Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A thrifty organ grinder in Taunton,
Mass, has bank account of $4,000.
Some port wine" analyzed at
Liverpool lately, contained molasses, al
cohol and logwood. Nice
George Washington was arrested at
Kansas City, the other day, for pounding
Martha Washington, his wife.
A ghost at McKeesport, Pa, rushes
around with stilleto, crying, Lovely
creature, thou must die"
They have dolly Warden chills in
Georgia. The sufferer turns all sorts of
colors and is terribly bumped up.
An alligator Is feet in length and
weighing 800 pounds, was recently kill
ed near the mouth of the Ocklawaha
river, Florida.
Troy, N. H., has pair of golden rob-
ins which hung their nests for 16 years
in the same tree Certain marks show
the birds to be the same
The ignorance of the French peasantry
is said to be unparalleled in the civil
lied world. Not one in hundred can
read or write.
Miss Stevens, beautiful blonde
preacher, is creating profound religious
sensation in Georgia. She is said to
make all the masculines feel like en-
bracing her-doctrines.
James Fisk, Jr., "run'' a colored
church in New York, and paid all the
expenses. His grim reason was that
he supported black christians because
there was no white christians in New
York.
STANDARDIZATION in Metaphysics.
Professor-"Which is the most delicate
of the senses p, Senior-"The sense of
touch" Professor-"Give an example.
Senior-"My chum can feel his mustache
but no one can see it,
Are you not alarmed at the approach
of the King of Terrors said minis
ter to sick man. "Oh, no; l have
been living six and thirty years with the
queen of terrors-the king cannot be
much worse e.. g
"When | get to St. Louis, I'll kill
you," said Texan desperate to cat
tie drover at Abilene. "Why not kill
me here?" Because they'd hang me,
here but in ST. Louis they'd think l
was insane, and let me 60"
Death is continually walking the
rounds of great city, and sooner or
later he will stop at every mans door.
But, after all, the shortest life is long
enough if it lead to a better, and the
longest life is too short, if it do not.
A man incarcerated in the Tombs has
been figuring in chalk on the walls of
his cell. 1t reads: "In New York city
the spires of 342 churches, worth SAL
10000, point heavenward. I'm here
for stealing a loaf of bread for my
starving child"
Several people who have answered an
advertisement promising correct like
ness of yourself, and your fortune told -
for fifty cents, have received three-cent
mirror, and informed that they can tell
their own fortune by counting their
money.
Those who have supposed that the
Sandwich Islanders are devoid of mod.
esty, says an exchange. are altogethel
wrong. In winter the natives are neat
ly dressed in jacket and pants of blue
paint fastened in front with buttons O
black ink.
The man with the iron jaw lives il
Taunton, Mass. He takes a thick
heavy flint glass tumbler and bites larg
pieces out of it with perfect ease, ant
: chews them to powder. He does no
swallow them, however, for fear of hav
ing pain in his stomach.
According to late writer sunstrok
l is due to the action of light upon tn
brain, exerted through the eye, and no
: as generally believed. to an elevation Q
temperature and it is asserted that
: the eye be properly shaded from tn
glare of the sun, any extra or unusua
precaution in the way of protecting tn
head or back may be dispensed with.