Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
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regal authority are swept away. BirtnS are
in order, however, and many little waits are
taking their first view of the world from q
prairie standpoint, just too late to see what n
nice city old Chicago was.
The postmaster at North Bennington was
somewhat embarrassed, the other day, on
being asked by n lady if there was n letter
for my cow" Being disposed to treat her
politely, he replied that there was nothing for
anybody's cow. The lady, being equally en-
barrassed and also disposed to be polite. said
she inquired for Mike Howe.
Maine is sending granite for the construc-
ton of two of the largest bridges in the
world. From Mosquito Mountain, in Frank
fort, it goes to st. Louis to build the piers of
the great railroad bridge across the Mississ-
ippi at that point. The great bridge across
the East River. from New York TO Brooklyn
is receiving material from Bluehill.
Mrs. Trip and Mrs. Parker, the mother
and mother-in-law of n deceased Mrs. Henry
Parker, mt Cambridge, n. Y, recently met
Mt the grave of their daughter to plant it with
flowers and bedew it with tears, but became
angry over the arrangement of the ceremony,
and, after n personal encounter with the bare
knucklcs, departed, leaving no sign of love
for the dead.
A story is told of an absent-minded couple
in Worcester, Mass. who, while out one even
ing last summer, performing the social duty of
making calls. rang the bell at the residence
of an acquaintance, and asked the master Of
the house. who came to the door, if his wife
was at home. rs it possible you did not
know of her DEATH" he asked, in great sur
prise. Goodness, gracious mel" she ejac-
ulated, Don't you remember, john, we
attended her funeral three months ago?"
The wife was so chagrined, and John so
angry, that they didn't speak all the way
home, and the bereavcd husband hasn't
recognized either of them since.
A clerk in the post-ofiice department at
Washington lately refused promotion, Civ
ing rs his reasons that he is a single man,
has no intention of getting married. and his
} salary is more than sufficient for his support
that, rs his father is employed in the depart
mept, his W promotion might give rise to
Z unpleasant gossip and charges Of favoritism
, and that, us II fellow clerk in his division
contemplates marriage, and has long hoped
= for promotion, an increase of salary would be
, more acceptable to his friend than to him.
, self. For these reasons he respectfully but
firmly declines promotion at present, saying
that the time may come when he will stand
in need ofa larger salary, in which case he
will not hesitate to accept clerical prefer
ment.
The men that can lifv n ton, or half that
amount, never happened to step across GU,
path, and we should step the other way il
they did; but II first-class Chicago journal
that wouldn't have the face to lie after whaI
u the ministers have told them about the .judg
: mentof fire, says that John Gilvin of Decatur
n while in the burned city, seeing severa
s men struggling with a heavy safe, remarked
Il Get hi of my way and seizing it like
I Samson, lifted it up. walked to the wager
with it, 10 or IL feet, and threw it, on tn,
# wagon. He caught on the bottom edges
raised it up with the force levered agains
If his breast, and walked off with it,. TIL,
s proprietor said it weighed 2454 pounds. The
n man then offered to bet $500 that he coult