The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-02-14
Odds and Ends.

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Texas has had 200 murders since
: the war.
, Nebraska settlers build their houses
in five hours.
: The Sweet cider" question RACES
in Wisconsin.
-chicago divorces 2o9 couples per
annum.
Why is an egg like Colt? Because
ii is not fit to use until it is broken.
-Edwin Booth averaged $1,000 week
the past season.
Who is the LATEST man? The fur
niture dealer; he keeps chairs and loun-
ges about all the time.
An orchard in tennessee Co., n. Y,
Of six acres, has, during years, brought
in revenue Of over $4,000, or =, 400 a
year.
A woman residing at Glassboro, n.
J.. drank two ounces of the oil of bitter
almonds in mistake for whisky, few
DAYS ago, and died soon afterwards.
"A machine has been invented and
patented for putting wicks into kero-
sene lamps without besmearing the fin
gers with oil.
A Cincinnati thief has invented an
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a mans pocket and take out his wallet
at the same time, without the chance Of
detection.
-Cuhy said he'd rather die in rail-
road smash upp than a steamboat
"burst up,n for this reason: :" If you
| gets Off and smashed up, dar YOU is but
| if you gets bowed up on the Ooat, whar
is you?
A man recently broke Off marriage
because a lady did not possess good con-
versational powers. a wicked editor, in
commenting on the fact, says: He
should have married her, and then re-
! fused her a new bonnet, 10 develop her
| powers of talk"
-Intermarriage of races is an enor-
/ nous crime under the laws of Indiana.
| 4 colored preacher who married mixed
couple, has been sentenced to ten years
imprisonment in the penitentiary, and
to pay fine of 5000.
-Garibaldi, in a letter to friend in
France, very neatly says =" Priestcraft
| and BOnaparteism, which openly, now
a-days, take hands to keep each other
up, give me out as the enemy of France.
! That is as much as saying l am an enc
my to fruit because / hate slugs."
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| Sudden changes of temperature induce
the collection of moisture on the skin,
/ which dissolves the delicate varnish
with which the skin of the apple is COW
cred, and it SOON decays.
"A farmer at Hampstead, L. l., when
young, planted black walnut; it grew
well; finally it was chopped down and
sawed into lumber, which made two cof-
fins for himself and wife
"A young Partisan recently entered
a confessional and undertook the part of
| priest. The girl to whom he was aft
| anced came to confess, and began TO tell
| the presumed father of her little naugh
| tiness, which were, in fact, so bad, that
the sham priest and veritable lover fled
| cursing.
The French Prince Imperial is said
to be evidently in good health, but loos-
| ing his good looks. He is short of stat
ure, has long nose and a rather lack
! lustre grey eye, but is a pleasant man
| nered child, ever ready to acknowledge
with 4 smile, the salutations of those
whom he approaches.
A San Franciscan has invented
means Of propelling vessels without
! steam or sails. He connects three boats
! together in a line, and expects the two
on the ends, by the rise and fail Of the
waves, to move machinery in the central
vessel which shall propel all three.
The leading dry goods establish
ment in New York has reduced its pri-
| ces on certain fine qualities of goods
from l. TO - per cent, applying espec-
| tally TO silks. This viii compel other
houses TO follow their example.
A gentleman engaged in trade in
| Manchester, Mass, came into printing
office and ordered the printing Of labels
| for the boxes and drawers. Among
| others was one marked H. Pepper
Said the printer, "what is this for?n
Whole Pepper said the trader, any
| boy VINO has been 70 school ought 70
know that
The Fredericksburg va Herald
says: There will be a rush of immigra-
ton to Virginia from the North. the
West, the East, and also from the remote
South, early the coming spring, to be
followed by larger bodies i'm the fall, I'M
less, indeed, the political status of the
country shall stop the channels Of travel.
or the business interests become so lock-
ed up as 10 preclude sales at home, and
purchases here.n
Two Mississourans in Linn Comfy
had a fight the other day, on account of
the incuTsions of a mule into the pasture
owned by one of them. Phillips dis
charged his gun AT Sibert, instantly kill
ing him, and also killing his child in its
mothers arms, and COW belonging to
Sibert.
"A young darkey in Allentown, Pa.
who was sent to get something to smoke
the meat in his employers smoke-house.
went out and invested the money in ci-
gars, and seating himself in the smoke
house, under the meat, lighted a cigar
and pulled away. He had disposed of
sixteen cigars in this way before the
blunder was discovered by the family.
An old lady in Newburyport recent
ly complained atthe tax bill, saying that
she had not so much property. The AS
SCISSORS asked her if she did not have two
thousand dollars in the Savings Bank of
a neighboring city. She ridiculed the
idea. They told her she had better send
on her Bank Book. She did so, and
found that $3.50, deposited long years. ago.
had then reached $3.50.
A fervent church member recently |
astonished prayer meeting by supli- |
eating for the preservation of the lives |
of the young ladies of the congregation.
and that one Of them might be eventu-
any reserved Tor MN. On DeIng remOn- |
strated with by one of his brethren, he |
said such was the honest wish of his |
heart, and that he did not see the inn
propriety of praying for it.
BANKRUPT.-Thist term has remarka-
BILE origin. 1t is derived from the Ital- |
ian words BancO Rotto, signifying a
broken bench, in allusion to the Italian
custom of breaking the benches and |
counters on which the brokers and mon
ey-changers transacted their business |
at the Bourse, when they failed. Thus
to say that the bench of such a one had |
been broken was equivalent to have pro
nounced one bankrupt in our language.
The occupant was called "Bando Rot
to, " or Bankrupt. When the word was
first adopted in the English, it was
spelled Bankerout, which is nearer the
original word than the one now used