Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06
items Of Interest.

ENGLAND, IL is understood, WlUuulhWS
from the Treaty compact.
OVER $4,000 persons are now engaged
in the strikes in New York.
The first printed Greek book was n
grammer, which appeared in 1476.
A PENALTY of $25 is imposed for rob-
bling birds nests in Massachusetts.
A WHITE perch weighing nearly l3lbs.
was caught near Bowling Green recently.
WoLT-HUNT1NG has become a proGta-
BILE industry in Muscatine county, Iowa.
The Democratic Conventions in Penn
sylvania, nominated Ex-senator Bucka-
lew for Governor.
DURING the present U. S. Congress,
1850 bills have been introduced and re-
ferred to Committees.
IT is reported that the girls boat club
of Michigan University will take part in
Iregattas this summer.
The Toronto Mail says We have only
one volcano in Canada, and that is
Mount Public Opinion.
Two women, who "gouged" out the
eye of u witness in London, are SEN
fenced by judge to penal servitude for
life
A WESTERN railroad is setting out a
double row of white willows, to act us II
wind,hrake along two hundred miles Of
its road.
DECORATION Day was generally OBJ
served throughout the United States,
although in many places it rainod Sc
verely.
THE use of artificial flowers was intro
duced into England by Phi!ippa Of
Hainault, the beautiful wife of King
Edward III.
The Ohio Democratic State Central
Committee have issued call for State
Convention, which is to be held at Glove
land June q.
TwENTY-sIx of the Ku-Klux sentenced
at Charleston, S. c., for violation of the
Enforcement act, are to be taken to the
Albany, N Y, Pcnitentiary.
The Free Trade meeting in New York,
at which VIM. Cullen Bryant presided,
adopted resolutions in favor of still
another Presidential movement.
A MAN in Windham County, Connce-
ticut, is said to be working up saw log
thirty feet loAg into fife for Gilmorc's
Jubilee. 1t will be blow by nitro-glyc-
crime.
The Paris Figaro announces on what
it claims to be the best authority, that
Mile. Christine Nilsson will be married
to NJ. Rouzeaud, in that city, early in
July next.
Two men came to blows day or two
ago in a dispute as TO where a female
relative, now in good health and with
fair prospects of long life, shall be buried
when she dies.
WESTERN stock raisers say that the re-
cent reports of the death of stock in con-
seque nee of the hard winter were greatly
exaggerated. But little of the accumu-
lated stock was injured.
100000 men were employed for twenty
years in building the great pyramid at
Ghizch, and ten years had been previous
ly spent IN quarying the stones and
transporting them to the place.
A STRIKE of horse. shocrs for increased
wages was partially inaugurated in Bos-
ton. Several of the largest EMPLOYERS,
including the Metropolitan Horse Rail
road, at once agreed to the advance.
The Chamber of Commerce at New
| Haven, Conn. claims to be something OF
an historic relic. 1t WAS first organized
in 1884, and numbers among its past
members Noah Webster and Roger Sher-
man.
THE wholesale German emigration to
America is attracting great attention in
Europe, and various theories are given
to account for it, the best of which is
that the people are poor and want to do
better
MosT startling facts are being brought
to light in connection with the Metho
dist Book Concern. There is said to
have been no balance sheet kept for the
last twenty years, and all accounts are
supposed to be at sea.
IT is said that abOut one-fOurth Of the
saloon keepers of Illinois have already
closed up, and that about one quarter OF
the remainder will go out of business
before the first of July, on account OF
the State Temperance law
A CORRESPONDENT of the Iowa Home
stead describes pear tree which was
grated on the hawthorn in 1903, and
which is now about fifty feet high, trunk
five feet nine inches in circumference.
1t bears fifty bushels of pears annually
A MAN named Donald McCheek, who
has been convicted of murder in the first
degree twice, and was convicted again at
Brooklyn, Ind, and was sentenced tc
imprisonment for life. Another effort
it is said, will be made to get him new
trial.
HUGH MARIA and James Doueherty
convicted of the attempted assassination
of Detective Brooks, in SEPTEMBER
1869, and who were sentenced to sever
years imprisonment, and to pay q fine
Of 81, 900 each, have been pardoned by
Gov. Geary.