Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24
MISCELLAN EOUS.

The longest days OF the year occur
this week
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.
The first thing we take in life is milk,
the last thing is bier. -v5..
The bones of birds are hollow, and
filled with air instead of marrow.
Troubles are like dogs, the smaller
they are the more they annoy you.
By doing good with his money, man
stamps the image of God upon it.
Efforts are being made to introduce
the Mexican bread fruit tree into Florida.
1t has been thought that Monday was
selected as washing day, because cleanli-
ness is next to godliness.
The Dolly Varden is the name of a
newspaper just started at Wilson, North
Carolina-Miss Dolly Warden, editress
Preferred to do her own housework.
A Louisina ministers wife has been ar
rested for the murder of her colored SER
want.
A machine for making wall paper at
Lawrence produces seventy mine miles of
paper daily, being run % hours out of
the a.
One of the whirligigs of time-The
cordial RECEPTION of an English band to
Boston on the anniversary of the battle
of Bunker Hill.
Four thousand dollars in gold and
greenbacks were found under the bed of
an old Albany ag-picker, who died sud-
denly the other day. - -
Ear trumpets of wonderful construc-
tion, by which sounds can be heard at a
distance of a mile, are to be shown at
the Vienna Exposition. ,.ss
Some reckless fellow says that there
are four things which woman cannot
do-tie up parcel, thorw stone, carry
an umbrella and sharpen lead pencil.
A German expressman tried to deliv-
or box as follows: Ringing the bell,
he said to Bridget, Il have got one small
pox, if you like l will pring him in. ~
The door slammed. " f[te,.-
Accounts are generally favorable in
regard to the growing cotton crop. The
weather during May and the middle of
June has been superb, and leaves moth
ing to be desired #''-tt
The most stupendous canal in the
world is one. in China, which passes over
two thousand miles, and to forty-two
cities it was commenced as far back as
the tenth century.
A contemporary thus sensibly talks :
'How young men can consent to loaf
about the corners as they do, when a
good dose of strychnine can be bought
for sixpence, is really surprising"
A teamster in Maine says he can start
the most baulky horse by taking him
out of the shafts and making him &C
around in narrow circle till he is giddy
If the first dance of this sort dosn't cure
him the second will, =
The Chef Justice of New Hampshire
has called the attention of grand jury
to the prevalent practice of what he term.
gambling among the religionists of tn,
day at fairs and festivals. He is dowr
on grab-bags and guess-cakes.
Joseph Schurz, a Swiss, who had seer
much military service, died in Altor
(the supposed-to-be home of the dubiou
William Tell,) few weeks ago, in hi
10th year. He had been wounded i,
different engagements over forty times.
Usefulness and noble acts are the mos
radiant epochs in the biography of men
J When wrought in the earliest youth
they live in the memory of age like tn
. coral islands, green and sunny amids
the melancholy waste of ocean.
Cultivate politeness IN the home circl
/. Manners, says the eloquent Edmun
|. Burke. are of more Importance than law
. They give the whole form and color I
= our lives. According to their qualit,
they aid morals they supply them
l. totally destroy them.
Here is an illustration of practic
humanity which is credit to the womt
of Maine: last fall the stock on {
n Oxford county farm could not be sol
,r and rather than see them starve, Il
I" owner, who was lady sixty years
age, went to work in mill in Lewist
and paid for their keeping.