Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-25
General Stems.


Connecticut woman who contributed two
strings of red peppers.
A victim of Greeey's handwriting, says
"If Horace had written that inscription on
the wall in Babylon, Belshazzar would have
been good deal more scared than he was"
Hunting is fine amusement there is II
thrilling excitement about boarding the wild
chipmunk IN his native fence corner that Is
only cqualed by that when the ferocious
woodchuck is brought to bay.
An unsophisticated Norwegian in northern
Iowa put II pound of powder in his coat-tail
pocket, and after taking hearty smok" put
his pipe on top of the powder 1t didn't kill
him. but his pants had to be mended.
G. n. Campbell IN enterprsing printer of
Bloomington. ILL.,, has just been arrested mt
that place. and it is found that he has bur-
glarizcd every business house in the place
and fired II number of houses and barns.
The >Vassar college girls by their persistent
appreciation of "sap-jacks" have worn out
one griddle, and the other day inauguratcd II
new one, ten feet by eight in dimensions and
capable of frying 500 cakes ut IL single fry.
A young lady in West Virginia lately ex-
tracted II sewing needle from her body which
she had swallowed when three years old
After wandering about for Is years it had
finally reached the surface and was taken
out.
Some one thinks that n young man must
have very fancy opinion of himself, when
Ill. l.:
and then cooly informs her that it will be ut
least two or three ycais before he is able to
marry. We think so, too.
A man in Topeka, Kan, disguised mt the
boast of II puffcd-up parent in II neghborng
town that he has % children, settles him with
the truthful statement that he himself is the
father of "a children and has given % good
educations. He deserves to be pensioned.
A young miss of IA was recently sent by
express through the company of Wells, Far
go II Co., from Vallejo, CAL, to Annapolis,
Md. She was under the care of over IL doz-
en- different agents, and had nothing to do
but obey directions, and arrived safely &. o.
ID.
Buckingham Smith, II gentleman Of st.
Augustine, Fla, who recently died leaving n
handsome property, bequeathcd the whole of
it mpartially to the colored population of
his city, to be used in the erection of schools,
hospitals, asyums, &c.
At the last term Of the criminal court in
Mercer county, n. j., which has $4,000 in
habitants there WAS not II single person pre-
scnted sufficiently criminal to be sent to the
state prison. The lawyers ut that bar are in
terrible state, and declare they cannot live
unless some criminals are imported.
According to the Presque Isle, Me-, SIM
riSe, this is the way they "do' bear-hunting
in Maine: "While Charles H. Pease was
blazing trees in Mapleton plantation, he saw
bear, IL sight so rare, il raised his perspira-
ton. As he'd no gun he quickly run to save
himself from slaughter his axe he swung
he jumped and sprung to give the foe wide
quarter. Though scared was Pease, with
trembling knees, yet no less scared was Bru-
in; for out he struck to save his pluck-so
both escaped from ruin This scene occurred
the twenty-third of August, seventy-one,
when Pease and bear both frightened were,