Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-18
Pen- Sp6ffers.


time.
Romantic death-A young dyC'rowned
in tears.
If you have taper fingers, mind you don't
burn them.
Ones first business in writing is to say
what one has to say.
The pinnacle of mans greatness is the
height of his own character.
Political parties, like fishes, are stccred by
their tails.
When is John Smith like rooster? When
his head is comhcd, of course.
Can he love the works of God who does
not love his commandments?
No chain is stronger than its weakest link.
No word is stronger than wink.
That's my impression" us the printer
said when he kissed his sweetheart.
Some men will fight for religion, dispute
for it, die for it, anything hut live for it.
What is the difference between cloud
and beaten child? One pours with rain and
the other roars with pain.
Most men like to see themselves in print
Ladies' like to see themselves IN silks and
velvets.
The mind that busius itself much with the
future has need to he an uncommonly cheer
full one.
No man who has to struggle TO be kind has
learned the law of kindness. Kindness shines
with steady, unintermitted blaze.
live in my loves eye, said the languish-
ing Jones. believe you, my hoy, said the
rude Brown for she's got a sty on it.
A German veteran was recently bitten by
IL mad dog in his artificial leg, with the sole
effect of being enabled to walk more rnbdly
than before.
If science be from Him who gave the ten
commandments. must not Il life according
to the latter facilitate the requirement OF the
former?
Have greatness of soul enough To relish
Immortality. and ut the same time moderation
enough to enjoy the transitOry blessings
Heaven has bestowed upon yon.
1t must he Il great satisfaction when we
come to some supreme hour in life to feel
that the training of the past has done its ut
most to fit us for that hour
A cockncy resident of an uptown boarding
house likcns himself and his fellow boardcrs
to phenixcs, because, says he, we rise every
day from our hasles.
Self-love is at once the most delicate and
most tenacious of our sentiments mere
nothing will wound it, but nothing on earth
will kill II.
No man can ever borrow himself out OF
debt. II you wish for relief you must work
for it. You must make more and spend less
than you did when you were running in debt.
silly, empty unblushng girls just escaped
from school, elbOwing their mothers into
corners and covering with confusion their
fathers and brothers, do not constitute So
ciety.
All ways of earning his bread are alike be-
coming to an honest man, whether to split
wood or sit Mt the helm of state. 1t does not
concern his conscience how useful lie is, but
how useful ho would be.
An Irishman, referring to the sudden death
of II relative, was asked If he lived high.
can't say he did, said Terance, but he died
high. Like the banks in these days, he was
suspended
Poor dear! sighed Mr.. Smith. stirring W
his roaring coal and referring to the late la
mented Mrs. s., how she did enjoy good
fire! All, well, let us hope she's gone where
they keep them.
Why don't you get down and Acad the
horse? That is the way to keep warm, said Z
gentleman to boy one cold day. No, re-
piled the American youth, it is u b-b-borrow'
ed horse, and I'll ride him if / freeze!
All through the life of pure-minded, bu
feeble-bodied map, his path is lined will
memory's gravestones, which mark the spot
where noble enterprises perished, for lack o
physical vigor to embody them in deeds.
The great difference between men, thu
great and insignificant is energy, inVincibl'
determination, an honest purpose once fixed
and then victory. That quality will do any
thing that can be done in the world, and NJ
opportunity will make two-legged creature
man without it,
A dissolute young French nobleman, inten
on insulting Dumas, said to him: "Iou
father was mulatto, | believe" Yes
SIR" And his mother was black woman
was she notpn "It is said So" And he
father was an ape rs have heard?' 1T i
true, sir; my genealogy begins whcro your
ends"
o, the snore, the beautiful snore, filing he
chamber from ceiling to floor! Over the coy
orlet, under the sheet, from her dimpled chi
TO her pretty feetl Now rising aloit like
bee in June; now sunk to the wall Of
cracked bassoon! Now, fiute-lke subsidng
then rising again is the beautiful snore c
Elizabeth Jane.
Herr Professor il not shdrainc
ting, laties, dat de Latin race Cannot aguir
de Enklish bronouncy-ationP have choos
dis momend bardet from an ldalian chend
lemen "a Grade vrent of mine ant ferr
gleffer mani who has lifted in Lonton almost
as long AS | hav-dvendy-vife eeeerrs-ar
foot you beliefit? He shbeegs Enklish Wit
kvite shdrong voregn INDIGNATION! How
you agound vor 20 eggshdra- -orrtinar
zeergoomsddanz rs tat?
A boy of tender years and heart has drown
ed II kittens, tied tin pans to the tails oi u
the neighbors' dogs, ornamented his chambl
by pinning flies to the wall, cut brckba
with his unclc's razor, blown up pot canal
with fire-eraoker, pulled the tail feather
out of two roosters, been thrown into the to
of an apple tree by cow that he was teasing
brushed his fathers hat against the grail
told his SISTERS lover about her false teetl
and still his fond mother intends him for III
pulpit