Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-16
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Iowa has lady notaries public.
Brigham Young keeps a shorthand
writer.
White Feather the. Indian. orator is
college graduate.
Highwaymen still make travelling dan
gerous in California.
Two bold "highwaywomen" have just
been arrested in New York.
There is to be an assemblage of crown
ed heads at Berlin this month.
Sausage is plenty in Memphis, Tenn,
and as consequence dogs are scarce.
There is subterranean lake near
Summet, Mich, with eyeless fish in it.
The most mischievous liars are those
who keep just on the verge of truth.
A Georgia negro jumped from an ex-
press train to recover lost hat. The
hat is all right
The ex-empress Charlotte, poor. brok-
en-hearted wife of Maximillian, is ap-
preaching dissolution.
The wheat yield of Maury and Lewis
county, Tennessee, average 50 and 90
bushels ltothe acre. vvrr%Et 5r
Ex-President johnson has announced
himself an Independent candidate for
Congressman at large.
People are rushing home from the
summer resorts and the baggage-smash-
ers was never so happy as now.
French and English physicians almost
universally prescribe a free use of lemon
juice to effect cure for the rheumatism.
Utah has had another earthquake
The frequency of these visits is begin
ming to remind the citizens of their lat.
ter end. o
A Mississippi farm is so mellow that
the proprietor hoes his corn with a dip
per and digs his potatoes with hook
and line
A Chicago bridegroom is reported to
have worn diamond pin in his shirt
bosom, AMI sardonyx smile on his
brow. Et}I $GiF1E%Et
A wife wrote to her husband in Cali,
fornia, that the longer he stayed away
the better she liked him. Rather equiv.
ocal, that.
According to Humboldt in the .thir.
teenth century the habit of eating hu.
man flesh pervaded all classes of society
Good old times, those.
Horse flies, buffalo gnats, and mosqui.
toes sortie gaily on the river towns way
down in Tennessee. They are often mis-.
taken for crows and wild turkeys.
Tho Dover, CTenn) Record says thai
corn is so plenty in that section that the
farmers will have no room to store it
without shedding their corn fields.
Child-stealipg has been introduced in
to New York to vary the list of atroci
ties indulged in by the villains of tha
vast and benighted city.
Eighty odd years ago the winter wa
a fearfully cold one at Nantucket Mass.
and the people paid fifty dollars a cor,
for wood; so says the chronicles.
''In the whole compass of George Ell
liott's writings" says the Spectator, s.w
can scarcely recall description of on
happy scene, and not-one happy story Q
life"
In paragraph on vacations the Chris
tian Union says: at strikes us that SC
ciety is so arranged that the America
young lady has pretty easy time of II
compared with her brother -
Chicago housekeepers are on the wal
path. Telegraph dispatches are fyin
to San Francisco, and their burden is
"Eor PHYS sake, send US some Chimes
domestics. :"
The ovation to General Mcclellan
San Francisco was the most extensiy
ever, given to anybody on the Pacif
coast. The General declined to discu:
political matters.
A Western paper systematically d,
fines the Liberal movement to be
scheme to allow burglars to go unpu1
ished, and then give them the thing
they would have stolen.
The old exploded story that Geore
Washington was born in England
once more being started by the Britis
journals. The locality is said to ha,
been Berkshire, nineteen miles fro
Windsor
Tom Scott says that the developmel
of American iron is yet in its infanc
If he should dare to make such a remal
as that about the developement of Anne
lean brass" he would be at once IS
down as an ass
Chinese papers report that the t
crop does not come up to the first e
pectations of it. 1t had been thoug
that it would be largely in excess of la
year; instead of which, the shipmen
have thus far fallen considerably belo
The track of the late cyclone throu
Ulster county, New York, was mark
by fearful results. Children, catt
wagons, sleighs and houses were pick
l up bodily and hurled down half m
distant The ground at one point "
stripped of the sod and beaten hard,
o if rolled with heavy cylinder.
e A good story is told of clergym
in Massachusetts town who forgot
notes on sabbath morning, and it "
too late to send for them, he said to
audience, by way of apology. that Il
morning he should have to depend up
the Lord for what he might say, but