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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
After Dark-Chasing a negro.

AlCeE DdIh-NudoluS ucSIO.
One form of common sense-reticence
The day after washing day is one of
sad irony.
A mad dog is the most outrageous
of animals.
A bridge of size-the Victoria bridge
at Montreal.
The best variety of the harmless nec-
essary cat is kit-of tools.
There is nothing like shorthand re-
porter to take man down.
A paper that is always full of good
points-a paper of needles.
TO remove paint from door posts, back
up against it when it is fresh.
The pig business is queer, is it not
We first kill the animal. and then cure
him.
Times 'inaudible and noiseless foot"
is shod in boot made on the last of the
year.
A western woman has lost two husbands
by lightning. She ought to marry
conductor.
Jones calls his new boots deer skin,
because they are made of shammy
leather.
The only unfavorable report about
Grandfather Clock is that it went ninety
years on tick.
The Pawtucket plan is to shoot the
seducer; the Boston husband kills his
wife and himself.
We often hear of case being heard
on its merits, but never on its demerits.
Why is this thus J?
A cross-suit is where the small boys
suit is taken across the maternal lap. the
small boy being inside the suit.
A Kentuckian has named his infant
son John Wilkes Booth, but what he has
against the boy is not explained.
"What I'd like to know" said a
school boy, sis how the mouths of rivers
can be so much larger than their heads. !"
When you want to get the best of an
argument with a woman of thirty you
should lead off with, "Now, a woman of
your age -" etc.
"Why should we celebrate Washing
tons birthday more than mine % asked
a teacher. Because he never told a
lie !" shouted little boy.
Extract from a romance-"With one
hand he held her beautiful golden head
above the waves and with the other
called loudly for assistance"
ave never saw man." says an ex-
change, "who thought it sin to steal
an umbrella" Then you never saw a
man whose umbrella had just been stolen.
Question "The man going from Je-
rusalem to Jericho fell among what %
Bright pupil: "He fell among thorns, land
the thOrns sprang up and chOked him."
An Irish girl, seeing her mistress
feeding a pet canary, asked, "How long
1t tuck them craters to hatch 2" "Thret
weeks" she replied. "Och, sure, that's
as long as any other fowl except pig >
1t was a very honest old Dutch judge
in Schoharie county who listened fol
several hours to the arguments of the
counsel and then said L: "Dis case hal
been ferry ably argued on both sides
and dere have peen some ferry nice points
brought up. l shall dake dree days II
consider these points, but l shall event
ually decide for de plaintiff"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

Wien she returned to consciousness a
strange voice-the physician's-was
saying: No bones broken, though it's
wonder her neck wasn't, falling in the
way she did.
Sbwly she opened her eyes upon a
conflsed mingling of anxious faces, wet
cloths, and bottles of arnica and cam
phori and gradually she comprehended
what had happened, and her own condi-
tion, not dangerously injured, but
bruised and famed, and with sprained
ankle that would keep her a prisoner
for some days at least It was sudden
pause in her busy work-an enforced
rest. She scarcely knew how to bear
it, for moment, as she remembered all
Sd, had planned to do, until second
ssuadefing thought suggested that she
might have left it all forever; then she
grew patient and thankful. Yet it
seemed strange to be lying quietly on
the lounge in the best bed room-the
room that had been kept so carefully
closed to preserve it furniture until an
addition to the house should transmute
it into back parlor; to watch through
the open door, only spectator, while
Neatly fitted to and fro in the kitchen
beyond, spreading the table for tea
How good the children were that ev-
ening, and how tenderly thoughtful her
husband was, coming to her side again
again and again to talk or read to her
They had not found much time for talk
ing or reading together these late years,
she and David; she had always been
so busy when he was in the house. She
had always been SO busy when he was
in the house. She had dreamed of
leisure time coming, though, much of
illness or accident coming to mar her
plans, or of death suddenly ending them.
But it flashed upon her now how many
little loving words and offices and daily
enjoyments had been crowded out of
their home, and in that brief RETROSPECT
tive glance she understood the meaning
and the earnestness of Sister Searls' en-
treaty.
Why, it's all kind of real nice and
jolly-if you wasn't hurt, declared Tom
my, unable to express his enjoyment of
the pretty room the unusual family
gathering any more clearly.
Tears gathered in the mothers eyes,
but she had found her clue, and she
meant to follow it. She had ample
time for thought in the days that fol.
little now and then, on garments for
Tim, or look over seeds for Nealie's vine
planting; and slowly but surely she
learned her lesson, and brought it back
to health with her-to gather life's
pleasantness as God sends his sunshine
day by day.-Pacifc EUangeL.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

