Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-31
miscellaneous Stems.

INV Nl''l power Ol hlNUesOl0 IS SAID To
exceed that of any other State in the Union.
Snow power ditto.
There is II house in Yarmouth county, No
va Scotia. in which there have been II cases
Of smallpox, of them fatal.
The Maine papers tell OF II man named
Gray in that State who has slept on hay
NOW every night for the last twenty-five
years.
The land of the free and the home of the
brave consumes $4,000, OOO, 900 oysters annu-
ally; while all Europe gets along with g.
600, 900. 900.
An enterprsng divorce lawyer ofChicago
completed an arrangement with the county
clerk to have his professional card printed ON
the backs of marriage licenses
A New Orleans man invested in twenty
cents worth of choroform, and used it to
such good advantage that it brought him
$4,000 in money and jewclry.
Mr.. Henry Wells. of Evansville, Ind. OK
plodcd II cap between two CONFERENCE.-The.
and watched closely to see il 90 off. If he
watches another it will be with one eye.
1t is stated that numbers of deer, and even
rabbits and other small game, have been
found dead in the Kentucky mountains, ex-
hibiting unmistaken signs oil the epizootic.
A daughter of the khedive of Egypt is about
to be married, and her father has sent to
Paris for her trousseau. The items include
lounces of point d'Alencon at 5000 yard,
and $50, 900 for other laces.
A bill has been introduced into the Indiana
Legislature forbiddlng the marriage of per-
sons Of different eolors. Blonde and brunette
engagements are considered "off' until the
fate of the bill is ascertaned.
Butler ioquit'tr: Look here, Ames YOU'RE
making n - fool of yourself ANY man
does who tries 10 manage thing of this sort
for himself without IA lawyer-a good one.
Get lawyer; take me-
II don't think, said Mr.. Cakes Ames to
the Poland committee " that | will ever sell
stock to members of Congress or officials
again." A most virtuous, prudent and COM
mendable resolution.
The state constabulary stopped the sale of
prize packages of candy in n New Bedford
fair, the other day, assuming that it was II
violation of law. The managers of church
fairs HAY take hint from this.
Stokes wasn't very much elated when they
told him of the two latest murders, and on
hearing that Foster must swing, he turned
very pale and said, Everything is against
me; am bound to be I'm example"
medical expert in Georgia wisely re-
Trained from examining MORALLY wound
ed man very closely for fear that counsel for
he defense would prove the murder to have
been done by his probe
Down at Kingston, n. c., they let out pau
pers to the lowest bidder, and at a recent
auction fthis kind "a veryrespectable white
lady was bid off by negro" Sounds
queer
Miss Nellie Grant, Miss Lizzie Porter and
Miss Edith Fish are 1.-THE three graces of
! Washington Caldwell of Kansas, Patter-
son of New Hampshire and Brooks of New
York are the three disgraces.
A young miss in recitation in geogra-
ply, informed her astonished teacher that
the mammoth cavern IN Kentucky is the
greatest livlngcmiosty, and has been explod-
ed ten miles from the month";
In Washington editors and publishers are
the subjects of prayer not because they need
it so much rs Congressman, but because tn ey
are looked upon as the main stay of the coun-
uy's virtue.
Representative King of Missouri proposes
to introduce in Congress bill to compel
railroads to equip their passenger trains with
II power-brake, which will place them COM
pIetely in control of the engineer.
The Indiana divorce law is to be made
more stringent actual residence for two
years being required. Hence those who are
anxious to shuttle off the matrimonial coil,
under the present easy law, must "hurry up
A man will die for the want of air in five
minutes, for want of sleep in ten days, for
want of water in n week, for want of food
at varying intervals, depending on constltI-
ton, habits of life, and the circumstances OF
the occasion
The quickest passage ever made between
this country and England has Just been made
by the Baltic of the White Star line, which
accomplished the distance between Sandy
Hook and Queenstown in days, 20 hour,
and minutes.
An Auburn (Me,) Nimrod cornored min,
skunks in their den in IN Auburn field, las
week, dug them out and captured the Who'll,
lot, lodging the fusilade of these peculiar
beasts with n skill that left not the ''smell OF
fire. about him.
An Iowa editor has letter from sub
scrbcr who says: IL don't want your papeI
any longer" The editor says this is to b.
regretted, ms he had arranged to make tn
paper about six inches longer in few
weeks.
Miss Nellie Grant is winning golden opin
ions from all sorts of people by her mode st
unassuming manners, and is among tn
most, if not the most popular young lady il
Washington, because she makes no effort L
attain popularity,
About the most foolish thing yet is the pro
posed toting of the West Point cadets dowl
TO Washington for Inauguration day, just a
the time when they are preparing for thci
= examination, and any interruption of stud
is specially disastrous.
That eminent statesman, Zach Chandler
, of Michigan, has been having an unusuall
bad spree, the last few days, and wandcre,
around Washington IN a maudlin condition
threatening to shoot George Alfred Town
send, who wrote letter to the Chicdg
Tribune, the other day which reused his ire
n A Buffalo servant girl went for Il burgla
= whom she found quietly sorting over thing
f up stairs and he knocked her down. Ne
, mindmg II little thing like that, she pursue
3 him, jumped on his back a8 he was goin
n down stairs, landing him at the foot, an
A summoning everybody within hearing of he
yels, had him secured,
a 1t is the credulity of the great mass of PEG