Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-03-29
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-Sixty-one was the average age of
American clergymen who died last year.
"A goose in Topsfeld, Mass, died re-
Gently at the advanced age Of IS years.
"A wife who had been brutally beaten
by her husband, sold her cook-stove to
purchase his release from prison.
johnnie wouldn't you like to he an
angel and have wingsH No, ma, would
rather be hawk and catch chickens.
The Oldest newspaper in the world is
published in Pekin il is a weekly, printed
on sl6, and is said to have been commence
ed more than two thousand years ago.
Sharp Cbiuaman to California lacy, at
Sunday school: "Why do-ee Christian only
talk-ee about Jesus on Sundays, and notice
one time-ee on other days"
An honest country parson, who, in the
time of n great drouth was desired to pray
for rain, answered: arm willingly do it to
oblige you, but il is TO no purpose while
the wind is in this quarter"
A New Hampshire man, when asked
to give his consent to the marriage of his
daughter, turned, with a beaming face, to
the applicant and answered frankly: Eyes,
yes, and don't you know some likely young
man who would take the other?'
Some Pennsylvania wood-cutters re-
Gently sawed down large poplar tree, and
found snuglv ensconcel therein hickory
sapling, fully four inches outside the bark.
Both hickory and poplar were perfectly
sound.
commissioner Eaton of the United
States Department of Education, in his
report says that the newspapers Of the Uni
ted States are doing almost rs much good
as the public schools for the cause of Edu-
cation.
A company of English and American
capitalists have secured control of all the
marsh lands in California, amounting TO
half million acres, which they propose to
reclaim by very extensive system of sea-
walls, levees and draining bitches.
As it takes $4,000 cochineal insects to
make a pound, and as l,S49,si2 pounds
we're brought into this country last year.
100. 239 ,730, 600 must have given up their
lives to color the dresses and cheeks of
American ladies.
There is considerable excitement on
the Texan border on ace cunt of the depre-
datons of Mexican cattle thieves. During
the last half of February 1000 bead of cat
tie, valued at $4,000 were captured by the
Mexican banditti, within thirty miles of
Brownsville.
The family of Ezra Arnold, living near
Burk e,svillc, Frederick county, Nd, were
all poisoned on Sunday by some tea bought
at a country store. Mrs, Arnold is dead
and five children senseless. Mr.. Arnold
was absent with drove of cattle at Balti-
more.
The experience of our Massachusetts
railroads shows that a person has chance
accomplishing 24,9O4, O4S journeys ofthir-
teen miles each, or an aggregate journey of
324,000,0O0 miles before meeting with any
accident resulting in death, aud 10000, 900
miles before meeting with any resulting in
death or IN personal injury.
Now is the time TO clean out cisternsan
wells, before the spring rains set in. BY
attending 10 such work when you have
plenty Of time, you can make a thorough
job of it, and after fishing out several pairs
of old boots and a half-a-dc zen drowned
cats, you c,n dete rhine with tolerable az
curacy what it was made the water smell
so all winter"
"A little six year old boy was asked by
his teacher to write composition on the
subject of water, and the following is the
production: water is good to drink, to
swim in, and to skate on when frozen.
When was little baby, the nurse used
to battle me every morning in water. l
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themselves but once in ten years. 1 wish
/ was an Injun."
The governor of Michigan in his mes
sage gives the total amount of contribu-
tons in money to the sufferers by fire in
that state as S4Gl JOG, including an estimate
of $4,000 of sums sent to persons privately;
further a contribution of food and clothing
valued at S25 600. The sum of $4,000 is
still in hand. The Detroit relief commit
tee alone has aided 1858 families, 99O5 per-
sons, helped to rebuild 1905 houses, etc.
january 10th, an earthquake destroy
ed the city of Schemacha, in Russia. Ac-
cording to the official report, llS persons
were killed and fOrty-four wounded, but
all the inhabitants were left without shell
ter. Sch emacha is, or rather wa a city of
1000 inhabitants, and lies on the road be-
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to carry him through the ceremony. His
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