Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-13
Facts and Fancies.
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Of Kansas politicians.
The man who never made mistake
never made discovery.
The House passed the Senate bill re-
garding Louisiana election matters.
Colored linen collars are coming in
fashion this season, with cuffs to match.
A Kentucky paper says that the hogs
are eating the II year locusts with great
relish.
Virginia has voted q constitutional
amendment striking out the usury
clause.
Locusts are in Tennessee in immense
numbers, and the woods are alive with
them.
DR.. Bartol says the real thief of the
world is he who consumes more than he
produces.
The convicts at the Michigan State
Prison are building new wall around
themselves.
An insane asylum at Troy has q small
theatre attached where amateurs give
performances.
Some of the largest steamships burn
eight hundred tons of coal crossing the
Atlantic Ocean.
An Illinois farmer has fifteen acres Of
hops, and expects profit of five hundred
dollars per acre.
A California clergyman is the only
living white man, who is master OF the
Choctaw language.
When a man "sees double" it is gen
orally an indication that he is "beside
himself with liquor"
A Texas Judge lately imprisoned the
entire bar in the place, except the dis
trict attorney, for contempt.
They have a tribe of Indians in Cali
folnla who live without sleep. What IA
nous editors they would make.
Gov Geary, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the bill prohibiting the sale or
giving away Of liquor during election
days.
The duty on tobacco was placed at "a
cents per pound. A Western judicial
district was established in North Caro-
lima.
An old lady is Winooski, Vermont,
has Just reached her ninety-ninth year,
and has had twenty-three children by
the same husband.
A little busy "bumble bee" drove
man ont of church at indianapolis, the
other day, by trying to gather honey
from his bald head.
The indianapolis Journal says that the
potatoe bugs will poll Il heavy vote in
Indiana this fall, and sweep the state by
irresistible majorities.
A Memphis dentist and the gentle
partner of his joys and sorrows have
been held to trial in $4,000 for fogging
a little girl nearly to death.
The harvest of the gambling, swindling
and peddling followers Of eircuses this
season is said to be remarkably plenteous,
and the laborers far from few.
A servant at IA party, to whom his mas
tea was calling impatiently to fetch this,
fetch that, answered." Sir, everything
We have in the wurrald is on the table,"
A young man in Augusta, Wis, re-
Gently killed a companion while into1i-
Gated, and the father OF the murdered
youth has sued the saloon keeper for
$4,000.
There is a minister III Minnesota who
is loud in the announcement that the
world will not outlast the present sum-
mer And yet he has planted lOO acres
of wheat.
A French philosopher laid down three
rules for the attainment of happiness.
The first was occupation; the second
occupation and the third and last was
still occupation.
No tickets for the Boston Jubilee are
to be sent to editors. But every we'll
accredited press representative will have
a ticket given him on presenting himself
to the press headquarters.
Thompson is not gong to do anything
more in conundrums. Herecently asked
his wife the difference between his head
and hogshead, and she said there was
none. He says that is not the right an
swer.
The indianapolis Sentinel says: Near
Kingston, Decatur county, John Girls
void, was suddenly ushered into the
spirit land while experimenting with his
mouth over the muzzle of gun to find
whether or not it was loaded
In 1850 Mrs, Franklin Bennett lowered
a pail of butter into her well at Union
city, Michigan, and the string breaking,
it remained there until the well was
cleaned out, last week, when it came out
fresh and sweet, % years old
Lake Choggoggaggoggmannchog9ag-|
gogg, Michigan, is a good place to. goI
for the summer. The place is partlcu-
larry recommended for people afflicted
with stammering; by the time they can
tell where they are, they're wholly cured