The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-02-11

- / Ae population 0i London rs =, ! 10
G36 Three hundred aud &ght children
are born in the city every day, and i99
I persons die there
+ There is now standing in Marble
head, Mass, portion Of house built
by Peregrins White, the first male child
born Of English parents IN New Eng-
+ land.
! "A Kansas school teacher recently
/ gave the minister who married him d
Webster's Unabridged Probably be
could not find words enough elsewhere
TO express his gratitude.
No young man, twenty-ono years
of age, who has his health, should be
satisfied with himself unless he is hon
estly saving and laying by for future use
at least the sum of 500 year.
A girl presenting herself for sit-
uation at house ''where no Irish need
apply" i'll answer 10 the question where
she came from, said "Sure, couldn't
We persaye by me aecint that its French
/ / am r.
A firm in England put up some
canned meats for firm III New Zealand,
and by direction had them labelled
Canned Missionaries The natives
cleaned out the stock in two days
"A dog recently confined in the
store-r room of Powers Hotel at New
York, thought he "smelt mice" in n
box Of eggs and accordingly pitched in,
and broke ali but II out of 20 dozen
A rich mine of gold is said to have
been discovered in u coal shaft at West
Middlesex, Western Pennsylvania, ca
pabls of yielding four thousand dollars
a ton.
Leavenworth, Kansas, has a popu-
lation of $4,000 supports six daily news
papers, some thirty churches, fifteen to
twenty schools, two theaters, and from
five to ten gambling houses,
Two specimen cakes made Of birch
bark and moss, suchas thousands of the
starving in London are living on, were
exhibited in Chicago last week. Even
that sorry food is now deemed luxury
there
John Rhoring Of Weston, Mo-, sold
his COW to man 140 miles away, in
Kansas. But few days after the COW
put her head into her old masters door,
rs she was wont, having escaped and
come the whole distance alone
When intoxicated, Frenchman
wants to dance, a German to sing, Il
Spaniard to gamble, an Englishman to
eat, an Italian to boast, Russian to be
affectionate, an Irishman to fight, and
an American TO make speech.
1t is said that tradesman in Ohio
city appends to his advertisement,
ministers Of the Gospel supplied with
goods at cost, if they viii agree to men
ton it to their congregations"
Mrs. Jenkins complained in the
evening that the TURKEY she had eaten
at christmas did not set well. prob
ably" said Jenkins, "it was not hen
turkey" He got a glass Of water in his
face.
"A correspondent travelling in Utah
says that the waters OF Great Salt Lake
rose last year three feet above their
former level, and are still slowly but
surely rising The lake drains an i'm.
mense district, and has no visible out
let.
Miss Annie Clara Jagerisky, the
young lady who recently accomplished
in Chicago the most difficult feat Of
skating for thirty consecutive hours
with only thirty minutes rest during the
time, is of Bohemian parentage, and
only II years of age.
An oak tree, over 40 feet long and
nearly five feet in thickness at the trunk
has been removed from the bed Of tho
Thames River by the dredgers of Nor.
wich. The wood is perfectly sound and
quite valuable, and the log is supposed
to have been deposited by heavy
freshet over half century ago.
There is numerous disciple o.
st Crispin in Vermont who announces
himself as Shoemaker to his honor the
lord mayor Of Yergennes." Cough, yor
remember, tells Of man in London
whose sign reads, "Breeches-maker tc
the queen !"
"A dispatch from Naples, dated jar
II, states that the lava was still flowing
copiously from the crater Of Mount We
suvius. The stream was from seven K
eight metres high, and from fifty to six
" broad. Shocks and detonationi
were frequent, andit did not seem like
lly the eruption would soon cease.
In Ohio q fruit farmer is planting
a mammoth orchard, which will consis
Of 5000 apple trees, 10000 peach trees
| 1000 pear trees, 1000 cherry trees, /.
500 ehickasay plums, six acres o
ounces, twenty acres Of strawberries
twenty acres Of raspberries, twenty acre.
of blackberies, and eighteen acres 0
grapes.
The Oldest wooden house in th'
! United States il the "Minott House,
in Dorchester, Mass. 1t was built in
| 1888, and rents to-day for $50 year
1t was the headquarters Of Gen. Wash
ington for a season during the Reyolu
tion, and was once defended by Mrs
Minott alone when attacked by Indi
ans.
The first bridge over the Thamei
at London was Of wood, and was bull
in the reigh Of Ethelred IL, between
the years 993 and 1910 In I163 il wal
rebuilt Of timber, and in 117G the ston,
bridge was begun It's original lengl
was $40 feet. hight "A feet. aud tbs