Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-03

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a squirrel, aud a keen-eyed sportsman
picked him off with Mimic rifle at rs
yards, installing him for turkey.
A recent calculation relative to the
principal European languages shows that
English is spoken by ninety millions of
persons, German by ffty-fve millions,
and French by forty-fve millions.
- 1t cost Topeka man 1927 cents
to kiss another mans wife. The twenty
seven cents was added by the Judge for
winking at the injured husband of the
kissed WIFE
- 1t ssaid that in China the marriage
ceremony lasts three days. They would
object to such a ceremony as that in
Chicago, chiefly on the ground that it
postpones the divorce too long.-Lottis.
UiHe Courier Journal
A flying trapezist'' miscalculated
the distance in making leap from a
trapeze in the gallery to one on the
stage, at Detroit, the other night, and
fell heavily on his back. He lay as if
dead and the audience became greatly
excited, but, after being dragged off the
stage and shaken up a little, he came
out all right.
This from late San Francisco pa
per: String beans and peas are a trihe
dearer; asparagus has advanced; new
potatoes are quotable at &c per pound ;
green corn and egg plant are out of
market; no strawberries have been re-
ceived for more than a week. Lettuce
Zoe to 30c per dozen cucumbers, 15c
per dozen" etc.
- Viola Vance, an actress performing
at the Opera House in New Haven. died
of smallpox about three weeks ago,
though the affair has been kept quiet till
now. When her disease was discovered
she was taken to the almshouse, where
all the city paupers were exposed, but
was afterward removed to the pest-house,
where she died, it is said, for want OF
proper care.
One of the proofs that ours is a
great country is report of the sign al Of
fee for recent day which shows diff
ference in temperature of SO degrees be-
tween two of our towns at Lake City,
Fla, the thermometer stood at 70 de-
grees above, and at PeE.bina, Dakotah
at Is below zero. The distance is 1900
miles.
An ambitious tube rose has sprout-
ed and grown two feet and then blossom
ed in the cellar of Mr.. J. Skinner of
Bridgeport, Conn. The bulb was re-
moved from the ground in October, since
which time it mas had neither water nor
earth. Three perfectly formed flowers
with remarkably delicate odor are the
results of the labors of this bulb during
the time it should have been asleep.
A brave boy at Denton, Nd, was
recently threatened with arrest by
large crowd of citizens who thought he
was disturbing them. He turned and,
drawing pistol, promised general death.
Everybody ran except one pugnacious
party, who threw down the would be
murderer and discovered that the pistol
was a barn-door key. The crowd re-
turned-they only went away because
they had thought they heard the alarm
of fire.
A CHASTITY kind of practical joking is
prevalent along the Hudson River rail-
road. One night not long since, the en-
gineer saw man sitting on the track
and sounded the whistle for him to get
off, and as he paid no attention to the
signal, tried to stop the train, but it was
too late the engine passed over the man,
and the engineer returning to the spot,
beheld the horribly mutilated remains
of snow man, which had been placed
on the track by some boys. Several in
stances of the kind have occurred.
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