Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-05
WAITS AND HINTS.

papers we expected such things; others sur
prised us that's bowling pretty low to Cham
dler.
A Boston clergyman had twenty.six pair
Of slippers on Christmas morning and he did
not hang up his stocking We guess the un-
fortunate man was the Rev. -, the elo-
quent preacher at - church. Why he
Because he is poor 2 No. Because his wife
has too many caresH No, but that touches
the core Of the matter-because be has no
wife--aud these slippers were twenty.six
leap year hints. Well, he had them before,
and the reason why he does not marry is be-
cause by so doing he would give such disap-
pointment to the unfortunate twenty .6ve
"hntcrs." Considcrate man
Too bad A New York letter, in speak.
ing Of Miss Susan b. Anthony's attempt to
revive the revolution" on which she sunk
$4,000 or more, says: "Tho Revolution
was the only baby she ever really set her
heart upon, and when she thinks Of it no
wonder she signs, Il never had a dear gaz-
elle.'" Bet that correspondent is a woman
and one who, to use her own words, "never
had dear gazelle" either
Did you provide wine for your callers
Monday
The Burlington Free Press has adopted
dull "tiuted paper" Of late, aud we don't
think it any Improvement.
The tone of the secular press is such as to
crafty the most ardent Second Adventist
They are wonderfully pious these papers !;
they surely expect the end of all earthly
things soon, and like men generally, they are
putting on a little touch of goodness at the
last. 1t won't do, gentlemen, a little out.
side 'goodyism" about turning over new
leaf, and giving up your profanity and false.
hoods and ISLANDERS, aud stealing the election
for Hayes or Tildeu is not the thing. Why
some of them don't hold out through the
first week Good resolutions are not thor
ough ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is
We wish to say it for the benefit of the
lades-the very hight of style is "bottle
green" throughout During a recent trip on
the cars we saw a lady, unmarried, Of,
we'll under twenty years, we believe that is
the limit, whose hat, coat, muff dress, aud
overshoes we believe we're Of this color, and
oil were trimmed with steel gray mixed i'm
itation of fur. Looking athwart her scat
aud out Of the car window we saw how beau
tilully the green and the drifting snow blend.
cd, aud we tried to be grateful enough for the
fashion.
How suddenly and surely political corrup-
ton spreads itself through all the ramifca-
tious of our national life. Bull.doziug, that
peculiar Louisiana institution, has permeated
the whole nation and cropped out here in St.
Johusbury Wednesday at the village meet
lug. DULY think the returning board" with
cool eifrontery worthy OF those southern
fellows counted in tDo votes for Samuel J
Tilden for village trustee, and then in trying
| to conceal their sins counted one for Hayes
on the next ballot 1t has occurred to us as a
"second sober thought" that au injunction
from the police court ought to DO issued and
go "back Of the returns" Where are our
liberties Men OF seventy.six to the rescue
Is this an enlightened, free country. or are
we to be Mexicauized ? Let us have fair
count
A man of good judgment he was, a sub.
stantial farmer and granger, who called yes
terday to congratulate us. lie said he was
not subscriber for the FARMER, he had it
on that ol.fashioned rule Of Swapping >
his ueighbor took the FARMER and he had
the reading Of it; but in order to make his
ueighbor good for what he got from the FAR
NER. he had to supply him with the New
York Times, Vermont Union, Scientific
American and one other obscure paper, aud
he thought that kind OF business about "play-
ed out"-the FARMER is the paper. You
are right, sir.
The New York Mail says that neither
Paul nor Shakespeare had any descendants
Well then, great many men are sadly de.
ceived as to their ancestry, for they suppose
the line of descent from themselves TO the
great preacher or dramatiSt can be traced by
the naked eye.
What delicate sensbilities that western
editor has. He offers his paper to widows
for half price. That's not a novel way Of
suggesting more than he dares to say, aud
the beauty Of it is bis subscription list is 10.
crcasiug very rapidIy,-hard times you
know
The Brooklyn Argus has some sense if il
is democrat. 1t tells sister Eliza Pinkston
Of Louisiana that if she wants To be an an.
gel" she must stop lying, Even so, Eliza
and il has seemed to US that some white folks
we know Of would make their angelic "call-
ing aud election" more sure if they would
stop lying too.
The demos Of this burgh were in high
glee Wednesday when Tilden stood one ahead
of Hayes on the vote of village trustees.
They thought they saw in that, as some one
has said, "thO gigantic shadows which fu-
turity casts upon the present" They glided
down the Avenue bOastfully though We
thought,
| "But optics sharp 1t moods, weon,
| To what Is not 10 be seen"
MOODY invites every Sunday. school in the
country to take penny collection January
IA for the benefit of the children of p. p.