Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-21
Facts and FnnCies.
We make laws, but follow customs.

truth sometimes tastes ike medicine,
but that is an evidence that we are i'll.
The slowest thing yet discovered is
generally thought to be French fleet"
In Australia, kangaroo leather IS
thought appropriate for wear in leap
year.
Some one has discovered that the sum-
nit of hemlock tree almost always leans
toward the east
The locomotives in the United States
burn up some sixty million dollars worth
of wood annually.
California exempts editors from jury
duty, thinking they have trials enough
in their business.
A genuine lion is sauntering around
San Jose, Cal, and the citizens are keep
ing remarkably good hours.
The following is concise enough: A
Tennessee negro had a quarrel with
locomotive. Age unknown.
A jealous young lady n Oswego at
tempted to poison bride by introduce
ing arsenic into the wedding cake.
Among the rich men of Boston are
one worth eighteen million dollars, one
eight millions, and one five millions.
Speaking of the danger of catching
smallpox by handling greenbacks, a
country editor congratulates himself that
he's safe enough.
A paragraph in one of the papers in.
forms us that a horse rushed into a mil
liners shop, whence he departed "leav-
ing his traces behind him."
A Springfield paper says =" We know
shoes have soles and tongues, and now a
chap in Rhode Island advertises "Shoes
made Hear We don't believe 1t. 10
A gentleman was sitting by parltr,'
mirror, when lady remarked -" You
are not in your right mind this evening
l perceive that you are beside yourself"
A drover who sells his cattle by live
weight always gives them as much water
as they will drink before driving them
on the scales. That is his way of water
ing stock.
A show-card in liquor saloon in New
York invites trial of ga hair of the dog
that bit you last night" The dog is
represented in the form of whisky bot
tie with legs.
Every column of newspaper contains
from ten to twenty thousand distinct
pieces of type. The displacement of
single one makes an error, Is it strange
that errors occur
Yates City, in Illinois, is engaged in
prosecuting man for tax of 50, which
he declares he has paid. He beat the
city in the suit the first time, and the
case was appealed.
An Indiana paper reports the case ola
cat which suffers from marked paroxysms
of fever and ague. A good dose of ca
nine would probably cure her. Whine
and bark, you know.
Roses are worth s. each in New Or
leans, at church fairs The Rose costs
81, the pin 50, and 50 is charged for
sticking the So pin through the 81 rose
into the victims coat.
A lecturer recently made point in
illustrating the power of heat, 10y saving
that the iron track of the Central Rail
road is 1000 feet shorter to-day than on
the 4th Of July last
A society for the prevention of cruelty
to children, in the shape of exposure
from the bare arms, shoulders and legs,
which the vanity of mothers delights in,
is soon to be established in Boston.
A Bay City man paid heavy express
, charges on box labelled. Z" An Aus
tralian mocking bird-handle with care, ="
and found it to contain, as he profanely
remarked, "only an old turkey gobhler."
The Boston Transcript is of opinion
, that "no grand jury in New York can be
expected hereafter to indict murderer,
unless he is willing to give bonds, in a
sufficient sum- not to prosecute them for
so doing"
Swindlers tried to seduce Western
man on railroad train into betting that
he could open patent paddock which
they carried about. He took the bet
and opened the lock with sledge ham,
mer.
A man arriving home at a late hour a
; little worse for too much supper, and
hatess and coatless, was asked by his
, indignant spouse "Where's your hat
and coat ?" "Sent 'em, my dear (hic),
to the Chicago sufferers"
Conversation in a Wisconsin store
Polite Clerk-"Can | show you anything
n else to day ?" Lugubrious Customer
!, "No, l reckon not. lost two horses
r and my wife last fall, and feel pretty
d poor, Good span of horses, too"
, "Apple-stall keeper Ito the boys
e Now, then, what are you gaping at ?
r What do you want ?" "Street boy
Nothin'." "Apple-stall keeper-Then
take it, and be off" "Street boy-Very
d well wrap it up for us in piece o
o paper"
d Alphonse Karr was once present at
> banquet given in commemoration OF the
: birth of Hahnemann. Toasts having
. been given to the health of every medi'
e cal celebrity, ancient and modern, the
= President remarked, "M. Kari, you have
Il u not proposed the health of any one.
u The poet rose and modestly replied,
;, propose the health of the sick.
! A small fish, imbedded in ice, was
i found lately. The little fellow was sol
- idly encased in ice as clear as crystal
~ and when placed in water aud the ice
Il gradually melted from about it, its rigi
dity left, the tail quivered, and after
turning it over few times it swan away
# as if nothing had happened. How Ions
q his minnowsh,p had been thus housed il
:: not known, but probably not less thar
q two months.
e VERY WELL DoNE.-A most remarka
d BILE proof ofthe efficiency of the new Fire
d Department of Philadelphia was furnish