Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-25
miscellaneous Stems.

Women medical students at Owego, Mich,
are accused Ofhooking a subject from grave.
March came in like the forty-second Con.
gress and went out as softly as counterfeit
fifty cent piece.
A despotic Delaware Judge fined lawyer
one dollar for merely calling him " bloated
old rhinoceros."
Disraeli pronounces his name with the
accent on the second syllable, the whole
rhyming with Bailey"
One of the Wheeling hotel-keepers refused
to entertain members Of the West Virginia
Legislature under any circumstances.
Portraits Of. Sumner are to be placed in
the Senate Chamber and the Representatives
Hall, in Hayti.
A number ofscalps have been found among
lot Of old rags received from the WesI at
the paper-mll in Petersburg, Va.
The Paris Kentuckian reports case of
Snstroke thus early. A boy hit his father
with piece of board.
A gentle Missouri girl recently burned OF
her lovers whiskers because they didn't match
her best dress.
An Evansville (lnd.) cat recently gave
birth to four kittens and puppy. II pllst,
be trueS for an Indiana paper says 50. Z y
A Quebec lady cannot establish her claim
for Gl5,000, for want ofh deceased fathers
marriage certificate, though he is known to
have been legally married in Ireland
A Georgia clairvoyant revealed the where
abouts of $4,000, recently stolen, aud the
uugrateful owner had her arrested for the
theft. And she confessed
A fashionable young lady of Philadelphia
dropped one other false eyebrows in church
pew, and badly frightened young man next
to her, who thought it was his moustaohe.
A religlo-temperance wave is slowly NOV.
ing down upon us from the West, in the shape
Of noted backwoods exhorter who has been
creating great sensation out Nebraska way.
The women must and will be acknowlelg.
ed. A new Kentucky town is named "Bos.
tona," which is feminine for the Hubs name.
Pretty soon, New Yorka, Chicagoa, and o
Heavens, st Louisa
California is happy over the discovery OF
large deposits Of borax 100 miles from San
Francisco. AS the mineral commands $500
a ton manufactured, it may prove more val
uabie than mines Of gold
A Georgia ghost manifests his presence by
dropping red-hot nails on the heads of those
who invade his apartments. This proves that
spirits return with equal facility from either
place.
An apocryphal story comes from Daven.
port Ia, of a shoemaker, who takes n ham
mer with him when he goes into the street
and drives down all the nails he finds pro-
tfuding from the plank sidewalks
A youth of Is and maiden Of ii eloped
from town in Chautauqua county, N. Y.
last week, and were married at midnight
They were driven to this expedient by the
unreasoning opposition of a heartless parent
aged 80.
Husbands rule low in the Baltimore courts
A woman who lost one by an accident on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad thought he was
worth $4,000, aud sued the road for that
amount, but she was only awarded 5000.
The fashion papers say the Rutabagas-Bei
pardon, we mean the Rabagas-is the popu.
lar bonnet this season. You know il whed
you see it, for the rim turns up all around
like a sailor hat.
DIR Thrall Of Philadelphia has made very
unpleasant discovery. In about seven years
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will
approach nearer the earth than they hav,
been in 1900 years, and the result will be 1
pestilence.
A miner at Helston, Eng, lately startet
for home with three cartridges of dyuamit,
in his pocket, probably to blow up his wife
with lie was found without stitch o
clothing on, with large hole in his stomach
and one hand gone.
Circulars announcing that Prof. Cantell A
Bigie would exhibit his flying apparatus il
Fifth avenue, drew a big crowd of New
Workers together, Wednesday, and it was
long time before anybody took a second Ool
at the professors name.
Not only are the negroes a great majorit,
in the South Carolina Legislature, but the,
actually do the business, -originate it an,
carry it out Their leaders are men Of prett
fair ability, and probably compare iavorabl
with the legislature of Pennsylvania in morals
Pennsylvania annual production of min
erals nearly equals that Of all other state
: and territories put together. In the last yea
reported by the census her mines yielde
S76,208,296 worth of minerals, and all tn
rest of the country s76,390,604 worth.
New York has one restaurant where n,
fish, flesh, fowl, liquors or cigars are served
milk forming the chief feature OF the bill @
fare. You can get mush and milk, boie
rice, oatmeal and other simple and whole
some things but nothing rich or highly sea
soned.
Daniel Purcell, aged l06, died in Madiso
+ county, KY, last week. When the war q
1912 came along, Daniel lacked but fe'
months of the age that would have exempte,
, him from service, but he volunteered, an
has drawn a pension ever since the close Q
that war.
The advent of tho "grate sho Aof NJ
Barnum is preceded by considerable amour
Of light literature, Though perhaps " light
: is hardly the word for thick pamphlet o
natural history, small one on the Fiji Il
: landers aud a quartO advertising pictorial.
The " slickest thing in the elOpement Lin
comes from Iowa,-tWo young men havin
each invited the others girl to ride, anC
: once away from home, having changed part
y ners and visited the pArson. The objectin
: old folks were utterly dumbfounded at sue
: double-dealing.
Barnum has been trying to engage job
Haney, the boy who was rescued from th
t Atlantic, to travel with his show, aud
$ Rochester alderman wants to adopt him, b.
d he has concluded to stay with his relatives q
!. Newark, N. j. He has received nearl