Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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green turtle.
A child without eyes and ears has
been born in North Carolina.
A child having three arms was recent
| ly born in Brown county, ILL.,, and IS
doing well.
An exchange asks: us there any,
thing man cannot do?" Another replies :;
..Yes sir: we have never known one to
suckle a baby.
The Tennessee negroes in convention
assembled have resolved that at is their
duty as men to arrange for the perfect
development Of posterity.
A thousand children have been taken
to the gas works in Hartford, Conn.,,
this spring. to be cured of whooping-
cough by inhaling crude gas from the
retort.
Boston responded first and best to the
appeal from the parish sufferers. We
can forgive Boston for many of her isms
on account of the noble response she
made to the suffering southerners.
Passengers to the Pacific by rail,
breakfast on the Sierras, with twenty
feet of snow around them. Four hours
after they find wheat four inches high,
and the next day they see pear and
peach trees in blossom.
The young ladies of Prospect Hill
School, Greenfield. have formed base
ball club. They enjoy playing the ma
tional game. and break their slender
fingers and skin their pretty noses with
great happiness.
1.-The New York Herald's corresp ond-
ent, Stanley, has been indicated He
was recognized by Dr. Livingstone's
comrades, who returned with his remains,
and was one of the prominent pail bear
ers at the funeral Stanley needed no
vindication. Everybody but few jeal-
Gus idiots believed his story long ago.
A man with pink eyes and magenta
colored hair, wearing bloomer costume
and cooked hat, entered The Journal
counting room on Wednesday. After
going through the manual with cotton
umbrella, he presented the following,
and then made very hasty retreat in
the direction of the Lunatic Asylum
IF an unmarried man, aged "a years
months Is days, should meet cross
eyed man, aged ~ years months )
days, passing up the left hand side Of
State street, how many pounds of soap
would it take at II So per pound to
pay for IL 3-4 inches of blue gingham,
which is fast color, and shovel the snow
from ten sidewalks when the snow is
inches deep and bricks $40 per MP"
Speaking of cremation (the burning
instead of burying dead bodies) the Bal
timore Episcopal Methodist remarks that
this newborn desire of some people to
be consumed is rather remarkable, in
view of the fact that ''unless many of
them change their course of living they
will be gratifed to their hearts content
hereafter, and without any trouble to
themselves This is a sulphurous hint
of the most affectionate kind.
A quaint old fisherman. along towards
dusk, was fishing in trout stream, and,
as he flung his fly over the water, it was
suddenly snapped by large bat. The
Strengthening thing dangled and flap
ped Its wings at the end of the line.
The fsherman's companion called out.
Say, Sam, got anything?' Yeas
looking at the bat on his hook. s.What
is it ?" Il dunno, unless it's eheru-
bum ~
! Five garroters, who had been convict
ed at the Leeds Assizes, were fioeged
with cato -nine-tails at the Armory iail.
Leeds, on April Is. James Boyd, who
received twenty-five lashes, screamed,
..'oh my back. Murder murder
Doctor doctorl'' during the whole of
the punishment. John Dyer, aged II,
who received the same number of lashes
as Boyd, was very much terrified. When
the last stroke had fallen he exclaimed,
'sThank God Thank God O.. Lord
God it's terrible It's awful!''
The country is full of money. The
stagnation in business is greatly owing
to the want of sound policy in Con-
gress; labor is unemployed because of
the speculation and high prices conse-
quent upon a redundant and irredeema-
bic currency; and there will be distress
and suffering in the country so long as
Government dollar is only fiction and
taisehood.-Proeidence Journal.
At indianapolis, the other day. a three
and half year old child climbed through
an attic window and walked along the
edge of the roof, thirty-two feet from
the ground, the whole length of the
| mouse, and there stood unconcerned and
enjoying the prospect. She was seen by
the maid of all work, who pleasantly
called out, Come down; I've got some
thing for you. t'All yite," cried the
little one, and she retraeed her stems
and disappeared through the attic win
dow in safety.
At Victoria, Vancouyer's Island savo
letter from Boston boy, You will fiEd
arrayedsto receive you the most shocking
and complete collection of ugly women
IN the world. These are the Indians of
TINS region. They are very light color
ed; their complexion has an artificial
look; there is something CHASTITY and
unnatural In the yellow of the faces nen-
etrated by the rose or carnine color of
their cheeks. They are hideous in all
the possible aspects and varieties Of hid
eousness-undersized. squat, eyil-eyed
pug-nosed, tawdry IN dress. ungraceful
IN every motion.
IL Is "a rather singular fact that 50
many OF the editors of this city are liv.
ing In state of bachelordom. Bennett
Ine immensely rich editor and proprie-
TOR OF the Aeac York Herald. is a soIi.
tary bachelor though he will soon be
forty. Reid, the editor of the Tribune
IS a solitary bachelor, though he is some.