Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-21
WHOLE NO. 293.
FACT AND FANCY.

| OdlliOTnla mas put up Z,OUU,UUU cans
Of strawberries this year.
A problem of the hour: to keep the
starch in ones shirt collar.
Hogg was good writer but he can't be
considered aside of Bacon.
There are in Turkey over 10000 persons
in prison for debt due the government.
That new London drink, "stout and bit.
ter" is now called "mother-in.law" for short.
In an address to a graduating class, re-
Gently, Bishop Cox boasted that he had never
cast ballot.
Every dog should have his day; but it
appears as if the supply of dogs greatly out
numbers the days.
Between 5000 and 5000 people per-
lshed in this country last year, victims of
kerosene oil accidents.
Served him right-A New York physi.
clan has been fined $500 for sending OBJ.
scene matter through the mails.
The Deadhead's Paradise The centen.
NAL exhibition. One day last week there
were 37,7O4 admissions, aud of this number
ll,ll4 we're entitled to the degree of d. H.
Grasshoppers in Minnesota are said to bo
numerously assaied by parasites that affix
their eggs to their bodies, and from the eggs
come grubs that bore into them with fatal
effect
Among the unsuccessful candidates for
admission to Amherst College was youth
who, notwithstanding the recent "spelling
bee" mania, spelled jealousy "gelicy" and
JUICY "gousy."
The Chicago Journal has entirely ruined
that story about the Illinois girl who shoared
IL sheep in two hours, etc. The 9. j. states
that after the feat none Of the sheep could
boast Of an ear or tall
Respect for the Press-The Indians that
slaughtered Clusters division stripped every
body but that Of q newspaper correspondent.
Perhaps his clothes were not worth taking
of.-Ne'cburypOrt Herald.
The Paris gas companies have purchased
5OO,OOO,OO0 kilogrammes of coal in Ger
many fact which is announced by the
patriotic press of France in indignant dou.
ble-leads and mourning borders.
The high winds in San Francisco blow
dust into latent grease spots on clothing aud
make them visible. Bootblacks carry little
bottles of ammonia with which to obliterate
the spots, aud in that way add to their in
comes.
Mark Twain, speaking of new mosquito
netting, writes: "The day is coming when
we shall sit under our nets in church and
slumber peacefully, while the discomfted
flies club together and take it out of the
minister"
A young man in Wayne county, Ia, who
had been deaf and dumb for 20 years, while
driving leisurely, last week, was suddenly
thrown from the wagon to the ground, strik-
ing his head, and, on arising, found that he
had recovered his speech and hearing.
A traveller staying over night with
Texan farmer whose estate was miles and
miles in extent said to him, You must have
begun life very early to accumulate such an
estate as this" "Yes," replied the farmer,
81 began life when l was mere baby"
Cucumbers are as vigorous as usual this
season. A man who partook of them freely
was found curled over picket fence wait.
ing for the judgment day, and had breath
enough left to explain that he'd Just as lief
wait there as anywhere else.-BrOoklym Ar
gus.
A Trenton editor makes the statement for
the good Of the correspondents that they
need not commence their communications,
al take my pen in hand" as he don't care
whether they write with their toes or with
the pen in their mouths, so they send the
news.
There are seventy-two newspapers in Con.
stantinople, sixteen printed in Turkish Ian
guage, one in Arabic, one in Persian, twenty
in French, one in German, one in Eaglish,
twelve in Greek, thirteen in Armenian, four
in Bulgarian, two in Spanish and enc in It.
allan.
The colossal statue Of Independence for
the harbor of New York will be flushed, it
is hoped, in time to be shown in Paris dur
ing the exhibition in 1873. The wrist of
this gigantic statue has been moulded lately.
1t took 200 sacks of plaster for its compo-
sition, and weighed 5,075 kilogrammes
81 hear that you are desperately courting
the chambermaid," said man to his SER
want "That is my business" was the reply.
"But hear, too, that she favors your atten-
tions." "That is her business" "But do
you know that shall instantly put you out
side the doOr2" "That is your business"
We saw a mosquito work about ten min
utes yesterday, trying to get his bill through
the skin of a man who owes us two years
subscriptions. How we laughed at that de-
moralized little insect as, with look of dis.
gust he folded up his little blT, placed it in
his pocket, aud went for another victim.-
Whitehall Times.
They tell story of Judge in Alabama
who sent an officer out, few days since, to
get him drink Of whiskey. The officer re-
turned with it, but the amount did uot salts
fy the judge. The second time he came back
with tumbler full and remarked that tho
barkeeper said that he "didnt know that the
old fool wanted to take bath :"
If you want to find out mans real dis.
position, take him when he is wet and hun.
cry. If he is amiGble then, dry him and
fll him up, and you have an angel Boston
ind ourselves continually
called upon to correct Boston philosophy.
Now the real way TO test man is to take
him when he is dry and hungry. Wet him
properly and fill him up, aud you have a
seraph.-TPhiladelphiA Bulletin.
When Mr.. Richard Henry Lee began to
read the Declaration of Independence at
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, Dom Pedro took
from his pocket a wel-wOrn pamphlet, which
proved to be fac-simile of the manuscript
Of the Declaration, and remarked to the gem
tleman near him, "I have had this for thirty
years." He followed the text, sentence by
sentence, as Mr.. Lee read and there was
no heartier response to any patriotic senti-
ment during the day, than that given by
the Brazilian monarch.
M -. - A. L.-i u.r