The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-20
Odds and Ends.

paris is tn have its fortieth theatre.
The New York Herald is again 1or
sale.
The Great Eastern spends 500
week for doing nothing.
Not found among Stanton's virtues
resignation,
Riches come better after poverty
than poverty after riches.
There are seven thousand Hollanders
resident in New York
Tobacco should not be chewed but
eschewed.
Three things TO goVerh-teiillei'
tongue, and conduct
A frog does not remember when ne
was a tadpole, but Others do.
If YOU carry the cross cheerfully, IL
will carry you safely.
Helena, Montana, is to have a S'o,-
600 hotel in the spring.
Few ladies are so modest as TO refuse
to sit in the lap of luxury
A pretty female artist can draw tlie
men equally with brush and Diush.
Good words and good deeds are the
rent we owe for the air we breathe.
Many a fool who has sense enough
TO get him good wife, lacks the wit TO
know ii.
A girl with ringing laugh y
caused an alarm Of fire in Peoria. Ihey
took her for belle.
How was the queen able to write
such a good diary: Because she had
Helps
The earnings last year of the twelve
railroads entering Chicago are estimated
bv the Tribune at 1000 600.
Feeling is truer oracle than
thought; hence women are oftener rigilt
than men.
The liquor law is enforced at Homo
lulu. \ Portuguese victualler, for sell
ing liquor TO a native was fined 800.
The use of the cigarette at the din
ner table by Partisan ladies is at length
beginning to be custom.
An independent candidate for sher-
if in kentucky puts forward as ms
chief claim that he once slept with An
drew johnson.
The benevolent women of Norwich,
Conn, leave food in the hands of the
captain of police, who deals it out to
dodgers.
Wit and gayety answer the same
purpose that a fire does in damp house
dispensing chills, and drying up
mould, and making all wholesome and
cheerful.
The Democrats in the Ohio State
Senate have planted themselves square
against the eight hour system. On a
| proposition to make eight hours legal
| DAYS work on the public roads, they
voted unanimously against 1t.
"A certain Irish attorney threatened
to prosecute a Dublin printer for insert
| ing the death of living person. The
menacer concluded with the remark
that " No person should publish death
unless informed of the fact by the party
| deceased.
In England, during 1867, the names
Of l ,027 400 living children were regis
tered. an increase of about 5000 over
| the number for 1865. The rate OF emil
grafton was 537 daily, and the natural
! Increase Of population exceeding this
number by go day.
"A man being told by generous
| farmer that he would give him barrel
| of cider, asked him if he would bring il
| to his house. Certainly, replied the
farmer, with pleasure. Well, said the
| grateful recipient, what will you give
for the barrel when the cider IL gone.
A gentleman in Hartford, CT, late
! ly bought a crow. and had it cooked a:
an experiment; he invited two OF his
friends to dine with him, and they pro
nounced it the. best partridge they had
| ever eaten. He is elated al having dis
! covered a new game bird, and offer
| fifty cents apiece for crows. That price
will fetch them right along.