Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

He that gives way to self-will, hinders
self-enjoyment.
A reverend gentleman, aged fourteen,
occupies an Iowa pulpit.
A locomotive consumes on the average,
forty-five gallons of water for every mile |
it runs.
There are nearly 600 children in At
lanta Ca, who cannot 90 to school be- |
cause there isn't room for them
The shoe business in North Bridge
water last year amounted to over six and
a half million dollars.
Fifty dollars is the usual fee for an
organist in New York, to play ten times
at fashionable church wedding.
Mr. Kellogg, of indianapolis, felt of a
buzz saw to see if it was going The
next time he will mind his own buzz
mess.
The friends of Rev. Mr. Hepworth have
raised hundred thousand dollars to-
ward the erection of free church for
him in New York
Many American ladies, were they SEN
fenced to be hanged tomorrow, would
ask as their first question, "Have | a
hanging dress p
The Cleveland Leader says that the
musician who put his lips to brass horn
on recent cold day will not be able to
let go until navigation opens
An Illinois cat, recently deceased at
the age of twenty-four, was made the
subject of long and impre ssive funeral
ceremonies.
MANY American ladies, were they
sentenced to be hanged tomorrow, would
ask as their first question, Have
hanging dress?
The weather out West has been so
cold that in one place the legs of the
cook stove had to be soaked in water
before it would draw.
On the 2lst ult. New York police
man found six children in two beds in
one room in tenement house, all sick
with the worst form of the small pox.
Young Swell.-"We won't go down
Grand street, for l haven't paid my
tailor his Christmas bill yet, and if he
should see me he might feel embarrassed.
Why is a candle-maker the worst and
most hopeless of men because all his
works are wicked, and all his wicked
works are brought to light.
In the absence of other competent au-
thority, Georgian performed the mar
riage ceremony at his own wedding
Other people generally marry their
wives he married himself
Tishomings county, Mississippi, built
nice, new, comfortable Jail about year
ago, but the people are so provokingly
good that not prisoner has been COM
mitted to it.
At North Amherst. Mass, the late
Alvin Barnard gave the Baptist Church
$1,000 on the sole condition that it
should never settle pastor who was a
free and accepted Mason.
Marriage between kindred in Russia,
however distant, even unto so-called
'forty-second cousins, is against the
law, and considered by all Russians as
an abomination.
A mammoth cake recently made in
Newark weighed 100 pounds. $50 eggs,
l22 poundsof butter, and other ingredi-
ents in proportion, entered into its COM
, position.
An economical Canadian in Woon.
socket bought secondhand coat for his
wedding outfit; but the lady, shocked
at such meanness, repudiated him utter
ly, and the garment is again for sale.
, A paper says, Zone of the prettiest
sights the human eye ever rested upor
is gold in its liquid state The human
= eye in this vicinity would be satisfied il
: it could see any of the metal in sole
! state.
MAN HUNG AT TORONTO. Ira
7 Wis was executed Feb. %, for the murde
e of one Johnson some months ago nea
:. New Market, in fit of jealousy. Hi
b death was almost instant. He left
: full confession.
ENcoURAGEMENTs.- missiona
> ries among the Chinese at Bangkok il
: Siam, report that they have favorabl
= field for working, and as perfect freedom
to preach the gospel as pastors in thi
country.
d Some doctors leave no stone unturne
$ to cure patient One gave woman
G fourteen kinds of medicine to cure tn
r chills She has been cold ever since
: but she has not shaken shake excer
IT when the hearse ran over a stump on tn
|. way to the grave.
+ EpIsoopAL.-The increase in the clel
y = gy of the Protestant Episcopal Churc
" for 1871 was SO, being little MOI
' than two per cent The amount of col
tributions for 1872 was $5,554, 574.91
q e or more than four dollars to each con
:. municant.
l. A shrewd little fellow was entruste
it to the care of his uncle, who fed the DO
At very poorly. One day he happened
ot see greyhound, whereupon he aske
4. the little fellow if he knew what mad
Of the dog so poor. The reply was, Il e,
OF pect he lives with his uncle"
- Immense numbers of seals resort
- the islands of Alaska in summer, bl
where they spend their winters is an Ill
solved mystery. Search made for the
10 in the winter shows that they do NJ
1t land in any considerable number on an
n known lands.
In Several amateur musicians in Yves
s. ern town have organized band, givin
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