Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-06
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Elder Knapp, the Baptist revivalist, is il
with pulmonary consumption at his home in
Rockford, Ill.
A Western paper, dwelling on the deadli-
ness Of nicotine, said that single drop on a
dogs nose will kill n man in three minutes.
And now the epidemic has reached tho
churches. The sexton Of tho First Baptist
church o Troy has ombezzled pew rents to
the amount Of $4,000.
Romantic Western love drama--"Kiss me,
Clara; Kiss me Stephen" And whom Ste
phcn tried II, she snappishly said mo, sir;
you've been chewing cardamom seeds"
"What is heavens best gift to manP'
asked n young lady Sunday night, smiling
sweetly ON n pleasant looking clerk. "a
boss" replied tho young man, with great
prudence.
At n recent fox-hunt near Santa Fe, Mi
ami County. Ind., some sixty persons SUR
rounded u tract of territory three miles in
diameter, and. drawing in," captured II
pole-cat.
One often hears woman fcar she'll
"dio of laughing" but Mrs. Simmons. of
Claremont, N. j., actually did it, Friday,
while her husband was telling something
very funny.
AS Tweed was sitting with his fellow-con-
victs at dinner, some of tho ceiling of the
room suddenly fell. Tho Blackwell's Island
doctor looked up and observed That must
be some Of GNrveys plastering."
A Chicago educational journal is Of opin-
ion that whipping is better punishment
than detention after school hours. because it
sets the blood in circulation and causes in-
creased activity of the brain.
A Clergyman. being invited to open Leg
islature with prayer, uttered the following
ambiguous petition: MAY corruption and
SIN OF every form be us far from every mem
Der of this Legislature rs Thou art"
Gail Hamilton says child is n mosaic of
his ancestors, getting, for instance, bright
ness from his mother, deception from his
father, furious temper from his uncle, and
self-restraint from his aunt" That last
clause is often particularly true.
One of tho oldest, ablest and best known
members of the Suffolk bar once dryly said
that there was no such thing as knowing
what law was until tho supreme court had
had its opportunity to guess at it.
A Louisville paper obituarized Sarah
jackson very eloquently, but perhaps equiv
ocally, in the words: "In her life she was
pattern worthy to be followed, and her
death, OH how consoling to her friends!"
Mark Twain says he thinks he was very
successful in the object Of his recent visit to
England. which was "to teach the people
good morals, and to introduce some of the
improvements of the present century"
The INDECENT lield-hand of alabama is
stimulated with such announcements as this
"A negro plowman, while blowing on the
plantation of Miss Carrie Goree, of Hale
County, found an iron chest containing 500
900 in gold and silver bars"
Elder Robert Reynolds, an old Baptist Of
Mclean County, Ky, has had his name
stricken out of the church for whipping his
daughter numerically in order to coerce
hcr into marriage. And besides, he didn't
carry his point with his daughter
Senator Scott was talking to Pennsylva-
MIA Sunday-school, Sunday or two ago, and
asked the scholars why Simon was kept in
prison. A teacher quietly prompted boy
to say that it was for hostage, and the
youth piped out; ale was detained for pos
tage."
When 1t was announced that the ex-EEI-
peror of France had died of embolism, the
majority of people wondered what tho dis
case was, and 1t was expected to become
fashionable. 1t must have grown common,
as prisoner in tho Illinois penitcntiary has
just died Of it.
Dunbarton, n. H., Is nice little town.
Its valuation of real estate is S3i9,9i and
its taxes only $330l; instead of being in
debt it has $1,000 at interest, while the
town farm has been sold because nobody is
poor enough to live on it. The savings bank
has deposits of over 100000.
A young lady of Lyons, Iowa, recently
said: ''SomO men are always talking about
patronizing their own! town-always harping
on that duty-and yet they go abroad to get
married. while here we all stand waiting
do hope that some of these men who mar
ny eastern women will got cheated"
A Georgia paper tells Of an attempt by u
powerful eagle TO carry of girl fourteen
years old. 1t says the bird lifted her from
the ground several times and carried her
some distance. She was severely wounded
by its beak and talons, her sides and arms
being terribly decorated.
Rev. George Hunt recently removed from
Chatham, Ont. and settled down ut Pine
Lake, in the wilds of Michigan. The cir
cumstance would hardly be worth mention:
ing. perhaps, il, in tho hurry and confusion
of starting, he had not made the ludicrous
mistake of taking along Mr.. Walter Robin
sons wife and children, instead of his own.
II the president were like Queen Victoria
he would Immediately bestow gucrdon upon
two couple of worthy subjects, out Vest
Mr.. and Mrs. Rosenthal, of Chicago, and
have each got triplets in the family. MIR.
Letterman casually remarked to his frau, 81
dells you, We had peter shtop dis foolishness,
don't itp"
Tho interest bearing debts of the two
great Pacific railroads, constituting the one
line, amount to $l56,6O7 900, of which about
$53 OOO. 900 is to the United States. Now
the net earnings of the two roads, last year,
were $l3, 465, 900, or sufficient to pay the in
terest on 1921, 100000 Mt 0 per cent 1t is
time, therefore, to press tho repayment to
the government of the interest on the guar
anteed debt.
Twas pretty Polly Powers who was the
queen of the third house at Topeka, during
tho election to tho Kansas senatorship. She
was grass widow, and monopoly had
marked her for its own. She reigned with
dainty grace, and captivaled all the miscel-
laneous members, but the grangers remem-