Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-05-23
Facts and Elncies.

1t is estimated that the actual cost OF
producing wool in California is less than
ten cents pound.
The highest Office in the gift of the
nation is said to be that Of surveyor on
Mount Washington.
Four.ffths of the widows in Canada
marry again within two and half years
after their bereavement.
"You talk of your troubles, " said an
oyster to fisherman, "but your case
don't begin to be as bard rs mine"
Most persons have heard Of dead
wall, but correspondent writes to say
that he has actually got a living room in
his house.
A hotel thief got about 500 in the
Sherman House, indianapolis, the other
night, and left behind, in his room, jew
elry worth $l25.
What is the difference between the en-
trance to barn and loafer in print
ing office? One is barn door and the
other is q darn bore.
81 can speak seven different languages"
said a convict as he entered the peniten-
tiary. "No matter" SAID the keeper;
" we have but one here, and very little
of that. "
A bride in Indiana, after the conclu.
sion of the marriage ceremony, stepped
gracefully forward and requested the
clergyman to give out the hymn, "This
is the way long have sought"
"Mrs. Mihlin, said visitor, Emma
has your features, but think she has
her fathers hair" ooh, now see,"
said the dear little Emma ; "its because
have fathers hair that he has to wear
wig"
There is hay panic in Duchess coun-
ty, N. Y. Tho Poughkeepsie Eagle says
unless the county is favored with rain
the crop will be unusually short. Good
hay is now selling in that locality at $40
per ton.
Oysters are said to be in their pcrfcc-
tion-for eating-when from five to seven
years old The age is ascertained by
counting the successive layers or plates
overlapping each other, of which an
oyster shell IS composed.
Josh Billings says: "There is one
thing about hen that looks like wisdum
they don't kackle much until after they
have laid their egg. Sum pholks are
alwus Dragging and hacking what
they are going tew do beforehand
There are in Chicago 10000 carpen-
ters, 5000 bricklayers, 1900 plasterers,
1000 painters, 5000 stone-cutters' and
other trades in proportion. The carpen--
, tiers are getting an average of $3.50, and
bricklayers an average of So day.
: A young lady, seeking situation, was
interested in an advertisement for some
t one to do light housekeeping. SO she
= wrote to the advertiser asking where the
t lighthouse wa, and if there was any
S way of getting to shore on Sundays.
Smoking out may be a very effective
way of getting rid of rabbits, but it APP
pears to be expensive sometimes, A
: Missouri farmer tried it short time
I ago. He caught the rabbit, but burnt
, M half mile of fence and over hun
! bred apple trees in the process.
A nice young man whose fine manners
o and clothes had created a decidedly IA
vorable impression on the marriagea6le
. women of an Iowa town, was shamefully
neglected when it became known that
he had received despatch "to come
:. home Immediately, as the baby was very
q sick"
Y The fashion of throwing an old slip
: per after the carriage of newly-married
, couple is supposed to mean that the
. chances of matrimony are very slippery.
Y The newest style OF boquct for a bride
d to carry on her wedding:day, is very
n small and round, composed OF buds and
IS small flowers.
+ Fuller, in his description of a good
wife, says she commandcth her hus-
band in equal matters by constantly
o obeying him. She never crosseth her
|. husband in the spring-tide of his anger,
If but stays till it be ebbing water. her
:. clothes are rather comely than costly,
l. and she makes plain cloth to be velvet
e by her husbands wearing it. In her
t. husbands sickness she feels more grief
,, than she shows.