Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-08


= Boston Corbett, the man who once
enjoyed notoriety as the killer of Booth
is dead.
-" Is not Horace Greeley a college
bred man? asks correspondent. "No
sir; he is a Graham bread man.
Roch DEM
A young lady in Philadelphia
claimed the reduction made to ministers
by the vendors of sewing machines, be-
cause, as she blushingly limited, she was
engaged to theological student.
p. t. Barnum advertises in the
New York papers for three hundred men
to travel with his great show in various
capacities, all of whom must be teetotal-
lers and abstain from the use of profane
language, all of which is creditable to
P. I. B.
A youth who deposited package Of
letters at the express Office the other day
for transmission to certain lady, on be-
ing asked the value of the package, husk-
lily replied that only few weeks ago he
considered them worta 100000.
A new way of raising money is
praeticed at Logansport Qnd) Mite So
ciety meetings. A gentleman seats him
self in the middle of the room, and offers
round sum (say 10 cents) to each lady
who kisses him. Many of the ladies ac-
cept the challenge for the good of the
cause.
A Pittsburg boy sporting about a
park one evening with pistol, fired it
into the grating of sewer, where it oc-
casioned an explosion of gas, which COM
municated up through dry fountain
pipe and entirely shattered bronze fig
ure thereon. The ornament cost $500
and the mayor had the boy indicted for
malicious mischief"
A panther recently entered house
near Fort Griffin, Texas, and Selling
little child, attempted to carry it off
There happened to be two men in the
house, and one seized the panther by the
head, the other tugged bravely at his
tail, vile the mother shot him dead and
rescued her child uninjured.
A rich young fellow from Alabama
visited New York the other GAY, and
having imbibed little too freely, took
it into his muddled head to enlist in the
United States service, under the impress
sion that there was to be immediate war
with Spain. He is now petitioning the
secretary of war for discharge.
Hon. Henry Wilson was in Farm
ington, N. H., last Friday and gave 800
each to the Congregational and Freewill
Baptist Sunday school libraries. Mr..
Wilson is native of the town; and
when he was boy, books were not so
plenty as now. He once travelled twenty
eight miles to borrow and return one
book.
Scientific people are puzzling their
brains over flexible marble slab which
has turned up in West Virginia. 1t
came from one of the Vermont ouarries.
and its flexible character was not discov-
cred until after its removal from the de-
oris of the burnt college ediice at
Moundsville. 1t is about two inches in
thickness, and can be bent nearly as
much as an equal thickness of vulcan
lied India rubber.
A number of clergyman in the poorer
districts of London have decided to e
cline wearing at funerals, broad bands
and new kid gloves, which even the poor
est English families consider it necessary
to provide on such occasions. This is a
step in the right direction. There is a
vast deal of costly pomp and fashionable
parade about funerals which are out of
keeping with the solemnity of the occa-
sion. and which people in humble cir
cumstanees cannot furnish without seri-
Gus Inconvenience. The living are pinch
ed in order that the dead may be buried
in silver mounted and satin lined rose
wood. and followed with long line of
carriages filed with comparative strang-
ers, not one of whom would have loaned
the deceased Fifty dollars while alive.