Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-02

beggar, was lately found dead upon II table
in his hut, with $500 lying beside him. The
miser had died counting his money. He had
not been seen fol some time and the curiosity
of the neighbors led them to enter his roonl
The snow storm of week before last which
covered the ground to the depth of Is inches
ut Barnard, set the oldest inhabitants" to
comparing notes, and it appears that on the
9th of October, 1904, occurred IL storm in
which two feet of snow fell ut Woodstock
Somebody will be remembering taking IA
sleigh ride in August, next.
One Thomas Scott, whom love had made
desperate, lately visited his sweetheart ut
Bowling Green, Mo-, and made her an offer
of marriage. She fatty refused him, when
he said that he would kill her unless she re-
versed her decision. She at once faced him
with poker in her hand and said: Lay on,
Macdutf if you think it would be healthy for
you" Thomas drove home.
James Furlong of New Brunswick, n. j.,
has u sconce that would do honor to Cali
fornia ram. He lately undertook to butt his
brains out against q brick wall but found it
lOO SUI. Ilt tutI lllcu " EtlDD pOSl anu IL
railroad switch, but was equally unsuccessful
in both. The insertion of n PAIR of scissors
in his juglar vein was just as futile, and he
was put into station house, safe and sound.
A Congregational church festival was re-
Gently given in Sterling, H., at which the
men did not only the honors, but the work of
the occasion. The coffee, cakes, pies and
oysters were all prepared by masculine skill
and served with manly grace. Not a woman
was allowed within ten feet of the kitchen.
The ladies simply sat down ut the table and
called for what they desired and were wait
ed upon by the gentlemen.
veritable sarcophagus, said to have been
discovered ut Mycene, and purchased by an
American consul for the antiquarian society
of New York city, has arrived mt Philadcl-
phia, on its way there. The receptacle is
said 70 contain the dust and bones of the
Apostle St. Paul. Its weight is about six
tons; it is eight feet in length, two feet in
width. and four feet high. The lid weighs
two tons. On the front tablet is a represent
alton of trio ofangcls extending wreath of
laurels and flowers to figure whose general
outline is indistinct. This difficulty in max
ing out the likeness is doubtless the only OBJ
stacle to certainty regarding the inmate of
this weghty coffin.
A rifle was exhibited mt II recent Georgia
fair, the maker of which had never worked
at the trade a single day in his life. He not
only made the rifle but every tool used in its
manufacture. 1t was made in an ordinary
country blacksmith shop. The'only materi-
ais purchased were the mountings, and they
in the rough The stock was made from
black walnut, cut by himself from Little
River swamp. 1t was not made originally
for exhibition, but for his own private use.
1t took the premium ut Augusta over guns
manufactured by the most skillful workmen.
Rev. Mr.. - had travelled far to preach
to II congregation ut -. After the sermon
he waited very patiently, evidently expecting
some of his brethren to invite him to dinner.
In this he was disappointed. One after an
other departed until the church was almost
as empty us the minister's stomach. Sum
moning resolution, however, he walked
up to an elderly looking gentleman, and
gravely said: "Will you go home to dinner
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