Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-07-27
Facts and Fancies.

Nevada Is yegetaung III minerals OF all
kinds.
Mobile exports more oranges than
MeSsina.
st. Louis has forty ight school-houses,
valued at 81, 100000.
A Toledo genius starts baulky horses
by blowing in their ears,
Boston sells 10000 bean-poles year
to suburban agriculturists,
An Illinois man breaches Sundays
and drives stage week days,
In Heligoland all foreigners ale called
Nskit," which in their dialect means
dirt.
in New Orleans recently, a woman
checked herself to death with pair Of
suspenders.
The Empress Eugene is in treaty for
the sale Of her diamonds, which are
vlaued at G320,OO0
Ii you ale afraid you should scream
when your tooth is being pulled, you
should hold your jaw.
A Philadelphia Judge has decided that
n procession has no right to interrupt
the ordinary travel on the streets.
An exploring party in Wichita county
Texas, found an arrow head Of pure gold
and very fine specimens OF copper.
A man, commenting upon the ruins OK
Pompeii, said that it was very imposing
city, but very much out Of repair.
A patriotic Indiana youth took his
fathers COW to the pound, and realised
fifteen cents for Fourth of July expenses,
Bismarck had to kiss sixty handsome
young ladies' at recent reception, and
did it without the assistance OF a clerk.
A parliamentary speaker lately re-
marked that innocence is like an UNI
brella, when once we have lost it We
may never see 1t again.
A sarcastic young lady says she never
was so much in love with man that two
rainy days together in country house
would not effcctually cure her.
The excess Of women in Great Britain,
as revealed by the recent census, is eX-
citing much attention. The dispropor-
ton between the sexes is 9l3, 1872.
A little boy, after watching the burn
ing of the schoolhouse until the novelty
of the thing had ceased, started down
street, saying: "Golly Is glad the
old things burned; didn't have my
jogfry lesson nohow !"
A Virginia paper is puzzled to know
whether whiskey should be spelled with
an e. Spelled any way it is bad spell
for most people, and it would not be
bad to drop all the letters Ond so get rid
of the word, in hope the thing itself
would follow.
It is said that when Brigham Young
was asked the other day which son he
had at West Point, the conundrum SO
staggered him, that he was obliged to re-
fer to the family record to solve it.
"Do they miss me at home?" is not
much sung in that family.
yarlin, who was Minister Of Finance
of the Commune, was one of those who
died with the greatest courage. But, as
singular phenomenon, it is related
that his hair which had been raven
black, turned white in the interval be-
tween his arrest and execution.
A man was urged TO take out policy
for the benefit of his wife to the amount
of five thousand dollars. He asked his
wife's opinion, when she replied with
charming frankness. "Why, my dear,
you will, of course, act according to
your own judgment; but, in case of
your decease, it would make me more
desirable widow"
The Illinois Independent, edited by
Mr.. Steele, says "A printer last week
proposed to go into partnership with us.
His name is Doolittle. The firm name
would sound very bad, either way you
put it Steal & Doolittle, or DO Little
l. Steel We can't join. One of us
would soon be in the poorhouse and the
other in the penitentary."
A herd of two hundred and fifty butta-
loes was recently driven into the Missouri
river, near the Milestone Indian Agency.
| A few reached the left bank in safety,
few others were killed in the river, and
the remainder of the herd persisted in
the rapid, treacherous river, which at
the time was swollen by the flood, and
their bodies hoated with the current
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