Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-11

dent to the human frame.
Some one significantly defines war as
being murder set to music.
English spectators are beginning to
ship paste diamonds to South Africa.
The great lakes swallowed up 10 ! ives
and O,OOO,00O worth of property last
year.
There is a Mormon society of fifty
members among the miners at Scranton,
Penn
The largest city park in the world is
in Philadelphia. 1t contains over two
Thousand acres.
The Cleveland Ledd6r says that potato
bugs are healthy and will poll full
vote this summer.
A country editor says that when he
looks at a woman's head he is puzzled to
tell which is switch.
A public school teacher near Aurora,
ILL.,, disIocated his shoulder while "cor-
recting" big pupil.
"Absence makes the heart grow fond
er-of somebody else," sensibly adds q
young lady friend of ours.
A San Francisco tobacconist gives a
copy of the morning or evening paper
to every customer spending ten cents
for cigars.
Between 10000 and 1000 operators
men, women, and children-at the
Leeds flax mills are on q strike for nine
hours work as days labor.
The largest lake in the world is Lake
Superior, which is truly an inland sea,
being four hundred and thirty miles long.
and one thousand feet deep.
A wedding took place at La Crosse, a
day or two ago, at which "the bride was
given away by the city, and the city was
mighty glad to get rid of her."
A lot of five hundred house sparrows
has been imported into Louisiana, il
order to try them as exterminutors Of
the cotton worm and caterpillar.
Five hundred million of dollars is
said to be the combined capital of the
banking houses of the Rothschilds in
London, Paris, Frankfort and Vienna.
A cautious old bachelor, who knows
that the present is leap, says: "If you
meet young lady who is not very shy,
you had better be little shy yourself"
An editor describesa rival as a "wasp-
ISL traducer who subsists on ginseng,
saseafras and goose eggs, and wears
sprgs of pennyroyal in his boots in
summer.
A large volcano has Suddenly sprung
up in Mexico on the Chickuahua road.
about hundred miles from Vera Cruz.
No volcano has Leen observed before so
far from the seq.
A gentleman in Cleveland has been
making experiments in extinguishing
the flames of petroleum, and has found
that sand and aqua ammonia thrown on
the flames will quickly eztinguish them.
A Western editor thus winds up de,
finition OF eternity why, my friends,
after millions and millions Of years had
rolled away into eternity it would be =
hundred thousand years to breakfast
time"
Sake says that Vermont is famous for
four staples, "Men, women, maple SUI
gar and horses. The first are strong,
the last are fleet, the second and third
are exceedingly sweet, and all are I'M
commonly hard to beat.
The New Jersey Register has this ::
"Mr. Scott, have you any ambition to be
President ?" president OF what p"
"Thc United States, of course" "No,
sir, the term is too short. I might take
lease on it for ninety-nine years.
There is consumed annually in tho
United States about 100000 tons of su-
gar, with constant and steady increase
OF this enormous quantity but small
percentage is from the sorghum or the
maple tree, nearly the whole being cane
sugar.
"Susie," said teacher to one Of her
pupils, "you shouldn't make faces.
You'll grow up homely if you make IA
ces. Susie looked thoughtfully in the
teachers face a moment, and then inno-
Gently asked, Did you make faces when
you was little girl2"
A Chicago widow, Of clearinghouse
education, acquired no less than SIT, 900
of the relief funds by appearing in va
rious guises and having several different
places of abode. She had gathered seven
stoves in one locality, and in another an
immense number of blankets.
A student in the Edinburgh Univer-
sity, who was fined a guinea for disturb
ing his class, paid the greater part in
half-pence, about quarter of an hour
being occupied in counting over the
amount. This singular mode of Serving
out" the professor who inflicted the Gns
was carried out amid the laughter of the
class, by whom the amount had been
subscribed.
In trial at Okalona, Miss, the attor-
ncys were nonplussed by the question,
" Whether a wife could sleep with her
head upon her husbands arm all night
without paralyzing it." Proceedings be-
ing thus brought to q stand-still, the
Judge finally called in an old physician
to decide the question, who said "Sbe
might, and then again she mightn't."
Decision reserved.
DR.. Burg, in reviewing the statistics Of
deaths from cholera, finds that out of
about 80, 900 artisans in copper, brass and
bronze employed in Paris and other
cities during the last outbreak of chole-
RI, only Is deaths resulted from that di-
sense. Another interesting fact bearing
on this question is that the city of Mic
Tinto, surrounded as it is by copper
mines, has never been visited by this ep-
idemic.
GREAT Loss OF CATTLE IN TEXAS
Both the late cold weather and the
lrouth have occasioned an immense loss
Of cattle in many portions of Texas. In.
Iced, the stock interest has not received