Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-10
Facts and Fancies.

N.Y.
st. Louis Transfers correct their mules
with pickaxes.
Prairie chickens will be scarce this
year owing to the frequent rains.
A stylish bonnet in California costs
more than mule.
A man whom we can put up with-A
good hotel keeper.
Nine-tenths Of all the school teachers
in Massachusetts are women.
Mr. Dadd, of Iowa, is the "dad" of
nineteen children-eight pairs and three
aces.
The first ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor and the fourth wit.
At Atlanta, Georgia, the municipal
propose to legislate against
COWS loafng on the sidewalk.
A Missouri panther, hunted down by
a brave party, proved to be large yellow
dog which had gotlost.
An apothecary lately sent in bill to
widow lady, which run thus : "To cur
ing your husband until he died p
lightning knocked the trowel out of a
plasterer's hand at Nevada, during q re-
cent storm, without injuring the man.
An Iowa man ate five dozen boiled
eggs and drank quart of beer on
wager the other day. The result was
widow and several orphans.
A young man stepped in 20 n book-shop
and said he wanted "a young mans
companion" "Well, sill" said the book
seller, "there's my only daughter.
A crusty old bachelor says that '1ove
is wretched business, consisting of q
little signing, little crying, q little
dying, and a deal of lying"
The word for the hour-be cleansed.
Scatter disinfectants, remove every cause
of disease, be careful of your personal
habits. And you will be happy.
"My dear Madam" observed the po-
lite DR.. Johnson, "pray consider what
your fattery is worth before you choke
me with it."
Plainfeld, VT, boasts an eight year
old damsel who harnesses and drives a
pair of spirited horses that nobody else
can approach.
When the priests in Rome wish to give
you a blessing, they say "Bless you
here present, and all the absent ones
you love"
"Salt" is the subject of school
boys latest composition "The salt is
spice which spoils the potatoes, if you
forget to put it on"
The Boston Times counts up twenty
seven candidates for the next governor
ship thus far, to say nothing of those
who are quietly " indulging hope"
Twelve thousand acres of land were
sold near Winchester, Tenn, few days
ago, at ten cents per acre. 1t is all
mountain and heavily timbered.
An Indiana widow so worked upon a
young mans fears by threatening to
marry him that he turned over all his
property to her and ran away.
A matrimonially- inclined contemporary
says that a girl with three thousand-dol-
lars year, or more, is always an object
of interest, because she has so much
principal.
A city evening journal certifes to the
existence of young lady who took out
fifty-seven hairpins from her couture,
and yet her hair did not come down.
1t is announced in England that the
Queens second son, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, is to be married to daughter Of
the King of Denmark, sister of the
Princess of Wales.
A remarkable family lives in Dellas
County, Ark The father is 10S years
old, the mother LOG, and the two are the
parents of twenty-nine children-ffteen
boys and fourteen girls.
A gentleman at the Round Lake camp
meeting said he had been married TWEEN.
ty-five years, and had never given his
wife a crossword, Alas never to know
the joys of making up"
A photograph of the lace purchased
by Kate Chase, wife of Senator Sprague,
is retained in the shop at Paris, it being
the finest lace ever made, and costing
S1S, 1000 for six yards.
Commercial instinct-Dugald "Did
We hear that Sawney McNab was taken
up for stealth coo p Donald: "Hoot,
foot, the stipid bodie =? Could he no
bocht it an no paid fort"
"Bill," said Rob, "why is that tree
called the weeping willow ?" cause
one of the sneaking, plaguey things grew
near the schoolhouse and supplied the
master with switches"
A Methodist conference in Iowa has
resolved that the movement now being
made to enfranchise woman is both wise
and just, the genius Of our government,
the rights of woman, and the good of
society, alike requiring it,"
On the 22d of April, 1878, James Riv.
ington, a royalist, began the publication
of a newspaper in New York, entitled
" The New York Gazetteer; or, The Con-
necticut, New Jersey, Hudson's River,
and Quebec Weekly Advertiser"
A crusty old bachelor sends us the fol-
lowing COMMUNICATIVE is the differ
ence between honeycomb and honey
moon A honeycomb consists of num-
Der of small "cells, and honeymoon
consists of one great "sell. "
According to one of the resolutions
ately adopted at a woman's rights meet
ng, "one of the most detestable sights
ever seen is parcel of old bachelors
around smoking, and talking
Of the horrors of married life."