Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-11-06
Facts and FancIeS.

Tall trees bear no fruit The orchard
growth is small. Humble spirits gloriy
God.
A circular saw burst lately in Michigan
and one Of the pieces split mans head
open.
A Tennessee family have been poison
ed by eating sorghum that had stood IN
a zinc vat
The fcod. in the South Of France have
subsidized. The damage done 70 farms and
vineyards IS extensive.
Children playing with matches at
Vernon, Mich, burntup barn contain
ing the whole seasons crop.
Men are born with two eyes, but with
one tongue, in order that they may see
twice as much as they say.
1t is not healthy and robust faith
that seeks refuge in authority, and dios
for shelter to an antiquated creed.
Mistrust the man who finds everything
good, the man who finds everything
evil, and the man who is indifferent to
everything.
An easy way TO get rid of cockroaches
is to spread sprigs of tansy where they
are troublesome, and they will leave. 1t
is also effective in driving away black
ants.
A widower, who had never quarelled
with his wife, said the last day oil bis mar
rage was as happy as the first. Another
widower said the last day of his marriage
was the happiest.
The U. S. Treasury balances are: In
currency, 81, 449 ,433; coin, including S22.-
759, 500, of coin certificates, 81, ,095, ,236;
special deposits Of legal tenders for re-
dcmptlcn of certificates Of deposit, S22,-
10000.
1t really requires more delicacy OF
touch, q better acquaintance with the
inner emotions OF the heart, and a
grander pathos of sentiment to make q
declaration of love than it does to put
up a stove.
Massachusetts has a sensational case OF
two young men who carelessly spit to-
bacco Juice on lawyers coat tail, and
were fined twenty dollars and one-half
the costs, with the alternative OF thirty
days in prison. They have appealed.
There are some smart men and animals
in Bath county, Ky. A calf leaped one
hundred feet down Gill, escaping unhurt
, and horse, buggy and minister tum5led
down a ledge fifty feet, landed on stump
and damaging only that and the vehicle.
One should not be downcast at fall
ures. They are often far better for the
: student than success. He who goes to
school to his mistakes will always have
good schoolmaster, and will not be
I likely to become either idle or concerted.
Three-fourths of the difficulties and
3 miseries of men come from the fact that
most want wealth without earning it,
a fame without deserving it, popularity
without temperance, respect without
: virtue, and happiness without holiness.
A correspondent asking fashion
! editor how should lady going buggy
riding dress herself, was answered,
! "either by putting them over the head,
or stepping into them, whichever will
. keep your sweetheart waiting the short
= est time"
!. The wife of a professional gambler at
a Omaha, lately seeing needy woman
q begging, went into her husbands gamb-
' ling den and raised considerable sum
/ of money from the blacklegs there as
3 sembled, which she presented to the
q poor stranger.
;, A proclamation has been prepared by
g the Department of State but not yet is
n sued, charging discriminating duty OF 10
9 per cent. ad valorem upon all goods here
{ after imported into the United States in
}. French vessels which came from any other
t countries than France. .l#
r James B. Dismack, an engineer, attach
It ed piece of railroad iron, weighing sixty
y pounds to his body, and holding it in his
a hands, walked to the end OF wharf, at
# New London. and jumped overheard. his
n body was recovered. Depression, conse-
D. quent upon ill health, was the cause.
" A very fatal hen disease has prevailed in
10 Massachusetts the past year. Whole
n fiocks have been swept off by it, some
N farmers losing one or two hundred fowls
le by it. including turkeys. Altogether there
If must have been several thousand fowls
o died from this disease. -N h ~
=, A man brought friend to Troy doc
~ tor the other day, to have wound in
!. his head dressed. The operation 80
- =, affected the escort that he tainted and
, 10 fell on the curbstone, inficting similar
% confusion on his own skull, and the two
!. u walked away holding one another up.
10 10 Miss Nellie Margach, of Meadville,
ye Pa, is, or rather was, q ''poor shot
~ indeed. On last Thursday, while Shoot
ve ing at mark with pistol, she fired SO
a. wildly that instead Of hitting the object
"a aimed at. she shot herself through the
a. head, inficting wound that soon proved
he fatal. "a, -.a 5ys' -'' W
o. .T am self-made man" said a native
ip of Stonington the other day to q New
ck York gentleman, with whom he hao
ey been driving o sharp bargain. "Glad to
q hear you say SC" responded the New
of Yorker, who had been worsted in the
e. trade, "for it relieves the Lord OF grea'
he responsibility"
nd The Forthcoming report of the q. 8
olf Postmaster General will show that the ex
sr- penses Of the Department were increased
he during the past year as compared with th'
tn preceding year, by about two and quar-
". ter million of dollars, mainly for increased
es, transportation and other postal facilities
a foreign and domestic, and that the increas
ser ed receipts have nearly kept pace witt
ur the expenses, the increase being littl
ito over $2, ,00e,0O0.
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THE ENGLISH BoReA. = Mary Anl
Cotton, who has been committed TO
,.e trial on charge of having poisoned he
a" husband and four children at West Ack