Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-04
WHOLE NO. 294.
FACT AND FANCY.

TOT refusing 10 drink glass OF beer q
young man was murdered at Guadalaiara,
Mexico.
One of the proudest moments Of fat
mans life is when he can eat buckwheat cakes
without getting molassSs on his shirt-front
A breed of dogs in Australia are of the'
kind that do not bark. Half the pleasure Of
keeping dog is gone when the bark is re-
moved.
A narrow ridge of gold quartz 80 miles
long, has been discovered in New South
Wales. 1t contains an enormous percentage
of gold.
Boarder alas the red haired girl gone
away2" Landlady: "Yes, SIR" Boarder:
l thought 50. l found black hair in the
butter to-day"
Six and half-milion of dollars was tho
sum In round numbers raised last year for all
purposes by the three great Presbyterian
bodies of Scotland.
Lager beer (says the N. o. Rep. Twill not
intoxicate if left 10 the barrel. 1t is only
men who attempt to take the place Of barrels
who get beer drunk
Rice culture in Louisiana EMPLOYS 10000
people, on 1900 plantations; produces a
crop worth S3,OO0,000, and develops busi-
ness to the extent of $l0,000,000.
Rhode Island farmers cut hay in the
night. When one of them gets nervous and
can't sleep, he gets up and mows the state
over, after which he goes to bed and gets
good nights rest.
A disappointed Oregon editor puts a cut
OF big turkey over the election returns in
his paper, and underneath this line "Not
he that crows, but he that gobbles, makes
most out Of election"
The last year has been hard one for
newspapers. If the next is no better and
you should happen to step into printing office,
the proper question to ask will be, "Is the sher-
iff in 2"-LOaoeH Journal.
A medical man asked his legal adviser
how he could punish a servant who had stol-
en- a canister Of valuable snuff 81 am not
aware of any act" said the lawyer, "that
makes it penal to take snuff.
A prominent Mormon married q Young
girl in 1874 This third wife), her mother, the
next spring, and finally her grandmother.
There is no telling where he would have
stopped if the family had held out.
Now that the astronomers have explained
to us that the present torridity is caused by
"the earth moving through an Immense me.
teoric atmosphere" we can stand it. 1t was
the uncertainty that made it so uncomforta.
bic.
An intelligent foreigner, passing through
the streets Of Philadelphia, took out his note
book at the end of long walk, and made a
little memorandum to the effect that "eighty-
nine per centum of the population of Phila-
delphia are members Of the powerful family
of Roomstolet"
Sitting Bull is preparing for the worst.
lie has already selected his 'ast words" in
case of his sudden taking off. They are
"Wah-wah munk. .gooro, mix-any," which,
freely translated, means "Don't let 'em write
any dime novels about me-"
Cockney at the falls of Niagara, when
asked how he liked them, replied-"They'r
'andsome, quite 50 but they don't quite an
swer my hexpectations besides, got thor
aughly vetted, ond lost my at. | prefer to
Ioook at 'em in an hengraying, in 'ot weather,
The distressing Intelligence comes from
Rye Beach that the Western visitors there
feed with their knives, forks being used only
as feeble auxiliaries in the process. One of
these days, perhaps, the Mongolian tide will
sweep away the cherished four.tiner and
leave us nothing but chop.sticks.
A little boys father gave him two cents
ono to spend for candy, the other to give
10 the heather. He presently lost one of
The cents, but consoled himself with the
thought that the one which was lost was
The one which was to be given to the heather.
Hence the faling-of of contributions for tho
leathen.
A brutal hostler in Southern Pennsylvania
mas recently demonstrated the interconverti-
oiity of man and dog. He made a wager
hat he could get down on his hands and
Inees aud whip a bulldog. Tho dog-dog
wen and was shot by the bystanders; the
nan-dog died three days aftorward of hydro
Dhobia.
A little girl recently saw an old drunken
man lying on doorstep, the perspiration
pouring off his face, and crowd of children
preparing to make fun of him. She took
her little apron and wiped his face, and then
oOked up SO pitifully to the rest and made
his remark, 80 say, don't hurt him. He's
grandpa"
The authorities took a poor man from
Happy Hollow one day this week, and sent
him out to the Poor-house. The parting
between the poor man and his eleven dogs,
which he distributed among his sympathizing
relatives, was affecting in the extreme. We
believe the man had few children, too, but
'ut not enough to make a fuss about.
Theodore Tilton's chirography is not al.
Ways entirely legible. Some time ago COM
nittee man who had engaged him sent hima
request to name his best lecture He wrote,
The Art Of Using the Mind" and sent il
BY post. When he arrived in town to meet
lis engagement he saw himself billed for a
ecture on "The Art Of Raising the Wind"
One four prominent citizens was observed
carrying home large sized watermelon YES.
erday afternoon. Fifteen minutes later two
,oroners, an undertaken and the family
physician were on the steps opposite hold.
ng an excited caucus, which was adjourned
lpon the announcement Of the servant girl
hat the fruit would not be eaten until to.
lay,-Er.
"l've got another, my dear" said Mr..
Dorkins as he hurried into the house. "If
you we're on the top of Trinity church spire
N the back of goose, how would you get
lOwnP" Mrs. DOrkins thought she'd jump
iown, slide down the lightning rod, fly down
IN the goose, fall down, and then gave it up,
why, If you wanted to get down. you could
pick it off tho goose" SAID Mr.. DOrkins, ex.
lltantly.
There are two methods of keeping up a
of bloom in buds of ANNALS; the
irst is by preventing any Of the plants from
yoing TO seed by cutting off all the faded