Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-24
WHOLE NO. 311.
FACT AND FANCY.

Eleven hundred girls are eWplOyou uI Oho
artificial flower factory in Franco, none be-
ing over twenty.
We are cosmopolitan people. In In.
dianapolis recently, white man knocked
down Chinaman and a negro arrested him.
A writer in the Musical World thinks that
the so called "musical ear" depends on the
shape of the outer auricular organ.
A Philadelphia woman recently lost
pair Of earrings, valued at SO 600, which were
once the property of the ex-Empress Eugene.
A thousand babies in this country have
waited nameless for a fortnight for 100000
voters to decide whether they shall be called
Hayes or Tilden.
The gamins of Paris fish for rats in the
sewers with strong wire lines. They get
to 10 cents apiece for the skins, which are
made into ladies' kid gloves.
While the centennial exhibition was open,
over 1000 old umbrellas, 1000 parasols, and
500 babies we're returned to their owners by
the committee on lost things.
Arctic explorers have discovered that the
length Of Polar night is 142 days. Good
place for lovers that. The expense of keep
tleman, though.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
cows in the United States. Now, if some
one will tell us the number of pumps, says
the Commercial Bulletin, we can estimate
the total amount of the milkmen's trade.
Agonizng-"What kind of a picture
would you prefer, miss p, inquired New
ark photographer of a young lady customer.
"Well," was the reply, stake me with an
expression as if were writing a poem on
the Centennial"
When blear.eyed, bad.headed weather
prophet is asked whether it is going to be
hard winter he shuts one eye looks at the
sun with the other, digs up clump of grass,
examines the roots, aud says, 81 don't know"
He is generally correct
Lately at an English railway station a
black and tan dog chased rat upon the line
and train coming upon him to soon to allow
Of his getting out Of the way, he lay down
close to the road bed, allowing the cars to
pass over him and escaped uniDjured. A cum
ming dog that.
During the six summer months of this
year Parsians ate the flesh of 1869 horses,
1913 asses and 10 mules. The figures were
reported by the committee for promoting the
consumption of horsehesb.
"Hark hear an angel sing" sang a
young man at back township school exhi-
bitlon. "No, ,'taint," shouted an old farmer
in one of the back seats, otis only my old
mule that's hitched outside" The young
man broke down and quit
1t is estimated that 5000 Western girls
have taken husbands this year for the only
earthly reason that they were thereby en-
abled to visit the Centen nal at somebody
else's expense. Wonder if any Of eur Yam
kce girls played the same trick ?
That leading "Finnegan," O'Donovan
Rosa, when interviewed in relation to the
reported Fenian scare, said 81 do not wish
to be rude with you, and | do not want to
give you an impolte answer, but tell you
this, that there are 250,000 armed men in
America ready to 60 to Canada or elsewhere
Let the tyrant tremble !"
Admirers of former mathematical prolcs.
sOr at Dartmouth cite, as proof of his won
derful gift ofcalculation, that, when he went
to Europe, he estimated his expenses so ac-
curately that he took just enough money to
pay his bills aud returned with one cent left.
Harper's Bazaar represents Mrs. Partington,
just returned from the centennial, and saying
to an awe.stricken group but there The
japanese department-I infected it thor
oughly. expressed my highest exhorta-
tions Sich armstc brick brick Sich
fans Of uni-q designs! Sich rair articles
of virtue 1t beggars deception !"
At milstream lodge in Lancashire, Eng,
no less than so persons are known to have
committd suicide. The ponds on Hampstead
Heath, however, have destroyed more human
lives than any other piece of water of sim
liar size in Great Britain, and the number
of bodies taken out Of them is almost be-
yond calculation.
A funny little ornament for a bureau is
square piece of cardboard, about six inches
ach way, embroidered on the edge with
some fancitul design in worsted and having
inthe centre the words scratch my back"
1t is hung on the gas fixture by a cord.
You turn it around and discover the back to
be piece of sandpa per to scratch matches
| on.
Ask no woman her age. Never joke with
a policeman. Do not play at chess with a
widow. Never contradict man who slut.
ters. BE civil to rich unces and aunts.
Always sit next the carver, if you can, at
dinner. Keep your own secrets. Tell no
human being you dye your whiskers Wind
up your conduct, like your watch once every
day, mnutely examining whether you are
fast or slow.
A carpenter who was always prognosticat-
ing evil to himself, was one day upon the
roof Of five.story building upon which rain
had fallen. The roof being slippery, he
lost his footing, and as he was descending
toward the caves, he exclaimed, "Just as |
told you !" Catching, however, on an iron
spout, he kicked off his shoes and regained
a place Of safety, when he thus delivered
himself; 81 know'd it there's pair Of
shoes gone"
In one of the largest and most thriving
towns in Ohio well known hotel keeper and
politician was appointed commissioner Of in-
ternal revenue. One morning he found on
his desk letter addressed to him officially,
without postmark, containing $500 green
back, to which was pinned a small piece of
paper with "Conscience money" written
thereon. Quietly folding up the greenback
putting it in his pOcketbook, he remarked 81
always did suspect that barkeePer of mine"
During a recent visit to the Pacific coast,
was told the following incident by an eye
witness: A hoier had gone in the morn
ing with the herd to the field for pasture,
During her absence her 6rst-bOrn was slain,
and the skin carelessly hung on the barn
yard fence to dry. The evening brought
the mich kline home, A gentle breeze blow
ing, revealed, by mysterious instinct the loss
. La na,ral tha