Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-25
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The variation OF species under cultiva-
ton is illustrated in the case of Kentucky
hens egg, which is reported to bear ''on
one end perfectly formed child's arm with
hand complete: the fingers are shut up
with the thumb lying across them" The
maternal fowl is engaged in an endeavor to
hatch out the rest of til perfectly formed
child
Mrs. Andrew johnson is slowly recov-
ering from the shock occasioned by the sud-
den death of her husband
While not one cX-Presidcnt is living,
the wives of five of them survive-Mrs.
Polk, Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lin
coin and Mrs. johnson.
Mime. MacMahon has collected two and
"a half million dollars for the sufferers of the
floods in France.
The biggest ice fields ever yet encoun-
tered east of Newfoundland were met last
week by vessels coming to this country.
The Convention of Dentists at Long
Branch adjourned without getting into a
jaw.
Iowa State-prisoners are not permitted
TO read newspapers, letters or books con
tanning any tidings of current events in the
outer world.
Robert Dale Owens health is improv.
ing There is, however, no improvement in
his mental condition.
Duncan & Sherman will pay forty
cents on the dollar.
AS it is now the fashion to send children
abroad to be educated, many parents will
be glad to learn that an American school has
been established in Germany, at Stuttgart,
where, with all the eclat of European res.
idence, young ladies and gentlemen can be
taught the same things as if they had stayed
at home.
Ohio papers publish the remarkable
news that the other day ga man in Cincin.
natl was washcd'-they add, Through q
sewer"
The Rockford, Rock Island and st.
Louis Railroad was sold, last week, on a
foreclosure of the mortgage for $1,320,OOO,
the representatives of the German bondhol.
ders being the purchasers.
The Indian Agent at Crow Agency re.
ports that bands of Sioux are going around
numbering and stealing.
Matt. Carpenter is shareholder in d
proposed journal, the Industrial Age, to be
attempted in Springfield, III.
On Kentucky railway few days ago,
while Senator Pinchback, with his light
complexion, passed as an unquestioned
Caucasian, bronzed Patron of Industry,
of unmiXed Aryan blood, was mistaken fol
negro.
The late Horace Greeley colorcd friend
George T. Downing appropriately employs
the vernacular of his race when he speaks OF
the rum cellar of the tall tower as "de base.
ment' of the Tribune building.
"A Kentucky woman has added five
pledges of affection to her husbands domes.
tic circle within the last eleven months
three jacks and single pair making al
together nineteen children in fourteen
years.
The Prince of Wales will have Cash.
mere shawl costing 5000 rupees presented to
him while he is in India.
Mrs Woodruff has made proclamatiC 2
that woman's social emancipation being a
important matter to her than spiritualisn
per- se, it being also necessary that all re.
forms should be blended together into gen.
eral system for the reconstruction of society,
she resigns the Presidency of the National
Association of Spiritualists, leaving that
body to such organization as it may choose,
but reserving her right to join in its deliber.
ations and say what she pleases.
We read that as part of the discipline
of the Iowa State Pcnitentiary, no convic,
spermitted to read anything which will
give him information of what is going on in
the world outside the prison walls. That
doesn't prohibit certain newspapers.
An alleged negro plot to massacre the
whites in Washington and Jefferson counties
Ga, was frustrated by the prompt arrest OF
the conspirators.
The Boston Traveller is assured by s
gentleman who is in communication witt
Theodore Titon that he has no purpose Of
having new trial of his suit against Mr.
Beecher The recent acts of his counse
have been with reference to the costs of the
former trial, for which the plaintiff woulC
be responsible should he withdraw his sui
from the courts.