Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-19
SOME CHOWDER.


Stokes spent $500 in his first trial,
and will have to try again. y+~
Illinois has 705 more miles of rail-
road than any other state in the Union.
Washing done by Mrs. Washington is
a Detroit sign.
A Philadelphia beggar is placarded
II am parolized." ;"
At Rochester, they carry young ladies
home from wine suppers on stretchers.
Cure for blind man: Get married,
that will be sure to open your eyes.
Stanley, the Herald's Livingstone ex-
plorer, is the rage in Paris at present.
The counsel of Stokes has made ap-
plication to have him released on BAIL
The Worlds Fair at Vienna, Austria,
commences May l, '73, and continues
six months.
A great surgical operation-To take
the cheek out of young man, and the
jaw out of a scolding wife.
A bad marriage is like an electric
machine-it makes you dance and you
can't let 60.
The New York Herald will soon start
an expedition to fix the old disputed To-
cation of the garden of Eden, ~
There are two things in this world that
are not safe to trife with--a woman's
opinion and the business end of wasp.
"News of the Weak" is the headline
given by city editor to a hospital re-
port.
Spotted Tail and his braves gave a
public reception Friday in the Grand
Central Hotel, New York, which was
largely attended.
The editress of Western Journal re-
Gently announced that the arrival of an
"extra male" prevented the prompt is
sue of her paper.
A husband regretting the loss of his
first wife, was told by his second that
mo one had reason to wish his former
spouse alive than she had.'
Widow pic-nics are held in Ohio. Il
man appears on such occasions they al
rush for him, and he is glad to escape
with his life.
An Illinois boy who persisted in scar
ing horses by flying kites, very properl,
walked backwards inte hole one hun
dred feet deep.
q Picnics in Pennsylvania wind up will
what is called the Dolly Warden marcl
the young ladies standing in row
and the young men passing along tht
line and kissing each good night.
A plucky woman at Peoria, Illinois
entered saloon on Saturday evening
kicked over table, drew revolver OF
the bartender, and led her husband ou
by the ear.
A cow and German woman in MIN
nesota, under the same yoke, haulet
through the day drag after the seede
run by the woman's husband with spal
of horses. The cow was completely ex
hausted.
The young lady students in LIE Roy
Pa, are 'doing" the Latin in yer,
practical manner. One of them has
beau, and he e7asked herswhat .'sic transi
gloria mundi" meant? She translated it
s'Come and see ma on Monday" ak
Humanitarianism has cropped out i
a new form in Boston. Among the lat
est institutions of that city Of jubilee
is mendlng and repairing society, com
posed of women who undertake to Sc,
on buttons, darn stockings, and perform
other kindly services for unprovided fo
bachelors.
A laborer in Milwaukee was .recentl
plunged into the deepest affliction by tn
death of his wife. On arraying her fo
the grave be was greatly consoled, how
ever, by discovering that suspicious look
ing Jumps on her legs proved to be pacl
ages containing several hundred dollar
in currency concealed in her stockings.
what is your name ?'' asked Gel
sus officer. John Corcoran." "Yor
age? "Twenty-onc What natiy
ity?" Well, that's what bothers m
I'll tell you, and may be you can NAL
it out. My father was Irish, my moth,
English. and / was born on7Ya1 Dutt
frigate. under the French flag in Turks
waters Now how is it?"
D. N. Brown, wealthy fruit grow,
near St. Joseph, Michigan, offered h
wife, with whom he had lived over for,
years, $4,000 to sign bill of separ
tion, SO that he could marry the hire
girl, a blushing damsel of sixteen year
Mrs. Brown thought the SIG. 900 of mo
account than the husband, and accepte
J the offer