Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-28
miscellaneous Stems.

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California is stocking her woods with wild
! turkeys imported from Illinois
The coffin OF Kamchamha V. with X. V.
IN it weighed over n ton.
Two English sisters named Pratt have lust
put up their shingles us dentists IN Berlin.
They draw.
A bachelor editor who had pretty sister,
wrote to another similarly situated, Please
exchange
One of Barnum's "elifants has dyed of
enformation," so the letter from the trainer
to the Snowman asserts
The Illinois Legislature has voted to pur
chase the saddle-bags and surveying instru-
ments of the late President Lincoln.
Our statesmen say to-day they would be glad
To know flames has nything TO Add.
They used TO ask, unless the y beed
Whether he hadn't something to Divide.
Prof. Agassiz having stated that Niagara
would run dry in about 10 centuries, the
hnckmen at the Falls Immediately raised
their fares.
A La Crosse (Wis.) girl rubbed her check
against her sisters husbands hand to get up
II healthy glow Tor ball, and she has been
turned ont of the house for it,
A New York correspondent says that in
that city the circulation OF the GALAXY is near
ly rs large as Hdrper'S; Scribner'S is third,
the atlantic fourth.
a chunk of gold weighing over 24O pounds,
and worth about $4,000, was found in the
claims Of 70 Yen IL Co., at Moore's Flat
| Col lately.
You can always tell a merchant who adj
vertises, from one who does not the former
wears out the soles of his boots, and the lat.
ter the seat of his pants
The Indiana Legislature has passed a bill
regulating passenger and freight charges by
railroads in the state. fixing passenger fares
mt three cents mile.
A Brooklyn man has sued to recover
diamond ring presented by his son, now
dead, to the young woman to whom it 10
supposed he WAS engaged.
Ninety-six of the physicians of Montreal
have signed paper designed to undeceve
the public mind of the mschievious error
that alcoholic liquors are beneficial"
- Hi''h "hc pOuSlll a iON cigars
recently, on being asked what he was carry
ing, replied that they were tickets to n course
of lectures to be given by his wife!
Minnesota papers tell of little boy who
was killed while sliding down hill by running
into n telegraph wire which "A few days thaw
had brought above the surface of the snow
The reward of independent journalism:
hn 4 lhnt, IT,, e.
servile burden of organ griuding," has
gained 1000 in circulation since January l.
The Richmond Sate J0urHal thinks that
the vacancies in the regular army should be
filled by competitive examination and that
civilians shonld have an equal chance with
West Point cadets.
The young man who was advised to mar
ry and excused himself because his father
never had married. but had got along just as
well, is now acting rs agent for IV0odbWH d
Ciqbfin's Weekly.
n well-todO old gentleman at Nashville,
Tenn, has brought the science of economy
to so fine Il point that he stops his clock
when the sun shines, to save wear and tear,
ond determines the time OF day from outside
observations.
The Louisville Conrier-Jou17,at thinks
Amadeus must feel pretty much as the preach
or did who sent his hat around for collection,
and, on having it returned to him without a
cent in it, thanked God that he had got his
hat from that congregation.
America needs purity in her high places,
and incorruptible men in stations of honor
and trust, more than she needs additional
highways for her commerce. The best g." in
ternal improvements are made in the
hearts Of her citizens and legislators.
: Galveston, Tex, imagines it has had lin
tensely cold weather." because the mercury
: has been at % degrees above zero; and ow-
ing to this state of affairs, the DRINKS and
, othc lesser criminals were released from Jail
to prevent their suffering from the cold
The inhabitants of Pinegrove, Pa, report
that the phenomenon Of mock suns" re-
Gently occurred there,-three suns being Wis
: lble at the same time, about sunrise. A
town where all the people get so drunk MS
that so early in the day should be Good
, Templared.
, DIR. Peters, of Hamilton, discovered a new
planet on the night of the 18th. BY the way .,
e this reporting ofnew-found planets is getting
= altogether too common. We know of any
d quantity ofpeople who see new stars every
o night; but of course are too busy to stop and
, telegraph the right ascensions destinations,
= magnitude, etc.
: Shall the state furnish the means for free
y education, and still allow parents to bring
up their children in ignorance? This is the
y question which is agitatIng the public mind
r and demands careful consideration. We
e take It for granted that republics can only
e flourish when based on the general intell-
/ gence of the people.
, The accusation of plagiarism against
i Charles Reade which was published in the
e London Ahencum and led to a suit for libel,
was written by woman, hence it is painful
!, to hear Mr.. Reade say that the author of the
+ statement Is II "trickster, scurrlOus skunk,
and pseudonymncule.' This last is too
much to say about anywoman, and Read e
i, ought to be above initiating Camp.
f II appears that those who go to Kansas
with summer cassimeres expecting to en-
/. JOY life in II temperate climate" are pain
f fully mistaken. The changes of weather are
sudden and severe. Stock must he fed and
cared for rs in the older States. No ere
e donce is TO be given to the plausible stories
of railroad land agents, nor upon the fanci-
ful reports of newspapers
The pert misses of San Francisco Gram
mar School have mutinicd against their
: principal who, TO do them justice, would
seem to be- AN ignOramus generally The
" girls grievances are summed up in this frank
y confession OF one of them to reporter
ave hate him. He don't know anything