Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-19

Martin L. Benson has bought the
Hosea Paddleford farm, situated in
Hartford, about two miles from this
village.
-"Loren' sports a mag which
was never known to 60 in much less
than 2.40. Loren was exercising this
piece of "lightning horse flesh" the
other day, and coming through the
covered bridge, saw, just ahead Of
him, and turning the corner of Cush-
ing q Abbott's store, slow moving
'height locomotive. Erred" who
engineered the latter, being obviously
little obstinate and 'piggish," re-
fused to ,"switch off, to allow the
''lightning express to pass. Loren,
being very literally disposed man,
was essaying to relinquish to Fred the
use of not only the whole track" but
portion of the sidewalk also, When
$40 !! he Uo.) comes into collision
with y hitching-post, which, in a
twinkling demolished one runner of
his cutter, and the high speeded nag,
not deigning to slacken her pace just
for this trihe, went on until finally
she had brought up ut --------, com
pelling her driver, in the meantime,
to play velccipede as best he could,
by balancing himself over tie rcmain-
ing runner,
-''Lonny"-who, by the way does
not like to 90 atoot--undertook to
cabbage ride few evenings
since, by jumping into the rear end of
pung sleigh, in which were several
buxom young ladies, Lonny, very
naturally taking his ''posisb' under
one Of the seats Git being a cold night
the gals" who '.sot" on said seat,
threw around that young gentleman,
such ''protection" as they were capable
of which rendered the ride 50 ex-
tremeIy pleasant to him that, upon
reaching his destination Lonny con-
Guided he would not just then alight,
but would "see the thing through -
1t is said that Lonny's slumbers
M0t night were disturbed with visions
of ''fat calves
Those oyer-gcown ''things' who
have been amusing themselves for
some timepast with befooling a simple
minded old man. will, it is said, 90 to
school q few terms. 1t may do
them good. 1t cant injure them
Why not send them to Waterbury ?
They're "oId ghals,' ''you bet. -
Can't learn enough to hurt EN-.
Asour THOSE APPLE. The old
conundtum about the number of ap-
pies eaten by Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden has stated on another
tour. We are sorry, for the answer
has never been correctly given, making
the lesalt as follows: Eve 8 and
Adam > total Of 10 only. Now we
figured the thing ont far differently
long ago, but through exceeding
modesty never proclaimed the result,
which is now given: Eve 8 and Adam
8 also. Total To- Boston Journal.
We think the above figure are en-
tirely wrong. If Eve 8 and Adam so,
certain y the total will be 80. Scienti-
fc man, however, differ. On the
strength Of the theory that the ante
dilny'ms were u race of giants, and
consequently great eaters, they reason
something like this: Eve Slst, and
Adam 81 TOTAL 1913 Gloucester
Advertiser.
Wrong again what could be clear
er than if Eve 81 and Adam SIP,
the total was 1913. -- Lawrence Am.
What consummate asses these edi-
tors do make Of themselves. to be
sure. when they undertake to use any
other figures than those Of speech,
since nothing could be clearer than
il Eve 81 LIST then Adam 8 10. the
total would be 1923. +.