Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-07-30
Current Notes.

MalleaDle glass Will soon be IN common
use.
China has taken a step to be properly rep.
resented at the Philadelphia centennial.
Western Texas wants tc be made a separ-
ate State, with San Antonio for capital.
They say tenderly of deceased Lady
Franklin that she has gone in search Of the
ong lost Sir John. Yes, in spirit.
1t is pleasant to read that the state of
South Carolina has recovered sevcnty-ive
thousand dollars in the courts from a public
official who robbed the treasury Of that
amount.
More than l2,000, 600 forest trees we're
planted in Nebraska, last year.
A Minnesota woman killed Is bushels of
grasshoppers in one week, and got 81 per
bushel.
A New York publisher gets his wife to
road the manuscripts ofjuvenile books offered
to him, to his little girl, and, if she likes a
story, he accepts it.
Mrs. Lydia Smith, who was Thaddeus
Stevens's bousekeeper and was given $4,000
by his will, has su ed his estate for six years
pay at the rate of 5000 a month.
The cost of running the Astor library in
New York, last year, according to the annual
report, was Sl5, Of which S2l94 vent
for books. There are $50, 306 volumes on
the shelves.
An Iowa gambler, to escape arrest, at
tempted to cross a river with a pockct.bo 100
between his teeth, but, his strength or ski il
r,N roe,a aIautaNa ha puaa ohltDal N n A m
his mouth to call for help, aud his pocket
book, containing $1,000, went to the bottom.
The losses by the fire insurance compa-
MES throughout the country in the past six
months aggregate s26,O00,00O
The Canadian government has at last con
cluded to pay pensions to the veterans of the
war Of 1912, and an officer is now travelling
around to examine the claims of applicants.
Ex.Treasurer Spinner never failed to depos-
it his autograph with any one who asked for
it, and on one occasion by mistake he sent it
with his note to an applicant for office
"Sir it gives me great pleasure to comply
with your request. Truly yours, +. Il.
Spinner" The young man was surprised
aud fattered. He bought n new suit of
clothes and duly and blandly presented him
self at the treasury department. Spinner
covered the young man all over with a show
or of proIane classics but there was the
letter, the general was a man Of his word,
and of course the young man got his position.
A New York wag says the railroads of
the state are now built of three gauges (:
abroad gauge, narrow gauge and mortgage"
Persons who are weary of saying, "How
doth the little busy bee" may find refresh
ment this hot weather in the following Chi
nese version.
Howl Sic belly small chin ohin-stlng bug.
Im-iu implove ebiy Sixty minnlt all a time,
Go, piokee up sting-bug juice all day,
All kim places 'loun' towels jest got busted.
Somebody says that Charge ears denote
broad, comprehensive views and modes of
thought" What magnificent ideas a jack
ass must have!
A writer in a Presbyterian paper bushes
for his kind because America pays $1,000,
000l for liquor, $4,000, 900 for dogs, aud
barely squeezes out 81, 900, 900 for preachers
Of the gospel.
The coming August will have two new
moons, one on the LIST and one on the Both
Of the month. This is an unusal thing, not
having occurred since about the year 1858.
The London gossips are telling this story,
apropos of Queen Victoria's continued seclu
sion At the princess Of Wales garden party
at which she was present, the other day, the
Queen accosted a distinguished officer aud
oonversed affably with him for some minutes
At last the gallant general remarked 81
am really very sorry, madame, for being so
stupid. l am sure | have seen your face
and remember it perfectly well, but l can
not remember your name"
If Brigham Young wore al additional
weed on his hat every time he lost a wife
'or a mother .in-law, it is estimated his hat
would have to be 81 feet high.
A despatch from Madrid says that the
constitutional committee have adopted, by
a large vote, an article granting religious toll
GRAFTON in Spain,
Get ready to pay higher prices for your
next winters supply of flour. The failure
Of crops in England and Russia, and the
inundatiou in France will be your grocer's
excuse for charging a dollar or two more
per barrel. The advance promises a revival
Of business though, aud the chances are that
people VIII nave uoTe money 10 Duy hour
with next winter than they had last year.
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Have you thought, fellow citizens, that
the reduction of the national debt has been
1920 a minute siuce you have sat here and
l commenced talking ? Taking the average
of the whole time, the reduction of the debt
has gone on at that rate. Why take your
watch aud look at il See the second hand as
il flies at each tick Of the second hand two
dollars during the whole time since Grants
Inauguration by day and by night, upon
week day and upon Sunday, two dollars per
second in gold has gone off the national debt
Senator Sargent at San Francisco.
The fate of Miss Newton, of Delaware,
was indeed q sad ope. Fresh from boarding
school, with a gay life Of flutes and rose
leaves and moonbeams before her, she was 80
shocked aud mortified when she heard her
mother misprOnounce a word in the presence
Of company, that she went up stairs and
poisoned herself. Mothers ought 10 be more
careful. If they can't pronounce words
correctly, when company comes, they ought
to conceal themselves in the kitchen.