Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-30
WHOLE NO. 29O.
FACT AND FANCY.


the smiling barber. "Yes" replied the un-
happy victim, "it takes hold we'll, but it won't
let go worth cent
A Connecticut farmer finds guinea hens
the best potato bug destroyers he has tried.
He keeps twenty Of these fowls, and they do
their work thoroughly.
A Pennsylvania physician told a sick
lady that she couldn't live a month. She
died, that night, from excitement, and her
husband sues for $4,000 damages.
"A beautiful female foot" says a writer,
"should be one.seVenth Of the wearer's
height" That is, beautiful female should
be seven feet high Worcester Press.
Governor Irwin, of California, has taken
off from one to four years each from the SEN
tence Of 100 convcts in the State Peniten-
tiary because Of the good conduct of the body
Of convicts at recent fire in the prison.
q, Mrs. Lincoln's estate, which consists
mostly Of United States bonds, amounts to
about SS0,000 besides which she receives
from the government a quarterly pension Of
$3.50.
A young lady viewing Dom Pedro in st.
Louis the other day remarked as she fixed
her eyes on the carriage, at is MT exactly
Immortality to see an Emperor, of course,
but it s glance, at least, Of King Dom
come"
The southern Negroes are mystifed over
the recent visits of cyclones and hurricanes,
and an aged Savannah darkey remarked "lf
desc winds can't be turned down a little,
what's de use ub buying mules aud 'c,umu-
lating family?"
An old negro was paid his weeks wages
in New York, recently, receiving the most Of
it in silver half-dollars. He looked benignly
at them as they lay in his palm, chuckled
as though in triumph, and exclaimed, "Dat's
de stuff dc rats can't chaw !"
The use of the editorial 1--WE" prevails in
the South, as will be seen by the following
remark in the Paris, Tenn, Iutelgencer
"If we escape the hog cholera this season,
there will be large surplus Of pork next win
ter"
Sir James Hall has been making some
experiments on Matching eggs by artificial
heat and on one occasion observed in one OF
his boxes chicken in the act Of breaking
from its confinement. 1t happened that Just
as the creature was getting out Of the she'll,
spider began to run along the box, and tho
chicken darted forward, seized and swallowed
it.
,, A st. Louis commercial traveller has sued
, an Indiana hotel keeper for $4,000 damages
for not waking him up in time to catch u
certain train. He must be singular man.
Most drummers would have taken the day
to 90 fishing, and put down on their notebook
bridges carried away-couldnt get on,"-
> Chicago Times.
G A negro was sentenced in Floyd, Ca. to
, to be hanged next September, and he asked
3 the judge to appoint an earlier day. His
q Honor remarked that propriety prevented
> change. "Never mind the propriety, judge"
, said the prisoner "I'm the man that's going
, to be hanged, and ought to have something
t to say about it."
2 G. G. Ernest of Stockbridge, Cal, after
: several experiments, has succeeded in rails
e ing roses as black as ink. His plan was to
f engraft slip of dark red rose into an oak
S tree, where they grew flourished and
D blossomed, the dark sap of the oak effectually
t colored the rose black. He did not succeed,
e however, in transferring the slips so treated
4 to the ground, for they invariably died in
D the attempt
1t has puzzled many people to decide why
the dark wood so highly valued for furniture
should be called rosewood. Its color does
! ! not look much like a rose; so we must look
for some other reason. Upon asking, we arc
told that when the tree is first cut the fresh
t., wood possesses very strong, rose-liko fra
grance-hence the name.
' The following curious account of painter
g for restoring paintings in convent was
q written in a scroll less than an inch square
a Corrected and revised the Ten Command.
8 ments, . francs and II centimes embel-
a lshed and renewed Pontius Plate aud put
a new ribbon in his bonnet, francs 6 cent
g ines put new tail on the rooster of st.
h Peter, and mended his comb francs
d 20 centimes replumed and gilded the left
4 wing Of the Guardian Angel, francs Is
p ceLtimes washed the servant of the High
q Priest, and put carmine on his cheeks,
francs IL centimes renewed Heaven, ad-
!. justed two stars, gided the Sun and renewed
n the Moon, francs Ii centimes terminated
q the Flames of Purgatory and restored some
II souls, francs 6 sentimes revived tho
4 Flames Of He'll, put new tail ON the Devil,
m hnCuhOu MS lSlb hOOli ahu uiN oSNCial JoDo lOE
m the Damned, A francs 10 centimes; put new
" spatter dashes on the Son of Tobias and
st dressing on his back, 2 francs cleaned the
ar ears of Balaam's Ass and shod him, 3 francs
n I centimes put earrings in the ears oi
:. Sarah, francs centimes rebound the robe
10 of Herod aud readjusted his wig, 4 franc:
"a centimes put new stone in David's Sling
40 enlarged the head of Goliath and extended
10 his legs, francs centimes; decorated
Noah's Ark, 3 francs mended the shirt o
the Prodiga Son and cleaned the pigs,
of francs centimes, Total, 50 francs ] i cent
fl ines.
'r, Tue PEARL FISHERY OF CEYLoN.-Th,
ld pearl fishery vaguely renowned even in the
ID, days of Pliny, is carried on principally al
re Aripo, on the west Of Ceylon, drearl
III shore. Enormous mounds of shells hav,
be accumulated for centuries. From MarcI
SD to May this spot is thronged by some hun
he dreds of thousands of people interested il
se the catch. The divers plunge to the bottom
nc is facilitated by stone weighing thir!,
'c' pounds attached to a rope. Experts remain
'se under the water not quite sixty seconds
though the government Inspector had know
V one man who could stay eighty-seyen. The
,w can 60 down nine fathoms, but work has bee
mn done in thirteen. Danger from sharks
ma unknown because of the noise and disturbanc
.er of the waters by so many hundred boats
II Some divers can bring up 5000 or 400
Of shells day and earn nearly "a in eigh
Of days work. During the occupation Of tn
or Dutch, 40 years, sixty years were unpro
oh ductiye, and there were only four real goo
od seasons. In our time there was failur
I'M from 1920 to 1928 aud another from 1888
ch to 1859. In 1914, 76,000,000 of shell
ar. were brought up, and in 1898 the cOutractc