Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-23
HflisfeIIamsOus items.
Berlin will have the next European world
exhibition.

exhibition
Paris consumed the flesh of sis6 horses
for food during the first six months Of 1873.
Indiana is TO have a new state house, TO
cost %, 900, 600, and to be free from useless
ornament
A Nevada clergyman WIS recently turned
of because che wouldn't even hold tho
stakes for II scrub race"
David Googin, Of SacO. Me, has obtained
during the past year 1924 pounds of butter,
valued at S743. 40, from eight cows.
Fineen dollars in money tempted II negro
named Jones to kill farmeIinamed w. q.
Dirkin, Mt Brandy Station, Va. the day
after Christmas
The journals Of Paris are obliged to obtain
their news from Versailles by carrier pig
cons, the government not allowing them
special wire
They have II novelty ut Oshkosh, Wis, in
the shape Of n steam wagon. by which wood
Is to be drawn on trains of sleds across Lake
Winncbago, n distance of 10 miles. The ice
is weak, and the reporters are on the watch.
The people near Fnrmersvillc. Livingston
county, Mo-, were scared nearly out of their
wits, n few days ago, by the fall of an immense
@rolite. 1t now lies imbedded in the
ground, and is said to bo about % feet in di-
ameter
Kentucky seems to be going back on its
whisky record. Petitions to the Legislature for
II more stringent liquor law have been signed
by 10000 persons, who, it is thought, cannot
quite satisfy their feelings without nominat-
ing state officers.
At recent golden wedding in Naugatuck,
Conn, the old couple showed the young
folks how " courtin' was done so years ago.
and those of the young folks who knew how
1t is done Mt the present day couldn't see
that the method had changed much
"Well, Mr.. - how do you ieel?" said II
friend TO a defeated candidate n few days
after election. e feel suppose" he repli-
Why, said he, 4" Lazarus was licked by
the dogs, and so am l."
The president of the Chicago and Alton
railroad in announcing, by circular, the
abolition of the free-pass system, says that
the measure was taken in Difference to pub
lie sentiment, which has become nearly in
accord with the cardinal principles of the
French commune.
Sir Henry Havelock, the general who re-
lieved the besieged city of Delhi in the last
Sepoy rebellion, is running for Parliament
rs liberal. non-conformst a secularist
in education, and friend of the extension
Of suffrage to the agricultural labOrer.
Little All Right" the wonderful Japa-
nese acrobat, who used to delight American
audiences when but six or seven years old,
is now very bright and industrious student
in one Of the grammar schools of New York
city. He intends to return home after he
gets his education.
If Horace Greeley had been elected presi-
dent, and the public debt had increased
s,453, 272 in December, and increased taxa
ton had been recommended and the panic
had come, what a fuss the organs would
have made about it says the Boston Her
aid.
The importations of dry goods at New
263, 900, or $2i, 900, 900 less than in 1871.
There was falling off of So, 900, 900 in faxen
manufactures, of an equal amount in silk
manufactures, of 81, 600, 900 in wooden goods,
and OF SO, SOC, 900 in cottons.
The New Ycrkers begin to be consci Gus
of an uneasiness on the subject of their new
state house. 1t was to have cost four mill
ions; it has already cost five; the walls are
only up to the first story; the probable total
cost Is now loosely estimated Mt somewhere
in the neighborhood of fifteen millions.
A woman recently committed suicide Mt
the charity hospital in New Orleans who,
when the war broke out, belonged to
wealthy and nristocratic family, but eloped
with young officer and went with him
through all the hardships of the war, until he
was killed, when she became n wanderOr.
The Dubuque Herald says that gentle
man of that city lately ordered cutter
from Portland, Me-, which arrived in due
time. The freight on the cutter from Port
land to Chicago was S2.IO; from Chicago to
Dubuque it was $685.. The distance from
Portland TO Chicago is 100 miles; the dis
lance from Chicago to Dubuque is 200 miles.
A "gawkcy" saw, for the first time, a
school girl gong through some of her gym
nastio exercises for the amusement of the
little ones at home. After gazing Mt her with
looks of interest and commiscration for u
while, he asked boy near by, if that girl
had lits?n No. replied the lad, contemptu-
ously; that's gymnastics" "Oh, tits, hey"
said the verdant; how long has she had
emp
The generosity of tho pupils in the public
schools of San Francisco toward their teach
ers has reached an abnormal development,
and parties complain that they have been
obliged to contribute money for the purchase
of gifts until it has grown quite monotonous.
1t is proposed that the Legislature pass n
law against the offer or acceptance of n
present by an employer from an employee of
the state government.
Perhaps it isn't so very surprising, after
all, that Pennsylvania should have had such
bad luck with her politics. Gov. Hartranft
tells tho Legislature that, out of the many
thousands of persons receiving certificates TO
teach in the public schools, last year, only
374 were found to have thorough knowl-
edge of reading writing, arithmetic and
grammar" There is a certain suggestive
ness in that statement
A writer in the Cincinnati GGzette enters
into an interesting and apparently fair conf
parison Of real wages now aud in 1858, from
which the conclusion is deduced that the
wages of day laborers are 95 per cent. high
or, wheat 80 per cent. higher, and pork 80 per
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