Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-22
WAITS AND HINTS,

We are encouraged. A Granite state ed
itor is worth 100000 But then, it is all
invested in New Hampshire land ..E
The New York Sun has 4 conundrum
which is beyond its guessing ability. 1t is
this, lis 4 democrat = mere animalf" and
Dana gives it up, though he shows quite
leaning towards the negative.
President Grant says he shall sail for Eu-
rope, ria Havana, as soon as his term Of Of.
fee expires. Via Havana that was Tweed's
route. Is the president going to follow in
the footsteps Of his "illustrious predeces-
sor ,"
The woman who, advertising for husband,
insisted that he must not only be 'strictly re.
ligious, but of good moral character" was
doubtless familiar with the piety which dis.
tDguishes some Of the eminent statesmen at
Washington.
Cremation has two economical aspects as
shown il burning the body of the late Baron
de Palm. Economy 6rst--Of space his
ashes weighed Eve and one-fourth pounds.
Economy second-his cremation cost forty
dollars ..... ......
1t said the father Of Charley Ross has ex-
pended $50, 900 in the fruitless search for
his lost child. He ought to have gone to st.
Adams the FIRST thing and secured the ser.
vices Of the Boston Journals correspondent,
it would not have cost him over couple Of
hundred
Just think of it once, Ohio has q judge
who Just sentenced fellow TO state prison
for two years for stealing newspaper We
publish il for the sake Of showing those who
steal the reading Of the FARMER, as they
can't get along without it, how they will be
served when they move tout west"
Pro bono puJlico. See under especial
clubs" in this weeks supplement something
for the particular benefit of those people
who live fourteen miles from anywhere, or
III buOoc oCCtlOuo VI Nuo bJhto WucIo tuo
farms are like the Irishman's, "all long, no
wide, up hill aud worry stony" .f
This cold snap is very disastrous to the
elegant modes of discourse of the day.
"HOw is that for highf" you see, is very in.
appropriate with the thermometer going
down last Saturday to thirty degrees below
zero in Washington, eleven in Burlington,
and forty at Lacrosse.
We thought as muOh-the Free Press is
coming to its senses, even il democrats
shonld get their rights. See this "The
weather wise predict thirty-six snow storms
for this winter-Which We hope aud trust is
not fair count. If it is, let US pray for a
canvassing board to go behind the returns"
A Massachusetts paper says, GPrOpOS Of
Senator BoutWell's successor: "The great
trouble with our politics at present seems to
be that small men are trying to gil large
places" They will come to a realizing sense
Of things 10 the old Bay State if you only
give them time for reflection.
The Boston Waterman, which will now
be one of the best New England religious
weeklies, has found that good paper can't
be made by machinery, and SO have So
cured arst-class, live man as oditor-
Lucius Il. Smith, ID. D., 4 man of brains,
pietY and courage, aud born for a news.
paper.
A western editor has beOn here among US
and written home to his paper that everything
was as still US Sunday-nObody to be seen !;
and the poor fellow thought the entire pOpu-
latiOn was dead or had gone to church. Prob.
ably be went up to strattOu or RiPtOu or