Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-25
miscellaneous STEMS


A German doctor maintains that ladies of
week nerves should not be permitted to sleep
alone. Who said they shonldp
The acting commissioner OF patents has
decided that masonic symbols cannot be used
us trade marks.
A Chicago man beat his wife black and
blue with II baseball bat. lie broke tho bat,
but not tho woman's head.
ALcvenworth editor sat down in rcserv-
cd seat already occupied by hornet. lilo
stands up when scissoring his editorials now.
An Omaha paper advises the people mot
70 make SO much fuss about the shooting of
II constable, MS there arc forty candidates for
the Office
Some young women arc endeavoring 10
start new community on Long Prairie, llli-
nois. IL is TO be mormonism, with tho grand
principle of that sect reversed
The Weekly Tribune has u total circula-
ton, Of l7O,75O. Mr. Greeley will evidently
not need the presidents salary to pay his
board bill, noxt year.
Tho bridge over the Tay in Scotland will
be 1924 feet long, over 1000 feet longer than
the Victoria bridge at Montreal, making it
the longest in the world.
Ayoung lady who was recently out driv-
ing became alarmed when the horse began
10 kick, and naively requested her beau TO
get out and hold tho animals leg.
Miss Darlington writes to her aunt that
the bridal wave, which the papers talk SO
much about, has not touched that town for
six years.
None but the brave deserve tho fair An
Indiana lass is now engaged to be married to
n young man whose hand she refused seven
| times.
An editor says his ancestors have been in
the habit of living hundred years. His OPP
poneut responds by saying that 'that was be-
fore the introduction Of capital punishment"
One of the amusements Mt Chicago pic
mic was to place silver dollar in II dish con-
tanning about an inch of molasscs and let
squad ofboys compete in trying to take out
| the piece with their teeth.
A young lady suggestivcly rcmarks If it
was not good for Adam to live single when
there wasn't woman on earth, what shall
be said of old bachelors with the world full
of pretty girlsP
1t is said that farmer in Western New
York has cleared 5000 by burying wooden
Indian cigar signs for few months and then
digging them up and selling them to col
lcges for petrified Mohicans.
The skin ofan African presented to Ann
herst college by DIR. Tyler Of the class of AS,
has been stuffed and will soon bo placed on
exhibition, being the only one in the muse
UNI. lie was an African lion.
A locomotive in pursuit of moose was
| the sensation in Nova Scotia the other day.
The moose found the machine too fast for
him and turned aside from the track into the
woods; the locomotive declining to follow.
Charles NJ. Thomas, n negro lawyer,
graduate of Howard university, few days
ago, made the first plea over made by one of
his race in the criminal courts of Washing
ton, in defence of n negro who is on trial for
killing his wife.
Prof. Plantamour's August comet was
sick and couldn't come, but rs compensa-
ton for the disappointment he has made an
arrangement with the sun by which that lu-
minary is to gradually shut of its heat so
that we shall be frozen in the year POLL.
Florida has gone into the feather-howcr
business, for which purpose the plumage of
its white herons and paroquets is ruthlcssly
phckcd out, the former for the flowers and
the latter for leaves. This branch Of indus
try promises to be very remmnorativc.
This is the worst year that has ever
been known in Kansas for pulling guns out
of wagons muzzle first A woman in jew
ell county has just pulled one, and now has
to part her hair on the side that her only arm
is on.
Benjamin ID. Emerson, who recently died
at Jamaica Plain, Mass, leaves anestato val
ued ut S250,0O0, the bulk of which goes to
religious and educational purposes. lie
leaves the generous sum of 100000 to Dart
mouth college.
A young English school girl, for the oflensc
of receiving u love-lettor from young man
was first severely reprimanded by tho lady
teacher and then, being ordered to remove
her clothes, twenty-four strokes of birch
rod wereapplied to her naked person.
A KentucSian who fills kerosene lamp
while it is burning, lately had a quarrel with
II neighbor who frightens his children by
pointing revolver Mt them, us to which was
the biggest fool. The umpire decided. on
general grounds, that there was no difference
worth speaking of.
Here is something to make the hair oftho
Archbishop of Canterbury stand on end.
Some one has discovered from the annual
review of IIindostanee literature that there
is actually n subscription on foot In Bombay
to build pagoda in London for the worship
of Vishnu and silva.
a st. Louis prcssnnn called upon his lady
love the other night and found his rival en-
gagged in cutting her corns. The ponderous
dimensions Of the st, Louis boot are proven
bal, and the mass of that pressman's foot
multiplied into its velocity on that occasion
was sufficient to entirely obliterate the rival |
Two Germans recently fought duel near
London with dagger knives, standing at arms |
length and toe to toe. After so minutes in |
slashing one of them got an
extension put upon his mouth that will ena- |
bic him to whisper in his own car without
the slightest difficulty, and the seconds stop
ped the affair
A Titusvillc wife placed n toy snake in her |
husbands boot the other morning, and then
could hardly get breakfast because of her
ut his performances when he
it, He first looked in the mirror,
Then went and threw his demUohn of old rye
into the mill race lie drank thirteen cups
of coffee ut breakfast and for several even
ngs afterward astonshed his children
by going to bed ut nine o'clock each night.
The solitary Democrat in the Maine Senate
elect, has challenged brother member of