Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


weak that he can not heare sigh.
There are now 1850 miles of railroads
in operation in Minnesota. Ten years
ago there were only twenty miles.
The young daughter of Jenny Lind,
now only fourteen, promises to equal, if
not to surpass, her mother in the sweet
ness and compass of her voice.
During the trial of Mrs. Wharton six
ty-six witnesses were summoned, and fif-
ty-slx sworn. The cost of the trial was
about sixteen thousand dollars.
An exchange desires to know, before
we quite lose sight of the former Rus
sian minister, whether his name is pro-
nounced Catacazy, or Catocazy, or Cata-
cazy. or Catacasy.
An illiterate farmer, wishing to enter
some animals at an agricultural exhibit
ton, wroto to the secretary as follows:
''Also enter me for the best jackass [
am sure Of taking the premium
A little boy, after Watching the burn
ing of the schoolhouse until the novelty
of the thing had ceased, started down
the street. saying, II am glad the old
thing is burned down [ didn't have my
jogfry lesson, nohow"
A little boy embodied his thoughts on
theology in words thus: 81 don't see
how the devil came to turn out so bad
when there was no other devil to put
him up to it.
A Virginia "aunty" has just gone
dead at the tender age of rs, all
through tobacco, for she has smoked and
chewed 100 years. Another youth has
just been cut off, aged SO. Beware of
the weed
Leap year is opening before US, and
another quadrennial opportunity is pre-
sented to the young and ambitious fe-
males
"smles, gances, signs, tears fits iirations. airs
'Gainst such host what fnty savage dares ?"
An old Dutchman, who some years
ago was elected a member of the Cana
dian legislature, said in his broken En-
glish style: even vent to the lechis-
lature | fought | would find dem all Sol
onions dere, but [ soon found dere vas
some as pick fools dere as vas
Among the melancholy deaths" re-
ported in the Scotch papers is that of an
immense cat, the property of hair
dresser in Princes Street, Edinburgh
The creature was said to have been one
Of the sights of Edinburgh model of
beauty and king of cats.
A young fellow, not quite so wise as
Solomon, was eating some Cheshire
cheese full of mites one night at the tav-
ern. "Now," said he, 81 have done as
much as Samson, for [ have slain my
thousands and my ten thousands. -
Eyes, answered one of the company
land with the same weapon too-the
jaw-bone of an ass
An ingenious scoundrel recently cheat
ed Southport (Ct.) bank out of S1OC
by asking for change for a 500 bill
receiving it, and then asking in an off
hand sort of way, "Well, amt you go
ing to give me that bill 2" The cashier
unwittingly gave him the bill, and wa:
too busy to find out his mistake unit
after the swindler had left.
A new safe has been invented which
makes things very unpleasant for bur
glars. The walls are filled with gun
powder in such manner that the blow
of sledge or the cutting of chisel il
the attempt to rob the safe will ignit
the powder, blow off the outer crust, an
; initiate the burglar, and leave the con
tents of the safe uniniured.
1t is reported by a careful compute
of statistics that there are 8.OO0,OOt
people in the United States who use to
bacco in some form. As taxes were col
J lected last year on 95,000,000 pound
of manufactured tobacco and 100000
cigars, the average allowance for eac
consumer Of tobacco that had paid tn
tax would be l l pounds and 169 cigar
per year.
w
: say IN the Lords Prayer, who art i
; Heaven since God is everywhere {?
asked clergyman of some children
For while no one answered at las
seeing little drummer-boy who locke
= r as if he could give an answer the clergy
l man said:
"Well, little soldier what say you =?
Because it's head quarters, reptile
the drummer.
n The next Vice President, it is saiC
y will be Stokes, the murderer of Fisl
r Congress might therefore delay their ad
/ jou1nment to do little needed legisl;
k ton for the country; for Stokes wi
y stand higher, it is thought, after h
s. trial. in which it is to be proved Is
/ that Fisk shot himself in trying to ki
y Stokes End, that he was not shot at a
n bnt the physicians killed him by wror
o treatment and Sd, that Stokes sh,
e and killed him in justifable self-d
4. fense,-BoSton NeaOS.
= A descriptive catalogue of the birds
J. New Zealand, by Mr.. Hutton, the ASST
[ tant geologist connected with the go
IS eminent museum at Wellington, has ju
n been published. This author enume
ates one hundred and sixty species
indigenous to the island, and ffty-tv
. introduced by the settlers. Among Il
7 latter are the bin-redbreast, the nigh
y ingale, the song thrush, the rock, tt
> jackdaw, startling, American meadow
: lark, American red-winged blackbir
r. the American scarlet tanager, the bul
u u finch, the goldfnch, linnet, sky-lar
=, and some other species.
ID A certain French gentleman, havi1
ID been but a very little while in Englan
ct was invited to friends house, when
b, large bowl of punch was made-a liuu