Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-07-23
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| Hlllk lIolu lOur SlaWloIu country
cows made 225 pounds ofbutter in a
week" Over filty-six pounds of but
ter to COW. Such a flight of fancy
must have been arrived at by gazing
into the 'milky way"
The Supreme Court at Austin,
Texas, has decided against Internation-
al Railroads.
Simon Sturges, of Allentown, Pa,
died recently at the age of 70. he
had been married four times, the we'd
dings having been on his fortieth, ff-
tieth, sixtieth and SEVENTEEN birthdays.
His last wife was dead, too, and it is
likely that had Mr.. Sturges lived an
other year he would have celebrated
his eightieth birthday in the accus-
toned style, because the local paper
says he was a very methodical old
man.
What with the men who have
heon found ont and the men who fear
to be, the new movement at Washing
ton to keep the newspapers under con-
troll has a plenty of well wishes.
AT prohibition meeting in Cali
fornia, lady speaker was hooted down
by her own sex.
The working population of Scran-
ton, Pa, has been reduced 10000 with
in few months.
In Turkey when a man tells noto-
lious lies they blacken the front of
his house. Had that been the case in
this country some Of the recent Con-
gressienal Investigations would have
put the whole nation into mourning,
An old gander was recently kill
ed in Virginia at the age of ninety.
The name of the fortunate boarding
house that drew the prize is not CIV
en-.
The Connecticut Legislature
seems to favor the bill for the erection
of a $4,000 monument to Gen. Put
nam.
"A swarm Of bees have taken pos
session of Baptist church in Canton,
Conn, and the congregation don't go
to sleep now.
The New Jersey fruit crop is esti-
mated at 100000 bushels.
Mrs Hester Authors, of Delaware,
is 112 years old yet no theory of lon.
gevity for authors in general can be
constructed out of the fact.
Quite a fuss is being made in
Philadelphia about ''brigandage at
home" just as though it was some
thing new.
Lieut.. Gov. Van Zandt, of Rhode
Island, recently participated in re-
gatta. He ran aground while twenty
feet out at sea, and concluded to go
shore. He said he didn't want to get
out of sight of the State.
The story of Barnum and the
cherry colored cat is now on its twen-
ty.seventh annual round.
Sod drainage is estimated to kill
at least thousand times as many per-
sons in New York as mad dogs yet
the city fathers don't seem at all anx
ious about it.
"A son of King Koffeee will re-
ceive ansEnglish education. The old
man himself has been educated consid-
cradle by them oflate
AT the recent Commencement at
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.,
the degree A. NJ was conferred up on
Hon. S. N. Stockwell, of the Boston
Journal.
The Democrats of the Third Dis
trict of Pennsylvania have just unani-
mously renominated Samuel J. Ran.
dali for Congress. Randall has been
in the House for the last eleven years,
and is regarded as a Democratic lead
er.
-Rainey, the negroe Congressman
from South Carolina, tried to force
himself into the dining room of Bar
rats Hotel, Suffolk, Va, on Wednes-
day last The clerk stopped him at
the door, and told him that negroes
could not eat with white people, and
he would send his Breakfast out to him
Rainey became so violent in his ex
pressions that the clerk took him by
the collar and showed him out.
The King OF the Sandwich Is,
lands advises reciprocity treaty with
the United States, and bill will prob
ably be introduced into the LegislatiN e