Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-11
Japanese in California, al w6ndcr. what is
de color oh de black folksPr 1919

! Chicago boasts that the new government
hospital IN that city, for sick soldiers and
sailors now almost completed, is the fin.
$ est structure of the kind in the country.
6 A bear in Mobile is said to have hum
+ himself with his cham, on account of uneasi.
ness occasioned by sponge in his stomach
which was too much even for his digestion.
The burning Of John McInns g. Co. .'swool
warehouse at Boston, on Thursday, involves
q loss Of S2lO,OOO; the stock is insured for
SSOO'OOO, 100000 of which is in Boston com
panies.
The widow of}an Ohio colonel is reported
to havcrecuived AfoO,OOo by the will of n
southern colonel. whom her husband pro-
tected from the brutality of some negro SOL
diers, during the war.
Miss Slldell, daughter of the late John
Slidell, of Trent fame, was recently married
at Boulogne-sur Mer, to Baron PfefIer. of Lu-
cerne, Switzerland Minister Washburn
was present at the ceremony
Mr.. Jarrett, toll-bridge-keeper at Neosho.
Wis, thinks he drew trump in getting his
present wife, for when recent storm blew
his little office, with him and his wife in it.
into the river she took him in tow and swan
ashore.
The death sentence of st. LOUIS wife
murderer has been commuted TO imprison-
ment for life, and he protests against tho
change, saying that he is 60 years old and
wants to die. IL takes one man all the time
to keep him from killing himself
| There are manufactured in the United
States II little over 2,25O,OOO packages of pins
per annum. Each one of these packages
should contain 1880 pins, giving the enor-
nous amount of 7,l25 100000 pins made an
nually. One factory alone turns out eight
tons ofpns per week
A young gentleman from the country
| found his way into ~ confectionery store ut
Troy the other day, and called for glass of
soda water; but on being presented with
glass refused to drink 1t. Dog gone it,
said he, "do you think I'm fool enough to
drink that yer when it's bilin'P"
As an illustration of the manner in which
mistakes in Typography may arise, the Birm-
ington Post recently apologized to its readers
for having described the infamous can-can us
delicious dance" The critic had written
"delirious," which the printers had read as
above.
A caucus was recently held in Petersham,
Mass, which lasted one and one-half hours. |
There were but two persons present, and |
after the organization was effected nobody |
was left to make motions, so they found it |
impossible to adjourn. An alarm of fire |
broke up the meeting.
This is the way in which the Providence pa-
pers announce that u letter is in the New
Bedford post-oflice, waiting for stamp:
There's n painful sense of something lacking |
on the northeast corner ofa letter addressed |
to b. A. Whitney Il Co.. Providence, which |
lies at New Bedford awaiting repairs.
The New London, Conn, S,tr is excited |
over the outrageous conduct of one Asa
Manning, who "goes through the streets
every morning believing like a stuck calf"
The Star says il has mo desire to interfere
with any mans vocation but he does it out
of pure devlltry,n and declares that it does
not propose to stand his bawling any Ion
GER
There is something more than daily ferry
now between Europe and America. In fact
the rate is something like steamer for ev-
cry twelve hours from the port Of Liverpool
alone. When to these are added the ships
of the French and German lines, we get
some idea of the increase of late in steam
communication between the two continents
Mr. |. ID. w. Carter, of Ossipee, n. H.,
caught on the 22d on Chocorua Mountain,
in Albany, Carroll County u large black
bear weighing 400 lbs. The young cub was
with her, about three months old, which was
also caught and weighed 81 lbs. Mr.. Car
ter has caught two before, making four in
all that he has caught this fall on the same
mountain.
A Kansas gentleman drove the rats from
his barn by this device:-A long plank with
corn meal was thrust under the barn. Sit
ting outside was the inventor of the device,
armed with double barTelled shot gun,
the muzzlcs of which commanded the situa-
tion. The rats filled the board and he fired.
The fire department were diatory, and his
loss is $1,000. But the rats are gone.
Throw physc to the dogs when the pa
tient is given over to die, and administer
marriage in mild doses and she will recover.
At least, this was the case in st. Louis, re-
Gently, when young attorney was married
to II lady who was supposed to be in her last
illness, but so salutary was the effect of the
marriage that instead of dying she rapidly
recovered, and is now ablo to be out
No married man in Illinois can get his
tod" without the following permit from
his wife; permission is hereby granted by
me- the lawful wife Of, and | declare
and witness, by my own signature, that my
husband has the perfect right and liberty to
drink, and rs often MS he chooses to drink,
and what he chooses to drink and here
by relinquish all the claims arising th6re.
from
\ tender-hoarted Rochester tailor, ON be-
ing refused by the girl he loved, vowed that
Everybody Went back on him. and in
continently swallowed the contents of n lau-
danum Bottle before her face Doctors were
summoned, and the prompt application ofan
antidote saved the poor fellows life, but the
girls heart is still hard, her only concern
being that the fellow should not die on her
premises.
Novelty is possible even in so common
place u thing rs murder. Mr.. Smith of Or
egon took several chances in ralle for Il
ladys watch, but having thrown all but one
and being unlucky, he asked Mr.. Miller to
throw that for him. This throw won the
watch but as Miller had won it for him,
Smith let him have it to give to his wife,
Miller took the gift to her, and now he has
killed Smith for making his wife presents
In all policies oflife insurance these, among
a host of other questions, occur; "Age of
father, if livmgP' age of mother, ifliving?" {
A man in the country who filed up an appli- I
cation made his fathers age, il living, 100