The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

To be sure 10 be on the safe side"
a Kentucky man has joined eight
churches of different denominations.
The Chicago Tribune looES hopeful
| ly at trade prospects, and think the
close of the next six months win find
it better off than now.
The Rochester Democrat remarks
that the private secretary of General
Banks always asks the General pre-
vious to retiring at night What
shall be our politics tomorrow 2
General Grant has proved so sue
cessful as a speech maker in England
that it is suggested that all the lecture
bureaus will he after him to lecture
this winter, if he returns to this coun-
try.
Deacon Richard Smith strikes the
New York editors "with a feather"
He tells them they know far more
about European sentiment than about
the views of the people of the United
States.
Saturday, July Z, was a day of coin
cidences. In addition TO being the
seventh day of the week, it was the
seventh day Of the seventh month of
the seventh year Of the seventh dec
ade of the nineteenth century. .I,.Ita
The Old Line Wing threatens to Ses
up and take sides with the president
if the anti-Hayes republicans show
signs of making trouble. He is said
to be able to take the whole south with
him, too, should such All emergency
arise. . .HH" % Hofi A|tI
A farmer in Wayne county, Penn
who had predicted his death before
night, was going into the field with
his pitchfork on his shoulder, when a
fash of lightning struck the tines of
the fork and passing through his body,
killed him instantly. ..,...I
Human nature is human nature.
The prosecution Of Charles Bradlm9h
and Mrs. Besant in London for pub
fishing an obscene book has increased
the sale of a very Objectionable work.
: from five hundred copies year to one
hundred and twenty-five thousand cop
les in three months.
The officers of the New Hampshire
} Agricultural Society propose to offer
5 series of premiums, to be competed
Q for by the subordinate Oranges in the
, State. 1t is also proposed to have u
~ ,.o,e,a los- ~ lc4-I- r--:-7 L.. Ill
the proceedings will be conducted bN
members of the State Order in full re-
gala.
/, Parties and politics are getting as
, mixed as the ingredients Of u 4th of
July punch. 1t is hard to tell where
y the original begins and leaves off;
!, whether man is a democrat or q re-
! publican, Hayesite or q tothera fell,
low. And, what is worse, things won't
stand still long enough for the bosses
;, to unravel the tangle, or for anybody
It in the tangle to get out ofit.-S.R,.
Young Jesse Grant is said to have
e walked up to the Queen at Windsor
e Castle and opened conversation with
e the remark: "Well ma'am, Your Maj
esty, ! hope your newspapers don't
write about you and your. country as
n ours do about my father and mother"
: Sad to relate, this praisworthy effort,
0 to be sociable was not taken III the
n spirit in which it was ment and the
d conversation went no farther Jesse
G probably considers Victoria a, '.stuck-
: up" old lady anyhow.
"The presidents southern pelicy''.
thus far has consisted in the institu-
q ton Of local seH-government. His
) course in this regard is approved bN
a all the elements heretofore opposed to
i the republican party, and it is fast be-
S coming evident to the thinking colored
men Of the state that it will be a posi-
II tive benefit to them in the end. But
! how it will affect the present organiza-
; ton of parties does not yet appear.
a At present there is no visible evidence
that they will be affected at all.-Ne,o
. Orleans Times.
q The London Standards correspond
g ent at Russian headquarters recently
a interviewed two privates who told q
a pititul tale of the suferings of the
" common soldiers of the Muscovite
q army. They were peasants from the
a neighborhood of Moscow, but bright
II er youths could not be easily found in
n the bourgeois class of Eastern Europe.
C They displayed the bread allotted them,
y which was like a captains biscuit
made of oak sawdust. The regula-
tions gave them pound Of meat
n every three days; "but, said they,
l. somebody else eats it. We do not
- see any from week to week" The
= correspondent asked what provisions
II they would receive at the end Of their
1t days journey, and they marked off
/ upon their fingers about three square
N inches to represent the ration of bread
= The abstinence Of the soldiers begins
- to equal that of the famous horse in
l. training to live upon straw day.
t. Very cheerful and manly they were,
3, however, taking with gratitude such
Il small refreshment as the correspond
! ent could find for them 1T an inn,
. They could afford nothing themselves
re receiving but one roubIe q month
tS about three shillings and two pance
gone long ago