Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-22
Facts and Fancies.

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he carries everything before him.
A new German cantatrice has come
out in Berlin who weighs 315 lbs.
An honest employment is the best in
heritance that can fall to any one.
The books in the library of the Brit
ish museum occupy twelve miles OF
shelving.
The next Methodist General Confer
ence meets in May, 1872, in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.
Iowa has planted corn crop to raise
100, 100000 bushels. All that remains Is
to raise and harvest it.
Black, gray, and brown straw hats and
bonnets are preferred to the white dun
stable or the chip hats.
How to make a thin baby fat-Throw
it from thrid-story window, and It's
sure to come down plump.
The most fashionable dresses are made
without belt or sash, the upper skirt and
waist being cut in one piece.
All the Summer dresses are trimmed
with bows Of silk or satin on the flounces
and to loop up the overskirt.
A new style of sleeve-buttons are made
to open, thus forming n locket large
enough to contain likeness.
A Pottsville justice has sent man to
Jail for eight months for soiling lady's
dress by splitting tobacco Juice on it.
A young doctor being recently asked
to dance the "Lancers," said he was
much more able to lance the dancers.
Black cashmere sacks, trimmed with
gold and silver braid, or silver and blue
or red, are very much used for riding.
Leisure is very pleasant garment to
look at, but it is very bad one to wear.
The ruin of millions may be traced to 1t.
DIR. Livingstone has not gone to Lii
iiiiiiii, as was reported. The latest news
from him states that he was at Txyxyxy.
A great Methodist Camp meeting is to
be held at Salt Lake City, where tepts
will be pitched to cover ten thousand
people.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bones
than happiness ever can and common
suffering is a far stronger link than COM
mon joy.
A dress was recently made by fash
ionable modiste in New York which was
ornamented with three hundred and for
ty-two bows.
Long dresses for evening wear are
made with the court train, but for house,
dresses are hounced halfway up the
skirt, with no overdress
The True Kentuchiom says there is al
apple-tree in Bourbun county which
measures thirteen feet in circumference
five feet from the ground.
The Mayor of Washington discharged
a servant girl the other day, and the
spirited young woman set his house on
fire the very next night.
The snail stands chance for the tooth
ache Somebody says he has ITO rows
of teeth, with III on each row, or b.
210.
A woman has Just recovered five thou
sand dollars from Boston Horse Rail
road Company for injuries sustained
while passenger on its cars.
Silk skirts are now trimmed with ruff
hes OF the same material of the over
dress, which is prettier than if it were
all of the color OF the oyerdress.
"Why did he not die ?" is the title
of a new novel We have not read the
conundrum, but believe the answer to
be-Because he refused to take his medl-
cine.
A Chinese photographer in San Fran
cisco being upbraided by a lady customer
because the pictures didn't suit her,
briefly replied: "No half handsome
how can :?
The agricultural society Of Bresslnu.
Germany, offers prize OF 500 in gold
for the steam pillow apparatus which will
work best at trials to be made on farms
that city this summer.
A woman in Jail Mt Hudson came near
committing suicide by cutting q vein in
her arm with her thumb nail. Only Tor
the accidental discovery of her condition,
she would have bled to death.
4 recent writer says that the fences of
the United States have cost more than
all the craft that float in our waters, salt
or fresh more, indeed, than any other
class OF property except railroads.
A beautiful and accomplished lady
has opened shoe store in Philadelphia.
All her beautiful and accomplished clerks
wear fancy little leather aprons, which
are irresistible sweet and touching.
Young ladies had all better stop
wearing French heels "They make
our feet look pretty do they and
the surgical operations they often neces-
state will make them feel pretty, too.
A young German at Omaha recently
attempted suicide curiously by washing
his face and then twisting himself up so
tightly in the roller towel that his pur-
pose would have been soon effected but
for prompt discovery,
Mrs. Livermore publicly stated in
Boston, that she was sometimes astonlsh-
ed at herself for being able, after what
she knew, to meet men and treat them
politely to 90 up to the State House,
watch the meanderings of the Legisla-
ture, and not hiss like goose.
Mr., G, was q most inveterate punster.
Lying very i'll OF cholera, his nurse pro-
posed to prepare young tender chicken.
Hadn't you better take an old hem,
said G. in low wisper,-he was to ill
to speak louder" for she would be
more apt to lay on my stomach"
A young fellow, who had been married
for n twelvemonth, said it was all sun
shine. The next twelvemonth was all
moonshine, and the latter period OF his
matrimonial career was without shine at
all except when his better half took it
into her head to "kick up shine y
An Illinois man' who had watch
s+oIon from b;s nocket and advertised