The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-03
Gleanings and Gossip.

stalking parties-.youpg LADIES'
conuerSaziones.
The real place for revolutionary scenes
Machinery Hall.
Mrs. Partington has never sued man
for reformation Of character.
Silver is fat in the London market. 1t
has just commenced to get round here.
Rheumatism is always a joint affair,
and yet there i, only one party to it.
A kiss on the forehead means rever.
ence but there isn't much fun in it.
A landlady heard an impecunious
lodger jiDgling silver, and she wondered
how such roomer gained currency.
Were saints their own carvers they
would soon cut their own fingers.
Labor is not q curse, but royalty De.
manded for everything that ia worth hav.
ing.
Sharkey, the escaped New York mur.
derer, is said to be now acting as interpe.
ter in Madrid.
A desire to say things which no one
ever said makes some people say things
nobody ought to say.
In mist the nights can, for the most
part, see each other but not the valleys.
Perfect love has a breath of poetry
which can exalt the relations of the
least'instructed human beings.
The first proof of mans incapacity for
anything is his endcvoring to fix the stig.
ma of failure upon others.
The last work out is called "Guide to
the Station House" The author sleeps
in an ash barrel.
If we were obliged to pay to enter in.
to life. how many OF US would demand
the return of our money on departing.
To sneer and denounce is very easy
way Of assuming great deal of wisdom,
and concealiug great deal Of ignorance
The latter part of wise mans life is
taken up in curing the follies, prejudices
and false opinions he had contracted in
the former.
No man, for any considerable period
can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
There are three supreme agonics 10
life; the agony of jealousy, the agony oil
fearing you have mistaken your talents,
and the agony Of ennu.
Every art can only elevate itself above
a mere haudicraft by being devoted to the
expression Of lofty thought.
Judge Davis is having l776 white oak
trees set out around his residence at
Bloomington, H., all on account Of the
Centennial
A Milwaukee man went to a meeting
in London one evening, and when tht
cockney. said, "ear, ear" he took it fol
a personal allusios and got out.
The last ''eoreia Legislature passed a
law making hog-stealing felony, and
the penitentiary is rapidly filing up with
offenders, generally negroes
One Of Victor Hugos recent auto
graphs reads thus: Good for $50, t
be given to a POOR man.-Victor Hugo
The American houored the draft.
Mrs. Captain Mccoy, teacher Of prac
tical navigation" is the inscription on ,
sign.board in Madison street, New Yorl
so proudly records the Woman's Jour
nal
Old Uncle Ben Greer. a Marshal
county Ky. )darkey who claims to be III
years old and has some documents to back
it up, was recently married to young
woman Of 81.
A Texas youth was recently sentenced
to two years in the pententiary for marry
ing girl under the age prescribed by law
after swearing that she was Of legal age
and his wife accompanied him.
A Calhoun (Ky.) man who lost the
power Of speech by lying out. doors drunI
one cold stormy night. FIVE or six year
ago, regained it when his house caugh
fire, and nearly burned him up, the othe
night.
Col. Coolbaugh, who during the sieg
of Vicksburg, in 1868. was attached t.
the staff of Maj. Gen. MCPHERSON, is nov
in the Arkansas peniteutiary under a sen
tence Of fifteen years for stealing lette
from the mail.
A preacher irom Glasgow, Mo, hesitat
ed to tell dying man that he would q
righ. to heaven till the dying man.
brother stabbed him twice in the heaC
and gave him more liberal ideas Of tn
mercy Of heaven
The superiority of man to nature i
continually illustrated in litera,u ant
life. Nature needs an immense quantity
of quills to make a goose with but maj
can make goose of himself 10 five min
utes with one quill.
An Omaha (Neb.) doctor was engage,
to attend lady 10 her confinement, agree
ing to charge ten dollars The lady CAV
birth to twins. aud he demanded doubl
pay. Payment being refused, he sue
her, but lost the case.
A shocking iuianticide occurred at 81
T Nalerisn, Canada, few days ago, whe
a woman named Guertin, annoyed at he
infants crying, seized it by the heels an
beat out its brains against heavy wood
en- chest.
An absent minded man does not max
the best of railroad conductors. On
started his train off from a station on tn
Duchess and Columbia road, the othe
day, and then sat down Oh the platform
forgetting that he was left.
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