Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-03
Business is the salt of life.

Business is the salt of life.
forgiveness: a kiss of the lips, to
heal stab at the heart.
Recent statistics show that in London
800 horses die weekly.
Mamma" said little boy who had
been sent to dry a towel by the fire, sis
it done when it's brown %
Our country it is said, has had but
one black-eyed 'Prcsident. That was
Gen. Harrison Z ItNAAE W
There are yet 25.OOO,OOO acres of un-
claimed land open to settlers in the State
of Kansas.
Philadelphia ladies now come forward
and declare that female clerks are bun
dies of sass and impudence.
Eight thousand coon skins were re-
ceived in indianapolis during January in
exchange for liquid groceries,
The only man who ever had any repu-
tation for honesty in Utah town is now
in jail for stealing drove of cattle.
A company is forming in Washington
with capital of 100000, to print an
anti-Mormon paper in Utah.
A Buffalo paper announces that by
the recent burning of an ice-house there,
10000 tons of ice were reduced to ash
es." ~T FEgE Tys - 2 eea
Fifteen lies to the square finch repre-
sent the editorial power of a Kansas
City newspaper, if its rival is to be be-
lieved.
After the chaplain of the Wisconsin
State Prison had taught convict how
to write, the fellow forged an order by
which he made his escape.
A man out West who offered bail for
friend, was asked by a Judge if he had
an incumbrance on his farm. ooh, yes, %
said he, ''my old woman"
A man in Fonda, N. Y, sued his
neighbor, eight years ago. for the price
of a bushel of wheat. and the two are
still lawing it.
The United States is the only great
nation that has paid off any considerable
portion Of its debt within the last five
years.
A ten-year old son of Ralph Brewster,
of La Sale, ILL.,, got at the family pistol
last week, and his baby sister was the
victim.
A Nebraska conductor. when he finds
a man on his train without any money
to pay for his ride, punches three holes
in his hat and 'passes him along"
A detroit paper asserts that many
New England women still do their owl
weaving That's mistake; it takes al
their time to make ruffles.
| A. justice at Vernon, Ia, wound up
marriage by saying: "And now I5senc
you to the county Jail for thirty days.,
He was thinking of another case.
A thief was lately caught breaking
into song. He had already got througl
the two first bars, when policeman
came up and hit him with stave.
A Kansas paper announces that on
Colonel Jennison, having failed in hi
candidature for the State Senate, has re
opened his gambling hell in Leaven
worth.
An editor says he once partook of
beverage so very strong that he coul
not tell whether it was brandy or torch
light procession that was gong dow
his throat.
A new leaf in the family history
Iack-"Now I'll be papa going to fl
the furnace" Sallie-"Oh, yesI an
I'll be the new nurse, and you must kis
me behind the cellar door,"
Some people never stick to one calm
for any length of time. The only sticl
ing quality about them being their pre-
pensity to stick their noses into othe
peoples business. -
The Danbury News al don't like the ,;
tent office reports. The characters al
: all oyerdrawns and there isn't enoug
r poisoning and shooting in the plot
keep the readers interested.
y A flock Of seven sheep was buried
snow, in Nebraska. recently. and, aft,
remaining ten days, were discovered
the steam from their heated breaths ri
ing through the drifts.
!. bnA newspaper in Ottawa County, Ka
sas, has the following: Last week
announced the marriage of friend al
now it becomes our pleasant duty to a
&c &c nounce that he is the father of bour
he he ing boy
81 A landlord in Paris, who was part
ular about not having children TO mi
up his rooms, asked a proposing tena
if he had any. Mithsa solemn face
replied, ''Yes, six-all in the cemetery
He got the rooms on a lease which S;
Ca nothing about little folks, and in 1
time, to the horror of the landlord, I
six youngsters appeared. They h
been in the cemetery sure enough, at
g time stated, but they had been sent th
to play.