Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-20
Facts and FancieS.

Facts and Fancies.
There is a high-minded class of thieves
in Wisconsin who go about killing sheep
to obtain their skins.
Although brevity is the soul of wit, did
you ever know man more funny when
he was a little short T?
The only prisoner in jail at South Bend,
Ind, is indignant at the circumstance.
He says he wasn't condemned to solitary
confinement.
Can man who, on going to bed,
blows out his gas, be fairly described as
being found senseless in the morning
He was no better off over night.
Rector's daughter Ito Sunday scholar)
-"Oh, you have an elder brother; well,
how old is he?" Schoolboy-"Dunno,
miss; but he just started o swearing"
An Irish paper says that "In the
absence of both editors, the publishers
have succeeded in securing the services
of gentleman to edit the paper this
week."
1t is said that the late Chief Justice
Weston, of Maine, was never absent from
duty single day on account of his health
during the thirty years he was on the
Bench.
A lady in Milwaukee has Just buried
her seventh husband. She is 81 years of
age, and was a fresh and charming widow
last week, but is probably married again
by this time.
A box appeared in San Francisco ex.
press Office the other day, with the in
scription "Black Bare-Ef you don't
want to get bit keep your fingers out of
the crax."
The following statistics of healthy
Boston laundress are interesting age,
81 weight 400 height, feet 5 !; cir.
conference of chest feet 5; waist,
feet ; thigh, 2 feet 10 calf, 20 inches
arm, 20 inches.
The little town of Nanterre has just
gone through the annual antiquated cere-
mony of browning with wreath of roses
the best conducted girl of the district"
who is also presented with gold watch
and purse of EGO.
Some time since several young men
in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, took it
into their heads to emigrate to Mexico.
They have returned, and desire their
friends to make no allusion to the coun-
try beyond the Rio Grande.
A Davenport, Iowa, paper thus quantity
announces a but too frequent cause of
death among women A girl on Monday
evening repeated the oft-tried expert
ment of building a fire with kerosene.
She succeeded. Aged twenty.
A prisoner arraigned before Recorder
in New Orleans was told: 81 really don't
know whether I had better fine you 81
or SO; what's your idea about it ?"
Prisoner "Your Honor, all 1 have to
plead is that you will not set down augM
in malice"
"James," said a gentleman to his SER
want, 81 have always placed the greatest
confidence in you now tell me, James,
how it is that my butchers bills are so
large, and almost invariably have such
bad dinners" "Really, sir, L don't
know for I'm sure we never have any
thing nice in the kitchen that we don't
send some of it up in the parlor.
Miss Jane Parker, of Pittsfeld, died
from the effects of pricking finger with
a pin while washing some clothes. Her
arm began to swell rapidly, and before
anything could be done to check it, gam
creme commenced its deadly work, eating
the flesh so fast that before she died her
arm as far as the elbow had mortified
and dropped off. The doctors think the
poison was in the soap.
The editor of the Oconto wis., LAM
herman is under arrest for non-payment
of $500 Judgment in libel suit The
Sheriff allows him bounds of one mile
from the Jail, so that he only goes to the
jail to get his meals, and that at the ex
pense of the plaintiff. A Wisconsin
paper says $50. rather seems to like
his situation, and gives the Sheriff puff
for the quality of the fare at his table"
ungallantcontemporary thus writes:
"The modern woman, when she has
nail to drive, doesn t wait for her husband
to come home. She catches hold of the
nail as she would into the hair of re-
crsant son, swings the hammer over her
head and plunges downward. Then she
ties up her fingers as wellas she can, puts
on her best bonnet and goes right over
to her mothers for good cry, and her
tea"