Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-21
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y young lduN Woll gloves cliouSH ~
the Saratoga races to supply her during
the winter.
The White Mountains this season
have been overrun with visitors, q large
share ofwhom are flocking towards Lake
Mcmphrcmagog.
John Godfrey SAKE, who has hereto
fore been Universalist, now believes
that there are two things to be cternally
lost-his umbrella and the man who
stole it,
The New York MaU says it is said
that Gen. Wool will vote for seymour,
and it is not thought that this is joke,
intended to pull wool over peoples eyes.
The first grain elevator in the United
States was built in Buffalo, in 1913.
Now Buffalo has 80 Of them, and stor-
age capacity of six million bushel.
Mr.. Daniel Gale sold last week the
! Fort William Henry Hotel, at Lake
George, to Il. Roesslc * Son, formerly Of
the Dclcvan House, Albany. The price
paid is said to be one hundred and ten
thousand dollars.
The Troy Press says that last week. Il
number of young ladies were pulling
! themselves with the mysteries of plan
ell cite, the question was started, "WhO
is to be the next President of the United
States?" After slightly FESTIVE and ire
gular action on the part of the instru-
mcnt, the answer was returned, " No
you don't.' The Press calls this an
swer rebulle Of the Radical party"
Well, it was given by the Planchette
party, which is known to be quite un-
reliable, and which the papers say, after
making several women crazy, is going
out of fashion.
An ingenious Frenchman makes an
attack upon the custom among cOmpos-
ers Of giving the tenor the role of the
lover. "'ro initiate nature" he says,
"thc part of the lover should be played
by the baritone, or each the bass. 1t is
noto rious that nature has endowed with
more generous traits the creatures who
possess deep voices, while those whose
voice is shrill and high are generally
dangerous and per1idious. Compare the
Newfoundland dog (bass) with the cuI
(falsetto), and sa! whether you would
rather be shut up in a cage with duck
! (barjtOne) or with q serpent (sOpIano)."
EFFECTS OF SPRING WATERFALL
old habitue of Saratoga--we presume a
crusty old bachelor-thinks that the
principal object which women have in
drinking spring watcris to get husbands
And by long and careful observation, he
also thinks that he can tell about how
much water is required in order to make
sure of husband. He says an elderly
woman with seven daughters has mar
ried off three of them by drinking the
waters of the springs, and that it re.
qured on an average about 800 gallons
to a husband rdreUer
The DROUGHT IN ENGLAND.-A
writer in the London Times, in discu s.
sing the importance of storing up water
in the agricultural districts, against
times of drought, such aS has afflicted
England during the month Of July
says:
. In very many villages the hard-worl-
= ing laborer is paying for every drop o.
water used in his cottage ten times "a
much as the wealthiest resident in the
metropolis pays for the supply to his
mansion and the want Of drinking wat
er, independently of the want of succu
lent grass, is telling with such impover
ishing effect upon the cattle in fields
that the irrecoverable loss of food (meat
to the nation from this cause will sool
equal, if it has not already equalled, the
loss occasioned by cattle plauge."
Mrs. f. Cady Stanton writes from
, Skaneateles, N. Y: "Before the SUI
y was up this morning Miss Anthony anC
! two bright girls from Brooklyn manned
: Il small sailing craft and went up the
lake. They invited some young mer
, chant princes to take seats on board
and remain quiet spectators Of the scene
+. They performed some very difficult evo
buttons. In one rather dangerous ma
n9uvre, gentleman, becoming littl,
4 nervous, was threatened with the fate o
:, Jonah, which Immediately brOugh
: him to order. 1t is truly melancholy t
: see how the young girls on all sides ar,
e flying from their sphere. With has
+ ball and boat clubs, gymnasiums, driv
= ing, swimming, and croqueting, verify
e the days ofembroidering and crochetins
n ruffling and putting, are fast passing
). away"