Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The way to forget all common miseries
tight boots.
A quilt exhibited at the Central Hi
nois fair contains 25,5l7 pieces.
John Bright has been reelected to
Parliament without opposition.
The watch factory at Elgin. H., is
assessed at $o92.0OO.
The Duke of Edinburg will be mar
ried next January.
President Grant will exhibit nine
horses at the Missouri Fair.
A large reduction is being made in
the Austrian standing army.
Howard University expects $1,000
600 when A. L. Stewart dies.
A Kansas man has raised over 500
bushels of onions from one acre.
A good man is kinder to his enemies
than bad men are to their friends.
On the 9TH, snow fell to the depth of
eight inches in Delaware County N. Y.
The city of Geneva will get $4,000,
900 by the Duke of Brunswick's WILL
London daily consumes 19O,0o0.0OO
gallons of water, and Paris 10000, 900.
The Alvarado Beet Company have
eleven hundred acres of beets growing.
Answer civil question pleasantly
and kindly, even if you are in a hurry.
A sure sign of the holidays-when
the voice of the turkey is heard in the
land.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist
Church, think the women ought to vote.
Chicago is now manufacturing rail-
road iron at the rate of $4,000 tons per
year.
Don't tell an editor how to run news
paper. Let the poor fool find it out
himself
The Norristown Herald says defalca-
tions won't stop till editors get hold of
the offices.
The largest farm in England, compris-
ing 5000 acres, is owned and run by
Yankee.
Paris is to have series of fortifca-
tons outside the line occupied BY the
German army.
Why should young ladies never wear
stays? Because it is so horrid to see a
girl tight.
The shipment of wheat from Chicago
and Milwaukee toward the seaboard
averages over 100000 bushels a week.
Mr.. Mitchell, California agricul-
turist. has gathered this year 100000
| bushels of wheat from little patch of
/ 10000 acres.
The South Newburg (Me.) cheese
factory entered a cheese weighing one
thousand pounds to be exhibited at the
State Fair
The roof of Westminster Abbey is
found to be, not of oak, as was supposed,
but of chestnut, and this has already
stood for eight centuries.
The Philadelphia mint is to coin 10,
100000 double eagles per month. The
California mint is coming as many gold
pieces as its capacity will admit.
In the great four-mile running race
in California there were six horses
started, and the race was won by Thad.
Stevens.
1t is with our thoughts as with ouI
flowers that are simple in expression
carry their seed with them; those that
are double, charm the mind but produce
nothing.
The Emperor of Brazil stands siz
feet four inches in his boots, and though
giant in size, is said to possess voice
that sounds like the shrill treble of in
fancy.
There is said to be enough iron ore IL
the neighborhood of the Black Rive
Falls. Minnesota, to supply the whole
demand of the United States for tn,
next ten centuries.
Algeria loses $4,000 annually, il
the addition to the loss of life, by the
depredations of lions, and a Frenchmar
who has invented lion trapis regarded
as public benefactor.
OF the children born in London. NOR,
than twice as many are raised to matur
ity than one hundred year ago. Then
more than one-half died under the ag
of five years now only about quarter
Leather made from the skin of. tn
white whale is now regular article o
manufacture at some of the villages il
Canada. 1t is both fine and durable
and shoe strings made from it are sail
never to break.
A London paper recently advertised
as follows: ..Wanted-An American
who can make a speech in England with
: out saying anything about American
being of the same race that produce,
Shakespeare"
The Boston Herald says "the resul
! of the Ohio election has already set tn
republican party leaders to inquirins
what they shall do to be saved, an,
) echo answers, repeal the salary grab.
) Henry Ward Beecher is said to hav
remarked that any one who is too piou
to play croquet ought to de done up il
starched linen, put in a bag, and hum
f up like salt of Sunday clothes, All
not let out till meeting time.
t The yellow fever has no terror 70
> book agents. Two of that class arrives
! at Shreveport, the other day, and bega
| to canvass among the nurses for sub
: scriptions to comic book.
A fire in Topeka, Kan, last Monda
t destroyed 100000 worth of property
A mill and contents worth $4,000
!. were burned at Madison Wis.,, and a
Oswego N. T., buildings worth over $50
i 900 were entirely destroyed.
: The principal of an academy. VIII
!, was very unpopular with the young Ia
e dies, on the approach ola thunder storr
i carefully insulated his chair on fou