Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-15
miscellaneous Stems.

The Russian empire, including Poland and
foots up 1907, 79l inhabitants.
An Iowa editor says his "bonifed" circua.
onIis 500 copies. "IIappifed" to hear it.
A drug clerk in New York has been SEN
enced to prison for ten days for attempting
20 commit suicide in this free country.
"Signor francesca Bartolini," now "star-
ring at the West recently sang in one of the |
Hartford churches MS Frank Bartlett.
A seven-year-od in Jacksonville, Ill.,,
the mote out Of his brothers eye
with whiplnsh, but the eye came with it.
Fred Grant is going to be married, early
next year. to Miss Wright, daughter of the
late Gen. Wright of the United States army.
Tho English papers call the steam whistle
the american devil" We know better.
He is the youth that comes down stairs and
asks for copy.
The centenary Of the death of Linneus, the
Swedish naturalist, will be celebrated ut
Stockholm on the 10th of January, 1873, when
II statue of him will be unveiled
An inmate oft he county poor-housc in
Crown Point. Ind, was attacked and entire
ly eaten up by hogs, recently having lain
down IN the pasture from exhaustion.
A peace-maker ut Gilman, ILL.,, put IN end
to u quarrel between two of his neighbors by
drawing revolver and shooting both of
them.
A Pennsylvania farmer ut auction bought
an old hearse because he'd "been wanting
a rig of some kind to take Marian and the
children to sircuses and fairs. and haul potl-
toes i'm
A lady in Marseilles has sued hair dress
er for 2OOO francs damages. He had offered
TO dye her brown hair red, and in conse-
qucnce his operations it turned violet.
The Easton Free Press says. "I'he horses
which draw the Allentown city horse-cars
enjoy the protection from the rain of gum
blankets" Queer rain.
Olive Logan's latest is Elm not tickle,
but do you know whenever get beau and
come to like him find another man l like
better" People knew that long ago, Olive.
Ulysses Grant, Jr., son of the president, is
in Germany, perGecting himself in German
and French. lie is also keeping up his stud
les with the junior class at Harvard, to which
he belongs, and will next year rejoin.
There is one lady in town who ate oysters
all through the month of August, when she
could get them, under the superstition that
| there was an "rn in that month. "Orgust'
was the way she spelled it.
A delicate youth of seventeen years ha:
been under treatment Mt the Indianapoli:
| Surgical Institute. He is only seven feet five
inches high and weighs little less than three
hundred pounds.
An improvement in medical Jurisprudence
has been introduced in Philadelphia, whcr,
u new trial is sought for murderer on tn,
ground, not of his insanity but of the in
sanity of the jury that convicted him.
A dispatch from Pekin, China, states
that the emperor Of China was mar
ried on the 10th of October. There was n,
outside ceremony other than the procession
which escorted the bride from her residenc
to the imperial palace. No cards.
A New Bedford bride and bridegroom
| NlSlliliS llbSlOHi litoI "Otht Oh WChuiui
tour, were taken from the station to their no
tel in hack drawn by oxen with white rib
| bons on their horns.
The youth of Halifax under twenty-on
years of age are denied the privilege O
smoking on the streets, the offenso bcin
punishable by fine or Imprisonment. Sev
ernl convictions have been had under law.
For frank man commend us to the gen
tleman in Springfield who announces tina
the fire in his block the other day was S
clearly due to his own negligence that h
does not intend to call on the insurance CON
panies to make good his loss.
An exchange thinks that the Russian Prir
cess AlcXandrowa Troubeschenetf, instea
Of joining tho Oneida community ought to 6,
married, if only to obtain change of namC
Suppose she should wed Mr.. Schffzkwtz
NcbraskaP Would that be consonant enough
A Pomfret woman recently lost favorlt
hen, and revenged herself by poisoning tn
corpse with strychnine, the result being
dead owl, one of the largest varieties know
in New England, with six feet spread (
wings, dead fox aud a skunk.
jenkins, the Washington negro who WI
, executed on Thursday for killing his wifi
went through the regulation program on I'll
! scaiiold in the most approved style, decla
ing that he was "going home," and woul
"soon put on my crown"
A Boston woman, who has been readin
in the papers that Sunday marriages are ill
gal, writes to the papers to know how it
with baby born on Sunday. If so, whC
should be punished-the father, the mothe
or the baby?
A man recently broke off Il marriage b.
cause the lady did not possess good convc
sational powers A wicked friend, common
ing on the fact says "He should have ma
ricd her, and then refused her new bonnie
to have developed her power of talk"
A Mobile gentleman, having learned tn
his daughter had loved not wisely, but t
well, got up an evening party ut his hous
few nights ago, inviting young man CO.
corned, and, in the midst of the festivit
improvised II clergyman and compelled Il
youth at the mouth of a pistol to marry h
daughter.
San Franciscos Golden Gatepark contain
$50 acres, is in an oblong shape, about s.
times as long MS it is wide, and lies about Oh
mile from the new city hall, but very fe
'Friscoans patronizo it. Great sums are beiI
laid out on it in the hope of making it pop
lar and morally remedial
A Terre Haute boy of tender years al
heart has drowned seventeen kittens, al
tied pans to the tails of nine dogs, brush'
his fathers lew hat against the grain, an
blown up pet canary with fire crack
, in the last month, and still his fond moth
intends him for the pulpit.
} The smallpox lately took off a worry o
and eccentric man of st. Louis, known