Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-09-27
Facts and Fancies.

NuSullkH HitO tbtAiAiNf
large deposits Of coal are kept, kill fish
in streams where such waste water flows.
There's metre dactyIlic, pondAic,
metre for laugh and for moan;
But the metre alone not prosaic,
Is the meet her by moonlight alone.
The prejudice against church organs
is still strong in Scotland. Many Of the
people will not enter a church that has
one.
Preachers in Iceland are not very well
paid for their services. Not one of them
has an income of one hundred dollars o
year.
BY means of simple and ingenious
process beautiful description of artifi-
cal ivory is now produced from india
rubber.
A pert fellow seeing in the street an
old woman who drove some asses, said,
"Adieu, mother of assess" Adieu,
adieu, nv son" answered she. The man
felt his ears grow as he walked along.
At a meeting of a town council an
alderman complained of the absence of
certain councilman. "Sir," exclaimed
councilman, Indignantly, "you ought to
have made that complaint when he was
present ~
A widow, boarding house keeper out
in Kansas, who entered a complaint
against boarder, gave her age as 90,
when she is 80 if she is a day, and the
enraged Justice dismissed the case with
out inquiring any further.
A marriage by matchlight was recently
consummated in Kansas City. The
Squire was in hurry, and so was the
couple, and neither would wait until the
lamp could be illumined. The fee was
paid under o neighboring gas lamp.
1t is said that the leaves of the gera-
Mum are an excellent application for
cuts where the skin is rubbed off, and
other wounds of that kind. One or two
leaves must be bruised and applied to
the part and the wound will be cicatrised
in a short time.
A shrewd little fellow was entrusted to
the care of his uncle, who fed the boy
very poorly. One day he happened to
see a greyhound, whereupon he asked
the little fellow if knew what made the
dog so poor. The reply was, " I expect
he lives with his uncle"
=" AS my wife at the window one day,
Stood watching a man with monkey,
A cart came along With broth of boy
Who was driving stout little donkey,
, To my wife | then spoke, by way OF joke,
, 'Theres relation ofyours in that carriage!
, To which she replied as the donkey she spied,
'Ah, yes-a relation by marriage?"
A minister asked a little boy who had
been converted, "Does not the devil tell
YOU that you are nota Christian ?'' eyes,
| sometimes" Well, what do you say
to him ?' "I tell him." replied the
boy, with something of Luther's spirit,
,, that, whether am Christian or not,
it is none of his business"
The English postal cards sometimes
, form the basis of libel suits. A man
i received one from his wife's brother, in
! which it was written I" Your unmanly
, conduct to my sister is known to me.
It shall be known to the world at large,
. if you do not reform, you coward" The
r receiver of the epistle sued for slander
, and got ESQ damages.
e A Young lady of Bainbridge, made 6
+ bargain with Curtis Cooper some fifteer
years ago, whereby she was to have !
!, ssewe lamb and its increase until she
o was twenty-one years old, )" in exchange
j for gold watch and key. She was bu
Y six years old at the time, and now sue'
y Mr.. Cooper for 18,064 lambs, or theil
s value, at 81 per head, which is $64, 526.
e An advertisement is going the round
h of the German papers, stating that {
IS German firm in England has been es
s tablished since 1858 for marrying for
e eigners to English "parties." Indeed
}, it is stated that the firm has erich par
l. ties" always on hand, from all parts o
Europe, ready to be married. Discre
% ton and delicacy are guaranteed, ant
r unexceptional references are offered.
/ An Illinois constable made a return OF
a a the back of paper thus: I executed
Il this subpeeny by trying to read it L
John Mack, but he was drivin' cattle OF
horseback, and run faster than l could
n and kept up such hollerin' don't knoN
,e whether he heerd or not This is th
,r best could do, and don't whether til
u subpeeny is served according to law
10 not.
N Down in Pennsylvania town the othe
y, day some unscrupulous fellows, who ha
E. been, cunning, compelled poor itlne
a rant italian image peddler to stand in tn
to road until they had shot every one OF hi
le images from his head, to the imminer
IS danger of himself and the utter destrut
DO ton of his wares. And then they woul
I'd not pay the poor man penny for th
or doroooa done him