Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-29
All Sorts Of Items.


age threads needle at arms length, slept
with Noah when IL boy, played marbles with
Pharaoh and turned II grindstone for q. w.
to sharpen his little cherry culter.
The GrecnMountdin He raid objects to the
manner of publishing the Vermont Chronicle,
by connecting it with secular paper and
transferring half or two-third of the matters
from one to the other to suit the pccunlary
interests ofthe publishers. 1t does not think
that the Congregational churches of this
State need I'M organ, and says the Congregp-
tiOndliSt, of Boston, has heretofore proved II
better organ for our churches than the
Chronicle.
A singular fatality has attended the Ken
lucky public library lottery scheme within II
short period. Gov. Bramlutte lost his wife
and son and then died himself: Charles
Briggs, his associate, lost his wife; Cassedny,
editor Of the library paper, and McCarty, su-
perintendeGt of the library building, lost
their wives, while Harris, cashier of the
business Office, recently died, and James
Chambers, his successor, had u death IN his
family, aud three others IN the families of
those concerned have also died
While good Western Avenue woman
was having family prayers, one of the kneel-
ing children pulled the cats tail, and II pro-
longcd cat howl was tho result. The pous
mother rose, took that boy IN her lap, and
administered sharp correction, going on with
Ter heavenly petition all the time.
A little fve-years-old, in Indiana, SAID to
n judge who had called at his fathers: Are
you going to your store?n 81 haven't got
any store" Are you gong to your mill?"
II haven't got any mill?n Are you going
to your shop?n IL haven't any shop ''well
then how do you make money!" II make
it by my brains" "Wcll, my papa makes
money and he hasn't got any brains.n
Those depraved banditti, the masters of
the Alabama, Florida aud Arkansas state
oranges. should be turned over to Sheridan
ut once. They insist that Mr. Williams
outrage mill. so far rs their jurisdictions are
concerned, strikingly resembles IN edifice
| spoken of in Scripture rs "the refuge of
lies. '-Republtedn.
The old Mississippi river joke has. curl
ously enough, become II political fact. The
republican steamer is already quiverng
| from stem to stern; the fircmen, with faces
of grim determination, are pouring IN fresh
| supplies of turpcntine; and 1.-THE Niger is
! sitting on the safety-valve." 1t is no fault
of his, poor fellow; but there he is, and
there he is likely to stay until tho explosion.
| The investigation into the condition of ag-
ricultural colleges shows that four states
have lost the entire fund granted to them by
Congress.
OF the s,O35, 1872 milch cows in the nited
| States, Connecticut owns 0sSs9 valued ut
| S6,OO0,O00.
Twelve States now have adopted compul-
sorry education.
my daughter keeps my farm accounts, sir
and she is rs systematic and particular as
ever my son was, who kept them before he
LEFT home. 1tcll you it does girls" (and he
might have added boys also) good to give
them some responsibility, and set them to
watching things about the farm and house
hold They learn. find economy by il,
and soon discover that their old father is not,
necessarily. grabbed old curmudgeon. be-
cause he doesn't loosen his purse-string
whenever they see something they happen to
fancy; for they discover the real reason why
the purse should not he opened So SAID a
progressive farmer, n kind. apprcciative and
proud father, and big-hearted man on gem
era principles. What he snd the German
torn Telegraph thinks worth recording.