Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-05-19
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to Nebraska and exchange them TO-
grasshoppers. There would be q le
up in such a case for us, for certainl,
six months ina year.
An old tradition has it that mar
riage contracted during the month O
May results unhappily. Young people
intending to enter the new state vii
take notice, and govern themselves &C
cordingly.
Mr. Miles G. Parker, the Radica
eX-Treasurer of South Carolina, cas-.
ually remarks that if he is not let out
of Jail within thirty days he "will take
steps to relieve his solitude by an &C
cession of companies from among his
old friends in office"
The Oldest Fourth Of July orator
i'll Massachusetts, is Benjamin Hobart
darlington, now ninety-f four years o!
age, who delivered the Grafton OF
Independence Day in that town in the
year 1905.
An Indiana Judge has decided
that il a woman will shorten pie-crust
with butter at thir'y-eght cents a
pound, her husband has good cause
for divorce.
An Ohio woman says the back
slider Van Pet ought to be shot ;
but that's no way to argue with a
man.
The colossal bronze statute Of
Daniel Webster will be placed in the
Central Park, New Yoll City, next
month. So the Park Commissioners
say. The site selected is in the mid
die of the roadway Il quarter Of a
mile west of the lower end of the
mall.
"A few years hence and Brother
Orvil, Of the reigning family, will be
double-and-twisted millionaire. The
Government appropriates immense
sums annually for the benefit Of the
Indians, and when it comes to raking
in those appropriations, Brother Or
vii is an Indian seventeen feet high or
more.
of the ten Oldest Congressman
now living, five have passed into or
beyond their ninetieth year. The
oldest is Horace Binney of Philadel
phja, VINO was born in that city on
the 4th Of January, 1880, and who is
also the Oldest living graduate of Har-
verd College. OF the remaining nine
no less than six are natives OF Massa-
chusetts, as follows Willard Hall OF
Wilmington, Del, born in that State
in 1880 Artemas Hale Of Bridge
water, born in 1888 Perkins King
of Cairo, n. T., born in that State in
1884 George Grimell of New Bed
ford born in 1888 Ethan Shepley Of
Portland, Me-, born in 1889.
David Nickers of New jersey has
been appointed United States Com,
missioner to attend the Industrial Elk
hibition in Chill. Gen. Vickers spent
several years in Valparaiso as Secretary
of the American Legation and is close
ly connected by marriage with the
President Of that republic
Now that the annual fruit scare
has been sent abroad through the
land, we are told that the peach crop
in Maryland will be larger this year,
than for several years previous.
They have an undertaken in Bal
timore who promised a woman whose
child had died coffin for So, the 9TH
er day, but having got the cash reru-
sed to furnish the coffin. The child re-
manned unburied for several DAYS in
consequence.
"A Washington correspo ndent de-
clares that Grant is exceedingly fond
OF ahsinthe. 1t is very likely he is;
but if there should be but one liquid
left upon the whole face of the earth,
he would be mighty sorry it wasn't
whiskey.
The Record, of Covington Tenn
essee, says that the buffalo gnats were
never so destructive as this spring
The farmers have found it impractical
bic to use horses and mules in plough
ing, and were compelled to drive up
all their animals and surround them
with smoke in order to save them
Hon. William A. Wheeler of
New York, the author of the Louisi-
ana compromise, says that the Demo
Gratis have not violated its letter or
spirit. He ought to know. Mr..
Wheeler is an eminent Republican.
and probably the ablest man on the