Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-26

Miss Emily Faithful thinks that gymnasi-
ums and skating Kinks should be attached to
prisons for the benefit of prisoners Emily
is . kind hearted old gal aud we wonder
why she doesn't invent suow-shoes for poor
little rabbits.-N Y. Mail.
Old master Brown brought his ferule down,
his face was angry and red. Now, Anthony
Clair, 60 seat you there, along with the girls,
be said. Then Anthony Clair with mortified
air, and chin on his breast, crept away. aud
sat all day by the glrl that loved him best.
An old sailor says it is q sight worth a
years allowance of tobacco to see a lady
with muf and half dozen bundles in her
arms, reaching around, as she steps from a
car into muddy street, and trying to furl
the bunch of dry goods behind that the ig.
norant old salt calls her mizzen sail. Bless
his larry top-lights, that is her rudder.--N.
Y. Mail.
Old.fashioued long purses are in use again
for holding coins, and are made of gold thread
knitted in colored silk and held by silver
rings. Small purses of Spanish silver wire
and crocheted small silk purses Of any fancy
color with plated gold clasps are seen.
Mrs Mills was asked the other day. how
she managed to get along SO nicely with Mr..
Mills, and frankly replied, "Oh feed him
well. When a woman marrics her happiness
for little while depends upon the state Of
her husbands heart, after that, it's pretty
much according to the stomach"
When mutton is cheap butchers have a
chop. fallen appearance.
"Young man." he said soemsly, "Im sor.
ry to see you smoking tobacco" and the
young man assured him that he wasn't, that
it was Connecticut cigar
The New York Express prints this. but is
80 modest it will not give the name of its
princely employe 1t was at Vassar College,
and one Of the girls said to a reporter, "Are
you single?" An affirmative answer being
given, she then asked thoughtfnlly, "Do ed
itors ever get rich7" The pencil.heaver again
replied in the affirmative and instanced sew
eral leading journalists, and then added, III
leave for New York tomorrow, and it will
take me three days to pay my taxes and cut
the coupons off my bonds !" "ls it possible ?"
replied the miss, land you so young, too"
The promise of woman suffrage is implied
in the better educated and more prominent
women who are growing up al! aroun1 US ;
implied as surely as the buds upon the elm
trees imply spring.. w. Higginson.
"Did the sermon fit too close ?" asked q
Christian lady of her husband, as returning
home from church. she observed him more
Aknas f.,l kkau hat
was the reply; che buttoned it up tight"
Rev. Phoebe Hanaford is one ofthe women
who don't lay it up against Dickens that he
couldn't live happily with his wife. She gave
him in q recent sermon, first-rate position
in heaven on account Of what he did for hui
mainly.
The Francis avenue married women Of
Pitts6eld, without respect to denomination
keep up kind of Dorcas society for max
ing warm garments for poor people and theil
good deeds are often heard of in different
parts Of the town.
This is what Mary Cemmer says Of British
Minister Thornton and lady as they appear
on their morning walks: "Another especial
ly clean looking man who walks every day
vi Acuusylhhuih dNtuueJls tue DIltlah hiulc
ter, Sir Edward Thornton. He has dark
kind, sagacious eyes, the regulation mutton
chop whiskers Of the Englishman, great bis
hands and feet, altogether that beef-steak ba
sis of body and limb which Americans lack
and long for. No human being could b.
freer from pomposity or airs of any sort
Here is Lady Thornton afoot-her dress
lifted high, her gray petticOat clearing thu
wet ground below at every turn-her fair
clear. Euglish face evidently ia pursuit o
something in earnest"
This is what she says of the president
"AnOther exceedingly wsll-dressed man Wit
walks Pennsylvania avenue is Preslden
Grant. In the earlier days Of his admins
tration he did dump his hands 10 his pocket
and travel slowly along the street with
smoking cigar in his mouth. He does n,
such thing now. Neither does he any long
err use his pockets as mittens. His hand
are carefully glOved and hO carries sub
stantial cane.