Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-05
SNOW FLAKES.

IiS oICiiS WIG, J IL.
The free school system has not reach
ed Arkansas yet.
When is a small baby like big
banker? When he is wroth-child.
There are in store, in Chicago, 5,21
5000 bushels of grain.
At what time was Adam married ?
Upon his wedding eve.
Alexis has presented Parepa-Rosa
with a magnificent bracelet.
The abundant rains in California
insure bountiful harvests in 1872.
1t is officially announced that the
Prince of Wales is out of danger.
What is better than promising young
man? A paying one.
What hole is it that needs stopping
more than any other? A rum hole.
Where gold and silver dwell in the
heart, faith, hope, and love dwell out of
doors.
1t may sound like a parody, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army, is a
pretty sure way to make it fly.
A man who gives his children habits
of industry, provides for them better than
by giving them a fortune.
Tit for Tat-It is beauty's privilege
to kill Time; and, i'll revenge, Time
kills beauty.
Ten feet of snow on the level i'm
pedes mining operations in Little Cot
tonwood, Utah.
The officers and crew of the schoon-
er Hogan, of Boston, were taken off
that vessel badly frozen.
The total amount contributed in
Philadelphia for Chicago is 1858, 1873
and for the Northwest S32,698.
Paris papers intimate that Bis
marck is scheming for the reoccupa-
ton of the evacuated French territor-
les.
Ten thousand dollars worth of wed
ding garments passed through the
New York Custom-house, for the
daughter of rich Congressman.
Mrs. Sturdevant wife of the Super
intendent of the Nashville Institute
for the Blind, lost her life by the ex
plosion of a coal oil lamp.
The minister who divides his discourse
es into too many heads will find it diff
cult to procure attentive ears for all o.
them.
The man who said two porcupine:
make one prickly pair, is a night of the
quill, and not professor of the higher
mathematics.
A bunlzum fence was described by /;
witness under examination in court, a
fence that is bull strong, horse high
and pig tight.
CHEERFULNEss.-Noth ing so adorns tn,
face as cheerfulness. When the heart
is in flower, its bloom and beauty pas
to the features.
A mans wife is his best lawyer hi
best counsel his best judge, his best ad
wiser, and also the cheapest and mos
reasonable.
Beauty, like the Towering blossoms
soon fades; but the divine excellence 0
the mind, like the medical virtues of tn
plant, remains in it. when all thos
charms are withered.
A minister in Indiana became mike
r up in land speculation, and announce
to is-congregation that his text woul
be found in st Paul's Epistle to tn
Corinthians, section four, range three
west y
A great nation standing on its hea
? is not an impressive OF edifying spec
5 tacle,-N. 7. Tribune. To see tn
head of great Nation who can
stand on his feet is worse-Bosto
Post.
It has been ascertained that bi
smuggling business has been carrie
on through Provincetown, Mass. Th
: officers made raid recently, and cal
:, tured large lot of Havana cigars an
+ other fiXlns.
D Rev. Robert Hall, the great Bapti>
: minister, of England, when aske
how many sermons a preacher coul
conveniently prepare in a week, replied
+ off he is a man of pre-eminent abil
i ty, one; if he is a man of ordinar
/ ability, two; if he is an ass, six"
e what is your notion of the true phi,
/. sician?" asked medical professor of
student. To which the latter replied
HE is an unfortunate gentleman, WI
J is every day called upon to perform Il
;, miracle of reconciling health with inter
Q perance."
/ Eliza, my child, said very prudis
+ old maid to her pretty niece, who woul
n curl her hair in beautiful ringlets, g
the Lord had intended your hair to
, curled he would have done it himself
: 80 he did, aunty, when was a b
/ by, but he thinks l am big enough no
to curl it myself
A Richmond letter says that tt
Virginia Senate proposes to appropl
/ ate small sum of money to the ere
e ton of marble slabs over the grav
i of John Randolph of Roanoke, al
t. Judge Edmund Pendldton of Car
, line, who's resting places beneath Il
!, sacred soil are now without the cor
IL monest mark.
young Positivist.-Parson-"What
: a miracle ?" Boy-''Dunno.' Parson-
" '.Well, if the sun were to shine in Il
n middle of the night, what should "
e say it was ?" Boy-''The moon" Pa
.sRut IF Won were told II was ii