Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-03

There are only 1904 spoken languages.
The four seasons mustard salt, pep
per and vinegar.
There are said to be 90, 900 shoemakers
in Pennsylvania.
Fanatcisms are the blazing-up of
loose-textured minds.
They who have true light in themselves
seldom become satellites.
A Washoe Zeyphr" waited a railroad
train twenty feet from the track
Poetry seems to know most of Gods
world, History of the devils world.
One hundred and forty-four brewerios
keep Indiana supplied with malt pro-
ducts
A bad marriage is like an electric ma
chine, it makes you dance, but you can't
let go.
A drunken farmer ont West recently
chopped down 800 apple trees, to "spite
Betsy"
An Oregon toast over a glass of the
ardent, "Heres what makes us wear old
clothes"
Shot guns are cracking merry through
out the grain fields in the West-Caws
and effect.
The Chicago papers grow still more
quarrelsome, and offer greG inducements
for clubs.
Ambition often plays the wrestler's
trick of raising a man up merely to fling
him down.
"My enemies can do nothing against
me-" said NJ. "they cannot deprive me
of the faculty of thinking rightly or act
ing we'll"
In Wyoming the bride furnishes the
ring and the license, and the blushing
bridegroom falls into Mysteries
A cynical lady, rather inclined to firt,
says most men are like a cold-very
easily caught, but very difficult to get
rid of.
Among the pnblc observances of the
Fourth in Burlington, Iowa, was brick
laying match between a half breed III
dian and Caucasian.
The man who this year pays the high
est tax in Portsmouth, n. H., twenty
years ago drove a charcoal-cart into the
city for his INDECENT father.
Mobile Ala, has found anew material
for street-paving in cypress shavings. 1t
is said this road will remain firm and
solid from eight to ten years.
A Paris halter, whose stock was rid
died with bullets during the siege, now
sells the damaged goods at fabulous
prices as Souvenirs Of the war.
Near Marseilles they manufacture in a
factory paper from hop vines. The
paper is very white, strong, soft and
flexible, but said to be much liked in
Southern France.
The Southern Methodist Church, re-
porting last year $685. members, re-
ported also 21,002 infant baptisms, or
about one infant baptism for every twen-
ty-eight members.
That is long fence the Burlington
and Missouri Railroad is building. 1t
will put up not less than two hundred
miles of board fence this year at a cost
of S175, 900 to 100000
A bucolic Indiana wayfarer on Chi
cago train, being anxious to see what he
could see, thrust his head out of the
window and into another train, and now
shows signs of premature badness.
A new style of chandelier consists of a
double sets of globes, the upper one be-
ing over the gas tubes, while another set
is suspended underneath, filled with gold
fish and small fish of every description.
Avery modest Kentucky woman writes
to Louisville paper that the ladies OF
New York city are the homliest she has
ever seen, and that she also thinks that
she can now understand why it is that
Kentucky ladies are so much admired by
New Workers.
A Chicago boot-black was run over by
countryman and given $40 to stop
crying. This proved so satisfactory
that the mchin went into the business,
and tried it over again several times
during the day.
It is now safe to say that the grape
crop in California is out Of danger from
any source, and the product of wine in
this State for 1871 will not fall short of
100000 gallons, while it may reach
5000, 900 or possibly 100000.
When a man is unable to tell the time
by his watch, because there are two
hands, and he doesn't know (Which to
believe" it a tolerably sure sign that he
has partaken of more refreshments than
his nature requires.
French circus performer lately adj
vertised to jump from the centre of
London Bridge at a certain hour, ind
great crowd assembled to see the thing
done. The police stepped in, however,
and put a stop to it by arresting the
man on charge of attempted suicide,
A grumbler who was loud in complaint
because of the degeneracy of the times,
got this left-handed sympathy: "What
you say is undoubtedly true ; for re-
member that, when l was boy, /
heard my father say that, when he was
a boy, ne heard my grandfather say the
same thing.
A hoax was practiced upon the Aus
tralians recently, which represented that
a piratical expedition was fitted out in
San Francisco to make descent on the
Colonies. Much excitement, expense
and preparation for defense was the con-
sequence, when it was discovered that the
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