Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-24
miscellaneous Stems.
paniers bro worn of modorntc sizc.


donncd by leaders of fashion.
A Wisconsin girl has committed suicide
because her hair didn't curl
They are harvesting lO-inch ice on the Po-
tomac
Romcos hide covers 2l2 square feet. Ro-
meo was mn elephant
Watermelon wine is California drink
aud is thin but soothing.
Louisville boasts of woman who can
talk 40 words in minute.
Large numbers of persons from the North
are now settling in Central Georgia.
The Chinese in this country talk of ship
ping grasshoppers to China for food
Small poX is responsible for one out of ov-
cry eight deaths in st. Louis.
A2lO mare in Troy won't pass saloon
without her pailful of lager
Nearly all the officers of King Victor
EmnnueIs household have American wives.
1t costs more to keep the family stove
burning Mt Duluth than to feed family of
four persons.
Mr.. Boozer, of Lambcrtville, n. j., made
Christmas presents to 1860 children. They
weren't all his.
sausage 60 feet long and weighing 1902
lbs, has been made in Lancaster County,
Penn.
A Keokuk Ull.) man burned his house
trying TO smoke out the rats. Effective, but
cats arc more economical.
However sacrilegious it may seem, many
oyster suppers are depending upon the life or
death of Stokes.
Sitka groans beneath a public debt of $40,
and the city treasury contains but 70 cents.
The debt will be funded.
In Colorado, when lady wears diamond
jewelry to any extent she is alluded to by
the local papers us being well sailed"
a convict in the Kansas State prison has
invented two churns, IL steam road wagon.
and several other things.
Georgia issues invitations for your COM
pany on Friday evening to candy yank.
No persons carrying shot guns admitted"
The discoverer of California gold still
lives. So does the dscoverer of Arizona din-
monds, but great many wish he didn't.
A Kentucky woman, aged Il3. counts her
direct descendants, down to great-great-
eat-grandchildren to the number of |. O76
A black bear recently attempted TO hug n
Wisconsin maiden to death. but she labbed
him in the eye with I'm umbrella. and he fled.
a Scotch shepherd, named Cameron. aged
76, was recently made the happy father of n
fine boy--the fourth since his marriage six
years ago.
One Mr.. McCue, of GAINESVILLE, Mimi.
having been " severely beaten by his wife"
according to a local paper "ho was fined
$50 and costs
The inmates of n western hotel all locked
their doors, recently, because Il crazy woman
shouted through the corridors, Prepare We
the Lord is coming
There is Il man in Pottsville. Pa, who
prides himself on having been kicked out of
more hotels than any other man in the United
States.
The japanese ambassadors now in Eng
land say they will establish brewery in
Japan when they return, or of comes the
head of somebody.
A young man who was found dead drunk
in the streets of Kansas City, Mo-, last week.
was identified by the Good Templars' travel
ing card which he carried in his pocket.
There are Il great many who carry revolv-
ers and would like to use them In Stokes.
who have carefully watched this trial, and
are thoughtfully awaiting the result.
a farmer has presented the editor of the
Southern Standard, Arkansas, with young
pig; and still he isn't happy. lie says it
takes corn to make pork.
Agassiz says that any full grown man can
live for ten days by chewing ut pair of
boots, and yet there arc men who will growl
if they don't have mince pie every meal.
The Shaker colony in Virginia is growing
very rapidly, and applicants are numerous.
The colony never talks politics, goes to bed
mt eight, and drinks milk and weak tea.
a muscular woman of Atlanta not only
whipped n barkccper for selling whiskey to
her husband, but chastiscd her husbands
employer for giving money when he was
drunk.
The journal, which Is the only paper in
Boston that defends the Credit Mobiier trans
actions of certain congressman, thinks it is
rather tough ON man to go to Congress and
live on his salary.
A Nevada Indian belle of Ii created so
much dissention among the young braves
that the wise old chiefs took her into the
woods and stoned her to death, afterward
burning her body.
Newfoundland wants to shake off Dominion
authority and come in with us,-at least that
is the almost unanimous sentiment of the
Parliament and the sympathlcs of the people
are for annexation.
More spinning wheels are sold at Boston
now than in the days when they were indis-
pensabe to every New England household
They are mostly eXportedto Nova Scotia and
the other British provinces.
A San Francisco girl fell asleep in her bath
tub and slumberod sweetly for two hours.
| Her physician says something nearly killed
her, but whether it was the bath or sleeping
| in damp bed he had not decided Mt last ac-
| counts,
The history of many marriages which have
failed to realize intellectual companionship
| is comprised in sentence which was actu-
ally uttered; "She knew nothing when |
married her; tried to teach her something,
it made her augry,-and gave itupn
The murderer Stokes is said to have suf-
fered great mental anguish after he was
convicted, but it is not probable that his pain
was ms great MS that of Fisk, who, when he
was shot through the bowels, compared the
sensation TO " a green-apple belly-ache."
The Now York Commercial advertiser an
swers correspondent "Englishman thus :
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