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

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The new WELLESLEY female college is trying
to get authority TO confer degrees as Harv-
ard, and Amherst, and Williams do. Now,
ladies, take our advice and let the degrees"
60 for the time being, and, by your success,
show that you are entitled 10 them.
OF course Rutland intends soon to be
city. Look at its death and birth rate
deaths, only sixty.four births, one hundred
and tweaty.nine. POUNDS! 1t has also
1913 children in school who will increase
the population when they get "grOwed up"
We see it announced that the Witness,
Brother Atwaters temperance sheet, which
is issued regularly occasionally" is for sale.
Is there much to buy2 Vermont is too
small state for "organs," and there are
papers enough managed by good temperance
men TO do the work moro effectively.
The recent congressional career Of "Col.
Joyce" as he is affectionately called by his
local admirers, reminds us Of the remark
good, sensible old Scotch woman made when
her parson, a somewhat self-iuAatad man.
was going of in congressional style:
"Prick, prick him, he is unco windy"
Who will say now that college is not a
good thiug2 We clip this from an exchange
published under the shadow Of ono of these
venerable institutions:
And, in the hardness of his upnoss
Down on him swooped,
And syoopng, up him scooped
The miniOns Of the law.
The Inter. Ocean of Chicago thinks it has
done something smart. OF the election bill
it says with an air of sauctimonious honor,
GAS for US we wash our hands Of the cow
ardly bargain, and disclaim all RESPONSE
bility for the affair from beginning to end"
Bless you, friend, one PLATE said that Gen.
turtles ago, but it did not prove him a saint
any more than it does you.
This town, as we'll as others in the state, had
a chance to "get we'll" this week, as all the
doctors went to Bradford for few days
convention. But then, our hopes should be
tempered with moderation, for who knows
how many new "blue" or other pills for
the poor helpless patients were devised, or
how many drawing plasters they will yet
put upon US. Somehow we instinctively fall
back on that petition Of the prayer book,
"Good Lord, deliver u.s."
Burlington is having its semi-Occasional
excitement over the water supply. We
should suppose that a Vermont town which
has fifteen miles of lake lying at its very feet
might get along without making fuss, while
in several parts of the state the people have
to go miles for their daily supplies. We
have heard before that the dearth was so great
in Burlington that many of its inhabitants
had to go "over the lake to get something to
drink" 1t is all clear now
1t is the opinion Of leading republicans in
Vermont that the compromise bill is simply
atrocious, and that the position taken by
Senator Eimunds is unaccountable by any
process Of reasoning from the premises OF
his former and expressed opiuons-MiddIe-
bury Register.
Well, that shows how little some people
know. We thought Ex-G overnor Stewart
and Col. Edridge lived in Middlcbury-and
we have heard the town had college, but
guess the Register is in blissful ignorance of
these things.
The Tribune thinks those ministers who
say Huxley has made "an ass Of himself" do
not show themselves to any good advantage,
aud the Tribune is right, albeit these minis
ters were Of our owl faith and order. 1t
there is one thing in the world that profess
sional men need TO learn when they are
together, it is that they don't know so much
more than the majority Of mankind. or all
things professional conceit is tho most dis
gushing The long ears happened to stick
out on those clerical brothers. Gentlemen,
don't call such men as Huxley an "ass."
We have for long time felt sure the
Oregon democrats made a muss of things
out on the Pacific coast. If the following
dispatch does not show that their heads were
muddled then We are greatly deceived
PORTLAND, OREGON Dec. l, 1876.
Hon. S. j. T'iIden, No. 10 Gramercy Park
NetO York:
Heed. Scautncss Cramp. Emerge
Peroration. Hothouse. Survivor. Bronze
Of. Piameter. Dottish. dollhouse. Elk.
actness. Of. Services. Highest. Cunning
Dottish. Of. A. Galvanic. Survivor. BY
Accordingly. Respectful. Merciless. OF
Senator. Inoonsequent. Coalesce. GoBBLE.
Ladies, attention Your political status is
now to be determined and fixed. "The Yer
gennes debating club have challenged the
Addison club to discussion of the woman
suffrage question" We trust congress and
the tripartte commission will suspend Opera
tons while these Sous of toll in Addison
county settle such an issue. We believe
eminent legal authority of the "Ancien
City" told the world last fall that If the reg
ular nominee of the Addison county conven
ton failed of an election, the party woulC
suffer national ruin. Who knows but al
this Louisiana trouble grew out of the mar
row escape Of that candidatef
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President Buckham's Address.