Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-22
miscellaneous Stems.

The chestnut crop is very large throughout
New York.
-Four missionaries to Burmah have written
home to say they must have wives.
A ten years law suit for $50 900 has driven
II Kingston man crazy.
There is more demand for ship timber
than there has been for several years
November is said to be tho month most
popular with suicides.
Grosshoppers dnrkcncd everything around
Kansas City last week.
Cranberries will keep all winter in iirkin
of water in cellar.
The Louisville Exposition, OIL n capital of
Sl54,OOO, Melted $4,000.
Never carry your matches, powder and
whisky in the same pocket.
The Grecian ladies counted their agc from
their marriage, not their birth.
People who are always wishing for some
thing new should try neuralgia once.
Tho Ohio river is now lower than it has
been known for forty years.
The Egyptian flute was only II cows horn
with three or four holes in it.
The word love in the Indian language is
"schemenda mourtchwager.
A Mclrosc, Wis, man shot his big black |
OK the other night installing it for II bear.
A Californian has bar of native gold
worth l2,675.75.
The last words of little Noah Powers of
Lansing, Mich, were, IL didn't know it was
loaded
1t is estimated that there is one lady pas
sengcr for every ten trunks carried over the
railroads.
A prosperous merchant has for his motto
Early to bed and early to rise; never get
tight and advertise"
A company ut Pleasant Valley, N. Y,
made halfa million bottles of champagne
this season.
| Cleveland has IL man who has been driven
insane by lightning rod agents and sewing
machine men.
Blessed are they that are ignorant; for they
are happy in thinking that they know every
thing.
a thrashng machine took fire ut Carlisle,
H.. from friction, and burned itself up. and
$500 bushels of grain beside.
Get leave to work in this world, It's the best
you get mt all,
For God in cursing gives us better gifts than
men in benediction.
A horse thicfnam KriGen has just been
arrested ut Cleveland, o., who is proved to
have stolen IL horses, six buggies, one wag-
on and II large number of harnesses.
a Milwaukee congressman has been taken
to task by the press Of that city for sending
out, under his frank, some 500 wedding cards
for relative of his who was recently mar
ried
The commissioners who have been running
the boundary line in the Northwest have dis
covered that the Canadian custom house at
Pembina stands on the soil of the United
States.
The consumption of postage stamps in this
country is enormous. During the present
year $40, 600, 900 have been made to satisfy
the regular demand. Three times rs many
three-ccnt sCSmps arc used as of all other
denominations combined.
Gail Hamilton recently made nm excursion
down the st. Lawrence and up the Sague-
nay. She did not enjoy it, but says, philo-
sophically: Nevertheless. am glad went
to the Saguenay. Something is accomplish
ed when you have found one place in tho
world that you never want to go to again.
The North Carolina pcnitentary has just
received MS an inmate for the next nine years
the ox-Rcv William Wilson of Yancey coun-
, ty, who was formerly Baptist minister in
good standing, but, having fallen into disfa-
vor by leaving his wife, he abandoned the
. ministry and turned highway robber.
], The wife of German dancing master il
!, Louisville, lately drew $3.50 in lottery anC
gave it TO her husband. He took it, went t
Germany and came back with another wife
. His first wife has divided the children will
u him and gone to Cincinnati. lie continues
y the dancing school ut the old stand.
# Wives are II common commodity among
the Cinnamon in Montana, and one Of then
bet his wife against money ut cards, recently
=. and lost her. but just for n joke on the win
ner he made II dead heather of his lat,
:. spouse before she could be carried away, an,
Il the sheriff is going to demonstrate with him
. At n school in Green County. Iowa, tn
scholars caught II skunk and put it in tn,
G schoolmarm's desk, thinking that she woul,
}. smell mice and give them holiday. Sh
|, wasn't one of that kind. She took spring
/, cloths pin, fastened it on her nose, went oil
;, with the exercises, and let the scholars cnjo
the perfume.
II Two Kansas fellows loved the same girl
K One of them laid for the other and blowe
d the top of his head off. When the girl M
IS rived ut the house where her dead lover wa
: laid out, she broke down entirely, and, turn
is ing to the lady of the house, sobbed out
Mrs. Shipman, have you made any apple
butter yet?n
g 1t is doubtless whether any protested athe
n list can ut all times keep within the bound
4 his belief There is q society of atheist
y in Venice, and in sending its congratulatlon
IS TO Victor Emanuel, on the escape of his sol
from assassination, il curiously enoug
thanked Divine Providence for the mirac
" ulous escape" etc.
Is 1t requires good deal of skill and goo
70 taste to write n neat puff for an undertaken
# newspaper editor in Council Bluffs says
"a "Since we have touse collins, we prefer thos
which Riley furnishes. We took view G
his supply of the commodity, yesterday after
y noon. His stock would even carry the cit
y pretty well through I'm average siege of ehol
: erh.n
A N N
- diana state prison has just been discharge
by the expiration of his term-the eX-Rev
Mr.. Green, once II Baptist minister of rcputt
70 and man of fine talents, who was convicto
0, of forgery. While in prison he has been thu