Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-02-07

Eight hundred kinds of washing ma.
chins are patented.
"A clergyman recently received ball
ticket as fee for performing marriage cere.
mony, the groom having mistaken the en-.
velope for the one containing the filthy ucre
SO rapulsive to gentlemen of the cloth.
They have new way of getting up sur
prise parties in certain parts Of Illinois A
resident receives an anonymous letter, stat
ing that surprise party will be with him on
certain evening. He prepares for it. No.
body comes and the surprise is complete.
Eight out of every ten tobacco chewers
in the regions whore the plant is raised use
the natural leaf twisted up into hanks and
free Of honey, liquorice juice or other modern
adulteration. The use of manufactured or
store tobacco would set the Oldest Of them
to retching
Articles Of silver offered as wedding
presents have been voted, not exactly vulgar,
but uncultivated and unrefned." Instead
Of these, works of art, statues and paintings,
something about which sentiment can be
entwined, are henceforth to be the things to
profier to the newly welded.
A lady school-teacher in Omaha, having
an inordinate dread of the smallpox, sent
home little girl because she said her mother
was sick and had marks on her face. The
next day the girl presented herself at the
schoolhouse, with her finger in her mouth and
her little bonnet swinging by the strings, aud
said TO the teacher d" Miss -, we've got
leetle baby at our house but mother told me
In fell that ~ sc.,'f g1Iels.f IL
said she was very glad, and told her pupil to
take her seat
"A Sacramento paper says: 4" A number
Of sheep on Patton's ranch, north of the
American, were not sheared last fall, and
hence their fleece is very long. During the
fall it got very dirty, and probably grass and
other seeds fell into it. At all events, since
rain commenced to fall, grass, with blades
say two inches long, is growing luxurantly
out Of the wool, and the sheep travel about
carrying their pastures upon their backs.
Any grass which the sheep cannot reach it.
:, a friend is allowed to nibble, End he or
lie reciprocates. We haven't seen the sheep
The following notice was served upon a
northern schoo-teacher 10 Texas recently,
signed by some eight or ten Of the larger
boys, three Of them between seventeen and
twenty years Of age; "We, the under
signed, require you TO treat to a bushel off
pecans, five pounds Of raisins and three of
candy. If you refuse We will put you in the
deepest hole Of water within one mile Of the
schoohouse." No record is made of the con.
sequence, but with some northern teachers
the result would have been sudden diminu.
tion Of the number Of large boys in that
school.
Near the town of Washington, Me, and
between there and Palermo, is tract of land
known as Hibbard's Gore" 1t is a fne
agricultural country, contains some fifteen
farm houses, and its inhabitants, belonging to
no town or plantation, pay no taxes and can.
not vote. During the war they we're entire.
ly out ia the cold and so were not ANNOYED
by the draft. The territory of this happy
land is 200 rods one way and Asa the other
It's origin was that when the town line of
Washington was run out, several poor falni.
lies lived there and the town authorities left
1t out fearing they might add to their pau
pers. Palermo has never claimed it and it
has since become quite settlement and re.
mains 10 perfect independence.