Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-08
miscellaneous Stems.

lucky, with areas of diminishing pressure.
Jim Fisk's father is taking a course of min
eral water for apoplexy at Shasta, Wis.
Gen. Braxton Bragg is canvassing Georgia
as an agent for u patent wooden water-pipe.
Some very inscriptions person has defined
n Chinese policeman rs an "Asiatc collar
en-"
child was born in Cincinnati. the other
night and two hours later the police found
the mother maudln drunk in the street.
young London woman has had her hus-
band arrested for assaulting her while walk
ing homo from their marriage ceremony
Gerald Massey is delivering lecture in
England which he calls :" Why doesn't God
Kill the DevilP" Rather tough conundrum.
California boasts that severe and destruc-
tive storms Of any kind arc practically I'M
known on that side of the Rocky mountains.
There is n man in Indiana who is now llv-
ing in house with his fifth wife, II children
and three mothers-in-law. And still he is not
happy.
Miss Fanny W. Roberts. of KIttery, Me-,
has been licensed to solemnize marriages,
the fret instance of the kind on record In the
State.
western paper publishes gushing love
ditty commencing Emma Nine! Emma
Miner 1t is anonymous, but is believed, in
Bennington, to be by Trenor W. Park.
A full grown African lion is roaming about
Clarks county, Mimi, and never since the
state was settled have boys been so reconcil-
ed to the early-to-bed dogma.
The women who recently spilled all the
whiskey in Remington. Ind, and smashed
the bar-room furniture, have been let off
with II fine of 50 each
Recognizing the necessities of the times
Rice county. Kan, has offered premium to
the lady making the best shot with revolv-
er at the coming fair.
It Is remarkable fact that the moment a
woman writes letter she is frantic to put il
in the post-office, although she may have
been putting of the writing for six months.
This is a free country, or is popularity sup
posed to be. 1t is not owned by the old
democratic Moseses, nor by any set of re-
publican Moseses nor are the inhabitants of
It.
Miss Matte Allen, daughter of the asses
SCR Of Lake county. Cal, put 10 consecutive
shots into bull's-eye the size of silver
dollar, at the distance of 80 yards, the other
day.
A dispatch says that at the burning of a
hotel in Prairie du Chen, Wis, " several of
the servant-girls leAped from the third story
window into the arms of Capt. Hobhs."
That Hobbs must be pretty cordy boy.
The spirits have "busted" an Aurora (Ill.)
family. They revealed to the unsuspscting
wife the desperate sins of her husband, and
she sued for divorce and he has sued her
for lunacy.
The professional caucus manipulators are
making up their minds in Ohio to undergo
another political funeral. 1t is well; for
funereal results are all that the future has in
store for them.
The Charleston Is. c. Nctos and Courier
says that that city can point to scores Of
young men Of gentle blood and excellent cd
ucation who are making a comfortable live
lihood by hard manual labor. It's just so in
Vermont.
We judge that one of the rural Indiana or
gans is becoming pretty badly demoralized.
1t remarks: If the acts of last winter. ut In
dianapolis and Washington, were repeated,
we believe we should be ready to embrace
the doctrine OF hell, burning with literal
birthstone.
A father. in consoling his daughter who
had lost her husband, said: ~ don't wonder
you grieVe for him, my child; you will never
find his equal" II don't know AS can" re-
sponded the sobbing widow. "but I'll do M,
best" The father felt comforted.
Wisconsin highwaymen are gentl emanly
fellows. One of u pair who were robbinga
farmer, the other day, held an umbrella owe
his head to keep the sun off while the othe
went through him, and offered him sip o
| good brandy when they had done.
} A StrasburE (Pa.) girl agreed to kiss
! young man every night for two years If HI
wOuld quit smoking. Ho made nightly pill
! grimages to the garden-gate for six months
and collected the promised sweetness, bu
she has taken onions and garlic, and he Il
, getting thin.
There are $50 subscribers to the fund fol
the erection of a statue Of Seward in Centr,,
park, each representing 800. The statue il
TO be IA feet high without the pedestal anC
, will represent the subject in sitting position
Il will be of bronze, cast in the royal foundr,
at Munich.
| 1t is evident that there is coming over thu
people very important change of opinion IL
relation to the forms and tschnicalities of Law
which are applied to obstruct the purposes o
justice they were designed to further. They
, are beginning to ask whether it be absolute
ly necessary that so many loopholes should
be lsft for the escape of guilt.
A Des Moines (Ia.) fellow, while takinI
his girl home from festival, ran overa Gov
that was lying in the road. The COW awak
ened from her slumbers IN season to tip thu
buggy over, and spill out the occupants. tn,
, girl had just taken n class in the Sunday
, school, so the young man refrained from
! fully expressing his sentiments
The tycoon knows how TO start u nswspa
per. He does not offer big beets, nor priz'
squashes, nor oreide jewelry rs premiums
for subscribers. Having taken an interest il
the publication of n new paper at the Japan
ESQ capital, he has issued an order that al
men of certain social and political circles
shall take it or be beheaded.
An experienced husband IN Lafayette, Ind.
sent two switches home TO his wife from
[ which she was to make selection, but be-
: fore doing 1t he changed the tags, putting the
: twenty-five dollar one on the ten dollar
switch and vice versa. After critical ex
animation by herself and lady Friends, th'
D choice fell upon that labeled twenty-five dol
lars, and she decided to keep it, notwith
standing her husbands plaintive protest tina
he could not afford to pay out more than TOT
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