Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-09
Tom Thumb keeps a yacht.

Iom InulnD keeps yacnu.
Illinois corn stands nine feet high.
1t showed in Wisconsin August l.
Jerusalem will be enlightened by gas
Mcclellan, wife and father-in-law 20
to Utah and California.
A woman acts the clown for an Eng
lish circus
An Albany N. Y. girl has brought
libel suit against her mother.
Miss Wade of Cincinnati has just
made her sixty first failure atsuicide.
Divorces are plentier than ever in the
city of Chicago.
The Russian press is now wholly un-
der the imperial control.
There were forty-three conversions at
a camp meeting recently, at Marietta,
Georgia.
The "Heathen Chinee" insures his
life for enough to carry his body home
when he dies.
The sting of bee gave London lady
such shock that she fell dead to the
ground.
A Warren county negro was kicked
by mule, and he Ghe negro) in turn
'kicked' the bucket.
An amorous Iowa Bedfordite went
sparkling, and while he was billing and
cooling, somebody painted his horse white
The expenses of the Boston Jubilee
were about $65O,OOO. The receipts were
| $44O.O00. leaving deficit of $2lO,OOO
Manton Marble of the New York
World is in an extremely feeble state Of
health, and his recovery is despaired Of
Slavery in Cuba is already in danger
of abolition, the King of Spain having
signed decree for gradual emancipa
tion on the 9th ult.
F. 0. Kelley, Huntsville, Ala, recent
ly caught fish out of Flint river. Ii
the fish was a partridge egg, and in tn,
egg bird.
Mr.. Smith, of Boulder county, Cali
fornia, became tired of wrestling with
stiff beard and so cut off his whiskers
head and all, with razor.
Rev. G. NJ jerks, well-known Pres
byterian minister of Chicago, put sky
light in the top of his head with hi
, little revolver.
A colored hod carrier of Peru, Ind.
caught rafter off falling building o.
0 his head. 1t was badly broken-th
rafter.
A tall, fine looking woman. dressed i
male attire, was arrested recently i
Michigan as successful horse thief
About twenty separate charges hav
been brought against her.
The Governor-General of the Ne
Dominion has issued proclamatio
against the organization of a Cuban ez
pedition in that country
There are several Japanese studyin
the art of dressmaking in this countr,
They will make great hustle, says a
exchange, when they return to Japan.
Josie Mansfield travels with mai
Is Is servant named Andrews, and they regi
is ter at the hotels as .'Miss Andrews an
lady friend"
George, dear" said lady just b
fore the marriage ceremony, 81 have Sc
eral chaps on my hands; what shall
do % "Show EN- to me and I'll kit
'em out DOORS "Oh, you bear l'' !.
There is more truth than poetry
the following line from an advertisement
Babies, after having taken one bott
: of my soothing syrup, will never c
any more"
A Bridgeport lady remained too lol
on a train to kiss female friend, al
trying to get off after it had started, W
thrown violently on her face. ''If ey
kiss anybody again!'' said she veng
fully,as she arose ''any woman at leas
d she thoughtfully added
An Indiana woman just divorced, b
written letter oe advice to her sex,
no which she says: Il would say to you
me girls not to marry young, and when y
are married live at least fifty miles fri
your husbands relatives"
They tell some reckless stories of I
uncleanliness and cheap management
Boston boarding house. The lat
is that pound of butter appeared a
). neighboring barber shop to get its h
t. cut