Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-19
BY THE GOVERNOR
w. p. DILLINGHAM.
Secretary of CiUH and Military Afair.

"A Boston house sold 100000
pounds of wool during the last two
months.
No hopeless old maids in Greene
county, Ia. A girl of 50 got married
there, the other day.
- An editor named HEM is running
for county Office in Nevada. He has
got tired of scratching for living.
AN ear of corn with thirty rows on
the cob is an agricultural curiosity raised
in Jersey county, Illinois.
= Bishop Gilbert Haven is to preside
at the meeting of the Woman's Suffrage
Association next week.
1t is the opinion of scientific men
that Iceland is fast becoming perman-
emily iced, and will seon be entirely I'M
inhabitable.
A lump ofpure birthstone, 1000 lbs.
in weight, is one of the contributions to
the Centennial exhibition, from some
Internal region Of Nevada.
- 1t is announced taat Charlotte
Cushman has so far recovered her health
that she expects to resume her readings
in couple of weeks at Philadelphia.
- An old boy of 80, Adam Seitz, re-
Gently applied for admission to the
Baltimore Orphan Asylum, on the
ground that both his parents were dead.
The two leading newspapers of the
Baptist denomination published in Bos-
ton, viz, the Era, and the Waterman
and Reflector consolidated.
Last dying words of Henry Swan
of Otsego; "Mary Jane, when you
feed the hogs tomorrow night, you will
be the Widow Swan" And Henry was
right.
A Kansas wife with the help of
three daughters has made more money
this year raising silk than her husband
with three boys in raising a good wheat
crop.
The Car recently give a young
Hebrew commission in the Russian
army. This is the first instance in which
Jew has been made an. officer in Rus
STA.
= At the Waco, Texas, fair, October
%, r. A. Ford rode 60 miles in 2 hours
and 40 minutes, the fastest time on rec
ord by five minutes. He rode ffty-two
common Texas horses.
= There are now 1870 oranges in
Maine, there being only sixty-three last
year. There are nearly 10000 members
The state grange will meet at Bangor
on the 18th of next month.
= The man who is curious to see how
the world could get along without him
can find out by sticking a cambria
needle into mill-pond and then with.
drawing it and looking in at the hole
- Glasgow Ky Times
A fearless Auburn On. Y } woman
when her kerosene lamp "blazed up, =
the other day, simply sat down on ii
and the gloom which usually +" east over
the entire community when Providence
hampers with coal oil was prevented.
= The Worcester Spy says it is not
best TO discuss Presidential candidates at
present, but it thinks of two Repub
lican who can carry the country Just
as easy" 1t probably does not name
one of them for fear oftouching on Sam
uel Bowles $ prerogatives.
The recent flood in England cost
the Burton brewers 100000. Bass and
Allsopp, however, would hardly mind
that. Messrs. Bass produce s35, oOC
worth of beer day, or a million bar
rels year. The Allsopps follow Will
| 10000 barrels.
= Fancy premiums at Eaton Count,
| (Mich.,) Fair; To Miss Emma Robb
for the best sample of mending. s5
To Miss Viola Helms, for the Longest
hair g feet inches). S.. To the wo-
man the longest without a new dress
Miss Fuller $40. For the prettiesr
baby under three years of age, Mrs
Sbuler, SIS.