Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-09

ments, we are yet far from reaching. We
make wonderful recitation-machines IN
our schools, but it questionable wheth
err real thinkers can grow in such hot
beds. The short stories 10 this number
are unusually good, but the illustrations
are less attractive, though more unique
than the average. The Scientific Record
i Invaluable to those who cannot go to
headquarters for interesting and useful |
scientific news.
- Dead letters contained 100000, !
last year.
-J Josh Billings says Success dom
konsist in making blunders, but in never
making the same one the seckond time.
- The Huggin House, at Racine, is
much resorted to by newly married
couples, says an exchange that knows how
it is ourself.
"A murderer, who was recently hang
ed, told his attending ministers; " If
had received as much attention before
being put into prison as l have since, /
should never have been here"
-" Molly, shut that doorl it's getting
awful cold in herer was the remark Of
an Albany husband, as he hung his coat
on hitching post and prepared to re-
tire on the curbstone, under the impress
sion that he had arrived at home.
- Three thousand deaths daily from
: hunger is thesad monotone Persia SOUNDS
in the ears Of the civilized world, which
hears but scarcely heeds.
- The trouble with Vermont newspa-
/, pers is that there are already twice as
: many as the State will decently support
I Springfield Republican.
We know a finely cultivated gentle
man about the size OF the editor OF this
sheet, who has published paper IN Yer
j mont for sixteen years, and during thai
e period has had three full blooded lioe
I suits, one ordinary county court suit, tw'
hundred Justice suits and the measles
} starting with nothing, be has twice tina
D now. So publishing a newspaper in Yer
mont does pay l-St. Johnsbury Times.
One of those senseless female mood
les, who have such singular ideas
i fun, put on ghostly apparel at Daver
port, Ia, the other day, and went groaI
(! ing into the room of friend. The sea
!, ed woman shrieked and fell on the foc
in spasms. The scarer then became Il
scared, aud she collapsed in swool
: and their friends had lively time for
a a while to keep their souls and bodies t
- gether.
I'd = James NJ. Scovel of New Jersey
replying to some structures passed upc
him by the St. Louis Democrat on a
he count of his presence at the recent gat
*, ering of liberal republicans in Nilsson
Us says; Its my glory and my boast tn
'u- | never enriched myself in polite
lal though the consulate to Liverpool
rly $4,000 in cash was the price offered I
tn in 1866 to betray repuolicanism and c
lsh feat the fourteenth amendment, viii
was ratified in the New Jersey Legls
: ture by my casting vote, and without
that great guarantee of equal rigl
III would have been defeated"
This story is old bot good: T
has newsboys we're standing before Gig
of store, when one asked the other, " Hs
r 1, you got three cents ?" Yes" "W,
list l have two cents; give me your thr
the and viii buy a five-center." :"
right says number 2, handing out
money. Number enters the store,
Sc cures the cigar, lights it, and puff "
lux great deal of satisfaction. Co
day now give US pull" says number I;
arm furnished more than half the none
ated " know that" says the smoker; :"
esty then I'm president, and you being o
stakeholder, you can spit"