Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-15
Silence is one of the lost arts.

Beecher got $3.50 for lecturing at
Springfield, Mass.
Raphael Semmes is candidate for
Mayor of Mobile.
A portion of Tweed's family spent
Thanksgiving with him at the Tombs.
P. T. Barnums wife died in New York
recently. Her husband is in Germany.
The English troops have had another
fight with the Ashantees, in which the
latter were defeated.
Ann Eliza, Brigham Youngs seven
teenth wife, left Salt Lake City on Fri
day for the East, to lecture against po-
lygamy.
The Seneca Falls On. " ladies are
singing about 'the moth-eaten hustle,
the old iron hustle, the cloth covered
hustle that hung on the we'll"
In fight between John Robinson's
circus troupe and party of Texas des-
peradoes at Jacksonville Texas three
men were killed and several seriously
wounded.
A Hyde Park man wishing to prepare
for winter by entering into the matrimo-
NAL line, took the advice of friends, put
on his store clothes and went to Canada
to negotiate with a woman there on the
subject. He however came back empty
handed and upon being asked why, re-
| piled that the woman s'was so homely
that he was afraid of being troubled
with the nightmare. %
A negro minister, widower, who mar.
ried rather sooner than some of the sis.
ters thought proper and becoming, ex-
cused himself as follows: "My deal
brethren and sisters, my grief was greater
than 1 could bear | turned every way
for peace and comfort, but none came
| searched the Scriptures from Giniset
to Revelations, and found plenty of prom
ises to the widder, but nary one to tn.
widerer. And so I took it that the Lore
didn't waste sympathy on a man wher
it was in his power to comfort himself
and having frst-rate chance to marry
In the Lord, did so again. Besides
brethren, 1 consider that poor Betsy wa
just as dead as she ever would be-
How TO WIN RAoE.-I converseC
with racest to-day. He told me hov
he won race in New Haven. For fou
weeks he mixed soft rubber with horse
oats, and every day he hitched that hors
to post and opened blue cotton um
brella, in his face, making him pull bacl
stretching his neck awfully. Then he''
shut his umbrella, and the horse woul
stop pulling, and his neck would resum
its original length. He got his horse
neck very elastic, and ON the day Of tn
race, as his horse and the other hors
were on the homestretch, side by side
just at the finish, the driver struck hi
horse bat behind the ears, and his nee
shot out almost rod winning the rae
by neck 1t is said to be the bigges
i homestretch on record. | believe th
story to be true, because the man is th
only son of a deacon.
Three men-of-war ships-namel,
! Dutch, French and English-while al
chored in port, were contending with eac
y other for the best display of sailorshir
so the captain of each vessel determine
) to send aloft an active sailor to perfor
: some deed of grace and daring. I'll
l. Dutch captain sent Dutchman, ii
> > French a Frenchman, and the Englis
an IrishmaE.
Il The Dutchman stood on top of Il
mainmast with his arm extended.
is The Frenchman then went aloft al
E extended both arms
Now the Irishman thought if he cou
* stand on the top of the mainmast WI
e. leg and an arm extended, he wou
IS be declared the most daring sailor
Nlmbly he clambored aloft until he h;
a reached the highest point; then he ba
oe aneed himself upon both feet extendi
or his right hand with graceful motto
Then he threw out his left leg until
came in line with his right arm.
doing this he ingloriously lost his b;
} ance, and fell from the masthead, cras
ing through the rigging toward the dec
The various ropes against which
body came in contact, broke his fall a.
IS his velocity was not too great to preve
his grasping rope attached to the mai
yard. To this he hung for two secont
then dropped lightly to the deck. lar
ing safely on his feet. Folding his ar
7 triumphantly, as if fall and all were
= the programme, he glanced at the ri,
- ships and joyously exclaimed:
There, ye frog-aiting and sausa
}. stuffed furriners, bate it if ye can."