Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Facts and FaDCiCS.


A crack corps-The burglars.
On the rise-A bakers stock.
Capital sport-Money-hunting.
Flat acknowledging on your back.
Advice to doctors-Live and let live.
A "dip in the briny"-Picklcd Pork.
The height of the scason-Fahronheit.
Something til chalk down-The price
of milk.
The King of Burmah has proclaimed
internal free trade.
There is a county in Iowa which does
not contain single tree.
Dresden takes the lead of German
cities as a resort Of Americans.
A Southern lady has been poisoned
by chewing green sewing silk.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, and
it is soap that is next to charity.
Cod-livor oil loses it's disagrccablc
flavor by maceration with coffee.
OF the 33 Scotch countries, IA have a
smaller population in 1871 than they had
in 1861.
An Ohio girl committed suicide by
taking strychninc because her mother
boxed her ears.
Why are rocks the most revolutionary
birds? Because they are always chat
tcring high treason.
Some young ladies now wear small
mirrors set in gold hung on their neck
laces instead of lockets.
High judicial authority has decided
that the coolly trade is virtually the slave
trade, and the vessels engaged in it IRE
pirates in the eye of the law.
To fattcr a person adroitly, one mus
know three things-what they are, what
they think they arc, and what they want
other people to think they are.
The 1900 heather Chinese in San
Francisco don't make much noise in the
world, but they own S74,OOO in real
estate and 81, $4,000 i'll personal prop
erty.
TO be called y " nrt' is the best pro-
lection for man and the most danger
Gus reputation for woman rs in either
case nothing serious is expected from
them.
A trunk factory out West was lately
superseded by II saloon. The old sign,
it is reported, was retained by the new
proprietor, who economically changed
the L to ID.
1t is estimated that within the past
hundred days not less than one million
dollars in gold has been expended in
Texas, west of the Colorado, for becyes,
stock cattle and horses.
The best way to get help in this world
is to help yourself. Show that You need
aid, and all turn a cold shoulder; but
prove that you can do without folks, and
they will beg to give you lift.
81 say, Jones, that's Il shocking bad
hat of yours. Why do you wear such n
hideous thing ?" Because my dear
fcllah, Mrs. Jones declares she will not
60 ont of the house with me till get a
better one"
The bank of Montreal is about to in
crease its capital to $50, 900, 600, which
will make it the third largest in the
world, the bank of England and France
being ahead. No other bank in America
has capital of over $40, 100000.
A California genius has invented what
he calls the Eureka boot-pullcr which
consists of leather belt, having two
hooks attached to it. He places the belt
over his right shoulder, adjusts the
hooks in his boot-straps, and then leans
backward, and the tightest boot is con
quered.
Eli Davis, of Louisville, Ind, who
, had been paralytic for two years, was
, divorced from his second wife while on
his death-bed, dying, in fact, six hours
= after the divorce was ordered. The
suit was brought by parties in the inter
est of the sons of his first wife, to obtain
2, some of the money which would naturally
, fall to the second wife, and the deceased
, was wholly ignorant of the proceeding