Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-07-18

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tural societies.
Executions for murder will hereafter
be by shooting in Austria.
The arrival of locusts by the million
is chronicIed in Indiana,
A dark colorcd, red headed fly is eating
up the potato.bugs in Illinois.
Several of the boats on the Erie Canal
are owned and run By women.
Twelve banlirupts at Montreal ascribe
their losses to concerning wheat.
A Flemish army surgeon recommends
wooden shoes to prevent rheumatism.
The value of the gold in existence in
the world is estimated at SIS, 600, 100000.
It costs a man ST at Bellows Falls, vt,
for refusing to aid an officer in arresting
rioters.
A man in England recently died from
rupture Of the liver while he was lying
in bed.
Topeka employs a Mexican with his
lasso to capture cows which violate the
ordinance.
The largest iron steamboat ever built
on the Mississippi has just been launched
at Dubuque,
Almost all the great productive enter
priScs Of the country now have their
especial organs.
A Maryland man has 300 acres Of
watermelons. Last year he made $l4,-
600 from them.
An Illinois man who sat on railroad
to read the newspaper furnished an item
for the next days column of accidents.
Lenox, Mass, has large " creamery"
at which milk, cream, butter, cheese and
ice cream are disposed of in huge guam
titles.
A terrible accident occurred at the
coal mines in Lunaville, o., by which
nine men and boy were smothered to
death.
The temperature in Richmond is in
dicatcd by its effect upon paper collars.
1t is now reported at "three paper collar
heat
The official statistics credit California
with %, G34 farms, of an average size of
4S2 acres, and arural population Of about
100000.
In Calcutta, in 1871, only three muir
dcrs were committed in a population of
40, 0OO-and all the murderers were
convicted.
in New Orleans, Prof. La Hacbe died
and his daughter was hopelessly blinded
by drinking water that had passed
through leadcn pipes.
Russip has ar army of l, 173.S19 men,
E which costs her annually S18l, 100000;
:, and Germany has 1,l52,0 900 soldiers,
costing her 800. 375, 00O.
: Heard county, Ga, is prepared to tes-
, tify under oath that it has heard articu-
| late speech from tie lips of an infant
, nine days old, child of one Mrs. Sprad-
e lin of that ilk.
b 1t being found recently at Minnesota
/ trial of saloon keeper that two-thirds
/; of the jury were saloon keepers, the
i District Attorney thought he had better
. withdraw the suit.
st a recent dinner in Harley street
: 10y no means one of the most fashion
ohle streets in Dondon) the flowers and
5 the desert cost 600, the peaches alone
being Il guineas a dozen.
A Terre Haute, Ind, paper speaks
q thus: This is the bountiful year. The
y, small fruit crop is immense, the wheat
:, crop is huge; the oat crop 10 promising
and the baby crop is unparalleled. "
e A Kalamazooiud fined a reporter fol-
T. appearing within the bar in his shirt
sleeves. The reporter, however, proved
% to the satisfaction Of the court that he
,e had no coat and the fine was RENTED.
No ornament so appropriate for din,
:, ner-table or mantel as vase Of flowers.
. Ii a small quantity of spirits Of camphor
If is placed in the water contained in the
l. vase the color and freshness of the flowers
d will remain for long period.
A colored woman at Georgetown
undertook to make little child eat some
in dry bread recently, using her thumb
s, to assist in forcing the food down. As
Of the result of her humane efforts the child
S; choked to Death, after suffering terrible
re agonies for fifteen minutes.
lie At East Walpolc, Mass, Mrs. Smith
e. went into a field near the house to see O
, COW which had just given birth to a calf
l. when the animal rushed upon her anc
es gored and trampled her so that she dice
=. the next day. The horn Of the ANNA
OF passed entirely through the arm OF the
i9 unfortunate woman.
I5 Thursday has been the luck this yea
:" in the United States as holiday
90 Washington's Birthday occurred OF
80 Thursday Fast day April A was OF
IL Thursday Decoration Day MAY so
~ was on Thursday and, last but not leas
'is the Fourth of July has just happened OIL
n ,S Thursday. All this may have a dec
I 10 political significance, but we don't thin
oo il has.
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