Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-09
CURRENT NOTES.

A Baltimore woman has been arrested
for being a common scold.
Wisconsin will have a national con-
vention of Quakers this month.
- The Georgia straight OUTS don't like
to be called 'straight-outs.'
Punch declares the four seasons to be
mustard, salt, pepper, and vinegar.
1t takes 1894 sergeants de vile to
keep Paris in safety.
The Brighton butchers call their shops
meeting houses, but not beef f-fttingly.
The St. Paul papers address the Mis-
sissippi as the great parental drainer.
Time will by and by hang up his
scythe; that is, when he shall be no
mower
The cheapest meat is deer in British
Columbia. You can buy whole carcass
for two dollars.
Apples are so plenty this year that
cider barrel will be worth more than a
barrel of cider. q
Mr.. Stanley's friends condemn Noe as
a knownothing, whom nobody that knows
Stanley knows.
The dome of st. Peters is said to need
more repairs than can be afforded by the
Papal dome minions.
When they finish game of base ball
in Dubuque, Iowa, they toss up nickel
to see which side shall kill the umpire.
Public improvements for private ben
eft are considered by New York tax
payers as being altogether too common.
The foulness of the air in some of the
best parts of Berlin, says correspond
ent. is worse than can be described.
Sentiment in New York is fast drift
ing in favor of having the judges ap-
pointed, and not elected.
Margaret Dykes was son struck and
died, in New York. The son that struck
her was about Is years old.
A railroad brakeman in St. Louis near
ly twisted his wife's ears off in his sleep
recently, He dreamed he heard the long
whistle.
There are nearly five hundred desert
ers from the United States army. For
their arrest reward of thirty dollars
each is offered.
Two newspaper editors in Montana
Territory have bet their Offices, goodwill
and all, on the Congressional election in
a certain district
An important egg has just been brok-
en- in Naples. 1t is the commercial house
of Egg whose liabilities are little
more than three millions.
1t is satisfactory to learn from the
London Times that the "old English gen.
tleman" did not drink so much port as
he is charged with.
? A Southern woman became so frantic
) in her religious zeal at camp meeting
that she managed to dislocate one of her
! arms.
, From the commencement of next veal
instruction in Russian reading and writ
+ ing becomes compulsory in all the schools
!, in Poland.
2 The Louisville Courier. Journal speaks
D of a we'll known newspaper man as al
o assistant idiot on the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
< Alabama lightning doesn't do thing.
E by halves. A bolt recently struck tret
in the lot of Mr.. John Cant of Skipper
vile, and killed every horse and mule OF
: the place.
, Owing to the intense heat, the Mis-
souri, Democrat says it is obliged respect
fully to file in the archives of the office
: kept for safety in the stove. large mum
L ber of original poems.
Gold wears away in the handling.
Government officials state that in tn
= simple counting and transfer of one mil
j." lion dollars from one vault to another
y the loss by abrasion amounts to Sc.
A young man hunting turkeys at Kal
, amazoo, Mich, thought he saw one il
! the grass, but a coroner's jury decide,
% that it was the head of the farmer VIII
owned the premises, and was taking
- nap.
= = An article on the police of Paris, i
10 Every Saturday, says: "a man is Dor
a detective as he is born a poet. H
n must possess natural instinct or genius
N and training or cultivation to perfect tn
: faculty"
% The original manuscript of the Decls
ration of Independence is rapidly fadin
W away. Already nearly all the signature
IN are entirely efaced and the rest canno
< last much longer without something
done to restore the writing.
e Broadway, New York, now presents
y frightful exhibition of peripatetic adve
IN tisers of quack medicines, many of the,
old men boarded up with placards, tt
id legends upon which would drive 10
IS spirited dyspeptic bowling mad.
Id Even in Switzerland they have bee
suffering from terrible heat When v
'e- remember that the comet hoax originate
" in that country, and that they ha,
| mountains on which they could freeze
ok death in a few hours if they desired, '
: have no heart to sympathize with them.
in The value of a letter may be seen
lt: emitting the from speculation, al
tie you get 'peculation. an ugly word
Try This is mistake which American prir
ers should avoid from patriotism, if f
NO no other reason. Take away this lettt
nd and what is left of the Stars and Stripes
7as Nothing more than Tar and Tripe.
yer They have an unique way of biddi
ge- you good-by at the Catskill Mounta
ST. House. After the stage has cotton
most out of sight, all the ebony employ
has of the establishment assemble on t
in precipice fronting the house, and bt
ing gongs, drums, tin pans, etc., in st,
rou that would put Gilmore to shame.
ON Adjoining nearly every station-ho,
in Paris there is a 7iolo9, which oono;