Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
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twin parks, though they don't look
alike
Philadelphia wants some Fiji Is
landers to participate in the Centen-
NAL. Some of the Commissioners will
make good eating for them.
Canada runs trains over wooden
railways at the rate Of thirty-fve miles
an hour.
Paris supports eighty thousand
servants in addition to the German
Government.
Lady Trevelyan, who died recent
ly, was the sister of Macaulay and ed
tied the last volume Of his history.
The Boston Post says: a Yer
mont paper calls Morton heslearned
Ohio statesman That goes well to-
gether.
There is an established charity in
London which derives all its support
from that which people throw away.
p oughkeepsle has excluded a
couple of colored children from one
of her public schools, and it isn't in
the South either. Where's Senator
Summers Civil Rights law
The profit realized by the heirs OF
William II. Seward for copyright of
his Travels Round the World is said
to have been without parallel in this
country, it it has never been equaled
anywhere.
Trinity College will patronize
English architecture in rebuilding.
The disaffection of the colored
men ON account OF the political bond
ace in which white Radicals seek to
hold them, is finding hopeful express
ion at last even in the RECONSTRUCTED"
States. III North Carolina the white
carpet baggers who have been carried
into places Of power and profit by de-
ceived colored voters are now being
repudiated by the latter on whole
sale scale.
The Hon. d. Kings, first Chief
Justice of Arkansas, and for twelve
years United States Judge Of the East
ern District of Arkansas, died in Lit
Rock, that State, recently, aged Is
years.
1t cost ninety-six million dollars
to run the New York city. and coun,
try Government during the fiscal year
jus, ended,
The wife Of Senator Schurz is
mentioned as having inherited $170,-
900 from her uncle, lately dead, in
Hamburg.
Gen. Sheridan, who has been
travelling in Canada, is expected to
visit this country soon.
The Ohio Radicals have issued a
campaign sheet called The Earth. 1t
will return to it with the party after
election.
Col. Hobby wants somebody to
trot him out for Governor of Texas on
an Independent ticket They don't
ride that kind of a hobby in Texas.
Texas offers to take a slice of
Louisiana as matter Of charity TO its
oppressed people, relieving them from
Kellogg's usurpation. If Louisiana
could be entirely apportioned to ad
joining States, it would be blessing
to her.
1t costs Senator Howe two thous
and dollars apiece to remove the Win
nebago Indians from Wisconsin,
Thirty six thousand dollars were APP
propriated for the purpose and eigh
teen have been removed. He ough
to be breveted
"A woman at Wheeling wanted
Strawberries for her supper, while he
husband didn't, and she settled tn,
dispute by shooting him, He wen
in for burying the next day.
} fare you guilty or not guilty?
asked a Judge Of a prisoner the othe'
day. San sure now" said Pat, "wha
are you put there for but to find tina
out 2
When there is not breath of al
stirring, and you are in dangerSo
sitting, attempt to light a cigar on
D doors, and you will be surprised at tn
I breeze that will start up. We hav'
seen man try this experiment in
dead calm, and by the time he hac
t scratched thirteen matches it was real
ly so windy as to be uncomfortable.