Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-01-17
PARIS MARRIAGE MERCHANTS.

n II uIIs correspondent VI tnS I've" AOt n
Evangelist, over the signature Of @. B. c.,
writes as follows:
There are some very peculiar occupations,
at least we should think them such in our
country, Of which, whether or not they are
TO be considered as among the liberal pro-
fessions. il is hard to say. For example,
the marriage merchants with their bureaus,
transact business Of no little extent and
Importance, comprehending operations oil
great tact and delicacy, very far superior to
the sordid affairs Of ordinary commerce.
How far they speculate upon the affections
tits difficult to determine, but they seem to 90
upon the scriptural rule, Where your treas
ure is there will your heart be also; and
therefore make the treasure their sole point
Of calculation. II is with them sort OF
arithmetical problem, given, certain amount
Of treasure, to find, corresponding amount
Of affection problem ordinarily as easy OF
solution in regard to spiritual. Take for il
lustration one of their advertisements, which
select, word for word, from the newspa-
per.
Marriage-Persons desiring to marry
can with perfect confidence address them
selves 10 MAIDEN de Saint Marc; her relations
with high society put her in the way of Civ
ing information concerning widows and
young ladies having dowries and fortunes
up to two miions.--Ancient house ST.
Marc, under patent from the government"
As this is a genuine advertisement, if any
persons to the eye of whom il comes, in A.
merica or elsewhere, desire to avail them
selves Of golden opportunity, doubtless the
matter could be arranged by correspondence.
Fortunes up TO two millions! Think of
that! What is not hidden behind il i
Beauty. love, happiness, fine forms, dark
eyes, glossy ringlets, fair compilations. sweet
tempers, intelligent minds, what is there
that is not wrapped up in two millions Z
My readers may answer the question accor-
ding TO their own habits of feeling and
thinking, only it were well to remember the
proverb, " Better is dinner Of herbs where
love is, than a stalled OK and hatred there
with !" and also that which goes before it,
T" Better is a little with the fear Of the Lord,
than great treasure and trouble Herewith"
II is not possible that affections can be
bought and sold, but il they could, the pur-
chase and the sale would spoil them.
Con MEAL-Alessrs Editors-I noticed some
time since, an article in your paper, editorial, l
think Yin which it urged upon farmers to grind
their c0bs, the meal valuable for many pur
poses the farm-particulary for poultry hogs and
stock
On the strength Of th, suggestion, acted, and
can now assure you, so well satisfied am | with
the result that my cobs will never heretofore, be
uselessly thrown away. As grind my cobs with
the corn cannot speak definitely as to the value
of cob meal, when used in its unmixed state, but
satisfied that there is very important saving
attained by grinding the cobs. have, during the
last three months, fed corn and cob meal to my
horses, hogs and calves, and as have large stock
this winter, the saving TO me, from this simple sug-
geston, has assure you, been of no small value
regards the prse-Maine Cui.
The Surgeon Morand of Paris, had friend
whose dog had broken leg. Out of friendship,
the doctor took the dog under his care and cured
him. little while AFTER the doctor was work
ing in his Office, he heard something scratching at
ihe door. He opened il and saw, with the greatest
astonishment, the same dog that he had healed
bringing with him another dog that had met with a
similar accident and who dragged himself slowly
and with great labor after his leader. This time
Ill lie. it pass said Morand to the dog, 'but hereaf
ter you must not bring me any more such business.
go Deutehe SeheH Post.
HoIo 10 Preserpe Good .Name.-Joseph Clark of
Rhode Island, has a very good idea of the way in
which good character may be kept or lost. Being
asked TO stand for the Gubernatoral chair in that
State, he replied that, as he had enjoyed good
character among his fellow citizens all his life las
was proved by his having been chosen Treasurer
of the State for than thirty years,) he had no
notion Of losing il now, in his old age, by running
for G0rernor.
The Lowell Journal says it has not heard Of the
Association Of Factory Girls, who thought Of es-
a., ka rLad h,rf has
Should such scheme be successfully put in opera
ton, it would not be long before the proprietors
would have plenty of applications for partners. A
young man might thus Jaifer-like apostrophise
fair stakeholder
Ever from that hour loved her,
Till for her stock paid her with myself.
Hoosie against the Worid.-The Vermont Ca
zetle reports that Chester Kimball, Of Hoosic, N.
Y, has son aged eleven months, which he is
dy TO exhibit against any child of his age, and de-
fes the world 10 beat him. lie measures round the
shoulders, feet inches-round The breast, feet
nches-round the thigh, IL inches-round his
arm, 10 inches--round his wrist, z inches-round
his ankle, 10 inches-and weighs 81 pounds and
half.
One of the Lowell papers chronicles the fact
that rich southern on visit TO that city, hap
pened to find at work in one of the factories,
beautiful girl, the perfection Of his ideal, TO whom
he was at length introduced, and finding her all he
desired, by the consent of her friends and amid the
congratulations Of many, she became his blushing
bride and has gone to preside his hQme in the
sunny south. Gree.fetd Democrat.
Ytry Grecn.-Last week a respectable grocer, not
a hundred miles from Mansfield Woodhouse, ex-
hibted in his window card, with the following,
written in large letters items 'ohOm green.
On being told of the error, he wrote, Teas which
his green. English paper,