Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-02-29
Facts and Fancles.

"Have snake ?" is the San Francisco
Interrogation for drinks
A farmer has no right to pull the ears
of his corn, 1t is unkind.
How to prevent milk turning into
cream-Buy it Of city milkman
The season of Lent this year began on
st. Valentines Day, February a.
The quickest way for q man to forget
all common misery is to wear tight
boots
A miser's first rule in arithmetic is
addition, but his heirs generally begin
with division.
Although mans affections may not
always be strong, they are sure some
how, to be Misplaced.
A lady advertises herself as a teacher
for "persons of newly-acquired wealth
and deficient education.
1t matters not what man loses if he
saves his soul but if he loses his soul,
it matters not what he saves.
Two Indians at ST. Paul, Mimi, fired
salute from an old piece of rotten iron
| uDOul uMclNc uoltlo Dtlolc UlSh i'HSi''i'
"Those who buy tombstones of us
look with pride and satisfaction on the
graves Of their friends, ;" Is the advertise
ment of Western stone-cutter.
A very slender man asked a friend
what character he had better assume at
a masquerade, and was advised to braid
his legs, and appear as a whip-Iash.
A celebrated writer says that if one
could read it, every human being carries
his life in his face, and is good looking
or the reverse, as that life has been good
or evil.
In condemning late dinners, Good
Health says that within four hundred
years the dinner has gradually moved
through twelve hours Of the day-from
9 A. NJ. to 9P. M,
Hear what the doctor says; Green
tarletans are deadly poison the flying
lint is winged opthalmia and galloping
consumption the diamond powder,
worn by the bellies, is very dangerous to
the lungs.
To belong to the Orthodox Greek
Church is almost compulsory III Russia,
and consequently every act of Russians
life is more or less connected with his re-
lioion. Therefore, marriage must be
eligiously legal to be legal at all.
It is said to be very questionable to
pay your dressmaker as soon as the bill
is presented. It makes her think you
t have plenty of money, and the prices
: are therefore very much enlarged the
: next time you have new dress made
t The same girl who wouldn't marry
s mechanic who turned out to be ii Gov
S enor," is again going the rounds, after
a ten wears silence. Don't be uneasy
, girls, if you don't want to marry me-
S chanic, why don't do it. Perhaps an
e editor will come along one of these days
At fair to be held shortly at the
: West, a gold-headed cane will be pre-.
t scented to the most popular minister OF
: the General Assembly, counter scales TO
= the most popular grocer, and a silver
= tankard to the best brewer-to be de-
u cided by vote.
# The sun is really very warm, for Pro
=, lessor Ericsson, in Nature, says, IN re-
~ gard to its heat that 1--WE cannot con
~ sistently refuse to accept the conclusion
q that the temperature at the surface of
=. the philosophers is nearly 4,U38, 600 de-
!. grees Fahrenheit"
n A boy who was amusing himself on
e skating pond in Bridgeport, the other
IS day, by throwing up hat and firing a
p pistol at it, slipped down while he was
discharging it, and the ball entered his
Is left leg at the thigh, and passing lodged
lie in the limb below the knee. He is com
,e Portable, but won't skate again very
lie soon.
D Marriage between kindred in Russia
20 however distant, even unto "forty-sec.
n ond cousins" is against the law, and
Y considered by all the Russians as an
70 abomination Neither may young per
lie son marry God-parent, the latter com
A. ing under the head of "spiritual rela-
II tons.
IS Historical records show that up to 1852
es there were no horses in New England ;
lie and their introduction into New Neither
es lands-now New Yolk-occurred during
"a the administration OF Governor Won
III Twiller in 1633-3S. TrumbulIs :" His
s. tory of Connecticut" mentions the horse
IL as accompanying emigrants from MaSSa'
10 chusetts to that state, October 10. 1856
The first horse seen in Canada was
s. brought to that country from France, il
OF ship which arrived at rodoussac, Janc
u 90 1647.
~ One day the surgeon came to the side
as as of an ague patient in a military hospital
w. w. and anxiously inquired how he felt. In
~ the midst of a shivering chill the reply
was, "No-no-t "a a--bit bet tier
20 81 am sorry; but your case is a very
III peculiar one, and hard to get hold OF.
n, said the surgeon, sympathetically. ''l'
an -ves," said the shivering soldier, "th'
Cd that's so; th-th-the confounded CT
co case sha-shakes so yo-you cant e
~ get a hold.d of Utah, . He recoy
IF cred.