Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-05
NeW ana Miscellaneous Items.
II. c. MosLEY, Secretary

NeW ana Miscellaneous Items.
A fellow in Nashville has trained a
rat to steal bonds from brokers' WIN
dOWs.
Philadelphia drinks two thousand
five hundred kegs of lager every day.
A Chi naman blew out the gaslight in
his bed chamber, and was rescued near
ly sufi'ocated. His first words on recov-
ering were: "Me no stealee gas"
An eccentric Partisan advertises that
he was equity, of violent temper, and
terribly quarrelsame, but that he would
settle 10000 year on young and
handsome wife. He received fOrty-six
applications, and is now married.
A young gentleman on a visit to Pitts
burgh invited lady to take drive. A
few miles from the city they were en-
countered by lover of the lady, who,
in a transport of jealousy, and with the
aid of q seven-shooter snatched the far
one from her companion and bore her in
triumph to Pittsburg.
On the west coast of Mexico oysters
are dried in the sun, like beef, and sent
to San Francisco in considerable guam
titles. One CT two hundred bales were
shipped the past year. They are in
common use in Mexican towns during
| Lent.
The driver of a stage coach near Cop
perstown, in New York, was asked if his
was an emigrant stage. "Well,t he re-
Joined, 81 don't know about the Emf,
but it is q darned good Grant stage,
know"
"A ten acre field of wheat near Platte
City, Mo- belonging to Mr.. White,
recently harvested, yielded five hundred
and eighty-three bushels and twenty
two pounds of wheat.
Report has it that Queen Isabella, of
Spain, drinks gallon of brandy week.
"A little girl, eight years old, named
Kinzella, drowned herself in Indian
apolis because her mother would not al
low her to wear new dress.
The Abyssinians eats raw beef with
plenty of Chill pepper and mustard, the
English army correspondents who tried
the diet pronounce it very good.
"A regiment of French soldiers, who
wear bear-slIin hats, recently petitioned
their Colonel to have their hats shaved
during the not weather.
Grapes are bought by the California
Wine maker delivered at his press, clean,
for 20 cents per 100 pounds and it is
stated that in 900 pounds scarcely one
pound Of unripe or rotted berries has to
be cut out from the lunches.
Prince Michel of Servia, left ST. ,OOO,.
900.
Chief Just ice Chase is soiourn ing al
Saratoga.
Napoleon sits only three Quarters OF
an hour at dinner. So the gOssips say
DR.. Franklin introduced broom corn
into this country.
1t is now pretty genera lily known thai
the only reason France did not 20 tC
war with Prussia last year was because
she was not prepared to do SO. The
Prussians caught the French mapping
There was no lack, but they We're MOI
properly armed and equipped, the maya
zines were empty, and no time was al
lowed for preparation. Had France il
that condition taken issue on the battle
field with Prussia another Waterloo
would very likely have been the result
Napoleon and Marshal Mel learned {
lesson then which they have not for.
gotten, and they have since put theil
experience into practice. They have
reconstructed the army on basis equal
if not superior to that of Prussia ant
to-day 100000 Frenchmen, armed with
the deadly Chessepot rifle, thoroughly
equipped in every respect, we'll drilled
and only too eager for the fray, are ready
to take the field against any European
power that interferes with the ambition
of Napoleon. No wonder then that the
pacific declarations of the Emperor and
his responsible Minister are not impli.
city relied upon, and that the peace OF
Europe is regarded as being at least very
precariOus.-Sun.
DEMOCRATIC NOTES.-The give oul
readers the benefit of the following hits
taken from Democratic papers. The
oh. u. g." means "Hiram Ulysses
Grant" as the Democrats insist on call
ing the General. He did HUG. the
rebels, you know. Here are the items
WANTED.-A bunghole large enough
to admit the head of a man with cigar
in his mouth. Address
E. b. WASHBURNE,
Galena, or
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