Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-05-04
WHOLE NO. 1884.
OLgh AND NEW.

Set what you please, but don't SET still.
-Jo&h Billings Farmers ARatnor.
Here we 90.
A high destiny-hanging.
An old revolver--the earth.
AROUND ROBM-f'eathers, of course
New York bellies wear striped
stockings.
Old style waters are again coming
into use.
1t is denied that Brigham Young
is about to marry.
God always gives us light enough
for the next step.
1t is understood that the High Old
Joint Commission have got through.
Such a getting up stares, Butler
staring down Davis.
Moorish styles of Jewelry are COM
ing into fashion.
Song Of the billiard ball" Oh,
Carom me back"
Young women should set good ex-
amplcs for the young men are always
following them.
Language was given us that we
might say pleasant things to and Of
each other
Although one swallow will not
make a summer, still u pin maliciously
inserted in chair will make one spring.
The wife is the sun Of the social
system. Unless. she attracts, there is
nothing to keep heavy bodies, like hus,
bands, from flying off into space.
Texas has new game in cards
one holds revolver, the other holds
the cards. A coroner holds the in
quest.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says
there is no use quarrelling with a wo-
man, the press, a railroad company or
the telegraph.
There are fourteen thousand heath
en- Chinese in San Francisco, who own
$4,000 in real estate, and 81, 100000
in personal property.
There is no passion of the human
heart, that promises 50 much, and pays
50 little as recenge. Josh Billings said
that.
There is one stimulant that never
fails and yet never intoxicates-duty.
Duty puts blue sky over every man
up in his heart may be-into which the
sky-larI, happiness, always goes singing.
-Grecley is excited over the offer of
one Of his subscribers to sell him bee
tree forest. He thinks bees could be
raised to advantage as food for young q
chickens. Thinks 'twould cure them
of the gapes.
An exchange says: "We are in
receipt Of two poems, one on the 'Throb-
bing Brain, and the other on a Bleed
ing Heart We will wait until we re-
ceive one on the Stomach Ache, and
publish all three together"
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines declares,
it is said, that of more than one hund-
red lawyers who were opposed to her
in her protracted suits, seven committed
suicide and fitty-six drank themselves
to DEATH
A young man wants to know what
business he had better go into that will
enable him to occupy high position in
so ,iety. Lei him try the roofing bust
ness In that trade q smart man will
soon get up to the top of the ladder.
-"Yomg man," said minister to
youth in his congregation, "do you
know what relations YOU sustain in the
world?" Eyes, sir; two cousins and
But l don't intend to
sustain them any longer"
A traveller, we are told, being in
wild country where he could find no
provision for himself or dog. cut off the
dogs tail and broiled it for his own sup
per, and gave the dog the bone.
THE WHOLE OF IT.
The woman of the coming time P
Shall man to vote appoint her?
Well, yes or no; your bottom dime
He'll do as she's min ter
We know she will or else she won't
Twill be the same as now:
And if she does, or if she don't,
God bless her, anyhow!
There is man in Glen's Falls, n.
Y. who won't believe any stories about
the sagacity of dogs. He says that
dogs haven't common sense. In proof
of his assertion he relates how he poured
kerosene on ogand set it, fire, just
to have little fun, as he was lonely
during his wife's absence, and that dog
actually run under the barn belonging
to him. and lay there, and set the barn