Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-26
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"A pretty girl who talks necessarily may
properly be called a dingdong bell.
-Mahommedans say one hour of JUS
tce is worth seventy years of prayer.
"A young mans affections are not al
ways wrong but they are generally miss
placed
Good Health remarks that what people
call "bile" is generally lobster, CLAIMS, or
some indigestible food
There are eight girls in the Michigan
Agricultural College, and they have to
work out of doors three hours daily, the
same as young men.
"A dying Irishman was asked by his
confessor if he was ready to renounce the
devil and all his works. "Oh, your Hon
or" said Pat 'don't ask me that am
going to strange country, and don't in
tend to make myself enemies"
Tho next progressive move among adj
vanced nations should be, first in consider
ing, and next in executing, plan for trans
forming swindlers, petty thieves and beg
gars into steady and useful laborers.
The Echo (English) admits that the
reading public of America is greater Cham
English authors, such as Herbert Spencer.
John Stuart Mill, and Robert Browning,
are better known here than at their own
home.
A poor hair-dresscr died in Kansas
City on the 9th ult., and was about to be
buried in box, when Emma Williams, "A
noted cyprian, purchased handsome cof-
fin, ordered hearse and carriage, and had
the remains inferred in private lot in the
cemetery.
The proprietor of hotel was bustlng
about the other morning at ten O'Clock with
twenty things to do, when some one asked
him why he didn't call up his clerk. ~
shan't call him as long as / can help it ;" re-
piled he; "for when he is in bed l know
where he is, but after he's up don't know
where to find him.
Wendell Phillips says that from all
sides, in one unbrok en- channel--from the
scholar in his study, the judge on the
bench, the philosopher in his speculation
there comes the same unvarying testimony,
that the grave social evil which threatens
the civilization Of great cities, when you re-
| duce it down to its ultimate analysis, is
more nearly intemperance than anything
else.
Alexander Hamilton once said to an
intimate friend: "Men give me some
credit for genius. All the genius l have
les Just in this: When have subject in
hand l study it profoundly. Day and
night it is before me. | explore ii in all its
bearings. My mind becomes pervaded
with it. Then the effort which l make the
people are pleased to call the fruit of gem
ius. It is the fruit of labor and the ught"
-"My son." said an old lawyer, giving
advice to his son, who was just entering
upon the practice of his fathers profession n,
"if you have case where the law is clear
ly on your side, but justice seems to be
against you, urge upon the jury the neces-
sity of sustaining the law. If, on the 9TH
err hand, you are in doubt about tho law
but your clients case Is clearly founded
upon justice insist upon the necessity of
doing justice, even though the heavens
should fall" "But,' asked the son, "how
shall manage in case where both law
and justice are dead against .meH" "In
that case, my son." replied the old stager,
talk round IT,"
| "A Japanese house IL u convenient house
in many respects. II consists at first of one
entire apartment. Thon movable or per
manent screens are placed in position OF
thin walls put up, so as TO divide the house
into such rooms as the owner may wish
These, of course, he can change at any time
without interfering with the structure. Of
the main building. They have no Chin
neys, for they never have fire in a private
house except in a little movable sanj-tilled
box, where they boil their tea and warm
their hands with ignited charcoal or fine
pieces of pine wood. During the late wal
in this country, many officers and priyate'
warm their tents by this plan.
Rev. w. II. II. Murray gives his opinion
about prohibition "a traffic at war will
all other traflics, emptylng the tills of it,
neighbors TO ill its own, business thriy
ing to the detriment of all other enterpris-
es, supplying what only diminishes the ag
gregate strength, wealth and virtue OF so
ciety, may be justly regarded as an lshma
ell in the world of trade, whose presence
brings with 1t universal disturbance ano
loss. If appetite could be ruled out of thi'
question, If prejudice and irritation coulC
be banished, and the issue be put, stripped
of all personal prediction to the business
men of the country, whether traffic thus
In Its nature and effect, at war with all 9th
or trades and branches Of trade, should OK
list, there can be no doubt in any onet
mind what would be the result