Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

0 that we the faith might cherish,
Bethlehem's humble shepherds knew.
-FR"M GREEN MOUNTAIN POETS.
The most thrilling tale known is that
of rattlesnake.
The Illinois grangers eat roast pig
stuffed with oysters.
A party of men are digging for hid
den gold near Bridgeport, Conn.
Mount Vesuvius is again breathing
out threatenings and slaughter.
Meet me by moonlight alone ? sang a
love-sick swain, and her brother met him
with rawhide.
Providence does not smile on the tenn
perance crusade. We refer to the capi-
tai of Rhode Island.
No use to 90 home for this piece of a
night, says a fair damsel to her lover who
had tarried until midnight.
The Prince Imperial is ready to ac-
cept the responsibility of ruling France.
Generous youth.
Returns are coming in from the old
fellows who cast their seventieth annual
vote in New Hampshire.
Tampa, Florida, boasts Of oysters ten
inches long, and weighing three pounds
each. Wonder if they mean with the
hulls on?
The sweet contents bedewed the streets
sighs the Manchester Mirror and Amer-
ican. 1t was broken molasses hogs
head.
A middle-aged Texan wrote his obit-
uary in verse, short time since, and in
order not to waste it, conscientiously died
soon after.
|, A Montana man has been exiled from
the territory, under pain Of pitch and
plumage, for the crime of marrying a
China woman.
There are over ten millions of women
in America, and yet Tom Hutton, of
Georgia, hung himself on account of a
girl fifteen years old.
A Western enthusiast exclaims: I'D
rather be doorkeeper in the hall Of the
grangers than to shovel sugar in the
stores of the middlemen.'
Ho, no! Let Boston hold up her hand;
in holy horror 1t is said that the female
government clerks at Washington are
provoking scandal. Oh, my!
A man was actually hanged at Wau
kegan, ILL.,, on the 9th ult. He hac
three trials, and was three times con
demned, but they only hanged him once
A Cingalese Postmaster must lead ;
Joyous life These are the names of /;
few villages: 'Galliappocondurracirha
coomhera,' neutrality-suspicious.
and 'Boodogeykonkegamowa.'
How many deaths last night 2 in
quired hospital physician of a nurse
Nine, was the answer. why, I order
ed medicine for ten Yes, but on
wouldn't take it.
Landlady, fercely-'You mustn't oc
cupy that bed with your boots on
Boarder-'Never mind they're an oil
pair. I guess the bugs won't hurt EN-
Let 'em rip, anyhow p
Honorable mention is made of a Main
servant girl who is now serving he
eighty-second winter under the sam
roof. She has washed dishes 1919
times and comes yet gaily to her tasl
R Blessed old girl.
Talking about upsetting sleighs, Wick
remarked to a young lady he was takin
!, out to drive: i always pick out tn
c softest place I can. when l upset m
= sleigh She replied, Why, l shoul
think it would grow monotonous, alway
:, falling on your head.
1t Says Anna Dickinson of a bath
Idaho: You may laugh at me as muc
as you please, and say have no bus
N ness to blush at my age but. girls, Il
5, delight of q bath in Idaho water is vel
5, like the rapture you find in your lover
: tender grasp. l have tried both and
a know.
Among the presents reported to ha'
been made to the Prince Imperial on h
l. L birthday is garter from Queen Wet
: ria. This is one of the highest homo
in the gift of the sovereign of Gre
Britain, and will be construed into
quasi-recognition of the young mar
claims which one would think it W
: hardly wise to make at this time.
,'ss Little Tommy didn't disobey mamm
IN IN and 60 in swimming, did he? N
mamma Jimmy Brown and the rest
the boys went in, but | remember
what you said, and didn't disobey yol
And Tommy never tells lies, does he
= No, mamma, wouldn't tell lie /
all the world Then how does Tomr
y happen to have on Jimmy Browns shir
That conundrum was too much for To
my. He had to give it up.
. Lo, the poor Indian A Kansas d
drict school was visited by party
advanced Indian chiefs, who came
hear the classes recite. A mischievC
,N boy placed crooked pin on the seat
!. loted to one of the chiefs, and when
sat down he was observed to rise hast
ana remark energetically: Ugh
: much fea-bite Me no care much
on papoose education me git ) and ne G
Vt followed by others in solemn order.