The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-20
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The age of letters-post age.
Corn bred-Poultry. Idol hands
Chinamen.
Which is the fastest way to raise
strawberries? With spoon.
The sultan has gone mad, and treated
his courtiers in n most insultan manner.
The compositor who makes a doublet
to get fat line possesses a mania for
handling quads. Cincinnati Breakfast
Table.
What is the differen ce between the
summer sun and a well-ordained goat?
One shines on the dew, and other dimes
on the shoe.
In reply to the question, "Will the
coming man be bald ?" the Norristown
Herald afirms that "he generally is
when he first comes"
A man who is bald is able to show
much more polish than any one else,
even in the simple act of removing his
hat on meeting lady.
There will always be more or less ex-
citement in the household that possesses
cat and back fence, or poor piano
and a good healthy girl.
The most notable mild winters for
series of eighty years have been in the
decades of 1898, 1908, 1878, 1928, 1888,
1S49, 1858, 1868, and 1878.
Brazil is the only country in America
where slavery legally exists. Official
figures, published in 1874 place the
slave population at 1,016,262.
John Bright said in q recent speech at
Rochester, England, that one-third OF
the whole land of the United Kingdom,
being no less than $4,000, 900 acres, be-
longs to 935 men.
"It has been fun for you but death to
me-" wrote William Henry Fox, in San
Francisco, before killing himself. He
had been Tilted by the woman for whom
the message was intended.
Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, 1000 feet
above the level of the sea has been
sounded to the depth of 900 fathoms
without finding bottom. 1t is forty
miles long, and from fifteen to twenty
wide, and contains many islands.
"Daisy Darling Do not wake me
Ere the murphies you dopeel,
Ere you've chopped the scraps and leavin's
OF your yestereven's meal;
Wake me not to pangful waitings,
Do not serve me so again,
But when once the hash sready,
Gentle spirit, call me then"
Sixty-three years of age is said to be
the grand climacteric or turn of life,
critical period for masculine humanity,
more men dying at that age, or near it,
than at any other, leaving accidents and
violent deaths aside. A like critical
period for feminine humanity is forty
seven years.
J. W. Mackey is reported to have lost
thirty pounds from his weight in explor-
ing the hot drifts of his mines. He came
up to the surface out of the Ophir mine
the other day exhausted, dirty, painting,
with sunken eyes and reddened face.
"Look at me-" he said to his friends;
"do I look like bonanza king "
More O bonanza slave" was the re-
sponse.
The fve-year-old daughter Of an
Eighth street family the other day stood
Watching her baby brother, who was
making great deal of fuss over having
his face washed. The little miss at
length lost her patience, and stamping
her tiny foot said: "You think you
have lots of trouble, but you don't
know anything about it. Wait till
you're big enough to get lickln'r and
then you'll see-won't he, mamma ?"-
Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
One of the difficulties in popularizing
astronomical science is the vastness
with which it deals. The distances of
even the nearest planets are quite incon-
ceivable; but to provide the reader with
a vague notion Of the remoteness of the
fixed stars is an almost useless attempt.
1t is, however, interesting to know that
if we conceive traveller journeying from
the sun to the outermost planet ofour sys-
TEN, at a rate of speed that would carry
him to that planet in twenty-hours, b
would afterward have to keep up the
same rate of travel for eighteen or
twenty years, before reaching the near
est fixed star, and must continue his
journey as much longer before coming
to another. Yet such speed would
carry voyager across the Atlantic from
New York to Liverpool in less than one
tenth of o second of time.
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