Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

should ole :! asked lady with whom
we have the honor of an intimate &C
qualntance, of a little three-year-old girl
that we wouldn't take hundred dollars
for. "Well. mamma" was the melan-
choly response, I suppose I should
have to spank myself"
The Germans are experimenting in
guns again. AS result they have per-
tected more murderous weapon than
the Needle gun, with which they
propose to arm cavalry and rife regi-
ments. These with the 100000 chasse-
pots taken from the French, and the
old needle guns, are held up to the gaze
of Russia or any other country that de-
sires fight
A Pennsylvania editor, in acknowl-
edging the gift of a peck of potatoes,
says: 1T is such kindnesses as these
that bring tears to our eyes. One peck
OF potatoes makes the whole world kin.
We have trusted in Providence, and this
is our reward. We would like little
kindling wood and some good turnips,
but that would be asking too much,
50 we will try and do without them
The purchase of Alaska does not ap-
pear to have been so bad bargain on
the part of Uncle Sam, after all. A
writer in Horper's Monthly gives figures
to prove that the government has already
received revenue of two millions from
, that hyperborean region, or eight per
cent upon its investment.
Bismark, it is said, proposes to do
very nice things for General Sherman.
He thinks him the great warrior of the
age On arriving at Berlin he proposes
to do something handsome, and then
take him off to his estate in Pomerania,
where the junketings are to be on grand
old baronial scale, such as our General
never had the least notion of. Speak
ing of Bismarck, they say that somebody
lately asked him why old King William
was SO healthy. Zach, WE'LL said the
premier, because he drinks no water,
and wears red flannel next to his skin. -
ANTICIPATING TROUBLE FOR CALIFoR-
MIA California paper is predicting
for that State severe winter and terri
bic floods in the spring, these predictions
being founded on observations made by
a native Californian of note, who says
that for half century floods have oc-
cured regularly every tenth year, reckon
ing from 1922, when the water covered
all the low lands and rose to a greater
| height than was ever known before. In
1882 and 1912 memorable floods occur
ed, though the water did not attain the
extreme height of 1926. The disastrous
effects of the flood of 1852 will be re-
membered by all the pioneer settlers of
California, while in 1862 Sacramento
was submerged; dams, mills and manu-
factories were carried away on the prin-
ciple streams, and the destruction of prop
erty was very great The conclusion
drawn from these facts is that a great
overflow of water may be expected soon
after the beginning of 1872.
A noted Tammany ruffian who has been
expelled from a sinecure which he held
under Tweed & Co. claims to have abso-
lutte knowledge of the Nathan murderer
and of his whereabouts He offers to
make revelations that will lead to the
murderer's capture if he can obtain par
don for one of his relatives who seems tc
have been an accomplice in the crime
1t is stated he has had several consulta-
tions with the police and members of the
Nathan family, who want to keep the
matter quiet until the supposed murder,
er, who considers himself perfectly secure
can be arrested. A few days will deter
mine whether the claims of this fellow
have any foundation. The police be
lieve this to be only another sensation
and that the Tammany politician is seek
ing notoriety.
SINGULAR FATALITY.-A Miss Mar,
Ellen Fogy, while in attendance at tn
Normal School in New York few day
since, had her throat cut by the core o
an apple. She was eating the apple
and while in the act of swallowing
portion of the core it cut the lining O
her throat and several of the arterie
like knife. Her classmates were as
tonished to see her fall over on the foo
and Vomlt large quantities OF blood. Sh
was taken home, and at last account
was slowly dying from starvation an
loss of blood, it being impossible for he
to swallow anything whatever. Tn
physicians refuse to perform any opera
ton to insert food int9 the stomach, a
Ir,I1 4
The body of an old woman, says tn
Gazette, partially devoured by rats, ha
been found in the celler of house No. &c
St. Paul street, Montreal. She died o
Thursday last, and was put away in tn
cellar by two relatives living in the sam
apartments. They got drunk, failed t
notify the police of the occurrence, an