Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS,

over one hundred ladies are studying
law In America.
The census of Rome, JUST com letcd,
shows a total population of 100000.
Three Texas stock raisers have lust
fenced in a little pasture of $4,000 acres.
In the New York market there have
been sold the past year 22,302 horses, val
ued at 81, ,552, 200.
The world uses 2JO,OOO. 600 pounds of
tea and 71S, 100000 pounds of coffee annual
ly.
Gail Hamilton has recently been en-
gagged as one of the editors OF Woods
Household Magazine, at a salary of $1,000.
The Auburn, Me-, shoe factories are
very busy, making over 1000 pairs Of shoes
per hour. 1t takes about 800 barrels of
flour to make the paste used by these shoe
factories annually.
The value of the farm products of the
United States, except live stock, is official
ly put at g., AS, 100000.
A sect by the name Of Soul -Sleepers is
said to be making progress in Southwest
ern Virginia. 1t teaches the annhilation
of the wicked, and the sleep of the right
eous until the great judgment day.
A Massachusetts Justice lately decided
that it was an illegal offence to spit tobacco
on the floor of public hall, and fined the
defendant 81 and costs. The case was ap-
pealed.
The minister who divides his discourse
into too many heads will find il difficult
to procure attentive ears for all of them.
A writer describing the exodus of Eden
says, "Thc devil drove women out of Par
adise, but he could not drive Paradise out
of woman"
Poor thing" observed tender-heart-
cd lady, in speaking of the death of
young friend, "she had just got forty
dollar set of furs, and beauties they were;
but she don't need such things now"
A little girl was told to spell ferment,
and give its meaning, with sentence in
which it was used. The following was lit
orally her answer: "Ferment, verb, sig
niiying to work. I love to ferment in the
garden"
l!-Mr. Leavitt's, of East Barnard,) mann
moth hog is now on exhibition in Boston,
on Haymarket Square, and being n pro-
gressivc beast has come up to 1896 pounds
weight. He is probably the largest porker
Vermont ever produced
Smith NJ. Mitchell, of Richford. has
sold his farm in the northwest part of the
town, to Romeo II. Scott, Esq, of fSwanton,
for $40, 200, about 800 acres, Mr. Scott hav-
ing previously sold his farm of about 1850
acres to Fairbanks Company, for SIC, 300 so.
Ohio loses annually $4,000, 600 in sheep
killed blythe dogs, and nearly 100000 in
injuries. The sheep of Illinois and Mary
land are being rapidly thinned out In the
same way, the former State having fallen
in two years from the sixth to the ninth
rank among the States in the number and
value of its sheep from this cause.
This is the oath required by the Inter-
national Society of all who desire to be-
come members: Il engage myself to rec
ognize, sustain and defend the principles of
the international Association of Working
men, and to take truth, justice and morali-
ly as he base of my conduct toward men,
without distinction of religion, color or ma
tionality."
-Runy Lamb had an explosion extra
ordinary at his residence, in Woodstock.
recently. He and his wife were sitting in
the kitchen while q two quart jug of water
was beating in the stove, when the jug
burst, the pieces flying in all directions,
through the windows and against the walls
and doors, but, strange to say, none of
these strikin the inmates of the room or
the lamp. One piece made an indenton
half way through the panel of a common
door. The largest piece len was the ham
die.
DO you allow any reduction to minis
ters?' said young lady TO u salesman in
well-known sewing machine agency on
Washington street, Boston, the other day,
where she had been trying to i've a bar
gain. "Oh, yes, always. Are you n min
ister's wiie?" "Oh, no, I'm not married."
said the lady blushing. daughter, tLen ?"
mo" The salesman looked puzzled. ~ m
engaged to a theological student" The re-
duction was made.
Difficulties in village choirs, which are
so provcrbial, might be less frequent if all
ministers knew how TO meet the matter as
decidedly as did the Rev. DIR. West, of New
Bedford. He once heard that the choir
would not sing on the next Sunday. When
the day came he gave out the hymn, "Come
We that love the Lord" After reading it
through, he looked up very emphatcally
at the choir, and said: "You will begin at
the second verse,
"'Let those refuse to sing,
Who never knew our God"
The choir sang.