Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-02
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When lie awake andlonely
Music made by rain at night.
England's hay crop is light.
Quebec is full of sight-seers.
Ohio is boasting of her wool clip.
Nebraska is overrun with grasshoppers.
Honey-Bees in Cuba swarm three times
a year. s5a
A pledge of love- pawning an engage
ment ring.
There are more negroes in Macon, Ca
than whites.
Brooklyn has fourteen five cent lodg-
ing houses.
Turkey and Egypt have shaken hands
and are friends again.
There are counts and lords enough at
Newport to set Saratoga crazy.
The new postal cards will not be ready
for use for three months.
Saratoga bellies keep the ball rolling
in the ten-pin alleys.
Memphis is said to have five times as
many dogs as voters.
Out in Fon du Lac the girls ride on
horseback astride.
An attempt was once made to change
the name of Massachusetts to Oceana.
One dollar per minute is the price of
lighting the Coliseum by gas.
A paper advertises for "girls for cook
ing" We like them raw.
Chicago has risen from her ashes to
boast of 100000 inhabitants.
Council Bluffs Spiritualists exclude
red haired people from their circle.
White mountain tourists complain that
the prices are higher than the noun
tains.
A scolding wife in Milwaukee dislo-
Gated her jaw-bone while giving it to
her husband
New Orleans has borrowed ten mil
lions of dollars in London, at ninety cts
on the dollar
Wood. choppers and saw-mills art
spreading havoc among the big trees Of
Yosemite valley.
Brigham Young runs bank, slaught
er house and meat-market, and also
Mormon church.
Ole Bull was last heard of in Norway
where he was giving his countrymel
charity concerts.
If you let the cat out of the bag
never try to cram it back again; it onl,
makes matters worse.
The orange crop in Calhoun county
Fla, has been severely injured by tn
drought.
Lightning set the grass on fire at Nev
Jersey picnic Aug. II, and everybod
thought the comet was upon them.
Fabulous rents are paid for small col
tages on the grouse moors of Scotlan
during the shooting season.
Early morning fig parties are much
vogue among the, beaux and bells {
Vicksburg, Miss.
A young girl at Lee, Mass, who's
hair reached almost to the ground, sol
it recently to a Pittsburg dealer for $5I
Long Branch complains that ''the co
ored walters and their sweethearts mt
nopolize the beach in the evening"
The editor of an Eastern paper say
that many of his patrons would mai
good wheel horses, they hold back (
we'll. 'naa'fs g
Complaints of Ku- -Klux outrages CON
from Florida, where the organization
said to be fairly re-established ona mo-
fiourishing basis than ever.
What relation is loaf of bread to
steam engine? A steam engine is &
invention and bread necessity; ther
fore necessity is the mother of 1nventio
1t is decreed that in all Roman Cat
olic cemeteries in Chile portion of Il
ground is to be set apart hereafter f
the interment of the Protestant dead.
Say nothing respecting yourself, cit
er good, bad, or Indifferent. Nothil
good, for that is vanity; nothing ba
for that is affectation; nothing indiffe
ent, for that is silly.
Enfield, n H., was scared to dea
at the smallpox the other day, and VIII
it found out it was merely the measle
it was as mad as fire because it wasl
the smallpox.
The tourest season in Switzerland b
already its annual list of horrors: Fo
deaths from accidents-two ladies FRI
falling over precipice, two gentlem
murdered.
Il am afraid said a lady to her h,
band, ''that am going to have s.
neck mot at all improbable, !
dear, replied her spouse; 81 have ST
strong symptoms of it ever since
were married
The Alta California explains that
4 .'hoodlum" is rough, who goes uninN
ed upon picnic excursions and insu
the women and children, helps .hims
% to free lunches, and acts the rascal g
'e eraly.
Here is another bit of evidence
support of the Darwinian theory:
monkey in the Paris Geological Care
is developing into tolerable tenor sil
er. We are told that he has chest
voice which many brilliant tenors of
opera might envy, and his falsetto is