Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-24
THE COMING MAN-The man who
owes us two dollars.

The COMING MAN.-The man who
owes us two dollars.
They are sowing wheat in Kansas.
Airs the ladies like to put on-Scli-
taires.
When the snow melteth, there shall
come a flood. .-Richelieu
The Wisconsin legislature has refused
to pass any compulsory educational law.
The manufacture of beet sugar prom
ises to be great industry in California
by and by.
A foolish girl in Iowa danced in twen-
ty-six successive sets, on wager, and IN
four days was buried.
Young ladies use powder, perhaps be-
cause they think it will make them 60
off.
A newspaper has just made its appear
ance at Wheeling, West Virginia, bearing
the title of Creased Lightning.
1t is now sixty-six years since Pail
Mall, London, was lighted with gas
the first street of any city so Illuminated.
Any man i'll Phoebe, California, who is
a habitual drinker of water is warned to
leave the town.
Pennsylvania stands first, Ohio second,
and Michigan third, in the list of the
iron producing States of the Union.
Quail and partridge are so tanned by
cold and hunger in Pennsylvania that
the natives pick them by the basketful,
like mushrooms Next!
The Boston Advertiser says there are
2,769 places in Boston where intoxicat-
ing liquors are sold in defiance of the
prohibitory laws of the State,
What kind of cattle do they have out
at GAINESVILLE? A man there advertlses
that he wants "a woman to wash, iron
and milk one or two cows
An artesian we'll at Los Angeles, Cal.
has got down about 23O feet. They
havn't got any water yet, but they have
struck beautiful lot of bones.
Louisville, KY, is about to build tht
largest hotel in the United States. TIL,
city is realizing large degree of bust
ness success and general thrift.
A Chicago debating society have come
to the conclusion that money has more
influence on mankind than education
That isn't bad thing to know.
Those Congressman who put thei
hands into the public treasury by voting
themselves increased salaries on the pas
two years service, begin to see wha
their constituents think of the matter.
s'The custom of throwing rice after
bride is Chinese" The custom of throw
ing a poker or bootjack after her, i
one of our Christian observances in Am
erica.
San Diego, Cal. has discovered th
presence of bull-frogs in the vicinity {
that burg, and has worked itself to tn
verge of insanity trying to ascertain no
they came there.
T. Mr.. Ruskin who has expressed s
much sympathy for, and given so muc
good advice to workingmen, candid
admits that he never did a stroke {
work in his life worth his salt, much les
his dinner, and that he inherited his fol
tune from his father, who made it in th
wine business-in Spain.
Spoiled figs and carpenters glue al
the principal constituents of new sci
sation in the way of sweetmeats sold ;
"royal jam" by London grocers.
"Maidens who stroll forth to plut
flowers before breakfast will find the
plenty on the bushes and tree-tops whe
Jack Frost has woven fairy wreaths du
ing the night" Poetical, isn't it?
San Bernardino, CAL, claims to raj
the best, sweetest and largest oranges
the United States and to excel those
Cuba. The reason of this perfection
that there is never any frost in tn
county.
A few days since. Jonathan from t
country who had taken lodgings at t
American House, Boston, was somewh
surprised when he came to the dim
table to see nothing on it. "What W
e you have ?" asked the waiter, Jonath
r stared about him dun know
"Would you like bill of fare, sir
"Thank you, ] don't care if l do tax,
i small piecel
A schoolboy's toast: The Girls
May they add charity to beauty, subtr;
envy from friendship, multiply gene
affections, divide time by industy a
!. recreation, reduce scandal to its low
denominations, and raise virtue to
highest power"
70 The tender passion often gets n
lc into serious trouble A horse thief
re re Kansas lately put the vigilance conn
ii tee on his track by writing love let
'e which fell into their hands and the n
day his body swung from the limb o
tree.
A Berkshire county (Mass.) cler
man recently received a donation. to
Ca cut his salary, and Che Pensioners
having compared notes. by a singr
coincidence all decided upon potato
and in they came, of all kinds and
y. ors, till the worthy parsons stock of
bers was increased about 300 bushels