Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
miscellaneous Stems.

Worth, the Paris dress-maker is ont of
vogue with tho fashionables.
Continual cold feet are no longer ground
Of divorce in Indiana.
II is becoming one Of the fashionable fol.
lies to send American boys and girls to for
eign boarding
Mr. Gillian of Toleda fell to and beat Mrs.
Grady, when she came unlimited to his
daughters wedding.
Nova Scotia yielded in tho ten years end
ing January |, 1871, about eight tons of gold,
valued at $3,64O,356.
The Omaha Bee delicately suggests that
" il the postmaster would resign, many per-
sons would feel less anxious about their
money letters"
business.like young lady of % in Water
loo, Mich, got Sll 900 cash in hand from
her bridegroom of 80 before the marriage
ceremony.
Indiana woman is angry because her
husband took her very best sheet to hang
himself, when there was an old clothes-line
in the cellar which was good enough
An Iowa man and his two sons have mar
ried three sisters. Their spare time is de-
voted to solving the relationship of the chill
dren.
Each person may have separate gift
Even the gift to be able to lie and suffer is
! not II small one, rs many congressman
can testify
The worst instance of heartless trifing is
getting up duns on enameled paper, with an
embossed monogram, the superscription be-
ingin feminine hand
The Oregon miltia's bill for their SO DAYS
services against the Modocs amounts to
$4,000. And the state papers say all the
soldiers did was to get licked
Troy school-boy tried to fly with turkeys
wings, but failed to see wherein his flight
differed from the ordinary tumbling down
stairs.
An Indiana paper has already hoisted its
ticket Tor 1875. 1t is: Oliver p. Morton for
president, and Benjamin f. Butler for vice.
president.
An Iowa paper breaches sharp sermon
To lowans, because they send East for canned
corn and fruit, and even beans and pickles,
and then complain of hard times.
The Western GET makes this valuable con-
tributIon to the Historical Primer of the flr-
| turc -
Amadeus king Of Spain
MizzIed when he couldn't reign"
The hanging of Driver on Friday was tho
first execution Chicago has had for eight
years. There has been plenty of murders
and plenty of convictions in that time but no
fruit upon the gallows-tree.
Elvina Stickney, the liz. school girl who shot
her school master because he was not in
love with her, has been pronounced insane
ofcourse but they have had to raise the sal
aries of school masters in that section.
An Oswego county On. " jury was liber-
ally treated TO brandy at the expense of the
accused, the constable kindly officiating as a
means of communication, and the verdict
was :" in accordance with the crcumStan
ces -
Baltimore blasphemer was fined $50, the
other day. Probably every state in the
Union has laws agains, swearing, but it is
believed there have been numerous instances
in which the penalty has not followed the
offense.
novel elopement even for Kentucky was
that of IL gray haired parent and his son of
10 with two young aud blooming sisters
Passengers on the train said it was quite
amusing to see them chuckle over their sue
cess in el9ding the stern parent Of the girls.
! At the instigatlon of the dissatisfied En-
| pliSh directors tha n,una Of ia, g.,
nous Emma silver mine in Utah is being
revolutionized to see # the former yield of
IS per share, each month, cannot again be
attained and the price of the stock brought
up 10 the standard of its palmy days.
They had Il very quiet elopement in De-
troit the other day. A man ran away with
another mans wife without saying II word
to her about it, and when her husband found
it out he never uttered word of complaint,
although he was the mnddost looking man
in seven counties. They were all deaf-mutes.
The Cincinnati Commercial has come to
the conclusion that " the chances for heaven
of men who have been hanged for malicious
murder, Notwithstanding the profusion of
their professions, and the testimony of their
pastors, are not greater than those of the
masses of men who die decenty in their
| beds
The Indiana legislature having passed II
bill to prevent minors from playing billiards,
the Louisville CoUrier-J0uI7idi remarks
We never blamed Indiana much for per-
hitting boy of eighteen or twenty years of
age to buy divorce for ten dollars, but we
| ALWAYS thought she WAS very wrnnp in suffpr-
ing him to punch billiards"
A Clergyman in Missouri reports that re-
centlyho was called upon by II man to attend
the funeral of his child; that the next day
this man was thrown ftOm his horse and
killed; that the next day the widow came
and asked him to preach the funeral sermon
for her husband and child; and that the
next morning she was fatally stabbed by
another woman,
The following conversation between two
clever lawyers was overheard " How does
your client like it?' Not overmuch begins
To complain of the expense" Mine is all
right; bound to fight ii out. Can we manage
to get the jury To disagree again?n Don't
know we must work for it," You'll get
beat, OF course, in the end hut you'll APP
peal, of course?n "Of course"
A Frankfort, (Ky.,) woman has II menag-
erie in her stomach. She has been i'll for
some time, and has been lrightfully emacia-
| ted, although having all the time a vora-
cous appetite No cause for her illness co uld
| be discovered until she Vomited IA dead
mouse, II few days ago, and shortly after
| al inI