Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-01-25
FActs and FanCies.

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The voice of nature-The mountains
peak.
Ii a small boy is a lad, is big boy
ladder ?
Fee Simple-Money given to a quack
doctor.
How to tell the weight Of fsh-by
his scales.
Paradoxical-In surgery the lancet Is
always applied in vein.
A ton of straw makes eight hundred
and fifty pounds of paper.
The ruins on the north side Of Chicago
are now called L" Slab Town"
When does man have to Keep his
word When no one will take it.
In putting the chest foot forward,
always use the right, or it will be left
Barley goes up as beer comes down.
and q man who ales is called malt treated.
Many young men arc 50 improyident
that they cannot keep anything but late
hours.
A line of stages is now running from
Duluth to Superior City, eight miles, on.
the ice.
It is all very we'll to say, "takc things
as they como" but suppose things don't
come?
The Seventh Day Baptists have a
membership Of about 7,OOOin the United
States.
"Matilda, what animal comes down
from the clouds?" 1.-The rain, deal
Augustus"
Mexico is said to be like the earth, be-
cause it has a revolution every twenty
four hours.
Why is a man who can't learn by ex
perience like laurel? Because he IS an
evergreen.
A celebrated author says that no letter
is ever commenced without the first page
being an apology.
The skirts of dresses are not trimmed
as much as formerly, many Of them be-
ing made entirely plain.
French dressmakers say that an Amer
lean customer is worth more to them
I than three of their own countrymen.
The bill oppropriating 100000 for
the construction Of public buildings III
Chicago has passed both Houses OF Con-
g1ess
Gloves of undresscd kid are wsrn with
mufs. and kid gloves, without stitching
and with four gilt buttons, are the most
stylish for full dress
A lady, wife of one of cur prominent
citizens, appeared recently at Dali with
a necklace. earrings, and bracelets com
posed of ten and twenty-dsllar 8olt
pieces, fresh from the mint.
An old rhyme says:
"There are five reasons why mon drlhN:
Good wine, friend because I'm aIy,
Or lest should be by-and-by,
Or any other reason why"
A Hindoo once boosted that he had
never taken human life, when some one
oficiously showed him a morsel OF his
daily food under microscope. Inc poor
fellow died soon afterwards OF starva-
ton. -,
, The cattle in Texas will die by thou
sands in consequence of the severe winter.
1t is computed by a local journal that
the west Texas cattle interest has lost III
: stock, from the present cold snap over
: $500, 900.
No one ever sees lady in the streets
= nowadays with a clean, sh-Iookin8
dress, the detestable habit of wearing the
dress so long as to sweep the filthy, streets
making them look sloyenly and dirty III
+ the extreme.
A sexton, being very familiar with a
/ physician. was asked whether he had en-
e tered into partnership with him, "oh
g yes" said he, 'weye been together lol
n some time; I always carry the doctor
: work home when it is done"
s A man in Rockingham, Virginia, has
e in his possession a chicken, one OF whose
I feet is shaped exactly like the human
: hand. There are fingers and mails al,
t complete; the hand and foot being SOIL
J. and feshy, and altogether different IRON
e any chicken foot that has ever been seer
:, before.