Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-06
Mlisrellantous STEMS.

~. LOUIS pays S2S,OOO n year Ter the mu- |
sic in her public schools.
California registered 1853 divorces, last
year.
Pennsylvania is considering the question
of whether punctuation shall be taught in
the public schools.
The Journal of he Disciples Of Satan
is the highly descriptive title of y recently
started newspaper.
The archbishop of Santiago declares that
female voices in the choir are dangerous to
true pioty and devotion.
Mr.. Elliot, the colored representative
from South Carolina was born and educa-
ted in England.
The Jim and Eliza JoN,Udh edited by Jim
and Eliza, his wife, is the last blossom Of
Mississippi journalism.
Florida's state debt foots up 81, 62O, SO9:
and last year is the first since reconstruction
that tho revenue of the state has exceeded
its expenditures.
Stalwart native women, who are paid 80
cents a day for their services, play an impor-
tant part in the transportation service of
the British army in Ashanteeland,
The Grand Trunk railway OF Canada in
sures its employees against accidents, the
company paying half tho rates and the men
the rest, in stated monthly contributions.
The four hundred girls ut Vassar College
are obliged to rise at O'Clock in the morn
ing, and are not allowed TO have beaux
Il
The chaplain of the Senate has taken TO
praying for the press-perhaps because sat
isfied that the indicators of Matt Carpenter
are past praying for. Much obliged, doctor.
The Senator Flanagan. who held up his
back pay and shouted, "Thar it isl is chair
man on the committee on education, Charles
Sumner being fourth ON the same committee.
Fashionable young ladies arc reported to
be going through n series of dumb-bell eX-
ercises in order TO give their wrists the
strength necessary to WELD the large Span
ish fan now coming generally into use.
The old lady said, in describing the run
away, that her faith in Providence held out
till the breeching broke, and then she did
L
breeching had broken at Washington.
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has been obliged,
owing 10 the palsied condition Of his hands,
to ask the Legislature to pass law allowing
him to use stamp instead of writing his
signature upon official documents.
The hotel keepers of Chicago talk of or
ganizing dead-beat mutual protection so.
ciety. The city is much infested with this
class of swindlers, this winter, and many 2
hotel bill has been evadcd.
Rev. Samuel ScOville, son-ln-law of Henry
Ward Beecher, who has run with 1.-THE boys
of hook-and-ladder company in Norwich
n. Y, for several years, has now become
chief engineer of the towns fire depart
ment.
Napoleon was mistaken when he said
Providence is always on the side of the
heaviest artillery" for Fort Adams, with it,
heaviest artillery, is on one side, and Prov.
idence on the ether. So they say in Rhode
Island
The San Francisco city hall elephant
seems to be one of the large kind. The en-.
tire appropriation ofI$l, 100000 has beer
used up, and it is estimated that Sl,750 ,O0(
to 50, OOO, 900 will be needed TO finish the
building.
New Jerseys iron mines yielded, last
year, $40, 900 tons of orc, of which 0,0O(
tons We're manufactured into pig-iron. The
value of the product IS about $3,OO0,OOO. In
1867. the product of the mines was only
300, 900 tens.
AT the Tere Haute depot, recently, al
old lady attempted to get off while the cars
were in motion. gentleman standing n
the door prevented her. LET her CO." ex
claimed kind-hearted passenger; eff sh,
gets killed it will be warning to somebod.
else
The public debt of Italy amounts to 81,
600, 200. The annual deficit has bee
less lately than in former years. Lookin
back for period Of 10 years, there has beef
deficit every year, varying from Size, 900,
900, the greatest. in 1866, to $27, 900 900, tn
least, in 1873.
Sidney Clarke, formerly member OF Con
gress from Kansas, has n perfect contemr
for the railways since they have failed
4 |
! ronize them, no travelled from his homo i
Leavenworth to Topeka, lately, in II lumber
box wagon.
In the Michigan University are ninety-on
lady students. The mysteries Of the law er
gage seven, thirty-six are studying the nj
whereby to relieve some of the i'll that Hes
is heir to, and forty-eight are endeavoring I
develop latent genius in the department {
arts.
I The present salary settlement will M
n hold long. Is it to be supposed that Judg
: Kelley of Pennsylvania will be content wit
$4,000, while the delegate from Washingto
territory, who isn't on committee an
doesn't "work, gets $500 through the gen
erous but mischievous mileage perqusite?
The withdrawal Of the free railwa
o passes from the members of the Wisconsi
/. Legislature has had salutary effect upo
a the Friday adjournment habit; and nov
A instead of running home, each week, tn
virtuOus Legislators grimly stick to bushes
=, from Monday morn to Saturday eve, q thin
! which has not happened before for years.
d Some time ago ii was announced that
y castor oil be mixed with an equal part O
e glycerine and one or two drops Of oil G
: cinnamon to the dose, it can scarcely
# recognized. We have used that mixture
i great number Of times, and can confirm a
: that has been said of It, Children take
out of a spoon without difficulty.
e The will of Agassiz begins thus IN
If last will and testament of Louis Agassiz
d Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex an
+ Commonwealth of Massachusetts,, teacher
II We should think the heart of every schoo
d master and school-niistress in the Ian
n would bound at reading this simple al
0 nouneement, The great naturalist, the pee
g of Aristotle, Linneus, Cuvier, and Va