who write this kind OF stun in cities
like Boston scarcely reckon Vermont
newspaper man as a creditable repre-
sentative of the profession. II is the
cult among his genus to indulge the
fond Imagination that Vermont and
Nermonters hold to modern newspa.
perdom that same attitude that the
frozen north and lac Hyperboreans did
to Herodotus. Any old thing could be
fathered upon them in case of doubt
The young man of the Traveller is
| cordially invited to come up to Yer
| mont and see COW. He is also re-
minded, gently but firmly, that older
and wiser men, men who have had
some experience and have broadened
out beyond the bamboo cane they first
| carried, will tell him that while Yer
mont is not a great state, in area or
resource, population or wealth. it is
none the less a very stable old COM
| monwealth, has a history as exciting
and as glorious as the tale of Scot
fish Chiefs" and, in proportion to her
population, has contributed as many
distinguished men to the service OF
the nation as any of her New England
sisters. The young man of the Trav.
eller has much to learn. Smart
ness" is not wit. Gratuitous insults
to neighboring people, lugged in
merely to make an alleged Joke and
help fill a column, may be Jour.
nalism" in Boston, but II is of a class
that even the most intensely rural
weekly would not recognize. The
young man of the Traveller is invited
to read the recently expressed opinion
of the New York Sun on Vermont and
Vermonters.
One of the beauties Of Vermont's at
titude toward the nation is that she
makes no boasts, is not self-assertive
IS seriously conscious of her limited
resources OF men and money, but at
the same time there emanates from
her old green hills a steady influence
upon the career of the nation that
ranges from the deeds of Ethan Allen
to the achievement of George Dewey
and embraces a century and a quarter
of glory.-[St. Adams Messenger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Noted Woman Physician.

DR.. Sarah E. Sherman, So, who died
in Salem, Mass, Friday was a Yer
monter, her native town being Fays-
ton. She was educated in Vermont
schools, and then taught schools in
this state and in Massachusetts. She
began her studies for medical work
with DR.. d. ID. Whittier in Fitchburg,
and graduated from the Boston Uni
versity medical school in 1876. She
had been in active practice in Salem
since then and had attained distinction
in her profession. She helped form
the Salem Woman's club and was it's
first president She was a member
of the Salem school board three years.
At the time of her death she was lee
turer on anatomy and physiology in
Emerson college of oratory in Boston,
and also a trustee of Boston Univer-
sity. She was prominent in several
societies in Massachusetts and at one
time was president of the Massachu.
sets Surgical society
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

There has been noted in a copy of
The Bookman a portrait and sketch
of Francis Fisher Brown. born in
South Halifax in 1S43. He learned
the printers trade in Chicopee. left
school to enlist in the Civil war
studied law at the University of Mich
igan and afterward devoted himself to
journalism as a profession. He
founded "The Dial" in 1880. and has
been editor of other periodicals. be-
sides writing books of which The
Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln is
one and others are volumes of stand
ard verse. and this versatile son of
Vermont was chairman of committee
on Congress of authors at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form Of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-ROot is not rec
ommendedfo for everything but If you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble It will be found
just the remedy you need. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out If you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and EYF
send your address to 6saTilEsys5k s..a%sss
DR.. Kimer & Co., Bng- n
hamton, N. Y. The ==]sSssisls 1sll.ss. ZEE Espl
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-ROOt
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
VERMONT NEWS.
VILLAGE SUED FOR $4,000.

Arson H. stebbbins Alleged to Have
Been Killed by Electricity from the
Plant in Mortified.
On papers issued by the Washington
county court the Incorporated village
of Mortified was sued Saturday for
$4,000 by Edward l.. Glynn of Berlin
as administrator for the benefit of Mrs.
Carrie Hayes Stebbins. The suit is
based largely on the allegation that by
reason of the negligence and unskill-
fulness of the village and it's agents
and employees, Arson Hayes Steb-
bins, was killed on he evening Of Feb.
IL by an electric current.
The village of Mortified owns and
conducts an electric plant, lights it's
own streets and furnishes electricity
to illuminate stores, public buildings
and residences. Among the users was
Mrs. Stebbins, in her residence and
barn adjoining. Her son had been
drawing wood. After hauling in the
last load he put his horse in the barn.
Noticing something peculiar on one of
the horses feet, he seized an electric
lamp which was suspended by a cord,
and swung it around that he might
have light to examine the foot. Hold
ing the lamp il one hand, he stretched
out the other and'touched the wet leg
of the horse.
He died instantly. A physician
gave electricity as the cause of death.
The superintendent of the electric
light station at that time stated there
was nothing he matter with the lamps
and wiring. Mrs. Stebbins claimed
that he was mistaken in his assertion
was nothing the matter with the lamps
feet mystifed some individuals, who
supposed those articles to be non-con.
ductive of electricity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Draws Salary of $4,000 Annually

Dan Willard, assistant general man
ager of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
visited relatives in North Troy re-
Gently, coming there in his private car,
with his family, porters and cooks.
Mr.. Willard is a North Hartland boy
who went to Lyndonville about 22
years ago, being employed two years
as fireman and then two years as en-
sineer on the Passumpsic railroad.
He then went to the 800" line first as
engineer and then as foreman of the
engine house. He worked his way
up to the position of assistant super.
intendent of the 800" line, filling 1t
acceptably several years, and was then
called to the Baltimore & Ohio as as.
sistant general manager at a salary OF
$4,000 a year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Christmas Features of the Boston Sun.


