Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-05

| Barton, May 5th, 1873.
ADVENTURES WITH A POT OF PAINT
Old Mr.. Watson, on Nelson street, has
got nice little bill to pay. He sent a
man down town for pot of paint and a
ladder The man got the paint, and
then went to a lumber yard after lad
der. Then he tied the paint pot on the
end of the ladder, and put the ladder on
his shoulder. This was very smart
arrangement, and the man himself adj
mired it very much. He started for
home this way, and didn't find any
trouble in getting along the first block,
because people had an impression that a
long ladder with a pot of yellow paint
dangling on the end of it wasn't exactly
the thing to trife with, SO they bal
anced along on the curb stone, or rubbed
up against the buildings. Pretty soon
the man saw somebody in a store he
knew, and he turned around to speak to
him, and drove one end of the ladder in
to millinery case and knocked the
crown out of an eighteen-dollar bonnet.
Then he backed off in alright, and
knocked down two sewing machine
agents with the other end. Then he
started to turn around, and an old gen.
tleman who was desperately endeavor-
ing to pull his wife out of danger saw
the peril and shouted out ''Hi, there p
But it was too late The pot struck
1 against an awning post, tipped to one
D side, and the entire contents went over
the aged couple. This SO startled the
! man that he whirled completely around,
$ smashing in an entire store front, fright
o ening milk mans team, and knocking
over some thirteen persons who were ac-
lively lodging about to get out of the
way. Then he dropped the ladder and
= fled into the country, shouting murder
and fire at every jump. A regular
ordained painter is now engaged on Mr..
Watson's house.-Danbury NeacS.
THE VIENNA EXHIBITION BUILDING
o. The main gallery of the Vienna Ex-
J. hibltion building is 5000 feet long by
! $50 feet wide. There are connected
with this gallery forty-eight transepts
- each 26O feet long and 46 feet wide
The dome is the largest ever constructed
- without central supports 1t is 800 fee
in diameter and $50 feet high. It i
!, composed entirely of iron. The ma
chinery hall, which is Immediately il
the rear Of the principal building, i
he 1900 feet long by 100 feet wide. TIL
re buildings cover over 63 acres; and, il
re addition to these buildings, there ar
g numerous other buildings, and pavilions
for various purposes. When it is take
It, into consideration that the area provide
ct for this exhibition is five times that c
an the Paris exhibition in 1869, some ide
will be formed as to the nature of th
he great undertaking
as The Nashua IN. H. Telegraph make
OF the suggestion that if two steam shiT
should sail in company, the perils
ocean travel would be practically owe
he come. 1t would have been hardly DO
ty sible for the Atlantic to strike on Mea,
#, her Head if a consort had been sailin
so with her, for it is not reasonable to SUI
hit pose that the captain of the conso
IRE would have made the same mistake
his reckoning that Captain William
made in his. Where two steamers sa
=. together the officers of one may be re
- sonably supposed to detect and CORE
the errors of the officers of the othe
and if one ship becomes disabled t
other will be enabled to render assis
ays ance. If the City of Boston had sail
red with a consort, who knows but that h
wa passengers might all have been east
TO saved? 1t is thought that this mig
nat easily be arranged if the vessels we
ute even of different lines. but sailing |
al tween the same ports.
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