Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-02-18
miscellaneous Etrms.

~ A patriarch named solomon Pierce Of
Essex. VI. now IS years OF age has % chill
dren % grandchildren, and 81 great grand
children snug little family Of l42 and all
but eight or ten living in Chittenden county.
IT IS MonE DTfrIouIr to forgive an inu-
ry from friend than from an enemy. Your
iavorite dog flying at YOU, pains you a great
deal more than a similar assault from
strange dog.
IT Is WITH Books as with women. where
certain plainness of manner and dressing is
more engaging than that glare of paint and
airs and apparel, which may dazzle the eye
but reaches not the affections. -Htne
MorHER--Hcrc, Tommy, is some nice cas-
tor oil, with orange in it. Docior-Now, re-
member don't give it all to Tommy, leave
some for me. Yommy-(who has been there
Doctors nice man. ma; geve it all to
the doctor.
~ f. NJ. Eaton, while chopping wood
near indianapolis, last week, cut his foot Sc
verely. A physician was called. and found
him sitting in chair, dead, his feet in a basin
filled with blood. If he had been placed in a
horizontal position the application Of single
bandage would have saved his life, but no ono
present knew it.
10 Recently, two young gentlemen, of no
very staid character, attended a singing school
in the town of R. whose names were
Green. They seated themselves beside Young
lady for a social chat. She Immediately arose
and left them, whereupon. as my lord Bacon
hath it, some one present remarked to her
docs not Green become your complexion:"
NO she replied 81 never iancied bottle
green.'
GREAT AFfLIcTIoN.-The Cleaveland tO.)
Herald, says tina; the Hon. Mr.. Slade. Sena-
tor from Cuyahoga, has lost two children by
scarlet fever within a Neek, and the last child
of family OF seven is now lying very low
with the same disease. Upon this weight of
woe comes the news Of the death Of Mr. SIS
father, Ex-Governor Sade, of Vermont, and
also the intelligence that a brother, Henry
Slade, ESQ., Of st. Paul, is lying dangerously
Ill.,
VIRGINIA Jusr1cE.-A married woman
was brought before Virginia Justice charged
with the larceny Of some pewter plates After
hearing the evidence, and deciding that the
woman guilty, he ordered that ten lashes
should be inflicted upon her husband. who
was then and there present, giving as his rea-
son, that the Scriptures declared that man
and wife were one flesh, and as the wife was
the weaker vessel, it was right that the man
should bear the penalty.
DAIRY IrgNs.-S. f.. and h. w. Carmen
ten, of Westminster, VI keep % COWS, from
which they derive $40 each, annually and
they have sold 80, 900 lbs. of cheese. made in
the last four years by the wife of the former
Henry Moore of Rygate, W., from five
cows, two of which were over 8 years old
made, in nine months and five days, l40s lbs
of butter, OF a fraction over 2Sl lbs per cow
Their feed was clover pasture, 800 lbs of
shorts and bushels Of boiled onts in that
time.
NOVEL GRoUNDs FOR DrvoRcE.--A wo-
man in Cincinnati recently made an applica-
ton for divorce on the ground that her hus-
band was a COMPOUNDED fool The magistrate
informed her that if that were held to be a
valid reason in law, half the married women
in Porkopols would be legally entitled to a
matrimonial separation The woman appeared
comforted by this assurance-wretchedne
is always alleyiated by numbors-and depart
ed in an improved frame Of mind, and with a
touch of consolation.
ABATINo NUIsANcE.-The lady skaters
upon the Connecticut River, at Hartford. on
Tuesday having resolved that ''the rum trade
on the skating ground is a nuisance a de-
tachment from the skaters that were not fe
male, was sent down the stream. By an un-
fortunate mis-step the leader fell against the
restaurant and his followers, being unable
to hold up in season, fell across the demolish-
ed table and bottles, causing great destruc-
ton of the misunderstanding compound. The
accident met with the unqualified appreciation
of the crowd
MRS. PARTINGToNs LONGEVITY. -sI'ye
always noticed said Mrs Partington, drop.
ping her voice to that key that people adopt
when they are disposed to be philosophical OF
moral, that every year added to a mans life
has tendency to make him older, Just as a
man who goes on journey finds. as he iogs
on, that every milestone brings him nearer To
where he is going, and farther from where he
started. havn't got the exerbitance of feel
ing that had once, and ] wouldn't wish to
be centurion.
WIVES AND TRouDLG--An Eastern editor
says that mau in New York got himself into
trouble by marrying two wives
Western editor replies by assuring hi,
contemporary that good many men in thai
section have done the same thing by marry,
ing one.
Northern editor retorts that quite ,
number of his aequaintances found trouble b,
barely promising to marry, without going an,
further.
Southern editor says that he was both
cred by simply being found in company witt
another mans wife.