Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-08-05
V E II M ON T FARM Err.

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conceed that it looks foolish to see II boy
drag II heavy sled up hill for the fieetin
plesher of ridin down again; but it appears
to me that the boy is II sage by the side of
the young man who works hard all the week,
and drinks his wages on Saturday night"
Modesty among American women is like
politeness with the French. There is much
that is true and much that is false But both
the genuine and spurious of those virtues ar
que healthy state of morals-for, Us bad
bank notes come of good ones so does even
false modesty indicate that esteem in which
the genuine is held.
The editor of the Bangor (Me.) why says
he recently saw II large number of young la
dies enter II public hall. with disheveled hair,
and hat brims apparently wrinklcd and brok-
en-, and, rs he fancied, with excited counte-
nances Upon inquring what the riot was
about, says he, ''imagine our chagrin when
told it was the fashion,
Thomas Francis of Albany has just sus-
tanned his sixth conjugal bereavement His
first wife killed herself, the second eloped to
Illinois and died of dcstitution. the third was
drowned. the fourth was killed and he con-
victed of the murder, but pardoned out of
prison: his fifth mysteriously disappeared,
and the last has passed the bourne by suicide
w. s. Woodward, the principal figure
head in the recent Rock Island stock panic
ut New York, is said to be II prominent and
leading member of st. James church in
Brooklyn, and is one of the most active men
connected with the Sunday school of that
church. And who can throw stone ut him
while gambling is permitted mt church fairs,
and for other proiessedly religious purposes.
The Chicago RepuJlicdn having compl-
mented Mr.. Russell Sturgis for ''singing the
best hash in London" the Louisville courier
journal rcbukes it rs follows: Such slang in
II newspaper pretending to he respectable, is
disgusting. If the RtpuJlican means that
Sturgis enables you to throw yourself on the
outside of II better square meal than any 9TH
er festive cuss in the British metropolis, why
didn't it say so?
The local of the Chicago RepuJhcan
says "the newest method of making IN hon
est living is to 90 round ut night with in ac-
complice, and play tom-cat under the Win
dows of rascible bachelors. Then they
throw boots and bootjacks, and har-brishcs.
and crockery and-and things at you, and
you pick them up and sell them for old rags.
We got part of a bedroom set worth $3.50,
last night and tonight we are going back to
get the rest of it,
The steamer Wonga Wonga, which has
arrived at San Francisco from Australia,
brings accounts of II recent scare caused
there by report that II piratical expedition
was fitting out in San Francisco to make II
descent upon the island. The cOlonists cx-
pended some millions of dollars, called out
volunteers, erected carthworks and impro-
vised a fleet to rcpel the tilibusters, before
they discovered that the story was II canard,
originating in two joking boys.
An Iowa man has been more intimate with
his wfc's sister than his better half thought
proper Instead of getting insane and shoot
ing folks, she concluded to bide her time
Lately he came home with cargo of whs-
ky on board, which soon made his sumbers
very profound, and Judith wrapped the sheets
closely about him. securing them with strong