Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-22
FACT AND FANCY.

Now the female with thin shoes maketh
music on the sweet catarrh.
Let us all remove to New leland, where
the "budget" shows a surplus Of 9l2O,OOO.
Young women are advised to set good ex-
amples, because young men are always fol-
lowing them. ..... .......
The height of a man is equal to the meas
ure OF his extended arms from tip to tip Of
hnger-sometimes.
A man in Dusseldorf, Prussia, lately MUIR
dered his wife and daughter because they
ridiculed his red hair.
Bets are made in London that the Prince
of Wales will be assassinated before his
visit to India is flashed. ........
Billy Emerson, the negro minstrel, makes
S25, 600 year. Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the philosopher, makes 5000.
There, John" said an rate mother
that's twice you've come home end forgot
ten that lard ~ La, mother" exclaimed
young dutiful, "it was 80 greasy that it
slipped my mind"
Toledo has a justice of the peace who
denies the rotary motion of the earth and
declares that the sun travels around il every
twen,y.iour hours. He only fines the law
yers ten dollars apiece for calling him a
id old fool, which the Toledo bar thinks
quite considerate.
The four candidates for Congress in
Oregon are on the stump together, and it
takes them about Eve hours to go through
their discussions. rt-
Large apes are now regularly employed
on the island of Ceylon, India, TO pull cocoa
nuts. They are said to select suitable fruit
with great discrimination. ...
Some western bank burglars recently re-
sorted to the device Of squeezing a small
boy in through narrow window TO open the
doors for them on the inside.
They say Stanley is going to marry zone
of the wealthiest and most beautiful young
ladies in New York" when he comes back
from Afrca-if he ever does.
An ocean lowering bird of great spirit
and intelligence has been found in Iceland,
which flies at the remarkable rate Of l5O
miles an hour and is able TO 6nd its home
over sea and land. r. l'
The Importation of dry goods into the
country is yearly lessening in amount; the
value of such importatons fell off nearly
twenty millions in 1873, eleven millions in
1874, and four millions IN the nine months
of this year, ..r ..
President Orion of the Western Uniou
telegraph says that for all telegraphic pur'
poses the English language is from 20 to 80
per cent cheaper than the French, German OF
any other language, and that the economy Of
its use has been thoroughly established.
Dancing is said to be on the decline il
LoAdou, and polite society appears to be
acting on the hint given by the shah o.
Persia when he inquired of the prince o.
Wales at ball, why don't you employ
servants to do this for you ?" The amuse
ment is being relegated to the ballet corps
Brother Murray's new paper, the Colder
Rule, takes things at the foot Of the letter
as the French say. 1t wants golden articles
worth not less than $50 apiece, and prefer
800 manuscripts We hope its gold will
hold out. But the first number does not ap-
pear to have alighted on any golden manu-
scripts Five dollars apiece and under, We
should score the lOt.-[The Methodist.
The Indians in parts of Nevada are bus.
gathering pine nuts. A white man coulC
not gather a sack.full in a month, but tn
average squaw will gather over 100 pound
a week. The cone, which contains the nut
is pulled from the tree and roasted, the tur
pentine being sufficient to burn them. Thi
opens the layers aud the nuts are shaker
out. The Indians used to exchange then
for their weight in -four, but the Increase
demand has considerably raised the price.
Here's a chance A Chicago girl says
~ am proud to say that, though am Al
heiress to over S9,000,OO0, l understand
house keeping in all its departments thorough
ly. / am nineteen, but have never been u
love or eveu had fancy for any one; bu
should man that / love ever offer himsel
to me would say, Yes though he ha'
but 5000 a year, remembering the happ,
married life OF my sister in spite Of poverty
SHOULD feel assured Of happiness"