Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-08-26

= A worried railroad conductor say.
that stone deaf man will go five mile.
out of his way to walk on a railroad
track.
= The discovery Of sulphur spring
spring at Troy is thought to indicate the
fact that the city is an awfully wicked
place,
- Detroit has boat club Of young
ladies, who 60 out rowing twice n week,
and are put through regular course Of
training.
A Buffalo serenader sang "Tm
thinking, love, of thee" when the de-
scent of about four gallons of water
from third story window proved that
her papa was thinking of him.
- An Indiana man had fainting fit
while being married the other evening,
and died soon enough to avert the CON-
plellou Ol tue ceremony.
- New York taller was startled,
the other day, by the return of bill
which he had sent to magazine editor,
with the notice that the manuscript
was respectfully declined"
- Charivari presents Us with the por-
trait of French soldier working a mi
trailleuse. Before is an immense field
covered with dead bodies. Soldier, To-
quitur. 1t is not five minutes since /
began, and the war is already over.
suppose | must Of turned the handle too
fast"
A Paris bookseller having applied
to publisher Of photographic prints for
Berlin copies of the portraits of the more
illustrious Prussian generals, received the
reply There are no copies left We
send you the originals"
= An enthusiastic German editor of
New York sent copy of his last paper,
addressed to King William of Prussia.
at the Tuilleries, Paris, with directions
to the postmaster to keep the newspaper
IN the office, if the party addressed has
not yet arrived, as he will soon be there.
Prussia has greatly impro 7ed in ag-
riculture in the last fifty wears. The land
now supports twice as many inhabitants
as it did in 1920, though a greater space
is devoted to feeding cattle and to the |
raising of plants for manufacturing pur-
poses. There are now in existence in
Prussia three hundred and fifty-nine as.
sociations for the improvement Of the
soil for drainage, irrigation and the build
ing of dikes.
A curious result of the war is a
large number of simultaneous marriages
IN the Prussian army. On the 3lst ult.
q great number military weddings were
performed at Altcna, by express per-
mission of the King, and the special re-
Aviation of the standing order that the
oanns must be published three times
he object appears to be that in case the
'oung husband is killed, his widow NAV
'e provided for by the country.
An Englishman writing from Saar-
'ucken on July 18th, says can't help
that in all the shooting there
las yet been, the Prussians have had out /
nd out the best of it. Nothing could
'e worse than the Chassepot at short
anges. We see the Frenchmen spit
ing on their cartridges, sticking their
myers into their guns, and giving every
osslole sign that after few shots the ,
gets so foul that they don't J
now how to treat it.
The services of children have been
ni'sted In the var in Prussia. In all
ne principal city railroad depots through
hich the troops pass, societies have been
rmed for the purpose of furnishing re.
eshments to the soldiers. To this end,
'iunteer walters must be had, and calls
ere made, first upon the schoolbovs 10
me and hand the soldiers the food and
INK and youths of the better class
no have nothing to do in the dav. vol.
lteered, for the night service.