The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-02-07
Odds and Ends.

In Western markets turkeys are eX-
posed for sale with their weight marked
on them, Outside appearances indicate
them all right, but when the fowl is be-
ing prepared for roasting great bigcraw
ram iammed'' full of corn of two
pounds weight or more, is found con-
cealed under the inside.
An obstreperous female in Greene
county, Pa. has challenged a man to
fight with pistols. Cause-breach of
promise. II appears she took advantage
OF this being leap year, and proposed to
him; he accepted but changed his mind,
and hence she challenged.
An Ohio gentleman had dream
six months ago, in which the dav of his
death was predicted TO him. On the day
lntimated, he took out an insurance pol
icy for 5000, got on a railroad train and
was burned to death at Angola.
-Thurlow Weed will certainly retire
from journalism and public life after the
Presidential election, which he can af-
ford to do, as he is full of years and expe-
Renee, and has property worth about
S3,000,000.
jeff. Davis bail bond has been litho-
graphed, and is for sale in Richmond.
The great curiosity of the document is
Horace Greeley's signature. An inven-
tive genius got from it a suggestion for
a patent spring rat trap, from which he
is likely TO realize fortune.
"There she goes" sneered an English
man, as a Highlander marched mast in
his tartans al fair. "There she lies y
retorted Duncan, as he knocked the
scorner down at blow
H. w. Beecher says. "Some people
regard their pastors as they do their
grooms- they are good to rub down
their souls'
summer visitors are so frequent at
the Hoosac tunnel that large hotel is
being put up at the east end to accommo-
date them.
Carlyle says journalists are the "true
crown on their head, and some no
crown in their pockets.
st. Louisians are organizing coroner
ative building associations to furnish
men of moderate means with houses at
moderate rates.
The State debt of Minnesota is S325-
600, and by the Constitution is limited
to S350,000 until the war debt is paid
when it will drop TO $3.50, 900 as its max
imum.
during the past eighteen years not
a life of passenger has been lost on the
Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain Rail-
road, and but two or three injured.
Two gold bricks of sixty ounces
weight, and value ST., 900, are now being
exhibited at Halifax, n. s. as Welded
from two hundred tons of quartz
Why is a vain young lady like con-
firmed drunkard? Because neither of
them is satisfied with a moderate use of
the glass.
An exchange says the ladies would
rather face mad bull, than have their
dresses gored,
Miss Cushman, the actress, and
~ ttogers, the sculptor, have had quarrel
.,a,,,a ne young lady who took the gem
+ta fancy has returned IL with
"A mother in Chicago was detee,oa
IN placing her infant on a railroad eIu
Why is love like a canal ho.+9 D.
cause 1t is an internal Transport De-
Why is the letter ID like a s,,a,,-
child? Because it makes ma mai
AT what season did Eve eat the on.
pie? Early in the 'fall." ~
"A Hartford man is in Jail for inordi
nate jealousy of his wife.
"A Chicago lady owns the residenc,
of the first Napoleon at st. Helena.
-Barnum's Museum took in the larg
est gross receipts of any New Yorl
theatre Christmas night.