Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-30
All Sorts Of Items.

1ne Nc" 10TH ITtOfWe lnenIlOuS rs an
interesting feature of the laborers' strike in
Brooklyn the fact that many of the striking
laborers have been sheltered and fed at the
public expense during the winter, when
there was no work to be had
The coming insane asylum keeper TO visit
or: ''Do you mean that man with his head
bowed. his eyes cast down and his lips NOV
ingp Oh yes; he was spelled down, too; but
he keeps right on practicing just tho same;
believe his word was 'syzygy.'"
At Nelson, Va. a few days ago, n gentle-
man who had lost several sheep by dogs, put
strychnine in large quantities upon one Of
tho carcasses, and tho next morning found
thirty-one dead dogs in the field, the far
thcst one being less than one hundred yards
from the dead sheep.
The Springfield Republican has for some
time stoutIy insisted that the third term talk
was hurting the republican party. and now
the Boston Journal has become converted to
the same faith and thinks the president had
better repudiate the charge that he aspires
to third term. and the sooner the better.
II one man can ruin the party by simply
holding his tongue isn't the party hard upP
D fie!
The London Times in an article on the
late Indian famine gloriies the generosity
of England in encouraging the Vicsroy to do
his best without counting the money cost"
The Pail Mail Gazette, however, takes of
some of the lustre by stating that England's
generosity manifested itself solely in the
form Of leaving the Indian government to
raise the funds needed for meeting the fam
inc from its own resources, and that the
money cost which the Viceroy was instruct
cd not to count was all incurred by the peo-
pie of India"
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer writes
to that paper that on the first day of last
June he commenced feeding his COW on
fresh clover, and from that time until the
fifteenth of October she had no feed of any
kind except what clover was cut from one
fourth OF an acre of ground. lie says fur
Their that he raised one hundred and fifty
bushels of sugar beets and carrots on one
eighth of an acre, and two tons of hay on the
balance of an acre and that the roots and
hay will keep the COW from October until
next June. so that on one and fourth acre
he has kept his COW year. The COW. he
says, averaged through the summer eighteen
quarts per day.
An old farmer, living in the state Of Ver-
mont, was in the habit Of loaning money at
II usurious rate. He was, moreover, strict
| church member. One day noighbor called
on him for the purpose OF negotiating loan.
The old farmer informed him that he could
have the money a; the rate Of nine per cent.
mine per cent? exclaimed the astonished
neighbOr. "Why, that can't agree with your
principles Of Christianity. What will the
Lord say when he looks down from above,
and sees you charge nine per cent, when the
legal rate is only six?" "Ahl but" exclaim-
cd the farmer, "when the Lord looks down
from above the figures will be reversed, and
the nine will look just like n six."- White
hall Times.
Tho French Catholic clergy of Montreal
have forbidden their flock to read the Mon
treal Witness, because of its Professionalism,
and now the newsboys tantalize tho dray-
men by holding up to them the anathematiz-
ed journal and crying; "Here you are! hall
the hinterestin' and hexcitin' news of the
day; price one cent. win you have peep'
Oh! but you mustn't. Ifyou read line Of
this ERE paper you'll be d-destroyed, cremat-
ed and eternally hashed up, you will" The
Witness seems to thrive on Catholic curses,
and claims an increased circulation.
The following is an extract from speech
of p. 4. Barnum at Philadelphia II will
undertake, and give bonds for the ful6llment
of the contract, that If the city of Phladel-
phia will stop selling liquor and give me as
much as was expended here for liquor last
year. to run the city next year. l will pay all
the city expenses (pause); no person living
within her borders shall pay taxes (pause) /;
there shall be no insurance ON property
(pause); a good dress and suit shall be CIV
on to every poor boy, glrl, man and woman
(pause) all tho educational expenses shall
be paid (pAuse) n barrel of -four shall be
given TO every needy aud worthy person
(seAsation); and will clear half million
or million dollars myselfby the operation
(Cries of 'hurrahlD 1t would be the best bus
mess speculation was ever in. Unfortu-
nately they wouldn't give 1t to me. As
Benjamin Franklin said we are paying
too dear for our whistle"