Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-05-09

California brags OF barley feet high.
The Prussian needle-gun is to be Sill.
perseded by more effective weapon.
The army worm has appeared in Ten,
nessee, and is doing great damage to fruit
trees.
Why is the letter r like n peace.
maker? Because it makes friend of
iend.
Mr.. Alcott says he calls man practi-
cal who can make another see his own
ignorance.
Ruffles of lace or muslin are taking
the place Of collars and cuffs, and are
very becoming,
Gold-bearing anthony is reported to
have been discovered on the line Of the
Central Pacific Railroad.
"Bill," said one apprentice to another,
/ don't like boss as is alters round
his shop interfering with his own bust
ness"
At n wedding in Poughkeepsic, not
long ago, the parents of the bridegroom
charged the invited guests ninety cents
pSl HS"u III oupPoi'
The girls in Raleigh, N. c., have
nice way of eating pbilopenas. They
hold the almonds in their teeth while
the young fellows bite them off
A Missourian has actually succeeded
in bamboozling his mother-in-law, and
she had been compelled to resort to the
law to have deed obtained by fraud
and undue influence set aside.
The first daily paper published in
England is said to have been published
by woman, in 1892. It was called the
Daily C0want, and the name Of the pro-
prietor was Elizabeth Mallet
A Miss in Western New York asserts
that when gentlemen eat warm maple
sugar it gets into their mustaches and
makes them scratchy. Her father is anx-
ious to know how she found out.
That compositor had his own way of
punctuating and spelling, and this is the
way he treated o familiar passage of
Scripture The wicked flea, when no
man pursucth but the righteous, is bold
as lion.
Colonel G. was very fat, and being
bankrupt, was met by one of his credi-
tors with Chow do you do, Colonial ?"
"Pretty well 4; you see hold my own
yet" eyes," said the other, "and
nine too, to my SORROW"
A Connecticut reporter says boy
swallowed three marbles and four bullets
recently, and being somewhat of bony
structure, is now utilized by the neigh
bors, who borrow him rs rattleboy to
amuse their babes and stockings.
A kind old father. in-aw wanted to
know why the Fijians were aalled canni-
balls, to which a Snowman replied DE
cause they live of other people
"Then," replied he, unhappily, "my
four sons-in law must be cannibala--they
/ live off me-.
Man is the victim of discomfort. He
either looks for happiness in his recol-
lections of the past, or seeks it in the
brilliant visions which lis fancy has cro-
ated of futurity whereas the present
should be the moment of enjoyment and
preparation for the future.
At Mount Washington, Kentucky,
William Pratt's dog killed VIM. Wiggn-
tons hog. A consequent lawsuit ended
to the dissatisfaction Of both last week.
On their way home from court, both
carrying shot-guns, they quarreled.
Wigginton fired first and killed Pratt
instantly.
"Excuse my left hand" said Wig
gins, as he shook hands with a friend.
"Certainly, I never take umbrage at ma
ture," was the reply. Referring to Eccle-
siastics x, 2, The text is, "a wise mans
heart is at his right hand but FOOLS
heart is at his left" and the consequence
is that they have not spoken since.
A newly made widow at Oshkosh, at
the funeral, stepped up and kissed her
dead husbands brow as he lay in the
coffin, and then was Disguised beyond
measure to see several other women
whom she did not know step up and do
the same thing. With the remark II
thought he was my husband, but he
wasn't" she rose and left the church.
| JUICE hSSuuies, ou VoAiHS honio w
dinner" the bearing Of IN outraged hus-
band. "Why is it, Mrs. Jones, that you
ride through Wall street ir the very
equipage am struggling to maintain for
you at high charge, and cut your hus-
band ?" Mrs. Jones at once treasures
him. "You certainly would not have
your wife, from a five thousand dollar
barouche, bow to a man who is at work
for his living?"
A gentleman in Syracuse, blest with
very jealous wife, gave her lesson and
himself hearty laugh not long since by
very simple yet ingenious device,
While his wife was away calling he cut
from paper a couple figures represented
in the net of kissing. He put the paper
in such position that the light would
reflect life sized shadow upon the cur
tain of the window that she would see on
arriving, and awaited the results. He
heard footsteps, then they paused, and
were followed by a mad rush into the
house, where the little affair explained
itself and the story ended.