Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-02
miscellaneous Stems.

"A wisconsin man was hned 80 Tor cutting
of cats ears with jack-knife.
1t is rather cool in San Francisco paper
to advise young man to Ego West"
The height Of baby's ambition is to lie
on its back and "chaw" its toes.
The vulgar custom of displaying wedding
presents has gone completely out of fashion.
A doctor was shot lately in Iowa, and a
local paper had strong fears of his recOv-
cry"
A Kansas City (Mo.) woman carried off
another woman's baby to satisfy claim of
six dollars.
A St. Paul lovers quarrel of IA years
duration has just been converted into mat
rimOnial quarrel.
A son of the late President Tyler is fool
ing away his time in lecturing on temper
ance to Californians.
Subsidy Pom is fitting up new house in
Washington, as if his election to the senator
ship were foregone conclusion.
A good looking Buffalo girl has sold over
500 sewing machines during the past year.
Smiles and tears did the business.
You can now use postage stamp twice.
The first time it will cost you three cents, the
second time fifty dollars.
The gOssips have james Gordon Bennett
dead in love with Danish princess, and
they say the old king has told him he may
have her.
Smoking tobacco and pistol cartridges
should be kept in separate bags. A Chicago
man neglected this little precaution and he
is blind man now.
A plain funeral in New York costs from
5000 to $500. 1t is estimated that $780,
600 week is expended in burylng the dead
= Of that city.
A Chicago tenant has just recovered $500
Of the landlord who leased him premises in
fected with smallpox, two Of his children
having died Of the disease.
The New York Legislature has done one
sensible thing, at least. 1t has passed a law
making it misdemeanor to point gun at
any person, whether it is loaded or not.
The dead body of William Mountpleasant,
hereditary chief of the Tuscarora Indians,
was found at Lewiston, N. Y, last week.
He was a respectable Indian till he took to
fre-water.
Both branches of the Ohio Legislature
have passed bill providing punishment by
imprisonment in the penitentiary, of persons
convicted of bribing state officers or members
of the Legislature
st. Louis boys construct ghostly wooden
skeletons, which are held in an erect position
by an iron pipe driven into the ground to
which jumpingjack motions are adjusted by
strings and pulleys
You can't pick up paper without seeing
that this family or that has fallen heir to
property in Great Britain. If one-half Of
the number get their money it will take every
dollar out of England and Scotland.
Found at last-the LATEST man on record
His name is j. B. Brown; he has been q
postal clerk on q Wisconsin railroad, and he
was arrested, the other day, for burning mail
matter to save the labor of distributing it
There was desire on the part of thu
teacher to make a scholar understand wha
the conscience is. She said, "What make
you feel bad after you have done wrong p
my pop" said the youth, feelingly.
EuvelOping his show bill portrait in flames
was one of Barnum's lucky thoughts, but
wrong construction was put upon the scene
the other day, by little lad who, gazing a
the great Snowman in lake of fire, timidl,
asked, "Was he so very wicked, mother ?"
1t is most curious fact that very few
senators decline to take their back pay the
do not come before the people for recollection
at once, and by the time that it does com
up they expect that the excitement on tn
a subject will have Dassed away