Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-29
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
Spotted wells, now so much worn, are
very injurious to the eyesight.
Sixteen babies on one street in Detroit
have been christened "Bismarck. "
Vermont employs over 1000 men in
quamying marble in the several parts of
the State.
One person is born every four minutes
and another dies every seven minutes
in London.
A Chicago bishop waited two hours
for a bride who had been disappointed
in her bonnet strings.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand six hundred trains leave London
in the course of one year.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed law fning a person S. for at
tempting to "dead beat railroads.
About 100000 pounds of cloves are
annually imported into the United States
and about 100000 pounds into Eng
land.
The Medical Reporter estimates that
the people Of the United States pay
1925, 100000 annually for medicines and
medical services.
Two girls at Saginaw, Mich, made
wager that they could take five grains OF
morphine without injury, They tried it
and died together.
AProvidence merchant saves his UNI
brellas by cutting a small piece out of
the handle, which he carries in his
pocketbook, ready to prove property at
any time.
A Philadelphia baggage-master died
lately i'll the attempt to mash mans
trunk. He had mashed thousands be-
fore, anil this was the first one that
threw off on him.
Every seventh person in London is in
receipt of public charity. The cost of
aiding this class has increased during
the past ten years GS per cent faster
than the growth OF the great metropolis.
A Mr.. L. P. Taylor, of Vermont, is at
South Bend, Ind, on a short visit for
the benefit of his health, the five Mrs
Taylors whom he left at home having
proved too much of load on his mind.
A couple out in Portland, Oregon,
who found themselves divorced, through
the Vaccinations of the wife's mother,
did the best thing possible under the
circumstances-promptly got married
again.
A country paper speaking of the
street-organ playing of a soldier without
arms. who worked the crank with his
foot, says ellis playing was far above
the usual average he threw his whole
sole into it, p"
A mouse ran up the pantaloons leg of
a Rochester Englishman while enjoying
quiet nap at one of the hotels. The
poor fellow was so frightened that he
Jumped down a fight of steps and got
arrested as a lunatic.
An infatuated young man in Chicago
has indited many verses to the idol OF
his heart, closing with, "May Milwau-
kee eclipse Chicago, if ever l cease to
love I" Pegasus could take no loftier
hight imam uNau-lu NlllCdSo.
It is announced on excellent authority
that more than half million pounds of
willow leaf were made up at Shanghai,
last season, and palmed off as green tea
The willow leaf as prepared cannot be
distinguished from green tea.
The potato bugs are finding their
match in some parts of the West in the
soldier bugs, large triangular insects
which attack the other iercely and make
shork work of them when they appear IN
any considerable quantities.
An English inmate of one of the Pun
iaub tails made two complaints to the
inspector-general recently, one being
that he was not supplied with granted
mutton, and the otker that he was forced
to feel the restraints of his position.
The newest top exhibited on the
streets of New York is in the shape of a
bird, which is attacked to a rubber
string, and futters its wings and tail in
very life like manner, as the vender
swings it in circles around his head.
A number of Milwaukee citizens are
organizing a colony to go West. They
will take along everything necessary to
civilization, squat on some prairie that
is vast enough, and have well-built and
Aourishing city by the time snow flies,
The Chicago Journal thinks Il" the
government throws away great deal OF
money in keeping up the lighthouse at
the mouth of the Chicago river. Only
give a pilot a good nose and he would
make the channel the darkest night with
out fail"
An old farmer said to his sons "Boys,
don't you ever speckerlate, or wait for
summit to turn up. You might Just as
well go an sit down on stone in the
medder, with pail atwixt your legs, an
wait for COW to back up to you to be
MIXED"
A school committee in frontier dis
trict are reported to have summed up
their opinion of an examination which
they had attended by making to the
pupils this address you've spelled
we'll, and you've ciphered good, but you
haint sot still"
ALKALI IN WATER AND LAND. n.