Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-17

a grand safeguard 10r QOlnS flGnG is
to hate all that is wrong.
Fortune is the rod of the weak and
the staff of the brave.
A German who was lately married
says, at was easier for needle to walk
out of a camel's eye than for mans to
get der lasht word nit voomans.
The case of the girl who shot the
schoolmaster in Iowa continues to be
highly romantic. The schoolmaster with
two bullets ill his brains, is getting we'll,
and the girl is trying to starve herself.
A sportive hunter of Detroit, who
kept flask of whisky with him on a
shooting trip, struck race course in the
suburbs on his return, and walked
around it all night, wondering why he
didn't get to town.
Springfield, Mass, Feb. 9.-Mrs. Will
liam I. Shepardson of Lenox was acci-
dentally shot and fatally wounded, yes
terday morning, by her fve-years old
boy, who was playing with a loaded re-
volver.
Some startling disclosures have been
made respecting the recent fires in Brook
lyn through the arrest of an incendiary
and his accomplices, by which it has
been proved that the City of Churches
has of late been under regular system
of arson.
paddy, what's your belief" said a
gentleman to an Irish guide, anxious to
discover what his religion was. "Shure
yer honor, I'm of my landlady's belief. "
whats that, Pat % he inquired. "Why,
then, I owe her five half-years' rent, and
she believes that III, never pay her, and
that's my belief, too
The Titusville Press tells the story Of
a nocturnal serenader who sang, "Wher
the mohoon's shi-hi-hi-ning DER the la
hake, o. the-hen I'll thi-hink of thee
he-he-hee 0, the-hen I'll thi-hi-hi hi
hink of thee ee-ee!" The music aroused
a dog about the size of -four barrel
and the musician is doing as we'll a.
could be expected.
A negro boy who went into church
was cautioned to remember the text
which was: "Why stand ye here idle
Go into my vineyard and whatsoever il
right will pay thee Tommy cam,
home and was asked to repeat the text
He thought it over while, and said
"What dye STAN round here doin,
muffin for -? Go into my barnyard ant
work. III make it all right with you.
Now, Johnny said venerable la
dy to her six year-old nephew, who wa
persistently denying an offense of whic
she accused him, 81 know you are nc
telling me the truth i see it in you
eye" Pulling down the lower lid of tn
organ that had so nearly betrayed hi
veracity, Johnny exhultingly replied
You can't tell anything about it, aunt
Il that eye olacays acas a little streaked."
An Illinois editor. in an article on til
aurora borealis, says, Here we lea
over the very verge of the infinite, Ions
ing to grasp its mysteries-lost in ii
re- profundities of immensity" Previol
ir to this his friends intended to run hi
for Congress upon the temperance ticket
but now the project has been abandone
y because they saw that man who wou
''lean over the verge of the infinite
order to try TO grasp the aurora boreal
in the middle # the night, must get i
= to conditions which unfit him for t
~ duties of Good Templarship.
PUT THIS IN Your HAT Pay yo
debts as soon as you get the money
he your pocket. Do without what you
he he not need. Speak your mind when ne
ry cssary. Hold your tongue when prudel
en 'in Speak to friend in a seedy coat.
you can't lend friend money, tell h
why. If you don't waut to, do the san
Cut acquaintances who lack princip
Bear with infrmities but not vices. |
spect honesty and despise duplicity.
ida Wear your old clothes until you can /
for new ones. Aim at comfort and p
priety, not fashion. Acknowledge yc
ignorance, and don't pretend knowlec
y. you havn't got. Entertain your frien
but never beyond your means.