Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-11-16
Facts and Fancies.

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nights blight young plants.
Who ever saw any body near fire who
didn't want to play poker?
A doctors motto is supposed to BE
"patients and long suffering"
"Come, sheer off," as the ram said to
the man who was cutting off his wool.
When a man turns teetotaler does he
necessarily acquire pail complexion?
delicate parcel to be forwarded by
rail-A young lady wrapped up in her
self.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the sun
is supported in the heavens by its
beams.
A learned writer asserts that, after all,
energy quite as often drives off disease
as it brings it on,
In libel suit against a newspaper at
Little Rock, Ark, for $4,000, the plain
tiff attained 81 in damages.
The champion sexton of town in
Maine has dug thousand graves and
olficiated at twelve hundred funerals.
The first daily newspaper in Virginia
was printed in 1880, and its subscrip-
ton price was fifty dollars per annum.
The latest style in wedding cards is
very long and narrow, of heavily glazed
pasteboard, with a monogram or crest
stamped in silver.
Seven churches, six converts, eight
schools, two asylums, and two hospitals
belonging to the Roman Catholics were
destroyed by the Chicago fire.
A Chinaman's account of the Chicago
calamity is as follows: "Melican IlisE
boy take kelosene lamp and milk COW
COW kick over lamp up go Chicago.
Omnibuses were first brought into use
at Paris in 1927, and two years afterward
twelve omnibuses were started in Lon.
don bt j. Shillibeer, coach-builder.
A civil suit against William NJ. Tweed
and other city officials of New York
for several millions of dollars has been
begun by Mr.. Charles O'Conor at Albany.
Two Keokrkers solved dispute as tc
the ownership of calf, by placing the
animal midway between their residences
and seeing which one it would go to.
ward.
| One of the coats sent to the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association, ia
he forwarded to Chicago was labelled
"My wedding coat. "
The latest style of bride head dress is
IL wreath composed of small white ostrich
tips. The bridal vail is trimmed with
vines of lilies Of the valley and jessa-
mine.
A young man having late railroad
disaster in his mind has broken his en-
gagement with young lady, because
she wears train and is negligent about
her switch.
The Chicago lake crib is two miles
from shore, and yet the keeper had to
keep the top of the building continually
wet to prevent its igniting on the night
of the fire.
Six West Point cadets have been dis
missed for hazing, and the authorizes
positively refuse to revoke the dismissals
from the Annapolis Naval Academy fol
the same offence.
An old Bachelor, who bears his lonely
state with much equanimity, says: 1t
is better to be laughed at for not being
married, than be unable to laugh be-
cause you are.
A railroad employee, on being nudged
with a contribution box while asleep in
church, the other day, woke up enough
to remark, Il work on this road" and
returned to his nap.
New ulUy cent and dollar revenue
stamps have just made their appearance.
They are made Of linen paper, cotored
blue, with scroll work, and bear a litho-
Graph of George Washington.
A young lady requested to be released
from her marriage engagement on the
ground that when contracted she be-
lieved her lover "duck," but has
since found him to be a goose.
The arrivals of vessels at Boston, dur
ag nine months of the present year,
exceed those of the came period, last
year, by 447, showing a considerable
increase in the foreign commerce of that
city.
Many cooking schools have recently
been opened which are well patronized
by our society young ladies, in view
doubtless of time when it will be neces-
sary, as well as convenient, for them to
be thoroughly posted upon such matters.
After the great fire in London, in 1866,
Parliament enacted that every house
should be built with independent walls,
and all in front raised to equal height,
and those walls should be of stone OF
brick, and that no man should delay be-
yOnd seven years.
Mrs. Leary, of Chicago, stoutly denies
the story that the great fire was caused
by the upsetting of a kerosene-oil lamp
in her stable while she was milking her
cows. She says the stable must have
been fired by incendiaries. She always
milks by daylight.
One cord of wood cut and split fine
and corded up beneath shelter while it
is yet green, will furnish more heat after
it has become seasoned than two cords
of the same kind of wood which has
been continually exposed to the alternate
influences of storms and sunshine.
MACK" of the Chicago Republican,,
is jocose under his misfortunes. In
pointing out the difference between
Theodore Thomas fugacious fddlers
and Nero, he explains that one tiddled
while Rome burned, and the others
roamed while their fddlers burned.