Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-07-31
PLEAsANTRIRs

Investments in knowledge generally psy
good interest.
"Come rest In this BOSOM" az the turkey
said 10 the stu uffiDg.
"hired girl" ring is one Of the provid-
ing institutions of Detroit.
Dentists are admitted to oranges. Their
chief income is from achers.
A nan who is thoroughly occupied has
no time 10 become very miserable.
People who have seen the comet need not
complain OF being short sighted.
Ignorance gives a sort Of eternity TO pre-
judice, and perpetuity TO error.
Genius is the gold in the mine talent is
the miner who works and brings it out.
All human virtues increase and strength
ell By The practice and experience OF them.
The most brilliant fortunes are often
not worth the litlleuess required 10 gain
| them.
The swallow tail coat is in danger. The
Gar danced in a frock coat while in Eng
laud.
An inventive genius proposes TO furnish
horses with false teeth, 80 AZ TO conceal
their age.
Young lady lat the post office). "If 1
don't get n letter by this mail, want TO
know what he was doing Sunday, that's
ALL"
Boston Post: New York dogs have petit
toned for q commission TO decide which
are the maddest-the city authorities Or the
ours.
Nothing comes for nothing. The beau
| F,,l .,,h. tfat haa
likely cost him health aud a small fortune.
Be assured that when once a woman be-
gins 10 be ashamed Of what she ought not
TO be ashamed of, she will not be ashamed
Of what she ought.
Instead Of removing the loafers who oc-
cupy the seats on Bosten common and in
suit decent people, the city authorities have
resolved to move the seats.
A writer on the New York Tribune
speaks OF "women cackling over their ba-
bies." Such remarks as this are calculated
10 destroy the very bulwarks of society.
The most fervent femme petitions for
the right OF suffrage cannot but be grateful
In this weather that she Is only miser
BILE slave, aud does not belong to boat 8
crew or a bass ball club.
A couple were married the other day al
Taunton, Mass, afler a patient cOurtshiI
of thirty years. The clergyman who per-
formed the ceremony was not born when
they were afianeed.
Wars, comets, Iestilence, and toppling
dyuasties may fill the world with fear oil
wonder; but nothing goes down 10 the
marrow OF mans soul so much as the an-
nouncement Of his baby's first tooth.
Cincinnati Enquirer: DR.. Cuyler want'
all young ladies' TO band together aud
say "No lips shall touch my lips that have &
touched a bottle" Rather rough, this, on
the young fellows that were brought up by
hand.
Boston Globe: The Princess Of Vale
has persuaded her mother-in-law TO allow
her to wear the Kohinoor occasionally, IL
order to teach the Duchess Of Edinburgh
her place, and convince her that her nev
Ceylon sapphire isn't much aner all.
Detroit Free Press: Turn, for a mOmen
from the Beeeber scandal, and ponder owe
the fact that the footprints Of Chicago la
dy on the prairie, near Michigan city, go
q crowd OF men out TO hunt for a stray el
ephant.
One OF the most plaintlve and touchin
ballads belonging to the "Put Me in M
Little Bed" series has just been published
for plano and parlor disturbance. It
called "Mother, Bring Ny Little Kitten" ;"
The discovery that a yellow color wi
avert the fatal chemical ray which produC
es sunsLroke will be likely to afford ex
, cuses, remarks the Graphic, for carryin
Q yellow. covered literature in the hat durln
the heated term.
i Washington Chronicle: A peddler calle
on a UnIontown lady to dispose Of som
goods, and inquired of her If she could To
4 him OF any road on which no peddler la
travelled. Eyes" replied she, "I know c
one, and that's the road to Heaysn."
The man who came all the way from Sa
francisco to 81. Louis TO see Carl Schul
Jump from one OF the towers OF the gre
l. Bridge. has received letters OF cOndolenC
from John Cochrane and other members
the Liberal party Brooklyn Argus.