Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Look out for cold winter-geesc walk
sideways, cows tails full of burrs.
Why is good wife like the devil? Be-
cause She sews the tares whilst the hus-
bandman is asleep.
There are two things in this world that
are not safe to trine with-a womans opin-
ion and the business end of the wasp.
Black lead pencil or crayon drawings
may be liked by smearng the back Of the
sheet Of paper with n solution of shellac in
alcohol.
M. Boussingault finds as the result of a
series Of experiments on churning milk
that only TIN ee- fourths of the butter is OBJ
tanned by this method, but he don't inform
MS how to obtain Il remaining fourth.
John Stuart Mill says that "there re-
main no legal slaves in America except the
mistress Of every house" What do the
''slaves" say to that?
Walter Bosmer had one hundred and
thirty-three small shot inserted in his per-
son at Fulton, n. Y, few days ago, by
another boy who was shooting at a hat son
the fly" Eighty-seven shot were extracted,
carries around for ballast.
A Missouran who stole kiss from Il
pretty girl, was fined bya magistrate, horse
whipped by her brother and hurried into a
brain fever by his wife. The clergyman
also alluded to the affair in sermon; the
local editor took sides with the clergyman
and reviewed the case in print, and the po-
tnt "a I'm In of nn m a ntp
tors wheat.
The average age of farmers is sixty
five years, while that of printer is only
thirty three, which shows the necessity of
prompt payments to the latter, so that they
may have the pleasure of handling their
own money during their short sojourn on
this sublunary sphere.
There are some medical enthusiasts in
England who think it would perhaps be
wise if all small or unhealthy children were
suppressed when first born. A writer says
had this been the practice in the past We
should have had neither Voltairc, Victor
Hugo, Goethe, or Sir Isaac Newton. The
| last might have been put in a quart pot
| when born Noltaire was too small to chris
ten for some days, and Hugo and Goethe
were not ex pected to live.
Two Irishmen on sultry night took
refuge under the bed clothes from a party
of mosquitoes. At last one Of them, gasp
ing from heat, ventured TO peep beyond the
bulwarks, and espiod fire fly which had
strayed into the room. Accusing his com
| panion with punch, he said: "Patrick
Patrick, it's no use ; We might as well come
out. Here's one of the crayters searching
for us wild lantern
Prof Agassiz is happy. His expedition
was remarkably successful. 1t brought
back two hundred and forty-two barrels
and boxes of specimens which have beer
packed under the superintendent of Prot
Agassiz, each package containing matcria
enough to fill handsome case. The col
| lection of fishes alone amounts to over 80
900, while the sum total of specimens ex
ceeds 100000 more than are contained II
some of the best known museums of Eu
rope.
| AS a set of to the woman suflrag,
movement in England there is powerful
agitation there among the men in favor o
re-enacting and enforcing a statute of tn
seventeenth century, which ran as follows
GAN women of whatever age, rank, pro
fession, or degree, whether virgins. wives
or widows, that shall from and after thi
date, impose upor, seduce, and betray int
matrimony any of his Majesty's subject
by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artiii
clal teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron
stays, hoops, high hoeled shoes, or bolster
ed hips shall incur the penalties of laws II
force against wilch-crait, and the marriage
upon conviction, shall stand null and void.
The progress in the educational and in
telcctual field in Europe is surprising t.
| even the most sanguine friends of Lunar
progress, and in Hungary it has been NOR
than usually rapid. In Pesth there wa
not single respectable public school fv,
years ago. Now there are twenty-nin
ward schools, with 40 teachers thirteel
peoples schools connected with parishes
with 45 teachers, besides so private school
and two citizens schools. Female teacher
have been introduced-an improvement t
which Germany hardly attained and u
/, question of religious creed is made In tn
J appointments. The Hungarian AcadC
! my" has been opened TO cultivate science
literature and the arts, forming centri
poin. for the best thought of Hungary
Newspapers have multiplied to an incred
8 bic extent, and everything betokens gre,
. advances in educational civilization.
10 "A one legged Welsh orator, name
% Jones, was pretty successful in bantorir
70 an Irishman, when the latter asked hin
3 GLOW did you come to lose your leg
8 "Well," said Jones, ION examining II
a pedigree, and looking up my descer
% found there was some Irish blood in m
Is and becoming convinced that ii was settl
70 in that left leg, had it cut off at once
"Be the powers" said Pat, sit would ha
10 been a'deuced good thing if it had on
= settled in your head"
20 "A Michigan paper tells an amus
40 story of minister Of that State who to-
40 an old fashioned sweat, and was wrapp
~ up in an old fashioned patch quilt of ma
90 colors. In due course of time no walked