Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07
miscellaneous Stems


this country comes from Holyoke, Mass.
A woman is before the Chicago courts for
worrying her husband with a razor"
The marquis and marchioness of Butte
have hopes OF an heir.
Madison county. Montana, has produced
$1,000, 900 in gold during the year
Stokes lawyers say that If the prcss had
kept still thay could have cleared the mur.
derer, ms slick MS PIN.
Buffalo, N. Y, paper announces that bv
the recent burning of an ice-house there, co.
600 tons of ice were reduced to ashes"
A Detroit woman gives all the empty bot
ties and worn-out hoop-skirts about the
house to the poor and wonders how big her
bank account is above.
Mrs. Summer is now living ut Nice, and
those who have recently seen her say that
she still remains one of the most beautiful
and attractive of women.
Leonora Methuen, aged IA, of Marysyillc.
CAL, took her little gun and dog, and sally
ing out, bravely pursued and slew 3O-pound
wild cat, the destroyer of her pet lamb.
Trying to do business without advertising,
is like winking at a pretty girl through pair
of green goggles. The winker may know
what he is doing but nobody else does.
A southern paper, which has learned that
fish is good brain-food, appeals to the hotel
keepers to bountifully supply the members of
the Legislature Herewith.
The vitality of the human race must be ON
the increase. Hercules would have suc-
cumbed under the weight of invectve that a
lite insurance agent will bear without wink
ing.
Barnum gave little exhibition of his talk
ing machine, the other day to a few friends,
but the concern had been broken and could
only say one woodland that wasn't very
pretty word.
One member of the Missouri Legislature
costs the State $50 for mileage, which would
cover $500 miles ut 90 cents per mile. The
people want him to lecture on the interesting
topography of the trip.
Douglas Jerrold was once asked by an in
tolerablc bore, who affected TO be n poet of
the Milton school, whether he had read his
decent into He'll" No, sir, responded the
rate wit, but should like to see it.
An act "to protect female virtue" has
been introduced into the Missouri Legisla-
ture. 1t provides that any man seduclnr a
woman shall have the choice of marrying
her, or five years of state prison.
The Philadelphia courts have decided that
steam whistles shall be "harred " within the
city limits, and some of the shops have put
in gongs that will tear the top of a mans
head of ut two miles.
That Iowa school girl who shot her teacher
because he wouldn't love and marry her is
trying to starve herself to death The shoot
ing had been arranged between her mother
and herself for fortnight
A bad showing for Maine. Four girls of
Augusta were married about eighteen months
ago at the same hour. Two have since sep
arated from their husbands and the other two
have applied for divorces.
Gotham abjures visiting cards. The "cor-
rect thing" on the hall table of every house
is gorgeously bound visiting book, wherein
each visitor records his name and any mes
sage he may wish to send.
Miss Nellie Grant is to pay a visit to her.
friend, Miss Borie of Philadelphia, next
month, where n grand reception and ball
will be given in her honor. It is stated that
Miss Grant will accompany the Borie family
to Europe in May.
The latest feminine justification of homi-
eide is in New Orleans, where Mrs. and Miss
lngrahnm are excused for shooting at one
John Kaiser in the open street, on the ground
that he had committed "breach of eti-
quette."
There is one lady down on rubber bustles.
The slippery condition of the Milwaukee
streets on Friday morning, necessitated her
sitting down with enthusiastic suddenness,
and the rebound that followed drove her
head through n sixty-dollar showcase
In one of the free night schools of New
York isa wee tot of golden-haired English
girl, only 80 years old, but bright as dollar
and she can lisp the alphabet through sur
prisingly well for Il child of her age A Ger
man girl of SO learned to read English in one
term.
Mr.. Boss Tweed goes free as was antici-
pated. New York gentleman who looked
ut the jury came out of the Court room on n
broad grin. What are you laughing aboutP '
asked II gentleman. "To see ut least three
of Tweed's chums performing the part of
jurors"
Some of the stories told of the terribly fatal
effects OF the late storm in Minnesota are al
most incredible. One paper reports that a
sleighing party of six young couples, with
their driver, were all found frozen to death,
buried almost out of sight in the snow.
San Francisco's claims to all the modern
improvements of a first-class city are not to
be sneezed at" even in comparison with
our more pretentious eastern metropolis.
She has 10 murderers in her Jail, and several
more have got the refusal of rooms there.
A Cincinnati merchant, whose store has
been robbed five times, and who has had an
extended experience with detectives, gives
it as his opinion that the hanging of detect
ives would reduce the number of robberes
about one-half
A New Haven bull dog tumbled from q
fourth-story window, and when 30 feet lower
landed upon n skylight The glass gave way,
but the iron bars didn't, and the pup stuck
there. He was pulled out, after n while,
quite ms efieotually spoiled as was the sky
light,
Gen. BoyntOn, of the Cincinnati Gazette
quotes distinguished United States Senator
rs saying, recently, "Our body is rapidly fill,
ing up with set of bad rich men, or low
order of scheming politicians, or ADLER rep
resentatives sent and owned by great corpo,
rations."
Horace F. Clarke, president of tbs Union
Pacific railroad, is not quite clear as to jim
Fisk's present whereabouts. In list OF
| Stockholders i'm the road with THAR resi.