Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-16
miscellaneous Stems.

little orphan boy dug up pot containing
$4,000 in gold and silver at st. Joseph, Mo.
An educated man is always recognized by
his wearing stovo-pipe hat and carrying
cane.
Kansas points to 3l4 convicts in its peni-
tentiaries us evidence of its attrnctivenoss
to immigrants.
Jonathan G. Gibbs, colored, graduate of
Dartmouth, is state Superintendent Of public
instruction in Florida.
A ragged old duifcr is trying to make the
Phiadolphians believe he is the Wandering
jew.
A GAINESVILLE (wis.) woman smashed
mans head with n brick for treating her hus-
band to whiskey.
A very handsome new hcarse has been
added to the other attractions for invalds Mt
Winona, MINI.
An epicurean has discovered that the pleas
ATTEST way to take cod-liver oil is to fatten
pigeons with II, and then eat the pigeons
An Indianapolis citizen has been compel-
cd to wear muzzle to keep his wife from
giving him pills in his sleep.
A prccipitate Detroit man is miserable be-
cause his wife inherited half n million of dol
lars just after he had divorced himself.
Triplcts recently born in Ripon, WIS,
weighed all together six pounds. They are
too small to be dressed, andAre kept wrap
ped up in cotton.
Two branches of the same family recently
had mn open fight in graveyard ut Rome,
N. Y, about the transplan;ing of some of
their ancestors.
Mrs. Lewis of Ironton, o., has recovered
$4,000 from the rum seller from whom her
husband purchased his fatal delirium ire
mems.
Richard Williamson, of COrwin, o., took
his suicide Dido fashion, at the top of burn
ing log heap. A wife and one child are do
ing the mourning.
A young married man in Arkansas shot
himself, last week. because he was tired of
whipping his wife, and she wouldn't behave
herself without the whipping.
A young lady engaged in the manufacture
of ladies' b-b-bustles says people may talk
rs they please, she won't refuse to take her
q back pay"
The Australians never sue for u divorce.
When husband gets discouraged, he takes
his wife to the brow of cliff to view the gor-
geOus sunset, and over she goes.
The editor of popular magazine in New
York declares that 100000 women are con-
stantly sending poetry to him. the common
est subject treated being " Our dead baby"
deer was recently caught at Babylon, l..
l., alive, in Tho water. He made so much
fuss that his cHptors were obliged to roll him
over on his back and tie his legs before they
could get him ashore.
Polite ears are supposed not to hear scan
dial. 1t is one of those coarse, contraband
things which belong so naturally to low life.
that the doors of truly refined society are
forever closed against it.
A young man in Troy doesn't understand
why people are always establishing homes
for aged INDECENT people. He thinks n home
for INDECENT young men would be the thing
An Eau Claire (Wis) wife went for her
billiard-playing husband, one night, called
all the boys up to the bar and they " shook 4"
for the drinks. She took whiskey straight,
and he hasn't troubled her any since.
One hundred and fifty clergymen were in
vited to be present Mt the dedication of u
temporary home for inebriates in Boston and
not one was in attendance to make the open
ing prayer
1t is interesting to observe the way man
turns and looks ut n stone his toe has stubbed
against We forbear to repeat his usual ex-
clamation on such occasions. His looks in
dictate the sentiments of his heart
Texas babies who don't take kindly 10 cas-
tor oil have their mouths pried open with the
shears. The shears slipped part way down u
Houston baby's throat the other day, and af-
ter that the castor oil was deemed unneccs-
sary.
The la Crosse Republican pungenty and
suggestiyely remarks: The next campaign
in this state will show conclusively whether
the state of Wisconsin is the chambermaid
of the railroads, or whether she is the Ma
dame that runs the house"
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the Michigan Legislature, for it Is now pre-
Vided by law that two of the medical depart
ment Of the State University shall be of that
faith. We imagine they will hare sweet,
peaceful times in that school
Tennessee is somewhat pulled up over a
clergyman settled in that state who refuses
to receive any pay from his congregation
teaches school, runs his own farm, and when
any sister church needs assistance, goes of
and raises money for it by lecturing.
Mark Twain, u few months after his first
baby was born was holding it on his knee
Ills wife said, Now, confess, Samuel that
you love the childw 81 can't do that" re-
piled the humorist, "but am willing TO ad-
mt respect the little thing for its fathers
sake
Two respectable young men were found
guilty by the criminal court ut Murfreesboro
Tenn, recently, under an indictment for dis
turbng public worship, and fined $50 and
costs each, amounting to about s75. Their
oilenSe was Whispering to young ladies in
church.
western paper thlnks IL unfortunate lhaJ
ReviValist Hammond was not appointed Il
special commissioner to tho Nodes, instead
of Rev. Mr.. Thomas. "a valuable life would
thus havo been saved to the nation, and
Hammond would aaVe been placed where
no would do the most good"
A beautiful young girl was married in San
Francisco last week, and at the conclusion Of
the marriage ceremony she turned to her
husband and said, George, kiss me. ! am
dying" The husband complied with the re-
quest, and at that moment the young bride
fell dead to tho floor.
A colored man named Robinson of Orange
Court House, Va, thought himself entitled