Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-15
News and lettings.

Indiana has struck oil
Deer are plenty in Virginia.
Three sheep for dollar in Detroit.
Wolves infest Mclean Co.. Iowa.
Blind Tom nets his guardian $50 900 s.
year
The mitten that never fts-The one you
get from lady.
spoiled child-The one that played with
a kerosene lamp
A goat is a good mixer. but succeeds bet
ter as : butter.
Cure for dry cough-Keep your throat
moistened at somebody's expense.
A gent lately caught cold by kissing a
Iady's snowy brow. Served him right
A frt who kept list of her admirers in
diary, wittily called it her him book.
The Chicago Posi- calls Senator McCreary
of Kentucky, x Senatorial sexton"
A white squirrel has been caught in Wis
cousin.
Galveston complains that its city officials
eat too much.
Philadelphia pays $500 year for cap
turing stray cows.
The Lake Superior mines have produced
about T. 600 tons of copper this year.
Merchants should sharpen their wits when
trade Is dull.
Milford, Pa, has seven times as many
women rs men.
A fire at Quincy, H., Tuesday morning
destroyed property worth $50, 900
Punch says that in some parts of England
/ the water is so hard that skating is kept up
all through the summer.
What difference there is in Young men
I Il r ~ IL
question as it is for others to pop corn.
| Somebody says that the Colestials get on T
American way of doing business, and there
will be plenty of China Astors among Us.
/ The Oregon legislature has elected Coloue
J. X. Kelly to the United States Senate. IN
place of George H. Williams.
Somebody, in describing beautiful lady,
says she has a face that painter might
dwell upon Rather broad face that
! An Iowa woman was treated for the chills
with fourteen kinds of medicine IN one day
| She will never shake again, and the {" doc
| tor - has absconded.
Kansas will pay it's outstanding debit
amounting to S239 900, during the current
month, and will still have a large balance in
the treasury.
| Ora ce Greenwood. in comparing different
boat is cspsized in squall. the most fastid-
ious ladies' man has profound respect for
the woman who can swim
A Hartford man who was carving bom.
some ice cream in paper. the other day
| held 1t up In q crowded car so that it melted
in a gently meandering stream, which
lcoursed down $50 velvet cloak worn by n
ady passenger. 1t ruined the cloak, and
the man said he was sorry
large number of women have been ar
rested the past week in Boston for shopIifting
In some of the most fashionable fancy good
stores. Several of the women were wives
of wealthy men.
A young Louisvillian enjoyed tete-G-tetr
with his beloved in a doctors study on n
recent evening till skeleton hanging up
began to rattle ominously. Both thought
ghosts, and fed 1t was found that a rat
was building his nest in the skull, and his
movements caused the rafting.
The clipper-ships FroEc aud GLorv of m,
Seas left San Francisco on the same day. one
for Liverpool and the other for Cork. were
In each others company for six weeks. than
separated, and reached their destination.
the same day, the Frohc arriving but air
hours before her competitor
An old maid OLA Crosse took a hot bricl
70 bed with her, and burned down the house
She wanted to keep her feet warm. and didn't
know any better way.
boy in Minneapolis, while hunting in
lumber yard for lost hen, found a naeksaa
containing two elegant gold watches. gold
breast-pln, gold ring, and an outsider an
Inn Piement used by burglars.