Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-08
miscellaneous Stems.

A squint-cycd Brooklyn policeman shot ut
n dog and killed Miss Sarah Jones.
"Extcnding your shop front into the news
paper" is the latest definition for advertise
ment.
Tho scalding tears OF Gl3 prisoners btthe
the Implying stones OF the California state
prison.
A smart earthquake in California swamp
ed mans farm for isl-pond without con-
sulting the owner.
Mrs. Rachael Stanley, Virginia mntron,
bases her claim to public notice upon the fact
that she can count up 1896 descendants.
Old fashioned coon suppers arc prevalent
in some sections, the animal being served up |
in cpicurcan style.
Awoman in Ruthcrfordton, n c., has been |
fined for the hcnous oflcnsc of calling the
city marshal "Old Pewter Buttons"
a thorn has just emerged from the leg of II
Kcntuckan which has been perambulatng
his system for 81 years.
Tho Louisville CoHtcr-JotuRm speaks of
" newspaper man us assistant idiot on
the.
'Proi" llutchiugs formally known Us Bar
nuns "lightning calculator" has turned
preacher.
Henry Ward Becchcr indorscs Darwin and
remarks that he had just rs lief spring from
n monkey us from some men he knows of.
Here is personal advertisement in
French newspaper: Eliza, you can return
to the house, the boil on my nose is gone.
A Savannah (Ga.) banker called his son
puppy" and the young blood responded by
three bullets through his father and one
through himself, the latter being fatal.
| An Albany grandmother of seventy lately
eloped with young man whose father she
had tried to capture IN years agonc. She ev-
identity likes the family
At Mankato, Mimi, woman was accused
of throwing baby into the river. The riv-
er was raked by an mcensed community,
and a dead cat brought to light.
A French inventor has been getting up
terribly destructive torpedo. The thing
proved its efficiency the other day, and the
inventor was carried ont in two baskets.
A mule was the sole possession of New
Orleans man, and when one morning he
went to the stable and found that mule de-
funct, life had no further charms for him.
A fellow in Canada, who was too poor to
afford II regular swell hang, tied handker-
chief around his neck, thrust stick through
it, and twisted himself into the hereafter.
An exchange says "sInce the abolition of
the gallOws in Iowa there has not been u
murder in the State This goes to show
that some people kill other people merely for
the pleasure of being hanged.
Delhi, the "Alrican fire king" is astonish-
ing San Francisco by drinking cocktails of
molten lead, boiling oil straights, swallowing
red-hot pokors and showing in other ways a
total loss of reverence for caoric.
A little girl in Pittsburg was recently
drowned by falling into post-hole filled
with water Inspectors of post-holcs should
see that they are turned over and emptied
after every rain.
Jealous prohibitionist. on being asked
why he signed every pledge that was pre-
scented to him, gave us n reason that if he
broke one he would have the rest to fall
back on.
An Iowa tornado carried house forty feet,
stood it on its little roof and broke
every timber in its construction. Three
women who were in it Mt the time escaped
unnjured.
In so great respect is good craftsmanship
held IN Kentucky, that n woman was recent
ly fined $40 for having fired six shots Mt her
husband and his colored mistress without
hitting them.
A misanthropic editor of Western paper
announces: "'rho clock of our courthouse,
emulatmg the example of some ofour ladies,
had nice coat of paint on its face yester-
day"
For an ordinary assault and battery. such
rs striking man over the head mot very
hard the district court of Cecil county,
t Md, imposes fine of twenty-five cents.
D Cheap enough
!, Mrs. Bette Corley, of Decatur, Ga, was
0 recently riding to church with her three chill
drcn, when n large tree, under which they
2 were passing blew over and killed tho whole
t party.
There are large number of public jour
nails in this country whose editors give 50
much time to their neighbors' affairs that
they cannot make good newspapers them
Q selves.
An old gentleman from Wisconsin walked
off the train in his Sleep near Holland. o.,
p and not being killed by the fall, started after
; the train on foot, but was struck by freight
and cut TO pieces,
. One of the young men belonging toa choir
had his hair cut by generous barber, Satur-
day. Sunday he sang for solo, "Cover my
defensoess head and blushed like II lob
+, ster while doing it.
A Republican mt Sharon, Penn. won on
q the election $4,000 in cash, eleven suits Of
= clothes aud two hundred kegs of nails. lie
- h MS not decided whether it is best to become
I n dealer in readymado clothing or in hard
ware
i Chicago women have resolved in solemn
l. conclnvc that "thc absolute chastity and tenn
- pcrancc of the people is attainable," and arc
preparing crusade against crime which
D will probably drive il shrieking to the ends Of
tho earth.
Tho Kansas people are blessed beyond
measure withquails, These birds are so ac-
commodating MS to fly against the house.
knock the breath out of their little bodies
: and fall down quietly, when they arc picked
= up, dressed and cooked.
. "Innatabo rubber bustles" are announced
They are said to impart great buoyancy t.
- the movements, In case of shpwreck they
o would probably be advantageous, although
n girl noatod by one of them might be taker
for II buoy
t People should be careful about what they
Jrnon, A Iittlo Ehinasa how Nyov in Shaua