Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
miscellaneous Stems.

marry again, and rs recommendation she
says she has used one broom for fourteen
years. The stick is ms good rs ever
Large sums OF money in the hands of the
few, control England. The accumulation of
money in the hands of the few in this Goun-
try during the last decade, Is fabulous.
There was negro wedding in Columbus,
Miss, lately which boosted cards, nine
roasted pigs and hundred cakes, and ta-
pered Oh with three reception-days.
That was u practical woman who wrote
to Evangelist Hammond at st. LOUIS, asking
prayers to lift the mortgage on her farm,
that she and her little ones may not be
thrown out of "a home.
1t docs seem rs though there is but one
object in view nowadays with whoever has
any handling of public funds, and that is to
see how much OF ii can he retained or oh
tanned without returning value received.
A Toledo poetess has had ll6 poems re-
jected by one newspaper. and is now writing
No. III. II the unjust judge" mentioned
in Luke, 18th chapter, had been like that
editor. the widow would never have got her
case
A youth of Cairo, ILL.,. killed himself be-
cause he had been found out in II $3.50 de-
falcation. II was too bad to h. ''cut off even
in the very blossom of his sim; had there
been three ciphers more and Il ch ance to
get TO Europe. then
A political orator, speaking of u certain
gentleman whom he protested to admire,
said that on the field OF battle he was always
found where the bullets were thickest
Where was that? asked one of his auditors
In the ammunition wagon.
The Jacksonville Republican tells roman
tic story of Walda Blossom, of Boston, now
in Florida who has fallen heir to oyer ST.
Ooo,O 900 worth of property lett him by man
named Larimcr, whom he saved from utter
destruction some twenty years ago.
An Elder Gordon, of Kentucky. announc-
minister of the Gospel, has baptized over
1000 persons in the course of u laborious
itineraey, and has received during the whole
period of his service only $40.
Mr.. William Henry Smith, reelected NJ.
p. for Westminster, and Mr.. Disraeli's new
ly appointed parliamentary Secretary of the
Treasury commenced life in London as -
newsboy, and developing his calling into AN
important business has grown immensely
rich, standing well in the way for peerage.
During the war Ben Butler. who wore
major-genera's stars, WAS in reality suffer-
in-chief to the army ol The United States.
The amount of trading that he did with the
South. during those eventful years, would
make dead generation Of New England
tim peddlers rattle their skeleton knes-pans
with envy.
In Polynesia, where sixty years ago hea-
thenisms ruled, there are at the present time
about 100000 native protesting Christians,
and in many OF the islands cannibalism has
been entirely suppressed. On the other hand
the population is reduced rs per cent. in con-
sequence OF loahsome disease introduced
by the whites.
Punch has y striking satire on the preva-
lence Of railroad accidents which has some
thing more than local application The pic
ture is entitled "A Hitch" and represents II
traffic manager saying TO II station master,
who has just made report Lime not
clear yctP Tut-t-t-t! We shall never be in
time for the afternoons collision. you know"
The Hartford Comm Courdnt, Gen. Joe
Hawley's paper, asks "ls there amy deliver
nnce from the body OF this mediocrity? Is
there any way by which the business of the
government can be done by business men,
and by which the country can he represented
by its representative menp Are we cast
into n slough of ward politicians and work
ers In the chicane of politics from which
there is no escaped
We hope the late Sister Anna Maria Taiga
of Rome will not prove TO have been in-
spired She predicted that the Pope would
die In 1874, and "for three days and three
nights Cimmerian darkness will rest over
the earth, hiding every object in the world
from view; the people who look out of the
windows for the purpose of deserving what
is gong on in the armament will be imme-
diately struck down dead"
Senator Flanagan, of Texas, learned
something from rebel experience, for he
says: "When the Confederate money was
first issued every patriotic man was anxious
TO exchange gold for it. and they all cried
ont, just like my friend Mr.. Morton, Give
us more money! More money! and the end
Of it was that after while $1,000 m Confed-
crate money would only bring 81 in gold,''
A Detroit policeman heard that citizen
of Twelfth street had been badly injured,
and he called at the house TO obtain partio-
uars. He found the man lying on the
lounge, his head hound up and his face bad
~ scratched, and he asked: Whats the
matter; did you get run over or fall
down st. irsP" mo- not exactly" replied
the wife; "but he wanted to run the house
his way. and wanted to run it my way,
and there he is
The st. Louis Republican says II repub-
llcan grangers are always to stick to their
party, and democratic grangers always to
stick to theirs, they will leave little impress
on the course of public events IN which they
are more Interested than any other single
class OF our people. 1t is only by breaking
loose from their respective parties, when
they become corrupt, and defeating first one
and then the other, in imitation Of the ex-
ample in California and Wisconsin, that they
can reform politics and politicians.
"YOu want nothing but a dish-kettle, "
said an old housewife in the backwoods to
her daughter, who had just got married.
"Why, when your father and | commenced
had nothing but u dsh-keitle. used Ia
boil my coffee In it, and pour ii into pitch
er; then boiled my potatoes in it, and sci
thom on n warm plate, while stewed uI
the meat in IT. used to milk in it-and
} always, after a meal, fed the pigs out Of
the dish-kettle. Sal, If you are only mind
: to, ySu can use II for anything"