Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-05-06

to myself l thought 1t vas dream. But
it is as true as | am here.
- The Boston Police have found and
returned during the year 97l stray chill
dren.
Wyoming nurses calm the rising
generation by singing:
Nice little baby, don't get in fury.
Cause mamma's gone to sit on the jury
= Forest Kempton, aged sixteen, left
his fathers house in Croydon, N. H., last
autumn, and has not been heard of since
Charles Wild of Valatie, n. Y,
awoke one morning this week to find
himself blind. His eyes had panied him
while reading the previous evening.
= Bishop Simpson lately stated al
Cleaveland, Ohio, that the Methodist
throughout the country have dedicated
on an average, two churches a day for
the last three years.
- In Bradford, Wis, there is a blind
man who carries on eighty acres of land,
doing nearly every kind Of work him
self His son guides him about. IL
winter he manufactures brooms for sale
A writer in the Rutland Herald
states that the Cohoes, On. Y. mastedon,
so carefully preserved in the museum at
Albany, is the skeleton of circus ele-
plant, which he knows to have been bur
led in 1888.
= Among the packages bid eff at an
auction sale of express packages in Hart
ford, last week, was lot of love letters,
written by young lady who having got
married, requested her old lover to re.
turn them. The purchaser is heartlessly
giving series of evening readings from
them at his boarding house.
A Philadelphia paper advises all
its readers contemplating visit to New
York to secure an insurance on their
lives, inasmuch as the frequent murders
in the latter city suggest the great liabil-
ity of their being sent home by an I'M
dertaker and charged on the railroad
books as freight.
During Monday night an effort was
made to blow up a whole family in Min
nieapolis, Minnesota, by secreting a jar
of powder near the jamb of the front
door, and then discharging it by means
of long fuse, which reached into lum-
Der yard across the street. The house
was badly wrecked, but the inmates were
uninjured.
- In Elyria, Ohio, last Wednesday a
beautiful little girl six years of age
touched the tip of her tongue to white
powder which she found done up in a
package on her mothers sewing machine.
1t proved to be strychnine, and notwith-
standing immediate efforts we're made to
counteract the poison, the child died
within an hours time.
: A Frenchman who was endeavoring
: to Americanize himself in New Orleans
remarked that there was one English
word which he could not find in any die
tionary, and that was "tattle too." The
planter assured him there was no such
word. Butt Frenchman insisted there
was, and looked triumphant when, few
minutes after, he heard his friend say to
a servant, "That'll do"
"A German wag advertises the" Lat
est Invention" as follows: "To Let or
for Sale-Now on exhibition, a Steam
DEMONSTRATING machine OF 500 priest
power, which works with the greatest
precision and turns out 30 new dogmas
per hour. Inquire at Rome, corner of
Bulls Angle and Jesuit Lane"
"A German exchange tells the story
of an enamored couple Che IS, she AS
who concluded to get married. The ar
dent lover was too feeble to walk to
church, and was afraid to trust himself
inside jolting carriage, so the bride
put him into perambulator and wheel
ed him to church, married him and
and wheeled him home.