Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
Facts and FancIes.

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history is Boston girl aged eight,
The present ample sugar harvest of
Minnesota promises to be the richest in
many years.
The amount of snow in the Upper
Mississippi country Is greater than for
twenty years.
French heels have at last succumbed
to the outcry against them, and have
gone from our gaze.
There is q man in Robertson County,
Texas, who is enjoying the blessing of
his eighth wife and forty-one children.
Des Moines reports a pig with eight
feet, two shouts, two ears, and only one
eye, the latter, in the centre Of its head.
Fifty-seven deaths from violence oc-
Cured in London during a single week
recently. OF these forty-four were the
result of accident or negligence.
One of the latest curiosities in natural
history is a calf said to be owned in Oak
land, Oregon, which sports a pair of
wings Just behind his shoulders,
"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet
they grind exceeding small
Tho with patience He stands waiting, with
exactness grinds He all"
A cheerful giver put the following note
in a pair of pantaloons sent to the
Michigan sufferers: "There take EN-;
last pair I've got; don't get burned out
again.
A man played dead with laudanum,
ETC., at his side, in order to test his wifes
affections. She, to test his vitality, ran
cambria needle into his leg, and
drought him to-"
A microscopic examination OF flesh
from the body of Miss. Turbush, the
young lady who died at Urbana, Illinois,
from eating ham, revealed fifty thou
sand trichin@ to the square inch.
1t has been discovered that graduate
and bachelor of arts of one of the Eastern
colleges is a woman, who, unsupported,
went through the entire course under the
style and habiliments of one of the stern
er sex.
Official information has been received
to the effect that the English Govern
ment has resolved not to go into the
Geneva Conference, unless the American
claim for indirect damages shall have
previously been withdrawn.
A man has been sentenced to State
Prison in Michigan, who owns farm in
St. Joseph County, worth $4,000, and
other property valued at $4,000. He
was convicted of conspiracy and obtain
ing money under false pretences.
Iowa stands the sixth State in the
! Union as regards farm products. In
corn she heads the list, averaging in
1871, AZ! bushels per acre. Next comes
Nebraska, with Alt, then Illinois, the
so-called great corn State, with 80 1-3.
A farmer out west has just contrive1
an internal machine for the destruction
of crows, in the shape of a kernal of
corn which explodes on being picked up
by the unsuspecting bird, and blows his
head off without the slightest warning.
A Michigan saloon-keeper has this
evasive arrangement: You put your ten
cents on a spot marked "whisky," the
apparatus revolves, and directly you see
a glass of whisky standing before you,
and you don't know, of course, who gave
it to you, or how it came there.
A writer in the Christian Advocate
fears costly churches, and the rivalry
which must arise among them for popular
preachers. He says; Competition leads
to large salaries large salaries lead to
sore Threats, sore Threats lead to vacation,
and vacation leads to California or
Europe
A lifetime convict in the Indiana
State Prison by the name of Karver, re-
ceived word that his wife had procured
a divorce and was about to wed another.
lie was so detected over the news that
he procured piece of rope and hung
himself in his cell, but was discovered
and cut down before life was extinct.
Grand juries in California are made up
of very unreasonable men apparently.
One of these fastidious bodies III Sacra-
mento lately recommended the removal
of the jailor, P. MCGOWAN, "for taking
prisoners out and strolling around the
city with them in the dead hours OF
midnight, leavin the control of the Jail
to one of the prisoners"
story illustrative of the way in which
revolutions are got up in South Ameri2a
is told by the Anglo-Brazilian Times :
Three or four years ago, an Argentine
second lieutenant made pronuncia-
mento" in the city of Corrientes, but
was beaten and captured. At his court
martial he was asked, "What post had
you in the affair ?" 81 was commander
in-chief of all the infantry of the revolu-
ton. Glow many men had that infan-
try ?" "Seven men," replied the COM
mander-in-ch