Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
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the grave-allopath and homeopath,
Three men went off via nitro-glycer-
Inc, at Poughkeepsie, on Monday.
Counter irritants-People who exam
Inc the whole stock and buy nothing
A Wisconsin deaf man recovered his
hearing on being chased by mad dog.
The Englishman who called the Hoo
sac tunnel blasted hole" was literal
ly correct.
The United States has 1876 colleges
for women Yet the dear creatures are
unhappy.
The Tribune has detected fraud in
asparagus seed. This comes from what
it knows about agriculture.
A young woman is the efficient engi-
neer at a manufacturing establishment
in Boston,
A woman is said to act as conductor
of passenger train on the Hannibal and
ST. Joseph railroad.
A fashionable young lady of New
York boasted of having dress on which
were two hundred yards Of lace trim
ming.
The Cincinnati and Newport bridge
commenced its career Economically; the
first to cross it being an clipping couple.
A poem 5000 feet long was sent to a
New Orleans paper with a request to
please publish
Converted Indians sing CHOW | Lay
Ne Down to Sleep" with warwhoop ac-
compartment. The effect is said to be
very soothing.
Pork is lower in Portsmouth than it
has been since 1851 n. III. Monitor |
Consumers will not grunt at that Bos-
ton Post.
An ungallant Minnesota paper pub
fishes the names of lO3 old maids and
widows who are glad it is Leap Year.
One of the Western railroads has a
female acknowledgement of the beau
tiful blonde order She makes the sparks
fly.
Hymenial. Henry county. on tn c
% ultimo, Mr.. T. Wrinkle to Miss Fan
ME Starr I. Wrinkle, I. Wrinkle, little
Starr. Neacs.
An English youth, who threatened tc
kill his mother because she WOULDN'T
give him his trowsers, now pants for re-
venge in Jail.
An inquisitive Indianian placed al
obstruction on a railway track in order
to see how high a locomotive would
jump when going at full speed"
Some enc says that the lion and thu
lamb may lie down together in thi:
world, but when the lion gets up it will
be hard work 10 find the lamb
A young man sometimes gives Il locB
of hair to his sweetheart before he mar.
ries her. After marriage she helps her
self without scissors
Men of genius are often dull and in
ert in society; as the blazing meteor,
when it descends to the earth, is only a
stone.
The following sentence of only thirty
letters contains all the letters of the al
phabet "John quickly extemporized
five tow bags
An oyster, it is said, contains as much
nourishment as slice of roast beef, and
this is the reason they are recommended
for invalids.
New Jersey has good woman who,
during the illness of her husband, dress
es up in his clothes and drives his milk
cart about herself
A romantic couple, not a great way
from here, named their infant daughter
Caressa. That was eighteen years ago
and the boys are all at it now
Live as in Gods sight. mindful of thy
position as a child of God, and as SER
want of Jesus. Mediate on His Word
pray always.
A feeble reed becomes in the hand o
the Omnipotence a rod Of iron will
which the mountains may be thIeshed
or the nations dashed in pieces.
A Georgia eagle, totally devoid of fe
line, endeavored to carry off a cat, bu
the latter came up to the scratch. anc
the eagle was glad to drop the subject.
St. Louis has heroine who rushed W
a FIRE ladder into burning house, res
cued her somnolent lover, without ex
periencing any damage further than ;
! e1;rbtIy coorobod cbirnon
Little boy, can | 90 through thi:
gate to the river % politely inquired q
fashionably dressed lady.
Per'aps so load of hay went tn rough
this morning" was the horrid reply.
A Southern paper feelingly remarks
"a negro and two young mules wer
drowned in the river yesterday. TIL
mules were remarkably fine animals anC
cannot easily be replaced. .
When any contagious disease prevail
amoug Indians, and their medicine mai
does not stop its ravages, they shoot him
1t might improve public health if tn
practice was followed by civilized socie
ty to some extent.
As it takes 1000 cochineal insect
to make pound, and as 1,849, IA.
pounds were brought into this countr,
last year, 100, 239. 100000 must hav,
given up their lives to color the dresse
1 and cheeks of American ladies.
On the night of the 2lst the house o
Sandy CLAYTON in Lawrence, Kansas
was burned, and Clayton, his three sons
aged IA. and persisted. Mrs. Clay
ton and her infant were seriously burned
and the mother will probably die.
There are rumors of defensive ALI
ance between Germany and Italy, where
by the possession of Lorraine and Alsac
is guaranteed to Germany, and Rome t
Italy, and both parties are to unite thei
arms in case of war.
A young fellow at college wrote t