Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-02-03

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10 o'clock. AT another meeting of The
Directors it was voted to call in the bal.
ance of the 20 per cent. of stock vel
unpaid, and to at once take measures fol-
the purchase of stock.
= Hard and bitter and cruel are the
lives of the school girls in Grand Rapids
Mich, for there they suspend them from
school for gun-chewing.
- An Ohio man, whose pet bear last
week Rugged his little boy to death, re
fused to kill the beast, but finally, after
much urging, did consent to put him up
to be shot for, at the price of 500.
"A colored member of Virginia Leg.
islature recently remarked in debate that
If he did not express himself gramatic.
ally that it was the fault of those who
him in slavery.
A man in Taunton Mass. has put
up his ice by gradually filing about 90
flour barrels with water allowing it to
freeze, and then putting it into his cellar
covered with sawdust.
- Here's carpet-bagging for you :
Eight OF the twenty-five members of the
Minnesota State Senate, and fifteen of
the forty-eight members Of its House,
were born in New York. Not one of
either House is native of Minnesota.
Something to be noted as curious
in much early English is with great con-
densatiop of facts a remarkable redund-
ancy of words. For instance, this from
an old English ballad:
Two thousand heavy guns besides
L'hie,etse they took diso'
- There is little boy in Westport,
Conn, less than four years old, who has
acquired fondness for pipes and tobac-
co, cries for them, uses them wish some
apparent enjoyment, and has smoked sew.
eral entire cigars.
Seventeen years ago there was not
a house in Leavenworth, Kansas. Now
there are $4,000 inhabitants, twenty.sev.
en- schools, thirty churches, two theatres.
seven public halls, two jails, and hotels,
stores, factories and foundries in abund.
ance.
~ good old lady in New Jersey.
"past threescore years and ten" loves
the cause of foreign missions so much
that she has given up her snuff and sent
$40, which she calls snuf.money. to
the American Board. F" A rare example
Of sels-denial.'
- On Sunday, two ladies, accompan-
led by escorts, paid visit to large nun.
Der of New Haven drinking saloons. 70
see if they were observing the Sunday
law. Over twenty saloons were found
open, and the proprietors, it is expected,
wll be arrested for violation of the
lay.
Andrew Brentlinger, the Ohio muir
derer, is suffering the penalty of life.
lie pstltloned in a most touching appeal
calculated to move heart of stone. that
he might be hanged last Friday, but Gov.
Hayes telegraphed his regrets, and told
him thatas his sentence had been post.
poned hecould not be accommodated.
The married women Of Brownstown
Ind, are on the war path, and have held
q public meeting, in which they resoly-
ed against worthless, lazy, whining
husbands; resembling so many insoleDI
Egyptian mummies." All of which goes
to show that the jackson county women
will not do to trifie with.
= An ingenious wife in Des Moines.
has discovered the means Of curing her
lesser half of snoring, aud it is this;
She has gutta percha pipe, with cube
shaped ends; one she puts over his nose
and mouth, and the other over his ears
thus he consumes his own noise as
stove does its smoke, and wakes up in
stantly.
"A schoolmaster in Indiana, ongoiug
to his school house on a recent mornipg
n
found himself locked out by large num-
Der of bis scholars, who were on the in
side. He Immediately erected pole, as
cended to the roof of the house. and
choked the passage OF smoke from the
fiue- But they Immediately took awav
bis artificial ladder, and left him on the
comb OF the roof until his fingers and
ears were completely frozen, when he
was allowed to descend.