Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-08
NO. 10.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The contented man Is never poor. tho
discontented never rich.
Cash on delivery" Is the custom
adopted by popular lecturers.
Why Is chicken like a farmer3 Be.
cause both delight in q full crop.
Axiom for tho kitchen-Things rubbed
against crater become less.
On week days you buy your music by
the sheet. On Sundays you can have 1t by
the choir.
"A Detroit paper, noting the fact that
man fell down dead while combing bis
hair, says: And yet there are people who
| VIII persist In that dangerous habit"
A teetotaller, the other day, asked a
neighbor if he were not inclined to the
temperance society, and he replied, "Yes,
for when see liquor my mouth waters"
DIR. Pau! Scheppe, who so narrowly
escaped hanging IN Carlisle, Pa, has been
sentenced to three years In the Illinois State
Prison for forgery.
"A. d. 1000. Scene before cremation
undertakers shop: Small boy-"I say, sir,
is dad done YETI II be is please put his ash
es in this ere tin kettle"
May 18th is the day announced for tie
marriage of General Schenck and Mrs.
Pickering Hicks Of New York city. The
lady is Roman Catholic and very wealthy.
From the printers stand point there is
very little difference between life and death
"A mere difference of an "m"-creatiou
and cremation.
An exchange says that a Michigan man
dreamed recently that his aunt was dead.
The dream proved true. He tried the
same dream on his mother .in-ln-law, but
ii didn't work.
The Saturday Review tells OF Scotch
clergyman who quoted text of Scripture
in his prayer, and added: "For that, o
Lord, is the correct translation of the pas.
sage"
Butler will be ffty-six years old next
November. The proposal to make the an
niversary Of his birth day of national fast
ing and prayer eXcites much enthusiasm.
Mr.. A. S. Freese, of Moultonboro, n.
H., has lamb which he thinks is worth
mentioning. At seven days old it weighed
twenty pounds. Breed not given.
An Illinois woman, when they began
to have congressmen-at-large, out there,
hearing the fact alluded to, straightway
rushed into the kitchen, exclaiming,
SARAH Jane, don't leave the clothes out,
tonight, for there's a congressman at
large ~
1t is reported that Senator Carl Schurz
has accepted the editorship Of a German
newspaper, at New York, at a $40, 200 sala-
ry, and will remove there from Missouri
at the close Of his present senatorial term.
The overflow OF the Mississippi river
has had disastrous effect on the Louisiana
cotton crop. Many of The finest planta-
tions are 50 bmerged, and almost the entire
parish OF West Baton Rouge and the whole
parish Of Iberyille are under water.
-"Old Badly" the North Carolina sup
posed-to be volcano, is reported to have
fresh iii Of the shakes, and much worse
than his former attacks. Prof. Du Pre-, ge-
ologist of Woodford college, S. c., has been
out there examining into the phenomena,
and Is convinced that the mountain is seri-
ously disturbed within, but isn't so certain
that it will ever see daylight.
1t is a good aud safe rule 10 sojourn in
every place as ifyou meant to spend your
life there, never emitting an opportunity of
doing Kindness, or speaking true word,
or making friend. Seeds thus sown by
the waysde often bring forth an abundant
harvest.
Ex-senator Patterson OF Hanover, n.
H., was presented with a handsome gold
headed cane, on Tuesday evening, by The
students of Dartmouth college, as q token
OF gratitude for the interest he has always
manifested in their welfare.
A sad case OF accidental shooting oc-
Cured at Parsonfeld, Me-, on Sunday.
James Sargent was examining loaded re-
volver, when it was discharged and the
ball entering the side of his little girl eight
years old, she died in two hours.
Boston claims TO have diamond ring
which once belonged TO Sir Isaac Newton.
| That is nothing. st. Louis has the lead
pencil with which Noah checked off the
animals that went into the ark.-St. Louis
| Democrat.