Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-02-12
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invented in Minnesota.
Thousands Of cattle in the Nueees
Valley are dying Of hunger.
The Lake Superior region produced
15,17l tons Of copper last year.
How to turn peoples beads-Come
into concert late in thick boots.
Prof Tyndal sailed from New York
for Liverpool in the Cuba last week.
Virginia is drawing large numbers OF
permanent settlers from the Northwest
--Roamine hogs in Kentucky tic knots
in their tails and call them pigs ties
George MacDonalds health is much
improved. lie is lecturiog in the West
And now It's the cherry trees. All
dead from Canoda to the Gulf Of Mexico
There is rage for black silk stock
ngs among the fashionable ladies oil Lon
don.
Tho consumption Of candy in the
mining districts Of California aud Nevada
is enormous.
They have a mite society in Madison
3 Vile, Ky, aud it is mighty nice thing ior
the young people.
Josh Billings says that mosquitoes
b have 10 their veins some Of the best blood
d in the country.
A western editor says Of a uoighbor-
, ing editor with quivcring cyelid that he
K suffers in the left eye
y "A woman in Birmingham, England,
d was lately fined 500 for giving coed
e character to a bad servant.
7 The general cutlery for good free
d school system is ably sustained by large
s part Of the Tennessee press
q North Carolina ladies are substituting
r. plaid cottous woven in the State for prints
" from New England.
~ An Iowa paper boasts Of weather
n. cold enough to make an Arctic bear wear
li pulse warmers
ie Judy says that some people who set
I, up for being funny fellows bad much better
i, sit down again.
- Apple frittets containing gifts Of jew
y olry are the latest inducements held out by
e. Kentucky restauratours.
ca Some Of those newspapers which give
h. to every subscriber a chrome crow more
", than ever did the inventor Of lithography.
t Tho President is urging Congress to
he take some measures for securing the rights
n Of and aflorling protection to the "Gen-
ed tiles in Utah.
liz The death Of Mr. Dixon, who first as
pc ccrtained that oysters were eatabe, is an
III nounced as having occurred ut Crisded
I'd, Nd, recently.
"A man in Utica, obliged by the deep
snow 20 60 home by way of the chimney,
go into bot water by getting into the wrong
house.
pa Bill, have bceu introduced IN the New
Ike York State Legislature for anucxiug Nor
ar risania aud West Farms, Westchostor
hat County, TO Now York city.
of There were 1Sli books published 10
~ England during the year 1872 OF these
" 1924 were new books, 100 were new
MS editions aud 300 were American Imports
ore tons
IS The Northern Pacific Railway Com
rul. pauy is offered ever so many square miles
bo, of land at Baiingham bay, Washington
~, Territory, if It will make the terminus OF
its road there.
~ Portsmouth, n II, proposes novel
ara method Of forming public library, by iu-
the it on the 4.h Of July next to "march into
,s " town with book under his arm"
"A Portland clergyman startled bis
aock on Sunday evening by telling them
that Hon was not SO fun Of men and
TO women, az men and women were fM of
nee he'll.
tiers "A political orator, speaking Of GER
.dre tain general whom he admired, SAID hc was
boi, always, on the field Of battle, where tho
bullets were the thickest. Where was
I's' that p la the ammunition wagon
ANS Two members Of Congress- as was
'yen stated in Washington a day or two since
will actually ranked 1900 600 documents last
isse. summer. Was itnot about time to abolish
rro the iranking privilege
IN February is sometimes called the Ger
- man month because Of the many German
D De- festivities by which it is marked There
the are commentators, however, who suppose il
ous. is dedicated to the Germans on account Of
600 there being bruary in it.
ntod Some startling disclosures have beer
a. made respecting the recent fires at Brook
''' Iyn through the arrest of an inccndiary and
pair bis accomplices, by which it has been proved
this that the City Of Churches has Of late been
ocie under regular system Of arson.
The Cincinnati Times and Clroaicl
lately remarked The blooming faces o
u the Hamilton county delegation were seer
- in our midst last night" This lead
low naturally to the inquiry How many dele
great gates can Cincinnati editor eat
all it "A Dakota hpmesteader's wife used
Yhich Sioux City bachelors love letters to her T.
- chink the cracks in the cabin AT last ac
counts the bachelor was expertly dodgn
a'lVo that homesteader, who had revolver i
/ the one hand and those loye-letters in the 9th
wild er.
stone The city railroads of Philadelphia ar
roat. to be taxed one cent per capita for the cen
~. tennal fund, and public sentiment acqui
esces. If the horse-railroads in Bosto
CARA had been thus taxed, the Jubilee committe
The would never have been obliged to pay up
liaue guarantee fund.
ngly. The new city hall of Chicago is to b
scoIo adorned with a beautiful allegorical pain,
ing presented by the artists and staff of tn
tue London (Eugland) Illustrated Graph,
that The figures are liie-size, and will represet
egiou Sister Columbia rising from the Ohicog
,sible ruins.
who "A political essayist once published a
MN, essay entitled, " Does Protection Protect ?
The Cincinnati Enquirer, treating of ii
detectives of Cincinnati, asks Does d,
lection Detect? ?" And now the Louisvill
New Courier-Journal inquiries, " Does Eectio
,a,ter Elect 2"
The Mark Twain in his lecture on til
hat Sandwich Islands, in New York on Wee
nesday evening, spoke of Prince Lunall
s'lon' as one Of fine nature, cultivated talent
first and an ardent friend of Americans, c,
'eport pressing moreover, doubt as to wheth'
bated the stories Of his dissipation were not e.
aggerated.
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