Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-05-06

ways.
A kind word spoken to a husband will 60
farther than broomstick or natiron, says
woman Of experience.
The only place where fellow can get the
worth Of bis money in spring, this year, is in
Thompsons Seasons"
The Christian Union thinks that grace be-
fore meat is cminently proper But grace be-
fore gluttony is blasphemy
The first Episcopal church erected in Rome
is by America, and II will be the only one
named after st. Paul in the Eternal City.
Snow fell in New Hampshire on seventeen
days in April, to the total amount Of tbirty-fye
inches No wonder our northeast winds are
so cold.
The authorities Of Michigan university,
last week, summarily reduced the membership
Of the sophomore and freshman classes by six
each lIazng.
A young wife who found her husband
"half seas over and towed him home by the
ear, forfeited her claim to salvage by calling
him worthless scamp
Winona, Wis, has failed. Liabilities, Si3,-
600, with no assets; and a similar one at Owa-
tonna closed up after a loss Of 800 900.
Katie Bender the she-deyil of the notori
Gus family Of murderers, was captured, Mon
day Of last week, fifty miles Fast Of Salt Lake.
She fought desperately before she was captured
-Ne-mith, Of Oregon, gave the mule a very
clear and unique status when be alluded to it
on Saturday as " one Of those useful animals
that has no pride Of ancestry and no hope Of
posterity"
President Grant, when recently told he
would be elected for a third term, promptly re-
piled " No I shall veto that. It would be
initiating my term Of office, and will always
veto initiation
Mr.. BeecheT Stowe, is reported in excel
lent health in her Florida home, and writing
new story for the Christian Union, to he called
" We and Our Neighbors," and dealing with
the temperance question,
A contemporary mentions that near
sighted hen which mistook saw-dust for Indian
meal, ate heartily thereof then layed a nest
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ou,o set Of parlor furniture.
An unlicensed dentist at Shawnee, o., on
Thursday Of last week, administered to Miss
Sullivan eighty grains Of bromide Of chloral,
from which she died in a few minutes. The
dentist fed, and has not been arrested.
A Western orator, warming with bis sub
ject. exclaimed There is not a man, woman
or child in this house. who has arrived at the
age Of fifty years, but has felt this truth thun
dering through his or her mind for centuries. "
Milwaukee Sentinel" The worst feature
about this cremation business is that some win
ter morning in a fl Of philanthropy, your
widow second husband may empty your ashes
on the les pavement for the benefit Of pedes-
trians
-GoyerBor General Concha Of Cuba, has
decrced an annual tax Of ten per cent. on all
incomes exceeding 81 600, the army and navy
excepted, the proceeds to be applied to the pay
ment Of the public debt and the redemption Of
the currency.
st. Paul seems to have held cremation
among the higher Christian virtues, as witness
" And though bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though give my body to be
burned, and have not charity it profteth me
nothing - Cor. XIII, 3.
Judge McRoberts, on opening superior
curt term in Chicago on Monday Of last week,
positively forbade the jurymen entering sa.
loon while on duty and threatened to punish
any one who so offended for contempt Of court
lie knows the Western weakness.
The value Of husband, in Kentucky has
been legally adjudged at eighty-hve dollars.
To be sure, the husbands name was Gudgell.
which may partially account for the low price
put on him. But one would think that even a
Gudgel would be worth more than eigbty-fye
di.lars
A Mr. Busy Of Lake City, Wisconsin,
had his life insured for 500 900, and a few days
ago was announced as being dead. His re-
mains could not be seen and he was buried
quietly. That is coffin was buried. Some
how the corpse has turned up in Colorado alive
again and we'll
Two fellows at South Haven, Michigan,
rivals for a young lady's hand, agreed to 20
steadiest nerves and 80 able to make the best
shot was to have the girl. They went and fired,
and when they got back they learned that she
would not have either Of them.
An Illinois school teacher has introduced
new method Of punishment. When one of
the girls misses word, the lad who spells it
has permission to kiss her. The result is said
to be that the girls are fast forgetting all they
ever knew about spelling, while the boys are
improving with wonderful rapidity.
"A Keokuk paper tells us a story of
how a clergyman at Keokuk married two young
people in Bonaparte on last Thursday by tele-
graph. The parties assembled in the telegraph
Offices, the questions and responses, service
and benediction were licked rapidly off, and the
happy pair left the Office, one flesh, welded by
lightning.
A check for 100000 was recently handed
the inventor Of metallic tips for childrens shoes,
in payment of his share in a reissue of the
patent which he had originally sold for 500
And now, with such encouragement as this,
why can't be win the everlasting gratitude Of
mothers by inyenting some kind of brass knee
plates for little boys trousers?
The insanity dodge can no farther go than
in the case Of negro in Minden, La, who
confessed to having stolen bacon from smoke
house, and was acquitted by jury of eleven
negroes and one white man, on the ground that
he was insane The judge, however, deciding
that if that were the case be was unsafe to run
at large, remanded the darby to jail
The franklin Institute is to hold its next
exhibition in the great freight depot Of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia 1t is
intended that the display shall be worthy Of q
city which has no less than eleven thousand
manufactures which produce $500 0OO, 900
worth of manufactured goods per annum, and
population Of a million people, living 10 one
hundred and twenty-six thousand houses, Of
which forty thousand are the comfortable abodes
of working people and others in moderate cir
cumstances.
WoRcEsTER.--W give place to tho enclosed
communication in order that both sides of the
controversy in this town may have hearing
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