Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-03
miscellaneous STEMS.

Forty families in Society Hill, 5. c., sup
port themselves by making preserves.
Fine sleighing in Minnesota, but nothing
except oxen to hitch sleigh-bells to.
The Missouri horse thieves complain that
business has not been so dull for ten years
Virginia hadn't single cotton factory in
1864, but has erected twelve of them since.
A Yankee steam sawmll has reached Ja-
maicn, and has already hashcd up several
natives.
Six big girls banded together the other
day and thrnshcd IN Iowa schoolmaster so
severely that he had to have doctor.
One of The Giving skeletons is growing
fat, and he now fears starvation because his
occupation is gone.
Arkansas squirrels cross the Mississippi
on bits of tnnbark. A planter lost 300 cords
in single morning
Young ladies still cling to the obtruding
chignon. because it's so nice to fall on while
skating.
a youthful couple in Fulton county, KY,
husband 10, wife 10, have applied to the
court for joint guardian.
A Kentucky girl ran of with circus be-
cause her mother would not let her wear
hustle.
An exchange is talking about "thc next
Worlds Fair just as if we didn't have
trouble enough with this worlds fair
The san Francisco car.conductor who
snubbcd Mrs Fair has received notice of
the cancellation of his life insurance policy.
unprecedented droutb prevails in South
ern California. Ranchcrs are driving their
cattle to the mountains to keep them from
starving.
The almost incredible statement is made
that in the beautiful city of Berlin, with its
million of inhabitants, only about twelve
thousand attend church on Sundays.
Hunters who have spent the last month kill
ing venison declare the report that the deer
are affected with the epizootic, or any other
disease, to be perfectly untrue.
All the nickel coin which jingles in our
pockets comes from single mine in Lancas-
ter county, Pa, and that the only one of this
metal in America
\ drunken Illinoisan fell from his cart
and was killed, and the man who sold HIM
liquor paid $1,000 to the widow. That is the
way their liquor law works.
Somebody who writes more uuthlully
than POLITICALLY says "An angel without
money is not thought so much of now-a-days
rs devil with u bag full of guineas."
A fashion paper says "Satin dresses are
to be no longer worn by brides They
could not be worn any longer than they are
now without tripping up everybody in the
room.
\ baby was born in Chnrdon, o., last
week. that weighed twenty-iour pounds nj
its birth, aud the father had TO hunt up some
of his own clothes for the little wellspring Of
pleasure.
Cochisc. the Apache chief, says he never
> scalps a white man except when command
ed to do so by the spirit of his father. The
| old man. however, is very fond of scalps
and Cochisc is kept busy.
1t is said that "Becthoven's autograph,
sell for $50 each" The great scarcity Of the
5 autographs of Shakespeare, Beethoven and
the like, should warn the rest of Us to leave
more of such things behind Us.
The will of Horace Halves, of san Fran
cisco, who left 81 100000 to found college
has been broken on the ground that the tes-
tator was insane, and his heirs have inherit.
ed the property.
The goat teams of Chicago are success
and as they eat newspapers it doesn't cost
much to feed them. \ single copy of the
Chicago Times satisfies an average William
goat for twcnty-four hours.
The gold mining operations ut GaysyillC
, the past season seem TO have proved very
, successful, 500 worth of gold being the re
suit of two men shovelng into sluicc-boXc
A - hours, recently.
An English markct-mun has written to thu
i London Times Il letter in which he states
that the English poor are very unreasonable
in complaining Of the scarcity of meat whcl
rabbits are only fifteen cents pound!
The Western Union Telegraph Co., is put
-, ting in machinery for sending messages botl
, ways over the same line ut once. 1t can't b,
: done. The railroads have tried 1t will
a trains, but the experiment invariably fails
1 Husbands must forcgo the pleasure of tn,
, supervision OF their wives correspondence
4 for the postmaster general has decided tina
married women may require that letters ad
5 dressed to them shall be delivered to no on
!, else.
4 The national debt was reduced Sl,l97,22
4 | Al, ~ nj ,,a
!. ductiun of the debt from March |, 1869. T.
G December |, 1872, 1885,, s95 22s.s7. Dun
l the same time the interest ON the public deb
I has been reduced S2i, 1881
4 Missouri lady who went over to "Sla
Z Town. Kan, to teach class, writes tina
she asked one of her pupils-a woman o.
: about nineteen yoars-"Who was Jcsu,
, Christi" and received for an answer; "Dun
no haln't much acquainted in these parts
this is the fust time have been here"
4 San Francisco is becoming favorite win
ter resort for eastern people Many are nov
there enjoying its beautiful, mild white
q weatheu The hotels are full, and tenement
a and lodgings are hard to obtain. The clt
. also reports its business never so large q
!, prosperous us now.
y Several females of very advanced view
/; are trying to carry the divorce system to it
II legitimate conclusion in Illinois by establish
ing community ON the basis of polyandi'
- at Lone Prairie. Polyandry we state for tn
>, benefit of readers deficient IN Greek, is tn
Il counterpart of polygamy, and means scvcra
!. husbands for the same woman.
d New York people are Just now in troubl
# about their coffee 4 chemical analysis In
d revealed to their astonished senses the fac
No that the beverage served ut the principal no
= tells and restaur nts of that city is II stron
infusion of roa sted beans, chicory, swoC