Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-24
Facts and FanCies.


To keep water out use pitch, to keep
water in use pitcher.
The chickens in Iowa are dying by
hundreds of mysterious disease.
A good sermon is like kiss. 1t re-
quires but two heads and an application.
The principal wheels in a gold watch
are sold at three hundrcdper cent. profit.
They bathe now in the Chicago river,
for the first time in the history OF the
city.
What gentleman with any sense Of
propriety can ask a fat woman to lean
on his arm,
In the public schools of Munich, Ger.
many, gymnastics have been introduced
as an obligatory instruction.
A church in Benton County, Ind, ex-
PEELED five of its members recently be-
cause they were Freemasons
Thus far this year the Chicago stock
yards have contained 532,9G4 cattle, L.
SOB, 1853 hogs and 349, S55 sheep.
A man climbing a liberty pole at Fort
Leavenworth got hitched near the top,
and it was six hours before they got linn
down.
1t Just takes 267 curls for the head Of
city belle. The barber begins at 10 in
the morning, and gets through about 8
at night.
If you want to eat such q pudding as
your mother made when you were u boy,
you must somehow revive boys appe-
tite and palate.
Never speak i'll of any one who may
be of the slightest service to you, no
matter how much you may dislike him.
He might hear of it,
One of the rules of a new croquctto-
club is that "children, dogs and smok-
ing are not allowed within the limits Of
the croquet-grormd.
When lady has on very elegant
ball dress she always picks out the tall
est man to dance with, in order to show
it off to the best advantage
In an old farmhouse of Duxbury,
Mass, now standing, eleven daughters
were born to the former inmates. All
the girls were married in the room Ill
which they were born.
A good man and a wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at times
grieved for it; but be sure that no man
was ever discontinued with the world
who did his duty in it,
One-half the Mormon population of
Utah were born there. About one-third
of the remainder were born in other
parts of the United States, and two
thirds in foreign countries.
A new member arose to make his first
: speech, and in his embarrassment COM
menccd to scratch his head. "Well, "
exclaimed Sheridan, she has got some
thing in his head after all"
Here is the first free love vow rs fral-
, ly adopted eve promise to love each
! other, and to live in the same brown
, stone front till we are tired of each other
and see some one we like better"
t After rolling all night in your berth
at sea, till you are miserably sick, it is
/ irritating to have steward open youl
= door in the morning and ask if you will
D not have fresh roll for breakfast.
A wall has gone up, and is now trav
cling with great rapidity around the
,, board, at the prices charged at the fash
: ionable watering places. A general and
immediate reduction is the clamorous
cry.
+ A correspondent of an agricultural pa
per asks "Where can wool be protita'
q bly, grown ?" We are of the opinion
. that there is no place where it can more
4 proftably be grown than on the back Of
: a sheep.
A little bit of a thing had Just got
/, back from a party, and was asked by hel
n mamma how she had enjoyed herself,
90, mamma p" she said, "Im so full
, of happincss-I couldn't be happier
y without l was bigger"
!, The papers of Chicago appear to have
!. muscular men in the chair editorial. One
d of them says he was never so happy as
he was the other day, when he knocked
It down rowdy who intrllded into ms
S sanctrm and then threw him dowr
stairs.
/ After many years of observation, the
Revolution has discovered that, as a rule
i woman is expected to be found fault Will
:, and adored courted, married, quarrelec
|, with, deserted, divorced played with
II plagued, and only really venerated wher
> She becomes mother and goes to heaven
II A correspondent comes to the defense
j. of women against the current motion
G that they are peculiarly addicted to COS
d sip, alleging that in a country grocery
a store, among barrels Of molasses ant
d piles of salt fish, more gossip is talke'
|, by men in one evening than in all thu
e houses i'll the town.