Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-10
miscellaneous Stems.

Velvet boots arc now made to match the
toilet, with heels also Of velvet.
A Vallejo (Cal.) fool, go years old recently
danced 81 hours, on u wager.
Elijah Somers colorcd Marylander is
credited with one hundred and fifteen win.
tiers. Smokes and drinks
A Chicago IMAM is trying to get unhitched
from wife who weighs 22j pounds and
swcars like n heathen."
Oxidized silver buttons are the only i'd
missible things of the sort for street COS
tunes just now, say the authorities
\ girl was taken with the smallpox while
dancing Mt II ball in Akron, o. She wasn't
much sought after rs partner after that.
\ woman in Londonderry, Pa. has pro-
duced twenty-four children in seventeen
years. She has had seven pairs of twins.
Willard Parker of Albany not having any
thing else to TO that he could DO very well
recently walked 100 miles in 81 hours and
five minutes.
Al Indiana man is naming his children
after the New England States. Rhode ISL
land is the last. 1t weighed three pounds
at birth
Three negroes employed on the Chcsa-
peakc and Ohio railroad used nito-glyccr-
Inc to kindle their fire. Where are those
negroes now?
Miss Sophie Barney took premium ut
Montgomery (Ala.) fair as "the young wo-
man who would make the hest wife for u
poor man"
This dispatch was sent from Portland TO
Chicago, Christmas day: "Nettie's present
appeared this morning. Very handsome.
Fifteen pounds. A little Samuel"
\ little girl was killed and eaten by the
wolves IN Kane county, ILL.,. last week. They
are becoming very bold and make frequent
attacks upon shecp-folds ana pig-pens.
"Oh my dear Henry, come and reioin me
rs soon rs conveniently possible is the in
scription on tombstone at Montmartre.
Decidedly Frenchy, that.
1t cost II Topeka man S3927 to kiss an
other mans wife. The twenty seven cents
was added by the Judge for winking at tho
injured husband of the kissed wife.
western paper has this delicate personal
Item: Those who know nice old Mr.. Will
son Of this place. personally, will regret to
hear that he was assaulted IN brutal man
ner, last week, but was not killed.
An Ohio man tried to stuff an able-bodied
cat into bootleg, and The cat resented this
abreviaton of its sphere of action by Jump
ing at his throat and laying open the carotid
artery with its claws.
Danbury gentleman ate two mince pies
before retiring Sunday night, and about two
| O'Clock the next morning was picked up by
| eleven bald headed angels and pushed
through ten yards ofload pipe.
Rev, NJ. Wood of Lawrence told his peo-
pie, Sunday, that IAN unrcgenerate person
will never learn to distinguish between Il
little pious gambling in church and shak-
ing for the drinks in bar-room'
While little child IN Walden, Miss, was
sitting in the nurses lap, playing with II
small pistol, the weapon was discharged,
killing the child. The nurse has advertised
for another situation.
Rev. Talmadgo of Brooklyn was one of
those who proclaimed that the Chicago fire
was Il visitation of the Almighty's wrath
npon that sinful city, and now, since his
church was burned Chicago tells him he's
another.
Blanton Duncan has changed the name of
his paper. 1t used TO be the True Democrats;
it is now the Commercial AdrertiSer Some
how we always had an idea that Duncan's
politics were good deal more commercial
than democratic.
EN-Emperor Napoleon, Ell flmille, which
is their own lingo for oX-Empress Eugene
and the little Louis, who took his baptism
OF fire. so coolly, are coming to visit us next
summer, rumur says, and they propose to
travel the length and breadth of the land.
Miss Addie Taylor OF Bridgeport, Conn,
attended Frenchman who was sick of
smallpox n few months ago, and now he
has given her Il fortune of $4,000. As Il re-
suit all the girls in Connecticut are looking
for smallpox cases.
Cora Pearl, who has been exilcd from
France for provoking one of her admirers to
make I'M Intellectual attempt to blow his
brains out is coming to America. where she
can shoot her lovers herself, if she wants to,
without being disturbed.
\ Cleveland woman, maddened by her
husbands refusal to buy IN expensive car
pct for which she had taken fancy, took u
dose of Paris green She lived long enough
TO bitterly repent her rashness, and implored
her husband to save her, but that was inn
possible.
\ Dubuque, Qa.) man saw Il veterinary
surgeon named llongerd pick up IN alma
nae, the other day, and iokingly asked HIM
if that was Il doctors book. Iloflgerd who
wasn't in Il trlhing humor, "became emo
tionally insane in u iifly, and stabbed his
interrogation fatally.
They have compulsory education in Texas.
The law requires that all persons under the
age of 10 shall attend school. married
lady in Houston, who has not yet reached the
age that would cntite her to exemption, at
tends school regularly and carries her baby
with her.
"limpy Dick, of New York, is the cham
pion mailbag thief lie has managed, since
last summer, by means of forged orders, to
obtain no less than $500 bags from the New
York Postollice, which he sold for old can
vass. These bags cost one dollar and sixty
cents each.
Boston, proud Boston, rose up in the midst
of her smoke and ashes and swore she
wouldn't accept cent in the way of pecu-
mary assistance; but after looking around
little she exclaimed, well, hang it, If you will
do it, send on your contributions-and make
them large.
The comtshp of the Ethiopian race is not
characterized nv that unifnrm pnntIaness of