Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-02-25
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; thing save an umbrella.
. The ways of woman-anywhere from
ninety to two hundred pounds.
Wisconsin has directed its Legislature
to give up all free passes on railways.
1t is somewhat aggravating to read tina
almond trees are in bloSsonm at Oakland
Cal.
"A Texas lady is to represent that State
: as commissioner TO the centennial exhIbi
ton.
The Russians are happy with a surplu,
Of two aud a quarter millions in the
treasury.
Sir Bar,le Frere still denounces the sto,
Try of Livingstone's death as ''almOsl
wildly improbable"
Opium-eaters will grieve to learn that
there is prospect Of great scarcity Of
that subtle drug.
Fractional currency" is what the In.
tsr-Oeean calls its summary Of minor
events 10 Chicago.
The Iowa legislature has female post.
master, female ongrossing clerk and q
female paper-tolder.
The '.signs Of the times" Signing re.
mOnstrances against the appointment Of
Simmons as collector.
An English poultry dealer has been
discovered adulterating turkeys By stuff.
ing their breasts with fat pork.
A Detroit woman vainiy tried every
insurance Office in the city get a $4,000
policy on d six months old baby.
In Carthage, H., boys under l6 years
of age are bya city ordinance recently
passed, prohibited flom chewing tobacco,
More than one Wisconsin church is
raising money by means Of nine cent fes.
rivals, where the fare is pop corn and
milk.
The city council of Dayton, o., has
passed an ord nance making it criminal
offence for any person to jump off or on
a moving train in the city limits.
In Venango county, recently, an INTEL
ligeDt jury returned verdict of not
guilty, much to the astonishment Of the
prisoner, who had plead guilty to a charge
of thief.
The political condition of the South
has stimulated the Atlanta Constitution
to the invention. of the word ',julnble.
ment," which may be useful, thong awful
to look at.
Waynesborough, Pa, boasts ola haunt.
ed distilery. There is nothing very ex.
traordlnary about this, for a distilery is
just the place where one would naturally
look for spirits.
A Detroit woman lately left her hus.
bands board, but took the bed with her.
The Union says he is in a quandary how to
word legal notice of warning to pros.
pective creditors.
A Delaware physician some time ago
grated piece Of his own skin (whitel on
the body of a negro. 1t grew, but at the
end Of three menths was as black as the
surrounding cuticle.
IL is now positively stated that the sur
vivlDg passenger of the Vile du Havre
will bring suits against the company in
New York for damages 10 loss of person
al effects, money and private property.
a youth from the Iowa backwoods fol.
lowed letter'carrisr over his entire route
IN Burlington the other day watching him
open the mail-boxes on the lamp posts, in
the vain hope of discovering the secret of
making gas.
An American citizen, the inventor of
the patent wool-spinner, has actually sue
ceeded in securing Prussian patent The |
fact deserves to be noted, as the Prussian
government rarely or ever accords a pa.
tent for foreign inventions.
The indolent field hand of Alabama is
simulated with such announcements as
this, "A negro ploughman, while plo ugh
ing on the plantation of Miss Carrie Go.
rec, of Hale county, found an iron chest
containg 100000 in gold and silver bars"
One of the peculariies of the colored
people down south is said to be singular
alacity with which they 60 to law. Suits
involving amonts from 50 downward are
numerous, and SANDER cases, based on the
most trivial provocatiou, are equally plen-
tiful.
A Waterbury, Conn.,, man owns a tame
turtle, pet clam, and extensive assort-
mcnt of dried snakes and stuffed wood.
chucks. He is a common councilman and
q delegate to political convention and
yet he is not happy, for he wants to be a
policeman.
After twenty years work the women of
Charleston, 8. G., succeeded 10 raising
s2S, 900 for monument to John g. Cal.
houn, only to end their labors by voting
down resolution TO erect a monument,
after all. Now it is proposed to devote
the money to educational purposes.
As Tweed was sitting with his fellow con-
victs at dinner, recently, some of the cell.
ing of the room suddenly fell. The Black
wells Island Doctor looked up and jok-
ngly observed, That must be some of
6arveys pIastering" whereat Garvey's
Shilom ring partner smiled audibly.
TIE small house at Urtino, in which
Raphael was born in 1883, and which
las hitherto been in private hands, has
ust now been purchased for 22,000f by
he Academia Rafaello of that city. 1t
s to be restored and formed into muse. I
I'm, to be named after the ilustrius paint {
r.
A Chicago paper says, "the little State I
# Delaware has the honor of growing 4
bout all the peanuts grown in the United .
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