Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-01

sane asylum or some other place, for treatment Of
sofleding of the BRAIN"
Yours truly, w. A. MAcNuLTY.
- A Lewiston young man addressing
a religious meeting the other event G
alluded to something as according to
Hoyle."
The Dutchman was mistaken who
thought New York would not go Repub-
ljcan-because the Democrats were TOO
Emmany."
Two families lately removed from
Maryland to Ohio in a long block wagon
with a stove-pipe sticking out of the top,
after the manner of 80 years ago.
= Many young girls are suffering with
disease and curvature Of the spine, pro-
duced, the doctors affirm, from no other
cause than the wearing of the high
French-heeed boots.
F. G. Perry of Norwich, n. Y,
has just been fitted with a patent wax
nose, which can hardly be distinguished
from first-class natural one. Mr.. Perry
wears also glass eye, wig, and full
set of false teeth, and can hardly be said
to be a self made man.
- There is an old lady in Orange
county, N. c., who may be said to bring
her religion into every day life, as she
has named all her furniture after the
Scriptures and Apostles. Whenever she
wants to sit in her easy chair she tells
her servant to bring up the Apostle
Paul and put it near the fire"
In Albany, the other night, wo-
man met her former husband at we'd
ding party. They had been divorced for
ten years, and had not met before in all
that time. A short chat at supper, and
little Irritation afterward, settled mat
tiers, and they were remarked the next
day.
A lady of Cambridge, Mass, left
her little baby in its cradle while she
went into the next room, and immediate
ly after, hearing it cry. rushed back just
in time to see a large rat leap from the
cradle, and found that it had bitten the
child's hand in terrible manner.
= They have hard heads and non-ex.
plosive kerosene in New-Bedford, Mass.
An old gentleman, 10 years of age, fell
down stairs recently with an armful OF
books and lighted kerosene lamp. The
old gentleman's head struck against and
completely demolished wooden pail
but his skull remained in hape.
- AS tie mail stage from RockIand
to Belfast, Me-, was passing through
Rockport, recently, large hog that was
in the road rushed at the team, caught
the leaders hind leg in his mouth and BIT
it severely, tearing the fl ssh AMI tendons
in such manner as TO probably spoil
the horse. The stage people intend TO
make claim upon the owner Of the hog
for the value of the horse.
= An Illinois robber conceived the
brilliant idea of going down narrow
chimney to enter house. Years before
the owner of the house had carried out
the idea Of bricking up the fire place
The negotiator of unwilling loans con-
Guided that he would rather fatten in
prison than starve to death in chimney
and made such noise that the wall was
torn down and the chimney swallow dis
gorged. The Illinois State Prison is said
to be very pleasant one as prisons 60.
- Hete is an item for moderate drink.
eTs and others: The distillers in thi;
country are now agitating the question
of the distillation of spirits from the
garbage of cities. In this new process:
the garbage is gathered from the houses
of citizens, dumped into watts, boiled, the
grease skinned of, and the pulpy mas,
fermented and distilled. A barrel of gar
bage yields four gallons of proof spirits
Any one who in his peregrinations has
encountered one of our city swill carts
and enjoyed its invigorating odor, must
enter upon the consumption of spirits so
manufactured with peculiar zest