Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-21
miscellaneous Stems.

A streak of badly debated lightning killed
New Jersey woman, last week,
A Boston man was heard lamenting be-
cause his horse had the" Spiral Magunnus."
Capitalists and omigrants are frightened
away from North Carolina by the bugbeor Of
a state debt fs97OOO.OOO.
The hum of industry is good thing, hut
there are some kinds of industry that are all
hum.
The Ohio Legislature proposes to forbid the
Smith family christening any more babies
John,
A bashful Iowa couple were married ut
three o'clock in the morning to escape the
confusing presence OF friends.
The Caledon,an says it is just fifty two
miles from st. Johnsbury depot, by rail, TO
Hydepark depot.
An Ohio editor speaks of one who has been
a persevering contributor to the office waste
basket for years past.
California is getting good class of immi-
grants 100 English and Scotch working
men and women recently arrived there.
Political soundness " is perfectly compat-
lille with the most advanced stage of moral
rottenness.
A Missouri German undertook to fast 40
days, but grim Death foreclosed on him at
the end of the 9th.
Sir Stafford Northcote, one of the treaty of
Washington high joints, is going to mar
/ ~. h,ll
st. Louis licenses her dogs and prostitutes.
The dog business is very light this year, but
the two taken together, average brisk.
Stokes, Tweed and Pomeroy all ask n sus-
pension of public Judgment. Stokes, at
least, is very likely to get a suspension, If the
rope doesn't break
An Iowa man got vaccinaled on the nose
by opening boil thereon with knife which
physician had used IN vaccinating another
party.
The Tribune truly says that any New York
criminal with plenty of money or II little po-
litical influence can select jury to suit him
self.
A young man who boards for living says
ing. When asked the title of the song, he
said it was "Only Woman's hair"
An amateur editor in indianapolis has
made fortune by his pen. His father died
Of grief after reading one of his editorials,
and left him $4,000.
A Portland Clergyman started his flock on
Sunday evening by telling them that Hell
was not so full of men and women rs men
and women were full of hell"
Iowa is no place for bachelors. Maidens
make love to young men out there, and in
vite them to marry EN-, and if they modestly
decline shoot the unloving brute.
There is II religious sect at Bristol, who
wash each others feet. There is also sect
at Washington who whtewash each others
reputation, but it isn't Il very religious sect
Indiana proposes to make it illegal for state
or municipal officers to use free railroad
passes. A good deal of Credit Mobilier on
a small scale will be prevented in this way.
The sea captain who can't report sea-ser-
pent on his arrival at New York is register
ed as careless, unobserving man, who
hasn't half attended to business during the
voyage.
A san Francisco man got drunk and kick
ed his wife to death, and then said he didn't
know what she wanted to die for he only
slapped her II little he had often beaten her
six times as bad.
A lady i'm Danielsonville, Conn, has do
mesticated Il butterfly. A butterfly is senti-
mental but it hasn't that depth of affection
and those social qualities which can be relied
on in cockroach.
A Cleveland, Ohio letter carrier received
over 5000 on New Years from the citizens
on his route, and now wears blue shirt
with diamond pin on the bosom the size of
butternnt and about Us brilliant
An editor, having got into II controversy
with contemporary, congratulated himself
that his head was safe from a donkey's heels.
His contemporary inferred from this that he
was unable to make both ends meet"
Confucius said that the world could not get
on without truthfulness. 1t was the most
unfortunate error INTO which he was ever
betrayed. Viewed in the light of to-day it
stamps him rs a feeble-mInded old fogy.
boy in the book room of the Common
,0edlh office in Topeka loaded the foreman's
pipe with powder. The pipe was discharg-
ed so was the boy. The foreman thinks
he will ultimately recover the sight of one
eye.
A white man who married black woman
"A ~ int
where the laws do not sanction such unions,
was indicted for living with her, and the
case has gone before the supreme court of
| the stale.
! Prisoner, said Squire Jones. in awarding
judgment, it is n maxim of the law, that it is
better to err on the side of mercy. This
court has made up her mind which side she
will err on, and nothing remains but to err
ON that side.
A Chicago man wants n divorce because
he was so drunk when he was married that
he didn't realize what was going on. His
friend got him awful drunk, and when he
was getting over it his head was held by II
woman who told him she was his wife.
Ex-Policeman Davis of Moberly, Mo, at
tempted to force an entrance into the room
of Mrs. Patten, milliner, and she told him
| if he didn't desist she would shoot him
through the head. She spoke true things
and jury has acquitted her for the killing
A boy got fooling around his fathers
horses, until finally one of them put his foot
in his face. He inquired Father do you
think I'll ever be rs pretty again Pr No,
my son" the old man replied, you'll nov
er be so pretty again, but you'll know n sight
more.
To hear some men talk in Misunderstanding
time, they avow themselves the farmers
best friends yes, they will do anything To
advance his interest, But rs soon as they
are in power, why then it is horse of an
other color. ThGyare masters now, and not