Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
In GENERAL

Railroad accidents in the last. quarter
OF 1905 cost "A lives. while the total
number of casualties to passengers and
employees was 20,94i.
There are over 1000 diamond workers
In Amsterdam The total imp1rtations Of
diamonds from Europe to this country
for the year ending June 80. 1906 were
valued az $34SG2. 600.
Lady Henry Somerset. who has made
the temperance cause her life work, has
! announced that after this spring she will
retire from public life and will be heard
no more on public platforms
The births IN Germany last year were
/ 10000 fewer and the deaths 1000 more
than in 1904 The birth rate has been
sinking steadily for some time In 1901
1t was 1853 at 1000, but last year it was
only "a
1t Is estimated that more than 1000
people We're thrown out of work May
through the closing up of hotel bars
| liquor stores and saloons in the 25 towns
and cities Of New Hampshire, which went
| from license to no-license at ,ne last
November election. The loss to the state
in license revenue will be about 500. 600
The six cities swinging into the dry
column were Berlin Concord. Franklin
keene. Tacoma and Rochester, leaving
only Manchester, Nashua. Portsmouth
and Dover in the license column.
suppose it is true that young woman
has been indiscreet What satisfaction
is ii to any worthy person % talk about
IL Why reVcl in her unhappiness? Any
one who has been indscreet is unfor-
1 tunate. y. VI should see a dog lying in
the street with a broken leg YOU wouldn't
20 out and Kick it, Then why should you
kick woman who has been wounded?
Perhaps II was her own fault. And pos
Slhly the dog was injured while out bark
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had no characterization Globe.
The number of persons executed by
order of Russian courts martial under
the suspension Of the civil law. l144. of
whom 80 have been executed since March
., goes great way toward explaining
the difficulty the car has met with in
Keeping at peace with the Douma. Mas
sacre by Court-martial has been stopped.
but not until its victims had almost
equallcd in number the slain of me army
In battles that were reckoued in their time
/ important. At Fredericksburg. for in
stance, the Union casualties included 1852
klned in action. When we consider that
in great European country, in this year
of enlightenment not only men accused
OF crime, but men suspected of sedition
have been hurried before courts martial
only to be hurried into an adjoining
courtyard ana there shot We can UNDER
stand the fun measure of the murderous
which the Douma is perpetually protes-
ting Boston Transcript
A sea rather than a river is the Amazon.
with 100 miles OF width at its mouth.
The Amazon drains territory of $780,
600 square miles, 10 times the area of
France, and in connection with itself and
Its tributaries there are said to be 90, 900
miles of navlgable waters, one-half of
which Is suitable for steam navigation by
large vessels. The number. length and
volume of the Amazon's tributaries are in
proportion to its magnitude. More than
20 superb rivers 1000 miles and upward
In length pour their waters into it, and
streams Of less importance are number
less. At the junction of the Ucayali
with the Amazon a line so fathoms deep
does not reach the bottom, and in breadth
II Is more like sea than a river. The
longest tributary, the Madeira, has a
length of 2OO0 miles. The distance from
the source of the Amazon in the Andes
to the Atlantic ocean is 1000 miles in a
direct line, but by the course of the river
1t is nearly 1000 miles.