Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-11-30
facts and Fancies.

facts and Fancies.
Coming to grief-Mceting trouble half
way.
Light employment-Building castles
in tue air.
A woman voted in Detroit and nobody
objected
Cool procecding-An ice man clipping
with nice girl.
1t is easier for a man to be engaged
than to be engaging.
It's no uncommon thing for hot words
to produce GOODNESS.
A Wisconsin Justice Of the Peace
Granted himself divorce.
"Thunderation Samuel " is the name
of famous Western Indian fighter.
Women now manage most Of the pub
lie libraries in Massachusetts.
Some of the New York cooks will kill
and broil chicken in fifteen minutes.
One shirt factory in Baltimore has
fifty sewing machines running by steam
The tea plant has done very well this
year in South Carolina, Tennessee, and
California.
A New Orleans thief stole FIVE cases
Of tobacco, and now chews the cud OF
reflection in Jail.
The common law says that each may
so use his own that he does not abuse
the right of his neighbor.
A man reported that he couldn't find
q word in the dictionary, because the
book hadn't got an index
II is not until we have passed through
the furnace that we are made to know
how much dross is in our composition.
If in our school days the rule of three
is proverbially trying, how much harder
in after life do we find the rule of one
Sponge paper is now manufactured in
France. The materials used are ordin-
airy papcrpulp and finely divided sponge.
The army bakery in Washington is
said to finnish soldiers with four pound
loaycs of bread for each pound OF flour
used.
An Indignant gas consumer says that
there's no use in abusing the gas COM
pauics, for they've always vile retort
ready.
physician has discovered that the
"nieht-mare," in nino cases out Of ten,
is produced from ow;0g bill to the
printer.
The largest salary p il to railroad
official in the United ; tes is $4,000,
and President Gowan q the Reading
Road gets it.
The Massachusetts mills have sent an
agent to Hong Kong to employ coolies
for operatives. A cargo of them is eX
pectcd at Salem.
Smoking is very much on the decline
in England. At the universities not one
man in five now smokes, whereas a few
years ago at least four in five did.
Danton said to his executioncr:-" [
have had a good time Of it; let me so to
sleep then you will show my head to
the people it is worth the trouble.
An epitaph on tombstone reads:
Oh. fatal gun, why was it him
That You must kill so dead?
Why could you not have missed your aim,
And fred above his head?
Over the door of cobbler's shop in
Savannah, Ga, appears this legend ::
&" Boots and shoes is made hear-ladies
and shentlcmens repaired. Kun IN
hear. :"
In England the extent Of land covered
with trees has increased forty thousand
acres in the last thirty-fyc years, and
ree-planting is encouraged among land
holders by liberal premiums.
A fellow feeling: Indignant Old
Lady" Guard do you allow smoking
in this compartments" Obliging Guard
.-Haw, wccl, if name o the gentlemen
object, you can take bit draw O. thu
pipe"
A man in Ohio, who was acquitted OF
murder on a plea of insanity, secured
the lawyers by giving them a mortgage
on his farm but now repudiates the
mortgage on the ground that he was in
sane when he made it.
A bashful young man was escorting a
t u,,,iti,m oU 6. IoLo1 don't tell onvbody
,.o,, h5t,,oa 49, mn home " "Don't he
oof Sm Ds >, ro,,linJ bC "I'm rs much
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" Ma, why don I you speak a Sl!
| little Jake NY doh you say SUM sum-
funny WHAT can say Ion .
you see m pu"y LYING IV1SN Nv" WI
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