Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-29
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ting upa lecture course. 81
Georgia girl Of ten years is nm accom-
plishcd driver of fast nags.
Georgia papers are full of rattlesnakc
items.
AM inncsota man undertook to kill his old
rooster and chopped his own wrist off.
Dubuque, Iowa, has white ghost twenty
five feet high.
The Chinese and japanese are going to
have tussle.
New York city now has twenty-five muir
derers awaiting trial"
The Celestial shoomakers of Massachusetts
have proved II success.
Billiards is becoming very fashionable
amusement for young ladies.
The New York and Erie railroad is to be
cut down to the usual guage.
The card-playng pig will soon be cclipscd
by u billiard-playing hen, which is training
in Nebraska.
The Woodruff has written another letter,
comparing her troubles to those of Christ,
Calico. Luther and various Others
A Kentucky domestic infelicity" was adj
justed by binding the husband over to stay
away from home for six months.
A strategic Georgia youth amputated his
fathers arm, recently, by hanging spiteful
steel-trap on the nail where the disciplinary
strap usually hung.
Dartmouth college has 4OS students, of
whom 26l are in the acadomical department
and the remainder in the medical, scientific,
agricultural and engineering departments.
Two men in Indiana eyinced their asinine
extraction by n whcelbarrow bet ON the cleo
ton, and last week the loser wheeled the
winner from Valparaiso, Ind, to Chicago, 50
miles.
Mrs. O'Leury wonders "if thin Bosting
spalpcens will be after schwcaring that it
was her poor haste of n COW that burned their
city,
A patent-medicine manufacturer in Eng
land is going to build 800, 900 insane asy-
lum; presumably TO show his gratitude to
the class from whom his fortune was de-
rived.
A Moneys Flat (Cai., OF course), woman
~ ",
that she might inherit his property, bat since
She went TO Jail she don't much enjoy her
possessions.
! They tell big stories of the number of buff
aloes out in western Kansas just now, max
ing their way south, the animals so plentiful
in some quarters that railroad trains cannot
be run in safety
Having closed her drinking saloons on the
Sabbath Chicago generously provides for the
wants of her thirsty citizens by II new steam
pump at the watei-worEs, which pumps &c.
100000 gallons of water daily.
Six establishments in New Orleans, witt
an aggregate capital of 81, 500, 900, are en-
gagged in the manufacture of oil and oil cake
from cotton seed, the yield being 100000 ton.
per annum.
The longest bridge in the world is on The
line of the Mobile Il Montgomery Railroad
across the Mobile and Tensas rivers. 1t i,
fifteen miles long, has ten draws, and COS
Sl,5O0,000. Bow thy proud head, Montreal
William Emerson, indicted for compiled
ty in violating the person of Harriet White
head ut Lowell some two years since, ha
forfeited his bai of $4,000 and fled. Two o
his acomplices are now in prison unde
twenty years sentence.
Bow, n. H., boasts II young Nimrod, |;
years of age, who in Al days captured "a;
patridges, 3srabbits, IL gray squirrels and TIVE
minks lie is also rs noted for angling II
hunting, and in fishing Is times the past sea
son has caught 1910 trout.
A young man who went west from Dan
bury, Conn, Il few months ago has sent onl
one letter home. 1t came Friday. 1t said
: Send me wig" And his fond parent
don't know whether he is scalpcd or man
ried.
. They teach the young ideas how to shoe
mt an early age in Saltwater, MINI.
| search among the pupils of school Their,
the other day, resulted in finding three L,
volvcrs, one of them loaded, which the stril
lings carried in their boots.
Mr.. George Thomas, who is now stoppin
, at Port Jervis n. Y, seems to be II rattle
remarkable sort of a person, if we may cree
it the statement of Il local paper. 'lIc ca
. lluNt MS lcilt " any part vi DOtys
as is quite evident, can easily place it in hi
! mouth. if he takes it into his head to do So
a good temperance sermon is contained i
the report of the municipal court ut Boston
the past year. The cases before the coul
numbered almost 20 per year. OF the whol
number of cases. 2O,s06, there were l3, 1875 fC
fquor-selhng and liquor drinking, while
large portion of the other offenses are trace;
!. BILE to the use of Intoxicating drinks.
A Poughkeepsie couple, Just married, stoI
ped in Albany, and the husband left his Bird
Mt hotel while he went to get check cashec
In his absence her father appeared and il
duced her to depart with him, and when tn
husband discovered her flight he said Il
could stand it rs long as she could, and in
medintely started West.
That Danbury (Ct.) NGlcs, says AN int
briate stranger precipitated himself dow
the depot stairs, and, on striking the landing
/, reproachfully apostrophized himself will
Q 'If you'd been Il wantin' to come down stair
/. why'n thunder didn't you say So you woo,
h cnheaded ole fool, an I'd II come with yo
: an showed you the way"
A curious, though by no means pleasal
y incident, is related in connection with til
S fire gentleman who was doing Oh
. goods business in Belfast, Me, was burnc
t out in the great fire there in 1866, went
!, Chicago, started business and was burne
out in the great connagration, came back
q Boston, and was heavy sufferer in the burr
+ district this time.
# A lovely woman, radiant in silks and jew
8 els, entered butchers stall ut Portland, Or
4 recently, and embraced the astounded occl
; pant, with many expressions of joy at NEE
ing her long-lost husband. Having wi
| and children at home, he declined to rcceiN
n her cndearments and told her she was mi
$ taken, but she persisted and will not be col