Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-08
- A grave yard ON the Mississippi river

One of Bonapartes grenadiers, who
was shot in the leg at Waterloo, had the
ball extracted few weeks ago. Previ-
Gus attempts had been made, but failed.
Does silvermoney wear out? Itwould
appear so, as the loss ON silver withdrawn
from circulation by the British mint for
one year, owing to wear, was fifteen thou
sand pounds.
"A person was Boosting that he
sprung from high family. Yes" said
bystander, Il have seen some of the
same family so high that their feet could
not touch the ground"
Strawberries, blackberries, and al
most every kind of garden vegetables
have commenced arriving in Chicago
from the Gulf of Mexico region, via the
Mobile and Ohio and the Illinois Central
Railroads.
The Chicago Post positively denies
the statement made in recent London
letter that the widow Of Mr.. Dickens
brother was living in London, and as pos
itively asserts that she is living in Chi
cage in very moderate circumstances.
A Minnesota editor says that man
came into his Office to advertise for a lost
dog, and that such was the wonderful
power Of advertising, the dog walked in
to the office while he was writing out the
advertisement
A man in Lincoln, ILL.,, has feet fif-
teen inches long and five inches in width
and ankles to match sixteen inches in
circumference. Exclusive of feet the
man weighs 100 pounds.
- The petrifed foot of a gigantic IN
dian, inclosed in a mocassin, was dug up
at Galesburg, ILL.,, the other day. 1t was
a foot and half long, big in proportion
and weighed y pounds
- The secrets of health are: First,
keep warm. Second, eat regularly and
slowly. Third, maintain regular daily
bodily habits Fourth, take early and
very light suppers. Fifth, keep clean
skin. Sixth, get plenty of sleep at
night.
- Two years since hole was bored for
oil at Rocky river, near Cleveland. With
out reaching oil the workmen were driv-
en- off by escaping gas, to which fire was
afterward set, and has been burning ever
since, in a fame from six to twenty feet
high.
Sandusky, Ohio is enjoying wolf
hunting in earnest, and on Friday, a large
gray wolf was killed and four cubs cap
tured, six miles from the city. -Four
other full grown wolves escaped, and they
were hunted, Saturday. No one knows
why the wolves are in such a thickly
populated country as that around Sandus-
ky.
= The students in the Ohio colleges
and seminaries are very highly and Justly
indignant at the recent act of the Legis-
lature DISTINGUISHING them, and are show
ering resolutions of condemnation on
their unworthy lawmakers. Democracy
and popular education never could 90 on
well together.
- Last year a reward of about one
dollar a hundred pounds was offered in
France for the carcass of June bugs.
which have multiplied greatly and have
become very destructive. Over eight
hundred thousand pounds were delivered
to the authorities.
- A woman in Galena, ILL.,, left her
baby for a short time in charge of
young girl, but the youngster got fretful.
and to please it, the girl tied it to sheet,
let 1t out Of window, three stories from
the ground, and when discovered was
amusing it by raising it up and down in
the sheet, which she held with her hands
inside.
= If farmer in Wisconsin plants a
row of trees along the road. he is exempt
from working on the road /; whoever hurts
one of these little ones is fined So; and
the State Horticultural Society offers a
premium of 500 for the best ten acres
Of forest trees, and $50 for the second
best.
"A young Indian girl who had curl
ously watched the process of marking
barrel heads in Touring mill in Vino
na, Mimi, stole in one day and taking
possession of the stencils ornamented her
blanket with the words ELLSWORTH
choice" and paraded the streets in great
delight, but to the disgust of Mr.. Els
worth, who is a bachelor and had made
40 such choice.
Youatt, the famous veterinary sur
5eon, who has been bitten eight or ten
lines by rabid animals savstbat or,.sto1 |