Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-21
Facts and Fancies.

Spare moments are the gold dust of
time.
A bitter jest is the poison of friend
ship.
An Illinois church was carried bodily
six miles on freight car.
Many delight more in giving presents
than in paying their debts.
A belle at Saratoga boasts of having
had twelve offers this season.
Every person should cultivate a nice
sense of honor and self respect.
There are twenty thousand acres plant
ed to grapes in western New York.
Young folks grow most when in love.
1t increases their signs wonderfully.
Who pays the highest price for a
house The woman who marries for
one.
The leading fashion establishments in
Paris are again open, and hurried with
orders from abroad.
In Philadelphia $4,000 persons are
employed in not less than 5000 manu-
featuring establishments.
As the mind must govern the hand, so
in every society the man of intelligence
must direct the man of labor.
An Ohio paper says that no family
need be without Summer complaint,
now green apples are so plenty.
Be not too concise in your communi-
cations lest you be not understood, nor
too diffuse lest you be wearisome.
Educate the whole man-the head, the
heart, the body; the head to think, the
heart to feel, and the body to act.
Men make fools of women, and when
they get fool / - wife they spend the
rest of their days in cursing her sex.
Two water snakes have been picked
up in California dead from asphyxia,
each having swallowed the others tail.
Some very pretty styles of Fall sacks
are of light-colored cloths, ornamented
with feather trimming shade darker
than the material.
Honiton lace collars have come in
fashion again, worn very deep, reaching
nearly to the shoulders, and pointed
ends back and front.
The costliest articles in the Paris shops
are set apart, not for the inhabitants,
but, as the shoppers say, for " fools,
princes and Americans"
The sixty-second annual meeting of
the American Board of Missions will be
held at Mechanic Hall, Salem, Mas,
commencing Tuesday, October 3, 1871,
at p. NJ.
In one-half column the San Francisco
Alta quotes from the Devil Gully h1pOS-
itor, the Yankee Flat Advertiser, the
New Jerusalem Courier, and the Murder
burg Bulletin.
The Nebraska State immigration agent
for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, re-
ports that there will be an emigration
from these countries to Nebraska of over
10000 this year.
The great novelty in travelling dresses
are the Baden Baden towel costumes,
that are literally made of the rough
brown bath toweling, which we know
better as Turkish.
A prisoner in Georgia ingeniously
remarked to the jailer. ooh, look at
dat snake dar'-a nd ran like the bright
eyed gazelle. Neither snake nor pris-
oner has been seen since.
In dog fight in Leavenworth, the
owners of the dogs got into quarrel
about the probable result, and went to
fighting Themselves Seeing this the
dogs became disguised and quit.
The Dutch have no commiseration
for men who get into debt. They con-
slider that every man in debt lives, if he
be poor, at the expense of his fellow
citizens, and of his heirs if he be rich.
The meanest railroad in the country is
thus described 4" 1t ballasts its bed
with sand, it starts with jerk and stops
with Il Jam, and hires the smallest con-
ductors it can find to save carrying
weight"
A horse-car conductor in Brooklyn has
been fined fifty dollars for throwing a
passenger off his car The offence of
the passenger consisted in offering five
dollar bill, having no other change, in
payment of his fare.
A stranger meeting a man in the streets
of Boston few days since roughly ac-
costed HIM with Here, I want to 60
to the fremont House" The deliberate
reply was, "Well, you can go, if you
won't be gone long"
ct is the type of eternal Sruth, says
John Ruskin, Z" that the souls armor Is
never well set to the heart unless a wo-
mans hand has braced it, and it is only
when she braces it loosely that the
honor of manhood fails.
A Boston woman, who has been read
ing in the papers that Sunday marriages
are illegal, writes to the papers to know
how it is with baby born on a Sun
day q? If so, which should be punished,
the father, the mother, or the baby?