Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-26
NetCS ana Other items.

The New Jersey Legislature intend
abolishing capital punishment this ses-
sion.
How does IA horse regard man? AS
the source of all his whoas.
God gives birds their food, but they
must fly for it.
Ten thousand persons crossed the new
Niagara suspension bridge on Sunday.
Massachusetts, has the velocipedc fe-
YER In one town Methodist church
has been converted into " vclocipede
rink"
The London Times, with full sup
plement, contains about 10000 lines,
or 2O0,000 W rds, equal to II 800 page
octave.
An Australian horse recently ran ten
miles in % minutes and SO seconds, said
to be the fastest time on record for that
distance.
There is a tiger near Chintagoonta,
Madras, who has within year or two
eaten more than zoo natives, and is still
at it.
Mr.. Pratt, the new Senator from In
diana, weighs four hundred pounds.
He will be the greatest man in the
Senate.
A stage-struck youth in New Orleans
practised elocutiOn so successfully in his
room at boarding house that he was
arrested and committed as insane.
Why would baker be Il good pre-
siding officer of celebrating assembly ?
Because he would mould it into proper
shape.
Some one says the best way for Il man
to train up child in the way it should
go, is to travel that way occasionally
himself
Sentimentalists sing, "Give me cot
in the valley 1 love )" but persons of n
more practical turn would prefer wal
nut French bedstead.
The man who has nothing to do is no
better than the woman who has nothing
to wear. Both are generally very
empty headed sort of creatures.
Bogart, the absc Onding Paymaster's
Clerk of the United States ship " Yer
mont" has been arrested near Montreal,
Canada.
Mr.. Hiram Cramston, late of the
New York Hotel, mas nearly completed
a $4,000 summer residence at the old
homestead, Stephentown, near Hudson.
One of the Vanderbilt family is about
to build in the immediate neighbOrhOOd.
Freight for Salt Lake is now sent
from New York city to the end of the
Pacific Railroad, without the change of
cars-2,50O miles. New York cars are
80 II ID tot, n
have now the longest line of continuous
railroad track in the world.
A bill is pending in the Illinois Lee
gislature to authorize the cOnstructiO ion
of q mammoth hotel at Chicago, by a
company with 100000 capital and
the Deseret NeaOs proposes a joint
stock company to build grand hotel
at Salt Lake City, to cost million dol
lars.
One of the Philadelphia papers notes
that, in answer to merchants adver-
tisement for clerk. there were 4l8 APP
plicatiOns at the close of the first day.
The mark cts are Over-stOcked with pen
men, the want CT the day is tool-men,
and skilful ones.
Homer is supposed to have been the
first to have noticed the Grecian bend
in the following lines from the tenth
book Of the Iliad -
"Lo here the wretched Agamemnon stands,
The unhappy General of the Grectan bands,
VIII ON Jove DEGREES with daily cares to bend.
The following is neat and ingenious
imitation of some of the poetry of the
middle ages: -
Ger the sea see flaming flaming go,
The lark HE high, the swallow follow low,
The small bees busy at their threshold old,
And lamb lamonting in the threefold fold.