uay journal
The Christmas number of the Bos-
ton Sunday Journal, which will be pub
lished Dec. 16, will have many striking
features of holiday character. An.
nouncement is made of a booklet of
Christmas stories written for the Sun
day Journal by Mrs. Burton Harrison,
Harriet Prescott Spofford, w. w. ia
cobs and other well-known writer's.
The Journal Junior, which has become
one of the most popular of juvenile
papers, and which is a weekly feature
of the Sunday Journal, will contain
Christmas stories and information of
especial interest to the children. The
New England Home Magazine, a sup
plement of the Sunday Journal, will be
made up entirely of Christmas feat.
ures handsomely illustrated in half
tone reproduction of photographs. No
New England paper promises more
in its Christmas issue than the Boston
Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Barrels City Council Row.

Mayor Hersey, of Barre, has caused
the arrest of City Clerk Wells on the
charge of violating a city ordinance by
the payment of $4,000 note without a
warrant signed by the mayor. The
case will be heard in the city court
Dec. 10. Mr.. Wells paid this note Sept.
Fl, after he had been instructed by the
city council which is composed of the
mayor and the board of aldermen. The
arrest is the outcome of a long fight
between the mayor and other city Off
Gals.
The man named Miner reported as
one of the three killed in a boiler ex-
plosion at Peru, was N. G. Miner, in
stead of A. G. Miner, a son of A. L.
Miner, of the New York Tribune.
brother, George L. Miner, is editor OF
the New York Sunday World.
The Porter Screen company will re,
build large plant at Winoosh to re
place the one destroyed by fire re
Gently.
Aldrich Brothers. steam mill al
South Wallingford was burned Satur
day morning, causing a loss of $4,000
The fire probably started from a sparH
from the engine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Black whltewash.
[From the Barre Telegram. ]

What bluff they of Addison county
are putting up! Their grand jury is
unable to find a single indictment for
the December term of court. They
must have had strange reformation
scene during the past few years. II
was only a short time ago that the
poorest kind of a mathematician
could count thirteen saloons in one
aristocratic little village within the
borders of that jurisdiction. Perhaps,
however, this sort of thing does not
affect the extent of crime so near the
waters of Lake Champlain.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Town Health Items.

Sick folks, who are AFFLICTED with bad blood,
weak nerves, or rheumatism, should1know rthat
We will refund the money on a dollar bottle Of
Smiths Green Mountain Renovator, IL It falls TO
benefit you. We also guarantee a 50 cent bottle
to prove satisfactory.
GEO. e. GREENE, Brattleboro, vt.
F. H. HOLDEN & CO., Brattletoro, Vt.
BROOKS HOUSE PHARMACY, Brattleboro, vt.
NJ. G. WILLIAMS, Putney Vt.
L. SToCKwELL, West Brattleboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
TALLEsT WOMAN IN WORLD.
Miss Ella Ewing Of CORN, Mo-, Feet
4 Inches Tall, Is Relative of Fred
Smith, the Bellows Falls Giant.

Fred X. Smith. known as the Bel
lows Falls giant, who is 6 feet 10
inches tall, while great in comparison
with the average man, would appear
small beside his relative, MissElla
Ewing of CORN, Missouri, who is I'M
doubtedly the tallest "giantess" in the
world. Mr.. Smith and Miss Ewing
correspond regularly. Miss Ewing's
height is s feet 4 inches, and she has
been in the show business since 1892.
Chang, the famous Chinese giant, who
made an immense fortune exhibiting
himself in Europe and the United
States, was only feet IL inches tall,
and Col. Ruth Goshen, for many years
the star feature of Barnum's circus
museum annex, could stretch only
Z feet 6 inches in mis- thick-soled
boots.
Everything Miss Ewing wears has
to be manufactured expressly for her.
She wears No. "a shoes and her gloves
are 22s. She began growing fast
when she was nine years old. and at
ten reached height of nearly seven
feet. She was very unhappy then,
| because she had the tastes of little
girl Nothing was large enough for
her. and even If things were made
especially she rapidly grew out OF
them. Neither house, nor bed, nor
chair, nor clothes would fit her. She
was a home-loving girl with no desire
for notoriety, but in order to be of as.
| sistance to her parents, she consented
| to travel with a circus when she be-
came eight feet tall.
Her experiences with doorways
1 sleeping cars, carriages. other little
things were very annoying to her, and
she determined to have home of her
own, where everything would be OF
dimension proportionate to her size.
After she had made a fortune by ap-
pearing in exhibitions this wish was
gratifed. In her house in CORN, Mis-
souri,, the doorways are ten feet high
ceilings Is feet high, tops of windows
| ten feet high, tables Az feet high.
The closets are as large as ordinary
peoples bedrooms. and Miss Ewing
seeks repose in a bed 91h feet long
Fire which started from a defective
chimney destroyed Andrew ]. Boyces
house, 2k miles from Stowe village
on Friday night, causing a loss OF
$1,000.
Burlington citizens are disturbed
over the condition of the breakwateT
there, and will ask Congress for an ap-
preparation of 100000 for repairs.
! D. Matheson of STAFFORD, fireman
was killed Monday in a railroad &C
cident at West Paris, Maine, where a
locomotive, caboose and two fiat cars
broke through a bridge. Engineer
O'Neil of Portland was scalded, but
will recover.