Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-18
miscellaneous Stems

Americas eagles go over to Canada and
feed on foreign mutton.
The New York Sar says the DEVILS king
PIN is rum.
The English ladies have abandoned large
earrings and gone back to small ones of
plain gold.
In the sulphur mines in Lower California
1t is reported that about ZOO, 900 tons of the
mineral are already uncovered.
The Harlem railroad has been leased to
the New York Central railroad company for
the term of five hundred and one years.
The sea- serpent has been seen again. this
time in Indiana, by some old fellows who
were considerably agitated on the temper
ance crusade.
Aphysician living in Kansas was badly
hurt, the other day, by the cnving OF well
upon-hlm. He should have attended to the
sick and let the well alone.
There has lived in the town of Enosburgh.
within the last twenty years 40 men. who
had two wives apiece, & men who had three.
and two men who had four apiece, making
ll2 wives for 80 men,
A Kentucky paper contains u report of =
recent wedding, in which 1.-THE bride was
not particularly handsome, but her father
threw in seven mules and the husband was
satisfied
Tobacco-smokc contains ammonia, pyr-
dine, picolinc, lutidine. collidine formic.
ncetic, propionic, butyric, valcrianic, and
carbolic acids, and creosote-and, Trask
says, death.
A trunk exploded in a baggage car ut In
dianapolis few days ago, seriously injuring
the individual who was handling it roughly.
All papers that circulate among railway en-
ployees please copy.
A San Francisco clarvoyant has been be-
fore the police court for stealing cwelry.
Her defense was that she was in trance
when the things were taken, and didn't know
anything about it, but it didn't wash"
The Rev. Mr.. Weiss expresses the convic.
ton that Hamlet was not mad For our
part we don't pretend to say he was mad,
but the conduct of his mother and his uncle
was certainly calculated to make him little
angry.
The poor whales! DIR. Strathers has dis
covered that they have the rheumatism
What big hack-ache whale must have, if
he has one mt ALL and then the cold water
treatment is not generally considered quite
the thing for rheumatism.
The Danbury NeCS says: There was Il
fight between Danbury and Norwalk ROSTERS
in this place on Friday The pain every good
citizen must feel over such display is some
what Modified by tho fact that our rooster
licked
Why is it that young fellow and his girl
can sit in the parlor until after midnight
without making noise enough for the old
folks to hear them through partition, but
can't sit in public place five minutes with
out annoying the whole house with their gig
Cling and talk?
western newspaper gives thrilling ac-
count of steamers pcrilous voyage, describ-
ing particularly her dangerous passage over
the Falls, with " only one inch of water be-
tween her keel and the rocks. and half an
inch of atmosphere between her ehimncys
and the bridge"
The new Pension Act declares that the
pensions of widows shall be increased ut the
rate Of two dollars per month for each child,
under the age Of sixteen years, of the husband
on account of whose death the claim has
been or shall be granted; the increase to date
from July %, 1866.
An unintelhgent foreigner. who is quite
unable to understand and appreciate Amer
lean manners, writes home that when n
great man dies in the United States the first
thing done is to propose n fine statue in his
honor; next. TO forget to order any statue.
and last, to wonder what became of the
money.
Connecticut woman tried to whip her
boy, the other day, but he had read all the
articles on moral suasion in the educational
and knew that she had no right to
break his spirit in that way, and he stabbed
her in the arm, packed his trunk, and stole
some money she had laid away to pay the
rent, and took II train to Chicago
Nobody bushes at saying COW, hem goose.
nwe' etc. (all female), or horse, dog, etc
,malc), bnt in each case the designation of
Inc opposite sex Is held Ia be something |
dreadful by the American young lady (unlcss |
very well bred, and she will indulge in the |
most absurdparaphrases to avoid them The |
English woman very properly scents no in
lclicacy ofthis kind.
A San Francisco paper laments the growth |
If class distinction in California which il |
kinks is more marked there than in any |
other state of the union. Millonaires are
Increasing alarmngly; while the best part
If the land is divided off into huge estates,
which, when population becomes denser,
will make their owners rs rich rs the duke
# Argyle or the marquis of Butte
There are some very suggestive items in
he " stationery accounts of both houses of
he last Congress Under this head may be
ound numberless gallons of bay rum at 81 n
.allon, cologne ut $40 gallon, and alcohol
t good round price. In close connection
With these items are entries of lemons and
,ranulated sugar 70 what use these articles
# stationery were put of course we are not
Informed
distressed looking individual who had
zen summoned TO serve MS II juror in Phlla-
elphia, asked the judge to excuse him be-
ause he had Conscientious scruples against
ending men to prison; there was too much
slse swearing; he had been there and knew
ow 1t Was himself The judge asked him
That he had ever been in prison for "Well,
Dr. rape, highway robbery, assault and bat
Try, and larceny" lie was excused