Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
WAITS AND HINTS.

Ono recently had FIVE prayer books in his
%valisc, probably for enjoyment during his
unemployed leisure moments.
We have just learned why Vanderbilt and
Alexander Stephens we're 30 often reported
dead, aud yet they lived-it was because
they were tho "oldest free masons."
They are at least a hundred years behind
the times up in Canada, for the Sherbrooko
News has over a column article on the ques-
ton, "Who killed Cock Robin ?" Where
was that paper in its childhood 2
One of the inmates of tho, Jail at Middle
bury has taken to literature, but judging
from his contribution in the last Register
the world will not be much more benefited
by his pen than by his life.
The Commercial Advertiser says the man
who left provisions in his will didn't want
his heirs to %starve." Perhaps so, but we
have known numerous provisions in the wills
Of our relations which gave US no relief.
The Globe %rejoices in the manifest evil
dences of Rutland's growing culture. Proof
minstrel troupe had a full house! And
the assistant editor of the Globe goes about,
whenever he can get an invitation, lecturing
on Temperance, Morals, Education and the
Centennial
A Chelsea subscriber concludes to drop
the FARMER for this good reason "They
were lively and interesting, but of late they
have been rather dry" Dry! And he
tells us if we send it any more he twill not
toke it out of the ofdce D." Have they any
common schools in Chelsea
The end is at hand. Guilford Center of
this state has inaugurated the movement.
Only think Of it, three valiant, brave, heroic
men Of that ancient town, and seven
the sacred number, you see-have sent a
petition to the United States senate asking
for the boon Of female suffrage!
North Adams, Mass, has exhausted six
teen bakeries during the last fifteen years.
We have known for several years that the
tunnel City" had good capacities in this
line. but didn't suppose they were as vora'
cious as above indicated. But we don't al.
ways know the virtues of our neighbors +!
The Boston Journals fashion correspon.
dent says of spring styles: 1.-The spring
style of vests will be so short and the trou.
sers will be cut so high in the neck that our
best young men will be able to button their
collars directly on the Wristbands" PrOba-
bly, the fellow has just SEED for the first time
a pair Of full.grown "over.halls."
Some one wants to be warned against the
patent "clothes.line and "patent gate"
swindlers. We have no advice to give. If
any farmer in Vermont is so big a fool as
to try to make any money out Of these pa
tents or rights of territory, no deserves to
be bitten, for they arc a fraud from begin
ming to end. 1t is the inordinate hankering
after speedy riches, and there is only one
way such men will learn and that is by OK.
p~erience.
They say that Maddox, who has been tes.
tifying against Wells of the Louisiana board,
was a miserable, disreputable fellow, of
which there seems to be no room for doubt.
But why was he special revenue agent Of the
government Grant seems to have a spe-
cial fondness for such friends, several of
whom have got into states prison, and he has
more personal friends VINO have managed to
get into states prison or barely escaped it,
than any president we have known.
The New York Sun having discovered
that John NJ. Forbes Of Boston is the hand
soonest man in America, the Boston papers
were all agog over the compliment, when the
wicked Post published the fact that Mr..
Forbes does not live in Boston at all, but in
the little suburban town of Milton. Special
trains will run to Milton for a week, while
the Moody and Saukey meetings will be de-
serted, and so Boston will be comforted.
But it was wicked in the Sun to shine in that
way on the Hub.
Adams, Mass, is a fortunate town. Every
year it has a local excitement over the mat
ter of dividing the town." Petitions aud
circumstances multiply like the locusts Of
Egypt; the state house is besieged, excite
ment runs high; ~neighbors won't speak to
each other, people lie awake o. nights over
the matter, when all OF a sudden, presto,
change Everybody agrees to let the matter
drop for this session, and so it ~droppeth till
the next winter. And this is what they call
enjoyment, and they take to it just as natur-
ally as an old hen does to setting,
DIR. Griffin of old Park Street Church
fame, gave this advice to young preachers
in making preliminary preparation for writ
ing sermons 81. Write down the text on
scrap of paper, and look at it. 2. Inquire
what does tho text teach ? Get a clear view
of the point in hand. 8. Put down thoughts
as they come, without regard to order, Get
as much material as possible, 4. Then re,
duce to order. s.. Throw out extraneous
ideas" We have heard sermons not a few
in which the preacher seemed to have seized
upon No. 3 of the above directions aud for
got all the rest.