Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-09
General STEMS.

can sue her husband for money borrowed of
her.
A benevolent eastern man had his photo
graph neatly framed and sent to the Wiscon-
sin sufferers.
The new Biographies will have to state
that the principal industry, of Muscatinc,
Ia, is the manufacture of :" sauer kraut, "
which is shipped down the Mississippi.
Many young girls are suffering with dis
ease and curvature of spine, produced, the
doctors affirm, from no other cause than the
wearing of the high French heeled boots.
The Canadians object to the claim of the
Yankees " that Thanksgiving is an Amer-
can custom which Canada. by mere force of
attrition, has adopted. They say they find
their authority for it in the Pentateuch.
The Africans consider the white ant as Il
rare delcacy. Mr.. Smeathams, an English
traveller, pronounces them to be delicate
nourishing and wholesome, resembling in
taste sugared cream or sweet almond paste"
A Salisbury Comm man recently hitched
yoke of oxen to horse that " laid back in
the breechng." The horses head was not
put on firmly enough to test the question
whether he OF the oxen were the strongest.
Large quantities of walnuts were raised
this year on Salmon brook in CRANKY, Ct,
n tributary of Pennington river. On some
farms the yield was from 20 to 100 bushels.
Walnuts are selling there from one to two
dollars per bushel
F. e.. Perry, of Norwich, N. Y, has just
been fitted with II patent wax nose which
can hardly be distinguished from first class
natural one. Mr.. Perry wears also glass
eye, wig, and full set of false teeth, and
can hardly be said to be a self made man.
There is nothing on European railroads to
compare with our day drawing room and
night Pullman sleeping cars and ride of "a
hours on the continent or in Great Britain is
an exhausting, uncomfortable experience
that requires several days to recover FROM
severe storm at Thibodeaux, Louisiana,
blew down a house, killing two men and Sc
riously injuring two others. A little boy was
caught in the air and landed three hundred
yards away, where he fell, uninjured. Upon
alghting, he exclaimed: 81 tell YOU. had n
sweet ride
One member of family ut Reading Pa,
was not long ago killed by IL dog, another
shot himself through the hand a third was
crippled for life in brick-yard, all had the
small poX ut the same time, last spring. and
the other day the head and father of this
chapter of accidents fell from bridge re-
ceiving fatal injuries
A systematic, us well as ambitious Young
farmer in GAINESVILLE, o., made vow Mt the
time of his marriage that he would plant 40
peach or apple trees for each child born dur
ing the first ten years of his married life.
He's been married seven years, and has
about 800 trees. lie talks about going back
on his VOW He hasn't the land to spare.
The New York Evening Post argues that
ms the dimnutiOn Of taxes so far has not di
mlnishcd revenue, it is proof that the taxes
IN question were wanton impositions on the
peopleand not necessary sources of revenue.
1t adds: Congress has not yet reached the
point in its remission of duties where the rev.
enue begins to be affected; but it is able. and