Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
miscellaneous STEMS.

Most men like TO see themselves In print.
Ladies like TO sec themselves in silks and
velvets.
An old lady in East Saginaw, Mich. has
given bonds in 5000 not TO scold her neigh |
bors for nm entire year.
One half Of the false hair worn by Ameri- |
can women comes from prison and lunatic |
asylums.
A buzz-saw jumped out of an Iowa MILL
recently, and ran half mile without stop
ping to take breath.
Chioi-Justico Mcclure, of Arkansas, when
not clothed in his judicial ermne is better
known rs Poker Jack"
Ex-Sccretary Borcs daughter is soon to
be married. and Nellie Grant is going to be
bridesmaid.
A Wisconsin man, who bet his brewery,
horse and farm on the election, has just NOV
cd out according to the agreement
At u running race ut st. Joseph recently
Mr.. Bufords horse "Blondin "won the race,
but dropped dead after passing the score.
The horse disease has reached New Or
leans, where the street cars, omnibuses,
drays, &C., have been Withdrawn.
Seth Green, the fsh-breeder, has gone to
England with $4,000 salmon and white fish
ova, to fill an order from Lord Exeter.
Hon. Worthington C.'smith has taken the
house on corner of Twentieth and streets,
Washington, for winter residence.
The Richmond Enquirer opposes negro
emigration to Liberia, because tho labor Of
the blacks is needed in this country.
1t is estimated that two thousand persons
are annually burned TO death by the murder
Gus compounds sold for Illuminating pur-
poses.
4 kenncbec, Maine, farmer paid n minister
twenty-five cents for performing the marriage
ceremony, saying he thought that twas
enough for so small job"
The San Francisco papers announced the
death of Edward Long, well-known citizen,
the other day, and in the afternoon he was
seen going to the wharf to receive a large
deputation of mourning relatives.
This company shall never get another
cent ofmy money said an angry lady on a
railway train. GLOW then will you travel?'
asked the conductor I'm pay my fare tc
you"
Really, we can't tell, Annie, unless it |:
your advanced youthfulness," is the ungal
liant answer of the Bradford Opinion to Mis-,
Anna Dickinson's public question, "Wha
Hinders?n
A bucolic editor is forced to the conclusion
that the young ladies of his village are no
alarmIngly like st. Paul, inasmuch as the,
pay rather more attention to "things which
; are behind" than he did.
a large cheese factory in Kaneville, fifteei
miles west of H., was burned on the 2ls
ult., together with $1,000 worth of cheese
The total value ofthe property destroyed
: $1,000, and no insurance.
1t really looks rs if Phil Sheridan had bee
caught at last. A Cincinnati paper says tina
, his absence from a wedding of n friend i
:, that city, the other day, was lowing to hi
own approaching nuptials."
Maryland courts believe in consequenta
II damages, evidently, for one at Hagerstow
+ has just awarded Miss Kate Renner $1,000
in suit against George Donnelly, for breac
of promise and seduction.
d A misguided cat, whose home is one
c the Philadelphia engine houses, took posses
sion of the fire-boX of the engine as sutG
BILE place to rear her progeny, but the pro
=. ceedings incident to the next fire-alarm lie
"a her destitute alike of hair and kittens.
A hen has unfortunately been killed
l. Boston which might in time have attaine
X the power of laying golden eggs. A soil
ut nugget of the precious metal was found
in her lnsides, weighing fourp ennyweights, an
in shape very like an egg
IN Seth Green has great success in securir
er the eggs of salmon trout and white fish, tn
lie season. lie has 10 bushels of spawn in Il
10 state clearinghouse at Caledonia, n.
Mr.. Atkins has also had n great success
DO securing salmon eggs on the Penobscot, ia
ne en- over million anda half
The advocates of a practical educatio
at Agricultural Colleges cannot compla
that Professor Jones, of the Iowa Agrioult
y raj College, is not directly interested
:" farming He not only owns farm near Il
III College, but Is n successful breeder of Der
Vi shres, his stock taking prizes Mt the late low
State Fair.
~ Thousands of acres of land in Michig;
" arc covered with II growth of sweet fer
" which has hitherto been supposed to
" worthless, but it has been found that for tn
ming purposes it is unequalled, and that
:" yields forty per cent. extract, while homlo
10 yields but fourteen. 1t promises to bo.ve
81 valuable.
A Louisville hotel keeper who was n |
H., tie over anxious to keep n respectable hou:
ov recently turned away young woman WI
y, applied for lodging, doing it in public ma
-. ner and with much ostentation, and it
pleasant to hear that she has recovered
round sum in damages Tor the insult as h
% character was above reproach.
or A lady says engagements are very uns;
ms isfactory sort of affairs for if you are not We
sc polite and attentive, the gentleman thin
you do not care for him, and you are afra
mo to be polite for fear the engagement mig
~ sometime be broken of, when You would
ta sorry to think you had wasted so mu
On sweetness on some other woman's husban
1T A peculiarly painful accident happened
a Miss Davis of Monroe, o., n few days ag
100 In going into the cellar, she had 10 pa
m, through trap-door, when she shipped q
o. caught the door, drawing it shut upon h
No; fingers and smashing them off ut the seco
nd Joint, Her weight, hanging from the mt
o. Giles and tendons, tore them out from
elbows.
net A Texas steer got loose at BloomingtC
N, H., Knocked down three women, collid
III with two horse team, fell over n multitu
ry of men, tried to demolish switch engil
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