Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-15

= The highest compliment to bar.
ber-be dyed and made no sign.
= The majority of the militia of
Great Britain come nearer FIVE feet five
in hight than any other figure,
- Dresses cut square in the neck are
now the only correct style at evening
parties, low necks being completely SUI
perannuated.
"A cute fellow, who is just begin
ming his pathological studies says that
the cause of the potato rot is the rotary
motion of the earth.
= The Tribune says truly that the best
new departure the democrats have
made recentlyi is their departure from pow
er indefinitely in California.
- The New York Evangelist, which
gushed out in praise of the Tammany
ring at New York, unluckily just be-
fore the disclosures of the Times, takes
it all back, owns its error, and pitches
in now with the best of 'em.
- Frank Page of Groveland, Mass,
who was on an excursion to Plum Island,
near Newburyport, accidentally shot
himself while out in boat cunning on
Saturday. He exclaimed I'm shotl"
and died Immediately.
- Marriages are occurring at the aver
age rate of one hundred week in New
York about these times. As the fall ad-
vances, the matrimonial market will be-
come still more lively. The clergymen
are reaping rich harvest, and the di-
vorce lawyers are rejoicing in the pros
| pect of unlimited business.
A man in Kansas was present at
the funeral of neighbor Of whom no
good could honestly be said. But every
body was saying something, and this
man, not wishing to appear singular,
but being incapable of lying eulogy, re-
marked that it was "a nice, quiet corpse"
A bright pauper handed this request
to the pastor Of Skowhegan, Maine,
church on recent Sunday: "Mr. -
desires prayers for the overseers of the
poor, that they obey the laws of the
State and furnish him a decent pair of
boots or shoes to walk to meeting in
A Troy Judge has decided that ho-
tel keepers are liable for watches that
may be stolen from guests occupying
rooms " here are posted notices of safe
for the keeping of money, jewels and or
naments, the judge holding that watches
are not ornaments, but as useful during
the night as during the daytime.
- The present style of shoes is Grip
ping the women of our day. Ladies
shoemakers say that there is hardly a
young woman now who regards herself
at all fashionable who has not bunions
callosities, corns and enlarged joints
and that the crop of these ornaments
developed within the last four or five
years is astonishing and pitiful.
- There is no civilized country where
work is so poorly paid as in Germany, OF
where the earnings are in such dispropor.
ton to the expenses of living. The av'
erage earning cf workingman is tina.
lers per week Ga thaler is 668 cents OF
American gold), while it requires for a
family of six mem ers at least eight tba
lers. The professions are all very poor.
~ paid. A university professor rarely
gets more than sS00a year.
- An interesting case was tried before
an Evansville Ind.) justice few days
ago. A man named Dugan had been
killed by runaway horse. A subscrip.
ton was taken up for the benefit of the
widow and children. John Dugan
brother of the deceased, collected the
subscriptions and kept the money, claim.
ing that his brother was indebted to him
at the time of his death. On the tria
the widow obtained judgement, and the
charitable John had to disgorge.
A woman died last week in Penn.
sylvania who had been sick since 1889
of a malady unexplained and unremided
by the most skillful physicians Hel
house has been closed in fnneral-like still
ness for most of the time, and she wa.
almost unknown to her neighbors. She
had been out only three times during the
whole period, once in the great freshet o
1865 when she was obliged to be remov
ed for safety. She had superior educa
ton, extensive reading, and quick mem
DRY, but the death of daughter mad
her morbid and recluse.
"A pistol-shot was heard near tn
residence of a family in Clinton, Iowa
on recent evening, but they took n
particular notice of it. A little boy
however. rushed down stairs from hi
bed in alright, and burst into the sitting
room, asking anxiously, "why did tn