Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-02-01

The great plains Of Texas contain one
hundred and fifty-two million acres.
A poor man in Summer County, Kan,
has only $1,000 head of cattle in the
world.
Every wooden leg which supplies the
place Of limb lost in battle, is said to be
a stump speech against war.
On a gate post out West is sign,
"Take warnin No tracs life insurans,
nor soin masheens wanted here.
Most of the troubles and vexations of
this life consist in the anticipation of
calamities which are never realized.
A Pennsylvania ladies' man says he is
never satisfied that his lady friends
understand kiss, unless he has it from
their own mouths.
A curious rumor comes from London
that the German Government is opposed
to an international combination to sup
press the International.
There are 994 cheese factories in New
York. which convert the milk Of 259, 900
cows. The total number Of factories in
the United States is 1,261.
A celebrated clergyman in New York
recently said, that he had found more
good in bad people, and more bad in good
people, than he ever expected.
The world uses $50, 100000 pounds of
tea each year, and 718,0O0, 900 pounds of
coffee. China furnishes nearly all the
tea, and Brazil over one half of the cot
fee.
The best authorities in agricultural
matters estimate the coming wheat crop
of California at twelve millions Of sacks,
worth, at the lowest estimate, S24, 600, 600
on the ground.
A certain city was about to be destroy
ed. The women were allowed to leave,
and were told that they might carry
away on their backs whatever they most
priced. Each woman took a man.
By the gradual accumulation Of sand,
an island three miles long has been form
ed at the mouth of Mobile harbor, there.
by deepening the regular channel and
vastly improving the approach to the
city.
4 little girl was told to spell fermcnt
and give its meaning, with sentence IN
which it was used. The following was
literally her answer " Ferlnent verb,
signifying to work. I like to ferment in
the garden.
81 am glad this Job is DONE" said Ed
ward Porter, as he fastened the last
shingle on a roof at Newburyport. A
second afterwards he fell to the frozen
ground, a distance of thirty feet, smash
ing his head to jelly.
In Lafayette Ind, young man gave
woman his note for $500 as balm for
wounded honor, aud afterward married
her for the purpose of getting possession
of the note. He then destroyed the doc
ument and left for parts unknown.
A man in Daubury discovered that
powder fried with lard was good for
boils. He tried it. The stove cover is
in the second story now, though most all
the rest of the stove has been collected.
He was deceived IN his lard, he says.
A young lady who had been chosen
Engrossing Clerk in the Minnesota Sen
ate resigned because she thought some OF
the votes had been given grudgingly,
We are glad to be informed, however
that the lady in question was immediate
ly reelected by hearty majority.
The moneyed value of the copper and
iron product of Lake Superior for 1871
is about S12,OO0,000 The total product
of the iron mines of Lake Superio: for
the past year will reach nearly 1000, 900
net tons Of ore, while the make OF char
coal pig-iron will be over 10000 tons.
A gentleman in search Of man to do
some work met on his way highly re-
spectacle lady, not as Young as she once
was, and asked her, "Can you tell me
where can find a man % "No, [ can
not, she replied, "for have been look
ing these twenty years for one myself.
During the past twelve months, the
ifeboats of the English National Lifeboat
Institution rescued 65S lives, i'll addition
to 81 vessels saved from destruction.
During the same period the Lifeboat
Institution granted rewards for saving
$50 lives by fishing and other boats,
making a grand total of SIS lives saved
last year mainly through its instrument