Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-02-11
Inst as IL Happens.


State,
A certain plant which grows in China
has the peculiar property Of changing col
or three times a day.
A New Yorker has second hand vlo-
lin for which he wants only S4OOO Whai
was il worth when it was new 7
1t is stated that lamp chimney put IN
cold water and allowed TO remain TILL ;he
water boils will not readily break.
Mark Twain is credited with having
pocketed So. 900 out of his "lnnOcenis
Abroad" which has sold lS0,00O copies.
The oranges are in the fashion, too.
The Wisconsin state grange is lnvestlga-
ting its e1-sec.eiary's alleged little jobs
in stationery.
Mark Twain says that he is the only
true and genuine person who did not write
the Saxe-Holm stories. All the Others are
frauds.
The Iowa Senate has Just discovered
that it snot dignifed to smoke and Iegisa'e
simultaneously, and passed an order pro-
hibiting the weed.
One of those boys that perennidlly
steal rides under railroad ears across the
continent homeward, stopped last week.
at Omaha, aud told his little story.
A New York lawyer advertises "hy-
meneal incompaiblities, as a speciality,
delicately adjusted. IT'S slavery to de-
tain the hand after the heart hath fed"
The Cincinnati Commercial says Mrs.
Chief Justice Waite is an intelligent and
unpretending lady, not at all fond of dress
and display. How desolate she'll be in
Washington
Gov. Moses of South Carolina rs going
to lecture on Religion. He evidently
believes in the principle that man talks
best on the subject of which he knows the
least.
This simply indicates the date Of the
arrival Of the new conner. Some put 1t
Compliments OF Mr.. aud Mrs Blaul,
and daughter Bessie or son johnnie, as
the case lldy be.
The Illinois state attorney calculates
that the hanging Of Rafferty,, murderer of
Policeman O'Mcara, will be equal to 200
men on the force for five years,--a cash
value of Sl,000000
lex. Governor James NJ. Harvey has
been elected United States Senator from
Kansas, to succeed Caldwell, resigned.
He is republican farmer, and had near
ly twenty competitors for the position.
The Indian commissioners ms st that
the congressional and military criticisms
upon their work are conn oundcd OF ig.
uorluce and prejudice; that the peace
policy has proved itself, on the whole, a
great success.
An old minister once recommended a
parishioncr to take snuff TO keep him
awake during the sermon, to which the
old back. slider rctorted that he had better
put the snuff in the sermon.
Capt. David Ruchie-ihe man who
swan to the captured revenue cutter at
New Orleans aud recovered the flag, and
was thereby made indirect author of Gen.
Dix "thrasencal arso, has died at
lsIIp, l.. |.
Strapped shoes will be ''the thing" in
the spring made in satin to match the
light tipts Of dresses; the straps cut very
narrow, and extending not only over the
instep, but upon the aukrs /; the pre;tiest
finished with small pearl bottoms.
Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned as the
first granger, but incorrectly. Eve. who
made reputation in the apple business,
aud who broke up A-dam monopoly, was
the first to patronizc neutrality-suspicious.
aaiti Times.
The national grange is now holding its
seventh annual scss on at St. Louis. One
of the questions likely to com, up is the
admission of nou-agricultural c,asses to
the society The proceedings are all Sc
cret.
Johnny Matthews, IS, and the oldest
Utica fireman died, the other night. At
his request theJ put his hreman's shirt on
for" said he, "when the Fo eman above
calls through his trumpet for the boys,
old Johnny wants to be on hand WITH his
red shut and Ere hat"
The Calfornians have been telling us
for many years that Bonner lake on the
Sierra Nevadas was fathomlcSs. But now
they have found bottom all over it, aud
the greatest depth is 200 feet. 1t is
great comfort to them to learn that they |
shall touch bottom when they drown
When any one asks. aboard the Edgar
Stuart lying about ready for sea in Balti-
more harbor, what those shining brass
cannon at her stern are FOR, he Is quietly
told they are to keep away sharks And
that's the reason the Spanish steamer
Hornet is lying just outside the bay.
When Sarah Siley preached in Cincin.
natl, Sunday "was quite e egau'ly though
plainly dressed A small white ruff about
the neck, and band Of white lace neatly
rutfled, at the sides of her face, drawn
over her head and tied under the chin.
completed and otherwise plain but ex-
quisitely fitting dress OF dark MATERIAL
Gen. S b Maxey, the newly-eected
U. s. Senator fro n Texas. is native OF
Monroe County, Kentucky. lie served
in Kentucky regiment in the Mexican
war, and subsequently, removed to Texas.
Since the Rebellion in which he took an
active part, he has been practicing law.
The Mississippi senatorial contest ter