Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-15

New Orleans boasts of swimming
school for ladies.
Too many believe '.a living dog is bet
ter than dead lion"
For knocking out the last tooth his
mother-in-law had. a California man
has had to pay 500.
An Omaha workman sold his little
place for 5000, and buried the money in
the garden to keep it over night, and
hunted ten days before finding it.
A man advertises in the London Tel
egraph for every comfortable apart
ments, two bedrooms and a sitting room,
with meadow attached
1t is a painful sight, says the DAN
bury News, to see an old man, seventy
years of age, trying to sap the stamp
from secondhand postal-card.
In the Green Mountains of Vermont
there are numerous mineral springs, but
not one can be found in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire.
Chicago thinks sit lucky for st. Louis
that her directory was finished before the
cholera set in. Her cemetery is growing
in proportion as her population is de-
creaslng!
Your dress said husband, to his
fashionable wife, "will never please the
men," Il don't dress to please men, y
was the reply, "but to worry other wom-
en-"
1t is stated in an official document
just issued, that during the last three
years no less than 1888 sailors in the
British merchant service have been sent
to prison for refusing to 60 to sea.
Colonel Roundell, an English travel
er, who undertook to explore the interi
or of Persia in the disguise of peasant,
is believed to be dead, as no tidings
have reached his friends for several
years.
A Western paper says that ''along
the sidewalk the watermelon and the
undertaken go hand in hand; typhoid fe
yer sails in an invisible shallop on the
lake Of the green scum; and cholera NOR
bus Familiarity swings upon the front
gate
A Yankee grocer, being solicited t
contribute to the building of new
church, promptly subscribed his nam,
to the paper in the following manner
"John Jones the only place in tow,
where you can get eleven pounds of goot
sugar for dollar), twenty five cents"
A farmers daughter out West receiv
ed hairy poodle dog from friend il
| New York. The unsophistocated dam
sci wrote back thanking her friend fo
the present, and saying that she found i
very handy when tied to stick to clear
windows with.
A young German of noble birth
whose uncles and brothers distinguish
ed themselves in the Franco -Prussial
war. in which they were officers of higl
rank, has been sent to the penitentiar
of Texas, at Huntersville, for stealin
two watches from the boarding house i
which he was employed as scullion.
A gallant son of the Emerald Isle re
Gently married the beautiful daughter {
White Cloud on the Missouri shore. Th
trousseau of the Bride was very simple
consisting of faded calico gown whic
hung loosely over her graceful form. III
gallant Pat was robed i'll the same ga
ment, he had been accustomed to wes
on duty on the gravel train.
SMALL MATTERs.-The nerve of ii
tooth, not so large as the finest cambr
needle, will sometimes drive stror
man to distraction. A musquito can NAL
an elephant absolutely mad. A cor
rock, which causes navy to founder,
i the work of worms The warrior tn
withstood death in thousand form
may be killed by an insect. The deepe
wretchedness often results from pet
trials. A chance look from those we To-
often produces exquisite pain oreunallo
4 ed happdness