Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
miscellaneous Stems.

streak OF prohibition lightning Killed the
driver of a ST. Louis beer wagon.
The will Of Mary Magdalen has just boon
probated in indianapolis.
The Ddnbury Ne0s boasts Of a weekly cir
culation of II 900 copies.
Nellie Grants ponies ran awny with her.
the other day. but didn't hurt her.
Grasshoppers are so thick in Minnesota that
schsol-maams 60 to school on horsebmok
western paper says the line Is distinctly
drawn--back-poystors and pay-bnckaters.
An Illinois engineer killed % cattle In
run Of 90 miles, without the aid Of cow
catcher.
Toledo man proposes to achieve great.
ness by carrying bag Of -four through four
states.
A recent freshet in Clifton, Wis. washed
away soil enough TO disclose a rich and I'M
suspected lead mine.
The dissatisfied father of4s children at
Manistee, Mich, Is about to marry his fifth
wife.
The newest bathing costume for ladies at
the seaside is called the Nellie Grant" 1t
Is jaunty and pretty.
The same mule that killed u man at Lex
ington, Ind, was permitted to haul the wild
ow 10 the funeral.
These are the days for the toga. Fanny
Kemble describes the toga rs sheet with
button. ~ .
A woman recently pplied at Troy iusur-
ance Office for an agency. When ask ed what
were her qualifications, she touched her I'M
blushing cheek.
A young girl in Salt Lake City got fright
ened in n dream and leaped from a third
story window. 1t woke her up, somewhat,
but didn't hurt her.
A Florida paper has ascertaned that a
healthy alligator can eat seven negro chill
dren in one forenoon. and not display any
symptoms of disquiet
Three Paris milliners have announced an
exhibition Of specimens Of tho art Of 'pad-
ding" and Of other devices whereby unreal
graces and spurious charms are successfully
imposed upon credulOus men.
A Passaic IN. J.) man devoted the Fourth
to industrious fishing and had secured fine
string, but along toward night he fell in and
was drowned, SO that his hungry family de-
rived no benefit from his success.
The women Of Remington, Ind, made
raid on the saloons, the other night, hatchets
in hand. and spilled. split, broke. ''stove in"
aud destroyed everything they could find, not
excepting the head of one proprietor who OBJ
jected.
This talk of the cost of living at Washing.
ton, used rs an argument for extravagant
pay, Is an empty pretencs, considering that
Congressman do not 1.-Two there half the time,
while officials with much smaller salaries
live there constantly and find no trouble in
paying all their expenses.
Lexington, KY, has just incarcerated
James Turner, who is charged with 10 muir
ders. He ran at large during the war, STAY
ing whom he might, and has been in the
same line Of business since. Ho is worth
quite fortune, but has kept on numbering
from naturally cruel disposition.
When the shah was ut st. Petersburg, prin-
cess Dagmar, by way of civility, remarked
to him that his diamonds were exceedingly
beautiful The shah patted her on the Shout
der and, with an abrupt gallantry that was
not quite after the St. Petersburg pattern,
replied, mot nearly so beautiful Ms your
neck"
Since the abolition Of the franking privi-
lego on the LIST instant there has been
marked decrease in the amount of mail
matter passing through the New York Post
Office. The postmaster says that the reform
has caused falling off of $4,000 free news
paper exchanges during a week.
A young man was recently arrested in
Rome for entering confessional box in one
of the churches and receiving the confessions
of pretty girls. His conduct excited general
denunciation, the girls being particularly
horrified, for their confessions were intended
only foppriestly ears.
A Wisconsin post-ofiice was entered by bur-
glars. last week, and about $3.50 worth of
knives, spoons and silver-plate was stolen.
The contents of that post-office would indi-
cate that some Wolverine congressman had
hurried home his stationery" before the
franking privilege expired.
The transgrcssor is occasionally overtaken
with awful retribution, wrought out by other
than human agency. A three ear-old st.
Louis girl thrust her head through the iron
pickets, the other day, to smell the roses in
her neighbours garden, and while she was
thus wickedly engaged, her foot slipped, and
she was choked to death.
The DdabUyy Nesos says A roundabout
dered and inquisItive stranger kicked an
ornamental dog, on Nelson street stoOp,
to see If it was solid or hollow. 1t was not
an ornamental dog, however. but one that
was there on business. and the roundabout
dered and inquisitiVe stranger is now quaran-
tined with an aunt.
They don't mind much about men lying in
the streets in Denver. A fcw days ago. how
ever. one philnnthrOpic individual examined
man who had been lying in the road for
two days, and found that instead of being
drunk, he was insensible from injuries inhict-
ed by robbers. His face was burned and
blisterod by exposure to the sun, and no
died next day.
A Memphis youth who loved u woman of
twice his own age, and wealthy, shot himself
in her presence on being informed that his
suit was hopeless. The pistol set fire to his
clothing, the carpet was burned and stained
with blood, the eoroner's jury made II good
deal of litter, and the lady was really quite
bored before it was all over.
Mr.. Samuel Black, of Essex county, On
tario, has very pretty daughter who has
caused him world of trouble by her willful
preference for Charles Wigle, highly inn
proper young man of that vicinity. Last
week the couple went of on two days
steamer excursion, and tho father declaring
that he couldn't leave his corn and potatoes
to run after that girl half his time, met them
at the landing on their return and shot Wiglc
| dead