Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06
Facts and FancieS.

One man and his son in Winneconne.
Wis, have slaughtered 1901 muskrata
in two months.
The practice Of inhaling the smoke OF
cigarettes iseXtremely dang rous, as 1t IS
likely tc cause congestion Of the lungs,
Double link sleeve buttons and wide
morocco belts are among the many old
fashions that have been revived this
season.
The newest style of window shades
are Of crimson silk with the monogram
in the center Of the white lace and en-
broidery.
A county official who insisted on fish
ing within the demesne Of an Illinois
farmer, was lately ducked in the river by
the farmers wife.
There is girl in Minnesota, only Is
years of age, who by herself and two
bows runs q farm of over two hundred
acres. She put $500 in St. Paul bank
last year.
! A maiden lady being asked why she
had never married, replied that she had
never seen the man for whom she was
willing to get up three meals day for
forty years.
Grief has had very remarkable effect
on widow out in Elmwood, III. Her
husband died three years ago, and in all
that time she has not spoken q word to
any living being.
Fame is like shaved pig with q
creased tail, and it is only after 1t has
slipped through the hands of some
thousands, that some fellow, by good
luck, holds on to it.
There are said to be about two million
cannibals in the whole world. One OF
these is Caroline Newton, OF Kansas,
who bit off John Gray's nose, because
she thought him a gay deceiver.
Experiments have recently been made
to ascertain the amount of loss that coal
undergoes when exposed to the weather.
Anthracite and canal coal suffer least,
but ordinary btuminous coal loses nearly
one-haIf in gas-making quality.
The general statutes of New Hampshire
provide that any person painting the
fences or other private property, or on
: any rock or natural object, without the
leave of the owner, shall he fined $50,
one-half to go to the prosecutor.
Here is prospectus of Oil City by a
Titusville paper: A small, gnarIed, frow-
zy, knotty, bare-backed, Up-and-dowp,
bumped, round-shouldered, gully, rrec-
ipicy, and generally shot.up, scooped-
out, ravined, inaexicablc, irregular,
/ greasy, and slab-sided shanty town.
| A Western wife by her pat evidence
lately procured the incarceration OF her
husband, guilty of violent violation of
: the law, in durance vile for life, and the
l day the doors of the prison closed upon
: him took advantage of the privilege ac-
corded by that law and married another
= man.
: Discretion is the better part of valor.
, Tom and Arthur have been rude to their
| mamma. Mamma has complained to
papa, who is heard coming up stairs.
, Arthur: Il say, Tom, here comes papa;
, shall pretend to be asleep" Tom 81
shant shall get up and put something
, on"
An unlimited number of half dead
and-alive trees can be seen now III the
burnt district of Chicago. The sides
which faced the fire are charred and
dead from the roots up, while the oppo-
site sides, where the heat did not pene-
trate, are full of sap and the branches
green with leaves
Fashion, among other friyolities, has
; decreed that children between the ages
of two and eight years, should wear
small caps, instead of bonnets in their
public promenades. These caps are
made of the finest lace, and embroid-
cred and lined with pink or blue silk,
costing from $40 to $50.
A gentleman who was mighty hun
ter was plagued with degenerate son,
who manifested no great prediction
, for his fathers pursuits One day he
exclaimed, in the bitterness of his NOR.
LITIGATION, "Cuss me, Tom, if you're not
gettin perfectly worthless; you'll neither
hunt nor fish. I'll be hanged If | don't
, send you to school"
A Scotch law l0ld was seated one (EIy
ON the hillside of Bonally with Scotch
shepard, and observing the sheep repos
ing in what he thought the coolest situ-
alton, he observed to him John, if l
we've q sheep I would lie on the other
side of the hill" The shepard answered:
"Ay, my lord, but if We had been sheep
We wad hav had mair sense.
Bees are exceedingly susceptible Of
atmospheric changes even the passage
of heavy cloud over tie sun will some
times drive them home, and If an east
erly wind prevails, however fine the
weather may otherwise be, they have a
sort of rheumatic adherence of its infu-
ence, and abide at home. The cause
is said to be the deficiency of electricity
in the air.
Prof Newman is a wag. The English
Anti-Tobacco Society, wanting evidence
of the evil effects of the weed, took him
into their service. He had never used
the stuff in anyform, and the arrange
ment was that he should take good
smoke, get sick, and then descril his
horrible sensations III course of lec-
lures. The professor smoked his pipe
about half an hour, but, singularly
enough, he did not get sick at all, and,
so far from being disguised, just keeps
up smoking, and the society folks are a
little discouraged.