Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-04
miscellaneous STEMS.

Atlanta, Ga., has writing medium on.
~ four months old
A chicken with six-inch whiskers is the
curiosity ut Craddock, Ky.
Mr.. Becchcr's policy OF silence was u mis-
take.
Nine wile-whlppers in the Indianapolis
Jail.
Sehoocralt, Mich, has embalmed nine
legged lamb.
An eleven year.old horse thief, educated
on dime novels, is in Jail at Madison, Ind.
Capt. Jack'has confessed to Hooker Jim
that he is the author of "Botsey and I are
OUT
A Vicksburg youth got six shillings for saw
ing the life Of young hciress.
A Milwaukee German woman has lust Civ
en- birth TO three boys and one girl
The girls at Elkhart, Ind. are forming II
smoking club.
Mr.. Sidney Breese, the new chief Justice
ofIllinois, is 70, and has for years been known
throughout the state rs the upright Judge"
A citizen of Henry county, KY, has put
his foot down by naming tho sixteenth one
Omega.
An Altoona Pn.) mule saved n valuable
horse for his owner, the other night, by kick
ing the thief out of the stable.
Since the postal cards were introduced, the
postmistressss are not getting an average of
more than three hours sleep day
The late John Carpenter, of Marquette.
Mich., Knocked the ashes ont of his pipe upon
tho head of keg oil blasting powder.
The authorities of Davies county. ILL.,. are
in pursuit of n gang of 20 horse thieves, who,
when last seen, were in female attire.
Poughkeepsie papers appeared last week
printed ON only one side. The other side had
gone to the editorial convention.
The signal service bureau claims that dur
ing 1872, 80 per cent of its weather probable
tiles were verified, and IS per cent. of its
cautiOnary signals realized in storms.
sacrilegious horse broke into Pitts
burg church, and kicked around among the
pews aud things till he had run up bill of
$500 for damages.
st. Louis servant-girl got her walking
papers for straining four gallons Of crab-ap-
pie jelly through an Slsveil.
The divorce lawyers of Chicago hang their
heads in shame over the announcement of n
silver wedding, last week.
The Supreme Court has decided that the
high school and sinking fund tax for 1869
were Illegally assessed. The case was u suit
OF Noah Allen VS.. the city of Burlington.
Justice is lively at Bowling Green, Ky. A
man has just been discharged without a trial
after seven months confinement on suspi-
cion OF stealing half n can of oysters.
A little boy fell into well ut Salem, N. j.,
the other day, and his sagacious canine play
mate went and told the childs mother and
got her to pull him out.
l. II the farmers movement comes to shin
wreck, it will not be because it was not prop
erly ballasted, at the beginning oil the cruise,
with disinterested advice.
A German in Macon, Ga, hung himse If BY
his suspenderto the top of tree, 20 feet from
the ground, and it took two months to find
him, and then he wasn't worth cutting down.
a fascinating and accomplished young
priest Father Leblanc, has greatly disturbed
Loogooter, Ind. by clipping with one of its
richest and best-looking daughters.
Old ladies should carefully abstain from
putting their heads out of the window during
thundcr-storms. Mrs. Coyle of FL Paso, Ind,
put hers out, and the lightning scalped her.
Iuh mo mt he aftn,. Al L.
Mr.. Alger of Clinton county, Ia, offers $1,000
for the arrest of her murderer. There is
nothing like doing things with deiberation.
1t is humiliating fact that, though John
Bender, the Kansas murderer, has been ar
rested IN nearly every enterprising town in
the West, he is still Mt large.
Mrs. Lyster, aged 81, was buried ut Grays-
vile, Ind, last week, in tho wedding gar
ments which she wore 70 years ago. They
were linen, spun and woven by herself
! A Vienna journal contains this announce
ment of varied industry Anna Agrikol,
sick-nurse, watches dead bodies, repairs
straw chairs, applies leeches, and makes pas
try desserts and delicacies"
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distinguished himself by clipping with his
step-daughter, leaving his wife to mourn the
loss Of husband and daughter. He married
the girls mother only short time ago.
The soft note of Laura FAIRS little pistol
hasn't reverberatcd on the shores of the Pa
cilic FOR some time Has her view of the onor-
nifty of matrmony mellowed, or have Cali
fornians stopped kissing their wivesP
The grasshoppers are slowly working their
way northward from Texas. Many OF them
are 50 flt now that they can neither fly nor
walk long at u time, and are compelled to
take the cars at frequent intervals.
A little fellow at Conneautville, Pa, put
his finger between the bail and edge of an in
verified iron kettle, and when his heavy broth
er sat down on tho kettle the tender finger
was amputated with neatness and dispatch.
Typhoid fever didn't permanently reform
the prince of Wales. His life seems as de-
voted as ever to purely sensual pleasures,
and the English people don't like heprospect
before them in his kingship. ..,....,
Mixing rat-poison and chewing tobacco
adds nothing to the value OF either ingredient.
In fact, when Mr.. Dawson of Broome coun.
y' N T., gets well, he says he shall carry
his in separate pockets.
Try, try again." has its best illustration
in Scott county, Ky, where II man has been
tried three times for the same murder. First
he was sentenced to death, then to ten years
imprisonment, and the third time was ac-
quilted.
Mr.. Charles Forestal, of Brooklyn. N. Y,
laid his pipem a cushioned chair when hewcnt
to sleep, and half an hour afterward he was