Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-04-23

--Bacheloric exclanation-a lass Maid
emily exclamation-ah menl
Which has the most legs, horse or no
horse? No horse. A horse has four legs,
but no horse has five.
There was a man so intensely polite that
AS he passed hen on her nest, he would
say: "Don't rise, madam"
Jenny Lind has taken up her residence
in Hamburg. Her daughter, II years old,
promises to become great singer.
Josh Billings says he will never patron
ize a lottery 80 long as he can hire anybody
else to rob him at reasonable wages.
1t is said that when a Russian neglects
to beat his wife for month or two, she be-
gins to get alarmed at his indifference.
-Thiers, at the age of eighty, has begun
the study of botany, that he may more UNI
derstandingy complete his work on natu-
raj philosophy.
London covers 100 square miles, con-
tains 400, 900 dwellings, with an average Of
persons to each, and has population of
nearly 3,200,000
Milan has provided the custom officers
of that city with very powerful microscopes
into the mar .Sets.
viii asked old "ten-per-cent' what he
wanted to accumulate so much money for.
Says he: "You can't take it with you when
you die, and if you could ii would melt"
An octogenarian says: 81 was born at
the wrong time. When l was a young
man, young men were of no account. Now
/ am old, 1 find old men are of no ac-
count"
--''e'razy Ann" for 10 years an inmate OF
the Dewittville IN. " poor house, has
lately regained herreason; and remembers
nothing since she was a girl of Is. All the
intervening time is to her blank and
mystery.
After horse is nine years old wrinkle
comes over the oyelid, and every succeed
ing year adds another well defined wrinkle.
Therefore, to tell how old horse is, pro-
vded he is past the age of nine, add the
number of wrinkles to that number.
"A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose Of proving the cor
rectness of doctors bill, was asked wheth
or the "doctor did not make several visits
after the patient was out of danger?" mo-"
replied the witness, 81 considered the pa
tent in danger as long as the doctor con-
tinued his visits"
August 18th total eclipse of the sun
occurs. This will be the most interesting
eclipse that has been witnessed in this coun-
try for many years, and it will not happen
again until the last year of the century.
The shadows of earth will commence cross
81, I;s1- al, A 81 al
will not entirely pass from it until nearly
half-past six.
A correspondent of the Washington
Star says of the Barbara Fritchie' story !;
81 premise by saying that am native of
Frederick City, and have known the Frit-
chic family all my life time, and that it is
one of the most respectable of the entire
community; and it has been a surprise to
me that no one has ventured upon vindi-
cation of her claims to the honor which the
poet has given her Barbara Fritchie was
a reality at the time referred to. When
Jackson was passing through Frederick, Of
necessity he had to pass the house in which
she lived, on West Patrick street, south side
next to Carroll creek. AS he and his troops
passed her house, she appeared at the dor
mer window of one-stored house and wav
ed the Stars and Stripes before their verita
BILE faces. One of his men raised his gur
toward her, and she cried, Shoot! shoot
still waving her flag. jackson knocked hi
gun aside, and commanded him not to at
tempt any such thing, at tho same TIM
raising his hat in honor of the flag. A shou
tn ON went up from his own men, and they
passed on. This is the gist of the story
which have often heard in Frederick, ant
never heard it contradicted by any one"