Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Greenland was discovered in 1878.

Greenland was discovered IN 1873
Two Texan farmers recently played
game Of marbles for one hundred steers
side.
Mrs. Young No. II is going to tell all
she knows of Mormonism on the lecture
platform.
Portland (Me) harbor, ninety miles
distant. can be seen in clear day from
the top of Mount Washington.
Why should one be distrustful of a
butcher? Because he is such slicer
(sly sir).
Sparta. Iowa, is town of 25O0 peo-
pie, but has only one hearse, and that
one hasn't been out since the 18th of
May
A cure for morbid thoughts Eat
mush and milk for supper, go to bed at
nine o'clock in the evening, rise at six
in the morning, and walk three miles
every day.
A Cincinnati editor, who has INDUCED
in heavy life insurance, is said to be
followed whenever he goes fishing by
several insurance agents, affectionately
bearing life preservers and sun um-
brellas.
A Connecticut paper announces that
the General Assembly. at its late ses-
sion. very wisely, and after much delib-
Grafton, passed an act allowing anybody
and everybody to catch fish in East
Hampton pond, through the ice, each
month an the gear.
Many housekeeper thinks her hap
piness would be complete could she only
have plenty of solid silver for her table,
| while others have it. lay awake nights
lest thieves should break into the house
and carry off their plate.
This is white mans paper, edited
by white man, printed by a white man,
paid for by white men, supported by
| white men, and 1t will support no man
for Office who refuses to stand squarely
upon the platform that this is white
mans country, and a heritage to him
and his children forever-Biirmingham,
Ata., NeacS.
The Duchess of Leeds, formerly one
of the bellies of Baltimore, is now wild
ow, and immensely rich. True, she is
only ninety, but that should not deter
some Of our enterprising bachelors from
going over and popping to the old lady,
with an ultimate view Of bringing some
portion of the assets to her own, her
native land.
A Polish lady of rank, twenty-seven
years of age, and .'a perfect Juno in
beauty" was recently sentenced to a
long term Of Imprisonment in Berlin for
indulging in certain acts of theft While
, the prosecution was In progress she In
; herited fortune of 100000 roubles
, and her advocate now moves the court
for her release, in consideration of &
heavy bail. The court, however, refused
| to accede to the request.
l An uneasy boy, whose mother tried
} to quiet him on Boston and Maine
train, the other day, by telling him the
conductor sometimes swallowed naughty
boys, astonished her few moments after
a as the portly form of the conductor ap
S peared at the door by creeping behind
Q her and exclaiming in whisper. "Ma
l guess he has swallowed one already"
PAY Up.-Arkansas Statesman o
Jacksonport, in plain prose and threat
ening verse, thus urges delinquents II
S pay up: ave have several hundred
a dollars due us for subscriptions and WI
6 want it. We are out of meat, money
and other things. We are out at thf
! elbow. We are out of patience, ant
= seriously contemplate running our fac
for about two hundred postal cards. will
which to remind those who owe us. Pa
n up.