Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-27
miscellaneous Stems.

wv o'ttobh VI bit'h hNlts
II is clear that there is ono black sheep IN |
Plymouth church. and the world has II right |
to know whether it is Brcchcr or Bowen.
An engraved stone has been discovered in |
Brazil bearings PhUnicjan inscription, COM
memorating visit there some five centuries |
before the birth of Christ.
II has been ascerlained by the census of
last year that the population OF hdia under
English rule, instead Of being 1870, 900 rs
has been estimated, is really 2ll, 100000.
One of the queer features of the Englfsf-I
coal statistics is tho statement that an add-
tional ton of coal has to be mined each year,
for every person added to the population.
They do seem to have been n good deal on
tho mako-thoso statesmen OF the Forty-sec-
ond Congress. The little busy bee seems II
mere shiftless idler compared with them
Tho average salary of Gl,OOO Protestant
clergymen in the United States is computed
ut 800 annually. Probably more than one
third of the whole receive not more than $500.
A worthy Kentucky farmer being asked if
n daughter, recently married, was still living
with HIM, replied mo, sir When one of
my gals swarnls she must hunt her own hive"
Some people are never contentcd. After
having their limbs broken, their heads smash
cd, and their brains knocked out, they will
actually go to law and try TO get further dam
ages.
The excavations Mt He'll Gate ARE still
steadily proceeding. Some 300 pounds of
glycerinc are weekly used in blasting and
over 1900 pounds of this explosive have thus
far been used.
There are three things which can in no
wise be used for good-malice, envy and fol-
ly; and there are three things that can by no
means be employed for ovil-humility, con-
tontment and libernlity.
An eccentric old fellow, who lives alongside
of graveyard, was asked If il was not an
unpleasant location. No, said he, | never
jined places. in all my life with set of neigh
bors that minded their business so steady rs
they do.
Tho local editor of one of our exchanges
has bustlng paragraph AS follows; DO
lnqucnt subscribers should not permit their
daughters to wear this paper for hustle
There being SO much due on it, there is dan
ger of taking n cold"
Last Thursday young couple were mar
ried in Biddeford, Me-, and the same night
applied to the police station for lodging, al
leging that owing to some trouble with the
parents of one ofthem, they had no home nor
money.
Prof. Voght records an instance of what
may be called selEcannbalism. lie cut in
two n male cricket, and Immediately the fore
part, probably experiencing n sensation of
emptiness in the ventral region, turned upon
the hinder part and dovoured it /!
Among the minor aggravations of life, such
as muskctocs. squash bugs and cut-worms, is
the inevitable paint-brush that goes about in
some invisible hand, deflcng and daubing
fences and roadside powders with nausea
ting and impudcnt advertisements.
Mr.. Henry Clausen, brewer, explains the
increase of population in New Jersey and
decrease in Maine by the circumstance that,
whereas New Jersey every year brews 292
glasses of beer per head, Maine brews only 7.
This is ingenious though not convincing.
copy of u genuine dunning letter not long
since received by Franklin county farmer
"Mr. - Dior SUR | find u small account
which. | am IN graft mead of the money and il
you could help me should bee vary glad. u
The New York Evcning Post expresses the
feelings of good many other people us well
when 1t says We feel curious TO sec what
will be the fate of tho men concerned in the
congressional larceny who shall have the as
surance to present themselves for any elect
i've office in future.
Frederick IL. Camp and Hannah w. Hunt,
after % years of married life ut New Milford
Conn, were divorced, II year ago, on the
ground of the intolerablo cruelty of the hus
band. Last Sunday Hannah concluded tina
she liked Camp life, after all, and they were
, remarked.
, Tho idea that the party owns the paper, anC
that its editors must swear that all on thu
! other side are thieves and cut-throats, is, n!
, the boys say played out. Papers are now thu
organs of the whole people, and questions o
public policy must be discussed in reference
TO the whole people and not to any party.
At the Maine medical associations meet
; ing recently, DIR. Haskell of Stockton read al
article doneuncing severely the crime of alb
orton, and declared that physicians are franz
crs of public opinion, and should work de
tcrminedly against it. There are, he said,
Z over 1000 cases yearly in Maine.
The "pesky sarpint" is no joke in India
Mr.. Doff, under-secretary of state for India
recently stated that, in 1859, no less than H.,
, 500 people lost their lives by snake-bites II
: that country, and in 1871, 1878 people came
to their deaths by various dangerous animals
there Astounding. chiefly snakes.
Some sportive draymen employed in grain
' store ut Portland, Or, dropped Il bag of whea
, down hatchway upon the head of Il fellow
. drayman, named Blake, the other day, JUS
: for II joke. 1t was n splendid joke, and tn,
boys were everastngly tIckled over it. Tit
y bag broke Mr.. Blakes neck, to be sure, bu
that didn't hurt tho joke
= An engineer on the Toledo, Peoria, an,
Warsaw railroad, in approaching the trestle
, work just across the river, the other evening
saw what he took to DO q COW on the track
= He shut of steam and whistled Justify, an,
just rs he came up TO the animal ii sprani
over the fence and disappeared in the water
1t proved to be n fair specimen of the lllinoi
river bullhog. This is the engineers story
l. A Minnesota paper says 1--WE arc oitel
i asked by correspondents about game in thl
l. vicinity. If millions of ducks, rabbits AM
y geese, and large numbers of cranes, pelicans
# swans, and countless numbers of grouse ca
be called game, then there is plenty of gam
. here; and if pitching fish from the lake will