Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-28

large deposits OF coal are kept, XIII nSn
in streams where such waste water flows.
There's metre dactyllic, pondaic,
A metre for laugh and for moan
But the metre alone not prosaic,
Is the meet her by moonlight alone.
The prejudice against church organs
is still strong in Scotland Many Of the
people will not enter o church that has
one.
Preachers in Iceland are not very well
paid for their services. Not one of them
has an income of one hundred dollars
year.
By means of simple and ingenious
process a beautiful description of artifi-
cial ivory is now produced from india
rubber.
Everything that looks to the future
elevates human nature for never is life
so low, or so little, as when occupied with
the present.
A lady in California with fortune of
half a million has married "heathen
Chinee"-a poor, miserable specimen of
the tribe at that.
There is horse on the stage route
from New Lisbon to Grand Rapids wis
consin) that is twenty-nine years old,
and has run over the route for nineteen
years.
Never overwhelm your friends by beg
ging them to make themselves at home,
or they will soon wish they were there.
Show by your actions rather than your
words that you are glad to see them.
A pert fellow seeing in the street an
old woman who drove some asses, said,
"Adieu, mother of assess" "Adieu,
adieu, my son" answered she. The man
felt his ears grow as he walked along.
At meeting of town council an
alderman complained of the absence of a
certain councilman. "Sir," exclaimed
councilman, Indignantly, "you ought to
have made that complaint when he was
present ~
A widow, a clearinghouse keeper out
in Kansas, who entered a complaint
against boarder, gave her age as %,
when she is so if she is day, and the
enraged justice dismissed the case with
out lnqullnS any 1urtner.
A marriage by matchlight was recently
consummated in Kansas City. The
Squire was in hurry, and so was the
couple, and neither would wait until the
lamp could be illumined. The fee was
paid under a neighboring gas lamp.
IT is said that the leaves of the gera-
Mum are an excellent application for
cuts where the skin is rubbed off, and
other wounds of that kind. One or two
leaves must be bruised and applied to
the part, and the wound will be cicatrised
in short time.
A shrewd little fellow was entrusted to
the care of his uncle, who fed the boy
very poorly. One day he happened to
see a greyhound, whereupon he asked
the little fellow if knew what made the
dog so poor. The reply was, 81 expect
he lives with his uncle"
GAS my wife at the window one day,
Stood watching q man with o monkey,
4 cart came along with broth of boy
Who was driving stout little donkey,
To my wife then spoke, by way Of joke,
There's relation ofyours in that carriagep
To which she replied, as the donkey she sped,
'Ah, yes-a relation by marriage!"
A minister asked little boy who had
been converted, "Does not the devil tell
you that you are not a Christian % Eyes,
sometimes" Well, what do you say
to him ?" II tell him." replied the
boy, with something of Luther's spirit,
that, whether | am Christian OF not,
it is none of his business"
The English postal cards sometimes
form the basis of libel suits. A man
received one from his wifc's brother, in
which it was written " Your unmanly
conduct to my sister is known to me.
1t shall be known to the world at large,
if you do not reform, you coward" The
receiver of the epistle sued for SANDER,
and got ESQ damages.
A young lady of Bainbridge, made
bargain with Curtis Cooper some fifteen
years ago, whereby she was to have
"ewe lamb and its increase until she
was twenty-one years old, in exchange
for gold watch and key. She was but
six years old at the time, and now sues
Mr.. Cooper for 1864 lambs, or their
value, at 81 per head, which is S64, 526.
An advertisement is going the round
of the German papers, stating that
German firm in England has been es-
tablished since 1858 for marrying for
eigners to English parties" Indeed,
it is stated that the firm has erich par
ties" always on hand, from all parts Of
Europe, ready to be married. Discre-
ton and delicacy are guaranteed, and
unexceptional references are offered.
An Illinois constable made return on
the back of paper thus II executed
this subpeeny by trying to read it to
John Mack, but he was drivin' cattle on
horseback, and run faster than | could,
and kept up such hollerin' don't know
whether he heerd or not. This is the
best 1 could do, and don't whether tho
subpeeny is served according to law or
not"
Down in Pennsylvania town the other
day some INSCRIPTIONS fellows, who had
been cunning, compelled poor itine-
rant italian image pcddler to stand in the
road until they had shot every one of his
images from his head, to the imminent
danger of himself and the utter destruc-
ton of his wares. And then they would
not pay the poor man penny for the
damage done him.
Tur TFRRrBIT SI1FFTRINGS IN PERSIA