Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

HOueJ, SA peCOli1 tildt he Wouiu SUUh uiS
and leave her wealthy young widow.
Last week the lady died at the respec-
table age of Sc, leaving husband aged
100, and four children, to mourn her
loss.
A lady in Des Moines proposed to "a
fascinating dry goods clerk He said,
ASK ma, : reversing the natural order
of things to suit the year. INA" was
keen observer, aud she saw more fash
ion than housekeeping in the young lady.
She answered mo, and the young lady
left disconsolate.
A number of the departmental women
are applying to the higher government
officials for aid in obtaining appointments
in the public service of Japan, as teach
ers. The salary is $1,000 per annum
for three years and expenses thereto and
return. Fifteen are wanted and FIVE
hundred have already applied.
A man working on a farm near Gibson,
H., was presented by young lady with
a fine plaitedLbosom shirt, made with an
open back. He wore it hind side before
for nearly year before he found out how
it worked. On being told his mistake.
he remarked that he thought it strange
the young woman should. put so much
work on the back.
A woman went to circus In Terra
Haute, Indiana. accompanied by eleven
children, and when neighbor asked her
where the old man was, she said he was
at home taking care of the childfsn!-
Another neighbor called at the house,.
and seeing the old man trying to amfse
nine young ones, asked where the old
lady was. He said he had let her go to
| the circus with the children.
Let all who are disposed to growl at
our too long delayed spring be informed
that al old resident of Peoria, H.. has
informed the Reuieac, of that town, that
In 1922 he reached what is now Chicago
on the 9th of June, and that the frost
was not then out of the ground The
next year, at the corresponding date the
soil was so hard that gardening could
not be begun. N. Y. Tribune.
PRovERBs.-Waste nothing-neither
time, money nor talent.
Always tell the trnth you will find
it easier than lying.
He who gives a trife meanly Is far
meaner than the trife.
A heart full of grace is better than a
heart full of notions.
Men looking at the faults of women
shonld shut their eyes
If we seize too hastily, we may have
to drop as hastily.
HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.-Englishi Is
fast becoming the language of the edu.
Gated world. Twenty-Five years age
French only was sufficient to carry one
anywhere, but now it is impossible tC
find place, from the pyramids of Egyp
to the mountains of Japan, that Englist
will not bring one through. Chinese
house-servants speak English-''pigeor
English" to be sure, but still English
and go where one will, in any society
English now seems to be the prevailing
tongue.
Ten gallons of kerosene, three pounds
of potash, one ounce of strychnine, mix
ed with soft water" 1t was according
to this cheerful, not to say convivia
formula, that a quantity of whisky
seized last week In Newton, Mass, was
compounded, the recipe also having beer
found in the possession of the unfortu
nate dealer. If you want "gin," ado
qmaat,m S9ficit of oil of juniper! Tht
mystery is that men who drink this dia
bolical fluid do not drop down stone
dead at once-NeU York Tribune
GIRLs.-There are two kinds of girls
one is the kind that appears the best a
broad, the girls that are good for par
ties, rides, visits, balls, &c. and who's
chief delight is IN such things; the 9th
er is the kind that appears best at home
the girls that -are useful and cheerful il
the dining room, the sick room, and al
the precincts of home. They differ wide
ly in character One is often torment
at home the other is blessing. On,
is a moth, consuming everything abou
her, the other a sunbeam inspiring life
and gladness all along her pathway
Now it does not necessarily follow thai
there shall be two classes of girls. The
right education will modify both little
and unite their characters in one.
Social economists are sadly puzzled a
bout the discovery of the African diamond
fields, and ask what will be the eff
feet upon the commercial value of the
| precious stones, and the answer is salts
factory when based upon comparison
with that produced by the infux.of golc
from California and Australia, the de
mand for which keeps pace with thu
supply. Thus will it be with diamonds
Their use will spread to all classes o
society. Nothing is ever likely to re
place them as ornaments. During tn,
last twenty years so much have they
been in request that their value has beer
doubled, and, what is more strange, the
supply has come more from the old Span
ish, French, and Italian family jewels
than from the mines.
SCHOOL TEAcHING.-An item is going
the rounds of the exchanges, Stain:
that woman school teacher in Utica
Wisconsin, allows the pupils five min
utes to go out and see the railway trair
when it}passes. This is asensible teach
er. In old times the windows of schoo
houses were built so high as to prevent
the little prisoners from looking out, anc
an elephant might pass by and the little
urchins be compelled to keep their eyes
on their books, lest they might, through
the open door, catch glimpse of thu
animal. No wonder boys and girls CAM
to hate school hours, and to look upol
them as the darkest of the. twenty -four