Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-22

pOunu melons.
North Carolina has a Dolly Warden
baby with leopard spots. EE I
Fernandina, Fla, is the great Pal
metto hat carpenter-shop.
At recent Illinois picnic there were
a dozen stabbings.
There is yet probability that Bazaine
will yet be shot for surrendering Metz.
People who are always wishing for
something new should try neuralgia
once.
Smallpox here, !" and ''rooms to rent"
are two announcements on the door of a
Detroit house.
One hundred and thirty baskets of
natural flowers hang from the balcony
of one of the Long Branch hotels.
A woman in Virginia was killed by
lightning while blowing few days ago.
Women should not plow.
The new Erie authorities have sued
Jay Gould for the trifing consideration
of ten millions. ..
Detroit houses are daubed by female
painters, who run up the ladder like
squirrels.
They are constructing new six mil
lion railroad between New York and
Philadelphia.
A Washington correspondent says the
life of Charles Sumner is singular
combination of passion and tranquility.
Familiarity breeds contempt" This
is so-just as soon as we get famillarized
with castor oil, for instance, we contempt
it.
You run no risk by pouring oil out of
a can into your stove if you have no
fire in it. Another safe way is to have
no oil in the can.
A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying in other words, that he is
wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
A Florida woman hugged burglar
so tight around the neck, that her hus-
band was enabled to capture and hand
cuff him.
What will it profit man to gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul %
Nothing. There are cases where there
wouldn't be any loss to speak of.
The present summer will long be no.
ted for the large number of sudden
deaths that have occurred during its
warm days and oppressive nights.
1t is said that men who never drink
between meals are less troubled with
thirst, and generally less distressed by
the heat than those who drink freely.
By the sinking of the steamship Oma
ha, near the Sanguin Isle, seven sanguin'
sailors went to '.the bottom of the sea
the sea-to the bottom of the sea-
By the collapsing of a fue on the riv
er packet Hope, near Martinsville, Yves
Virginia, several mortals collapsed ant
fue-d away to realms unknown.
The Philadelphia Ledger of Saturda,
had nearly five columns of deaths, obit
uaries and funeral notices. Nothin
like this was ever before seen in journal
ism.
Chicago's Fourth of July balloon as
cension came very near ending in tn
drowning of the aeronaut, his balloo
having collapsed and let him into tn
lake.
An Indiana couple composed of on
ancient gosling and gooseling, have bee
engaged fourteen years and have write
each other 5000 letters. Better let he
+ alone.
A Chicago mother before administer
ing to her daughter remedial decot
tion of woodbine root, used some of
to observe its effects. She is now whe1
the woodbine twineth. EE
A five year old visiting the sea-shor
and obliged to sleep three in bed, nal
rated her dream, which being unfnishe
she accounted for fully, by not havin
room to dream the rest of it.
+, Two butchers of Royalton, Ohio, /
wreck their fendish revenge on a Ge
man farmer, caught his little girl, pou
ed benzine on her clothes, and set fire |
her. The poor girl was roasted alive.
At Fort Smith, Ark, Fred Gras.
went for his Sallie and her sewingm;
chine with an iron poker, MASKING IL
damsels head in. After which he r
paired to his room and shot an ounce
lead into his own gizzard.
The New Jersey contemporaries al
masticator- extractors are to hold a Co
vention at Long Branch on the 9th
next month The bull-beef of tn
fashionable resort, necessitates gener
=. sharpening-up of fangs.
St. John, Me-, has produced a Ian
with one head, two bodies, nine lee
;. ten hoofs and two tails. and feels rath
p proud of the 'lusus naturae, instead
is looking upon it in the light of c
'lamb"-ity, as it really is Bost
Post.
While Waterbury (Ct.) farmer W
moving his dooryard, sly puppy b
in the grass and then jumped out
take the scythe by surprise. But t
puppy turned out to be more surpris
than the scythe, for he found himself
two places at the same time.