Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-07-20
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and FancieS.
Mere matter Of form-Fitting dress.
An old miser starved to death in an
Albany barn with 1885, in his pocket.
An Illinois gentleman has taken gold
medal for raising !, 900 varieties of apples.
There are 1868 collegiate institutions in
the United States, eighteen being in New
England.
The Lutherans in the United States
number 1900 ministers, 1851 churches,
and nearly 100000 communicates
A down-east editor says that since the
recent rain the farmers care smiling
like new shingles on patched roof.
The IndianaS State Medical Association,
at recent meeting, expelled one of its
members because he advertised his pro-
fession.
A boy in Lancaster, Pa, in sliding
down pole, caught gold ring he had
on his finger in a spike and the whole
skin, nail and all, came off the finger in
tact.
A strong mind is more easily impress
ed than weak one you shall not as
readily convince fool that you are
philosopher, as philosopher that you
are fool.
In the vcstry of the Notre Dame, at
Paris, they exhibit portion of the
vertebrm of the neck of the Archbishop
who was shot in 1948, with the bullet
still fixed in it,
There is now in the State of Mas'a a.
chusetts one mile OF railroad to every
five miles of area. A similar ratio for
the whole country would give an aggre-
gate of more that GOO, 900 miles OF line.
A Bainbridge serenader who mourn
fully warbled I'm lonely tonight, love,
without thee" had his loneliness allevi-
ated by number of dogs, who made it
lively enough for him for the balance Of
the night
1t is comfort to be criticized. Few
things please the writer better. Censure
is better than Indifference. When man
finds that q woman will not love him, the
next best thing is to get her to quarrel
with him.
The Kansas City Missouri Journal
says that about 500,000 head of cattle
will be received in the western markets
this season from Texas. Already 2S7 900
head have been received by the Kansas
Pacific Railroad.
| An Indiana artist was recently fined 81
for sprinkling Scotch snuff on the NOUS
tache of sleeping lawyer. tits said the
force expended by that lawyer in sneez-
ing would have sufficed to have run a
windmill for q week.
The Indian substitute for tobacco is
| the bark of red willow. 1t is scraped
fine and dried. When smoked it pro-
duces no sickness or headache, and the
Indians of Wisconsin who use it turn
from tobacco with disgust.
A young man in Ohio hung his vest,
the pocket of which contained sixty
dollars in greenbacks, near brush heap,
which he afterwards set fire to. He was
next day enquiring whether the govern
ment would make good his loss.
/ a gentleman on getting soda, was
retiring from the store without the usual
little ceremony which follows that oper
alton. "Recollect, sir, said the polite
proprietor If you lose your pocket
book, you didn't pull it out here"
A local paper asserts that the dogs of
Calhoun, Ga, have become so habituat-
ed to having tinware attached to their
tails that whenever one of them sees
tin kettle lying in the road he backs up
to it and waits for somebody to tie it on.
A correspondent of the Bangor Wig
writes that q horse and COW had a
pitched battle Sunday in field. The
COW hooked the horse, making wound
four inches in length the horse kicked
the COW in the head, instantly killing
her.
The GAINESVILLE Recorder says that mis-
chievous boys attending the schools till
their pockets with locusts, and, at q given
signal, each boy taps on his pocket,
causing the locusts to give forth their
deafening, doleful cry, as if forty chill
dren had been whipped.
| A Louisiana paper, in apologizing for
the editor being drunk, says there are
so many rattle snakes there that he has
to keep tight" to keep from teing
poisoned from their bites. He don't be-
iieve that tincture of iodine will cure
bite, no matter what the doctors say.
The following speech is attributed to a
member of the Legislature of Pennsylva-
mia Il known womin, Mr.. Speaker
say it with no disrespect; know'um;
I have had a heap to do with'um.
They'rs useful class, and-and yet with
the best of 'um you may have trouble.
A faithful old dog who had run with a
Louisville fire company for years, and
always made it part of his duty to keep
people from standing on the hose at fires,
fell victim the other day to misplaced
confidence in policeman and Il piece of
poisoned liver The engine company
turned out and gave the old fellow a big
funeral; but they did not enjoy it half so
much as they would if the funeral had
been the policeman's.
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