Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-18
miscellaneous Stems.


Warden" have proved profitable.
Mrs. John Shaw, OF Bakorsville, N J. tore
$4,000 in grcenbacks to Fragments "becauso
she wanted to-"
The latest Indiana divorce has been obtain
cd by n husband on the ground that his wife
coerced him into matrmony.
A girl in Jersey City only 10 years and
eight months old, recently gave birth to u
child weighing eight pounds.
The recent announcement that Brigham
Young was dying of heart disease created a
sensation among Grape dealers.
medical writer remarks that he has new
CT known person decidedly fond of fruit who
became incorporates; and he considers
the two tastes MS naturally antagonlstic.
A rufiian in Brooklyn stabbed his daughter
and nearly killed her on account other keep
ing company with a young medical student
against the fathers wishes.
"Lor-a-massy," exclaimed the old lady in
the witness box. chow should know any
thing about a thing dunno anything a.
boutp" Sure enough, thought the court.
1t was decided lately by the Mass. Supreme
Court just how much to a cent mans spine
is WORTH $500 80 is the figures and the
markets are dull even at that.
An English paper was received ut the Bos.
ton post-oiiice, u few days ago, addressed to
"Ralph Waldo Emerson, Esq, Philosopher,
Massachusetts, New England, u. s., North
America"
A model bill, made out by nm old farmer
against his neighbor, reads rs follows:
"Neighbor A, DIR. to B to horse and wagon,
goin' to mill, once since and twice before,
one dollar"
In spite of Patrick Henry's expressed long
ing for Liberty or DEATH" he has been SEN
fenced to three years of life and imprison-
ment in the Marquette Mich, penitentiary.
Bone dust is used in clarifying sugar, and
some people think it equally good for clarity
ing souls. Last summer no less than $4,000
pilgrims visited the Grotto of Lourdes and
the bones of st. Vincent dc Paul near by.
Rev. Wesley Rector, of Urbana, o., was
found dead near his home the other night
having wandered out while in the delirium
oftyphoid fever during the absence of his at
PENDANTS.
A Grand Rapids (Mich.) manufacturing
firm obtains its motive power from II water
wheel II quarter of II mile distant, by means
of half II mile of cable wire stretched on pull
leys across the Grand River.
A Mississippi sheriff went for II judge to ar
rest him, but after the judge had put three
or four bullets through him, he changed his
mind and composed himself to join the innu.
merable caravan.
Two colored men got into II dispute al
church in Little Rock, Ark, rs TO which hac
| put the most money in the box, when one o.
them drew II pistol and in another instant
there was but one party to the dispute.
"Shon,n said Dutchman, "you may say
what you may please bout pad neghbors
| have had tc worst ncghbors us never vas
Mine pigs and mine hens come home nit
dcre ears split, and fodder day two of den
come home missing
A Concord, n. H., school-boy chose fol
his defamation, the other day, Grants littl {
gem of speech ut Newark, II fortnight ago,
to the indignation of his teacher, who made
the youngster commit to memory two
speeches of greater length
Midhal Pacha, the new grand vizier OIL
prime minister of Turkey, though poor in
purse seems to behonest. lie began Il course
of retrenchmcnt by reducing his own salary
from 10000 francs (Sls,OOO) per month to IL.
900 francs (S3iOO.) lie now hopes to get
along. with small harem.
a New Jersey paper thinks the following
notice of death IN the columns of Il cotem
porary is susceptible of two meanings
MARIA b., wife of Henry r.. Esq, aged 81
years. She lived with her husband so years
and died in the confident hope of bette
life"
There are two young ladies III Kansas VIII,
go out and frisk round the country, perform
ing the most startling acts of grand aud lof
ty tumbling with perfect impunity. Will
out the other day, we are told their WACO,
was thrown over precipice, and falling
nearly 20 feet, was dashed to pieces on pill,
of rocks, while the occupants were but ght
ly injured.
The medicine chest of one of the abandon
cd Arctic whalers was broken open by som
OF the natives, who thinking they had foun,
prize, proceeded to swallow the content
of all the bottles. The survivors describe,
the result rs startling, for the doses were to-
large for the constitution of even an Esqui
mauX. Several of the partakers died, IN,
others wanted to, but couldn't.
A heartless Albany policeman grossly out
ragged the sweet sanctity ofthe temple ofafleC
tion the other night, by arresting youn
man who was clipping with the grandmothe
of one of his neighbors, risky dame of 70
The tears that lost themselves in the wriu
klcs of her aged face would have moved tn
heart of II stole, but they couldn't melt tina
policeman, and she had toreturn to her HON
unweddcd.
young married woman in New Yor
wears breast-pn which eXcites great admi
ration. 1t is apparently beautiful carvin
in some dark, glossy stone, of Il lions hea
heavily set in red gold. In reality it is tn
front of favorite mcorschaum belonging t
her husband. lie was an inveterato smoker
but to please her gave up the habit and sh
wears this peculiar ornament ms n trophy
her victory.
malt dealer of Geneva, N. Y, was on
of the victims of the Metis disaster. 500
I after, the following letter came to him fror
a customer; Mr.. j. IL. Ferguson, Dear 81
Please send me II carload of malt, be-
quality, noticed in the papers that thel
was man killed by the name of j. IL. Fen
guson, Geneva, N. Y, by an accident on
steamboat, If there is any truth in it, nm
you cannot send me the malt, let me kno'
by telegram and obligo.
We recommend the following letter ms
pattern of conciseness and philosophic pres
once of mind. 1t was addressed to a lad
friend, by a young Chicago widow DEA
ANNIE-IIusband Is dead, died yesterday {
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