Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
WHOLE NO. 294.
FACT AND FANCY.

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A Joyous smile adds an hour TO ones life,
a heartfelt laugh day.
TO secure pensive position for a pho
tograph, eat cucumbers.
More poetry comes from disordered iv-
or than from inspiration.
Of the champagne drunk in the United
States three-quarters is bogus.
Talk about our changeable climate No
special change for the last month.
About the greedest thing known is fowl
eating corn it takes peck every time.
Judge Hilton, Alexander T. Stewards ex-
ecutor, has given 81 900 toward monument
to the gallant Custer.
Centennial hankerchiefs, with fac-simile
copies Of the Declaration Of Independence
stamped on them, are now for sale.
Ice machines in New Orleans, aqua am.
monia process, make 200 tons of ico per day,
and this amount can be doubled if necessary.
Magnolias first appeared in New Orleans
this season in the latter part Of the month Of
March, and are not yet tired Of blooming.
The mines of Colorado yielded, in 1875,
over S6,294,0 900 in bullion; the estimated
production for 1876 is more than ten mill
ions.
"Can you work miracles 2" asked Mr..
Sceptic at camp.meeting. The brethren
kicked him off the grounds with the reply:
ave can cast out devils !"
Mr.. Evarts spoke in his grafton July tn,
Of "our. debts to the men Of l776." Ah,
would that all our debts we're to the men of
l776;-Turner Falls Reporter.
The Centennial dairy furnishes daily to
hungry and thirsty pilgrims from 1,500 to
1900 quarts Of milk, and about 800 loaves
of bread and from 1000 to l 500 rolls.
In the window of shop in an obscure
part of London is this announcement
Goods removed, messages taken, carpets
beaten and poetry composed on any subject.
Great eas have little sas upon their backs to bite em,
And little Aoas have lesser deas and dd ifnitum
And greater eas themselves in turn have greater eas
While these again have creator STILL and greater STILL
and 80 on.
A walnut tree, in Iowa, recently cut, meas
ures seven feet at the butt, eighty to the
limbs. The owner refuses $4,000 for the
tree. A forest Of such trees would be fine
fortune.
An undertaker's clerk at Chicago has an
eye to business. He observed man eating
q water melon, and succeeded in obtaining
his name and address. The U. 9. said that
it would save much unnecessary delay.
+ The largest negative ever produced by
means of photography was recently exhibited
in San Francisco. II was about three feet
long and two feet wide. and the perfect ap-
paratus cost the inventor over $4,000.
When baseball player can get $4,000
for season Of eight months, the average
newspaper editor knows the world is out of
joint, and asks his youngest boy to give him
private instructions in the national game.
1t took Sir Isaac Newton less than three
years to thoroughly digest the principles OF
gravitation, while an Indiana farmer has
spent eleven years trying to find out why
COW never kicks until the pail is two-thirds
full.
Brigham Young says that he has been told
by God, in vision, that the invisible outlet
to Salt Lake is being filled with salt depos-
it, and that within six years the lake will
overflow its banks, inundatlng that part OF
the country.
On the evening of June 10 the unusual
phenomenon of snow falling from clear sky
in we'll defined fakes was observed for half
an hour at the signal station at Pixies Peak,
and intense electrical displays occurred On
the 10Th, 9th, and 2Sth.
One of the fruits of the centennial exhi-
bition will be that you can buy a dozen
different makes of sewing machines next year,
and each one will have received the "frst'
premium for excellence, light running and
such,-NorriStoa0n Herald.
Kansas is complaining that her crop of
cereals this year is too enormously heavy for
utilization. llions of bushels of wheat
will have to be lost, the farmers say, because
it ripens to fast and can not be got to mar
ket; and as to corn the yield 10 so great that
vast quantities will have to be used as fuel
during the winter.
The first Russian newspaper dates from
1908. Peter the Great took part person.
ally, not in its editorial composition, but in
correcting the proofs, as appears from sheets
still in existence, on which are marks and
alterations in his majesty's handwriting.
Only two copies of the first years edition
have been preserved. They are in the I'M
perial library of Stockholm.
If person would know how sensitive
his nature is, how readily it responds to every
, exhibition of beauty and power, how thor
Oughly adapted it is, in all its faculties, to
, religious impressions no must leave the
, haunts Of men,-where every sight and
, sound distracts his attention, aud checks the
free exercises of his soul and amid the
[ silence Of the woods hold communion with his
Maker.--GOlden RuLe.
A strange paying Of bet comes from
. Columbia, Pa. Two professional men
; wagered supper, six years ago, on the hap
pening Of certain event before July 4,
1876. One died about a year later, but the
J survivor aud loser ordered the supper at a
hotel. on the Fourth. The table was spread
and the whole arrangement made for two
: guests, but one chair was vacant. La silence
: the memory of the departed was toasted
, and in silence the supper was eaten.
Mr.. james Fisk. father of the late
Col. james Fisk, Jr., is a largo hand.
0 some old man, white haired, erect, and in
r manner much like what his son used to be-
He drives spirited white horse attached
! to light open wagon; the horse and wagoI
= suddenly separate, the strange sight always
: attracting crowd. These occasions are
K when Mr.. Fisk shows his friends the pecul
t iarity Of the gOld-plated harness worn BY
Q the horse. BY moving lever he simultan
Q eously detachss the horse and applies tn,
= brake. Thus runaway horse may 60 OIL
= and kill itself, while the folks in the wagoI
j. remain quiet and unharmed.
;. A physician says that sweet oil is no
l. only an antidote to the bite of the rattle
'c snake, but "will euro poison of any kind
's both on man and beast The patient mus
q take spoonful Of il internally, and bath
a the wound. for cure To cure a horse
d takes eight times as much as for n mar