Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Honor thy father and mother.
Two porcupines make prickly pair.
Pleasure is precarious, but virtue is
immortal
Swashjoggers is the name of a clique
of Kansas politicians.
Farmers are like fowls-neither will
get full crops without industry.
The death rate in New York city is
rapidly on the increase.
First-rate fishing in lake Ausanauqu-
otausongomongotongo, Me.
One half of the slate pencils used in
the world are made in Vermont.
Thirty thousand people sailed from
Liverpool for the United States, in May.
A Chicago dry goods dealer advertises
1.-THE most alarming sacrifice since the
days of Abraham and Isaac.
Europe is supposed to contain 3OO,-
100000 people. One hundred years
ago the estimate was but 6O,OOO,0OO.
St. Louis :'chawers" masticated mil
lion and half dollars in revenue stamps
last year. What a volume of spit.
1t is singular that the price of gas in
Washington is reduced so soon after the
adjournment Of Congress.
John Weaver, being under arrest at
Kansas City, for larceny, gave window
and leg bail, twenty-five feet to bound
and is happier elsewhere.
A pound of energy with an ounce of
talent will achieve greater results than
pound of talent with an ounce of en-
ergy.
Over six hundred delinquent admin
istrators and guardians in Jersey county,
Illinois. The sheriff is hunting up these
robbers of orphans and corpses.
An Oregon blacksmith threw water
on his fires to put them out-steam went
up the bellows-a sudden quake-a loud
noise. His widow has three orphans.
Mcdonald Check checked his father
in-law through. An Indiana jury al
Brookville have checked his baggage
over Jordan. Checkmate in two moves
At Louisville. Mule kicked blacl
coal cartman off his seat Wagon whee
rolled over his feet and head. Whee
mashed feet. Head broke wheel.
The mormons have bill before tn,
Utah Legislature permitting little boy
of fifteen and female babies of twelv,
to get married, with the consent of thei
parents or guardians.
A little girl went into drug stor
the other day, and said to the proprie
tor in whisper: off little girl hahn
got no money, how much chewing gun
do you give her for nothing? ?"
Thiers asserted the other day that i
Louis Napoleon had fifty million franc
he would be Emperor of France in fl
teen days. For the good of that Ian
of Tears, we trust some one will rails
the money.
Bad luck is simply a man with hi
hands in his pockets and his pipe in hi
mouth, looking on to see how it will tur
out. Good luck is man of pluck, wit
his sleeves rolled up, and working
make it come out right.
The people of Wyoming don't kno
whether to call their female judge
justice of the peace, or justice of til
peacess. That can easily be decided a
ter it is seen whether she makes peaC
or pieces.
John Smith has met with misfo
tune. One of him was burned out
Minnesota and another of him was mu
dered in Tennessee at the same momen
while others of him are still here, the
j. and everywhere.
, A number of thrifty young cork tire
, are growing in California, from SCI
: sent out by the Patent Office. The
are believed to be success as regar
the possibility of rendering them pr
ductive and profitable.
A number of Northern capitalists ha
purchased several miles of gold regi
of Spottsylvania county, Va, and a
having machinery made to get the 60
s of the sulphurets by new process, I
Gently discovered.
A country clergyman, paying his pl
10 fessional visit to dying neighbo W
was very churlish and universally u
popular man, put the usual question
care you willing to 60, my friend
''Oh, yes" said the sick man, Il am
WELL" said the simple-minded min
ter, Il am glad you are +; for the neig
bors are willing"
During the conference at Trenton,
J a short time ago, the following d
logue was overheard between two ne1
boys:
Il say, jim, what's the meaning
so many ministers being here altogetht
why, answered Jim, scornful
=. "they always meet once year to
op change sermons with each other"
Three years ago a Gloucester Ia
made her husband promise that he wo
give her each day the five cent pieces
had in his pocket, and on his birthd
few days since, she surprised him
making him a present of handso
gold watch which cost upwards of 81
which she had nurchased with the m