Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-01-19
The Wezvs.
SNndrles.

during the pleasant weather of last
week, INDUCED in lively hope on the
fertile fields of Fleming, Ky.
Somebody has already measured
the beer which will be sold and drank
en- centennial grounds in Philadelphia
next year, and it foots up 100000
barrels, to say nothing of what will be
sold in the city proper!
MIR Morrison offered q resolution
in the house of representatives
Wednesday which was adopted, max
ing almost every committee OF impor.
lance committee of investigation.
In Newarl-, the other day, a
fashionable mother said to the family
physician. in the presence of her three
gigg1ing, frivolous daughters; ''Doc-
aor, how can we improve our girls ?"
'By improving the mothers" was the
gruf reply.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS MARE. --Dex-
ters dam died at Montgomery, Orange
county, n. Y, last week. Of conges-
ton of the lungs. She belonged to
Mr.. Jonathan Hawkins, who raised
Dexter. She was twenty seven years
old, and the dam of the other fast
trotters who have distinguished them
selves on the turf. The mare was IA
nous ON the road years ago, and was
noted for her endurance and speed.
"A writer in the Graphic don't be-
lieve Tweed has run away he thinks
he was kidnapped and murdered We
shall probably next have the theory
preached that he has gone to heaven,
1t is expected that Queen Veto
ria will open the British Parliament
in person, at the session which will be-
gin on the 9Th of February.
Laugh and grow tat, may be very
well for advice, if judiciously followed,
but Mr.. Jonn Morris, of Langley, Ga,
overdid the thing last Friday. He
was so tickled at sight of a masqur-
ade party, that he laughed and died.
AT Rawlins, Wyoming Territory,
new conner went up to one of the
young ladies who were sitting on the
gentlemen's laps, and, inviting hen to
dance the next set with him, was tax
ing her away, when the pard from
whose lap she had risen pointed his
revolver at the new conner and said,
"Stranger, sot her back, sot her
back
Memphis voted democratically,
OH the 18th, by majority Of 1895.
The Rothchilds are said to be
worth only $4,000, 100000, and dis,
charge servant girl about once a
week for throwing away ashes without
sitting them.
Brother Moody says the devil
goes to church more frequently than
anybody else. Poor preaching some
where, then, for he ought to be con-
verted.
--Senator Bayard, of Delaware, has
decided to vote for the Centennial APP
preparation.
The "superfuous women all 60
in for Mr.. Doolittle's plan, to give two
votes to a married man and only one
to a bachelor.
The trial of Lands for the mur.
der of Carruth, is likely to be long
and memorable. There is an able ar.
ray of counsel, and the issue will
probably depend upon the medical ties
timony, In which, we may be sure, the
doctors will disagree, and the jury
mems minds will be delightfully."- mud
died.
Help somebody worse off than
yourself, and you will feel that you
are better off than yo, iancied,
The Olympia Transcript, having
learned that a cargo of 600 Chinese
are en- route to Washington Territory
expresses the ardent and humane hop'
that the ship may sink, with all OIL
board, before it makes port
= The famous Singer will case ha
been decided by the New York court
in favor of Mrs. Isabella Eugene Sing
er. The legacy is s14,OoO,OOo.
Ne7v England.