Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-27
Facts and Fancies.

able to hit any thing.
Hope may bud under clouds, but bios.
SONS only in sunshine.
In solitude is self knowledge; in society
is knowledge of others.
A wealthy man in Milwaukee keeps his
mother in the poor-house.
He who would know the height of joy
must sound the depths of sorrow.
Some are born to lead and command;
others are as surely destined to follow and
obey.
At Ellsworth, Kansas Pacific Railroad,
%, 900 head of Texas cattle arrivedin one
day.
Human constancy: two fools promising
to make a straight journey over a crooked
road.
A Methodist church in Madison, Wis,
lately got up an excursion to devils
Lake"
A Miss Davis of Norfolk, Va, has
committed suicide because her brotheris
forger.
The petroleum business has been run
into the ground from the beginning.
Pity, isn't it?
Mulberries in Tennessee are so poison
ed by the locusts that birds and squirrels
will not eat them.
In Detroit they measure the tempcra-
ture by the number of paper collars con-
sumed per week.
Twelve hundred and fifty dollars made
the ancient "talent." 1t takes some tai
ent to make 81, $50 nowadays.
The various charitable societies and
institutions in New York State received
last year So, 100000 from various sources.
The Empress Eugene had the pleas
ure of seeing her name set up in an
English newspaper as the empress En-
CINE"
In the United States, during q period
of twelve years, 262 persons were killed
by lightning, and 430 more or less in
jured.
The decline in the price of Erie Rail
way shares has caused the failure, in
London, of several heavy dealers in that
stock.
If Won don't look carefully after the
bits of your horse, you may one day be
looking sadly after the bits OF your car
riage.
A Chinese poem, written upward of
1000 years ago, is said to prove that
America was known to the Cinnamon of
that day.
A lockout" was begun ut London
by the builders of the city. By this act
&c, 900 journeymen are thrown out OF en-
ployment.
Acknowledging that we have been in
the wrong is only showing to the world
that we are wiser to-day than we were
yesterday.
Honey ..wccpr, is the name of Red
Clouds only brother, and some OF the
papers disrespectfully speak OF him as
Old-Dry-Up.
When couple OF young people,
strongly attached to each other, COM
mence to eat onions, it is safe to pro-
nounce them engaged
Milton says the hearts of men are their
eloouence. The reason there is so little
real eloquence is that there is so little
depth and fervor of heart
During the last week there were re-
ported in New York City 632 deaths, being
equivalent to an annual death rate OF 80
|. per 900 of the population.
If Bazaine be found guilty Of the char
ges brought against him, the martial law
of France condemns him to death.
There is no alternative punishment
Probably the oldest city-or rather
the city containing the most standing
relics of the past in shape of houses,
buildings, etc.-in Europe is Antwerp
A few weeks ago, during storm, the
current of the Illinois river was reversed
and "ran up stream" for some distance.
The inhabitants are still puzzled to &C.
count for it.
"Bulwer," contemporary remarks,
Essays that poverty is only an idea, Its
very bad idea, and one we shou Id not
care to entertain. We prefer the zeal,
especially in property.
It is worth in New York just S., 800 to
break a lads leg under a car wheel and
500 to kill him outright. Decisions re-
Gently rendered in the courts settle this
proportion accurately.
A golden rule for young lady IS to
converse always with her female friends
as ii a gentleman were of the party, and
with young men as if her female COM
panions were present.
Women always measure their strength
in the beginning against men they are
on the eve of loving. They make
brave display of battle at first. But
when they once yield, they yield forever
Old Scotch lady" TAX snuff, sir? -"
Gentleman with large nasal promo ntory,
Indignantly" Do l look like a snutfer?"
Old lady" Well, [ Gamma iist say you
do, though l maun say We hae grand ac-
/ commodations."
Josh Billings says there seems to be
, four styles of mind: First, them who
knows it's so; second, them who knows
} it amt so; third, them who split the diff
. ference and guess at it; fourth, them
who don't care which way it is.
As four or five darkies were passing an
agricultural llnpleulehV stoie "o", 'ou'"'
one of them, pointing to a cultivator
said A man can iist sit on dat thing
and ride while he is ploughing." cool
ly," replied the other, ode rascals was
, too sharp to tink of dat fore de niger
was free.
An infant six months old, which was
tied in chair and then placed in another
chair at fourth-story window, in Hart.
ford, Conn, reached too far forward and
toppled headlong out. Happily, its chair
struck clothes line forty feet below, and
, its life was saved, although it was badly