Some years since there arrived at the
Revere House in Boston, newly we'd
ded pair from Bangor. They took the
buot suito IN Tho h0ua0, had a Priirotv trv--
BILE and spared no expense. On the
morning of the third day the groom or
dered the trunks taken down and mark
ed Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, at
the same time asking the row boy to
bring up his bill. He got it soon after,
and started for the Office. Is this bill
right ? he asked. Yes, sir, all right,
answered the cashier, glancing over the
items and running up the figures yes,
sir, $9l.25. that's exactly right. Very
well. said the groom, if that's your fig
ure. here's the money. I've no fault to
find, but you'd better mark those trunks
for Bangor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

A CUsIosITY OF NUMBERs.-The mul-
duplication of 98765432l by 45 gives
4444444445. Reversing the order of
the digits and multiplying 1234567S9
by As we get result equally curious,
55555555O5. If we take 123456769
as the multiplicand. and interchanging
the figures of 45, take 81 as the multi
plier, we obtain another remarkable
product 66666666O6. Returning to the
multiplicand first used, 997654321, and
taking 81 as the multiplier again, we
get 53333333334-all threes except the
first and last figures; which read togeth-
er 81. the multiplier. Taking the same
multiplicand and using 27, the half of
"a. as the multiplier. we get product
of 26666666667-all skies except the
first and last figures. which read togeth-
er give 81, the multiplier. Next inter-
changing the figures in the number 27,
and using 72 as the multiplier with
98765432l as the multiplicand, we OBJ
tain the product of 71llllllll2-all
ones except the first and last figures,
which read together give Y, the multi
plier.-Neac Orleans Ptcayat'ae.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

A Cincinnati lady is the mother of
bright little boy about three years old.
The whooping cough recently prevailed
in their neighborhood, and the mother
became very much alarmed lest her boy
should take it, She had talked about it
and worried so much over it that she had
infected her child so much with her
fears, that he would scarcely leave her
side. One night. after the little fellow
had been put to bed, donkey was driv-
en- past the house, and when just opposite
set up his loud hee-haw. With shrek
the boy was out of bed, screaming at the
top of his voice, "The whooping cough is
coming, mamma; the whooping cough is
coming!" He didn't catch it that time
however.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

NICOTINE IN HER SMACK.-I wonder
how any woman who has ever kissed
clean man can 60 through the pretense
even of kissing tobacco chewer. Did
you ever see one suffer the penalty.
This is how she does it. There is a
preliminary shudder, and then she sets
her teeth hard, holds her breath, makes
little pigeon dip at the foul lips of
the grinding beast, and then pale with
horror, flies to the kitchen, where. if
you follow her, you will find her disin-
fecting with soap and water. Many of
the blessed little hypocrites pretend
that they like the smell of a cigar, but
even hypocrisy is powerless to force
from woman the confession of fond
ness for hanging like the bee on the
flower to a tobacco worms lips.-Mrs.
Garrison.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

Two KINDS OF YoUNG LADIEs.-One
young lady rises early, rolls up her
sleeves, and goes into the kitchen to get
breakfast, or insists upon doing so, and
afterwards, with cheerful and sunny
smiles, puts the house in order without
the assistance Of her mother She will
make a good wife, and render home
paradise. Young man, "get her!"
Another young lady is parlor beauty,
pallid from company, dissipation and
want of exercise, reads novels, and al
most dies of laziness, while her poor old
mother does her washing. She is use
less piece of FURNITURE, an annoyance to
the husband she may chance to 'rope
in, and will go willingly to her grave.
Young man, "let her alone !"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
WHO SHALL GO FIRST TO THE
SHADOWY LAND?

Who shall go first to the shadowy land,
My love or II
Whose will it be in grief to stand,
And press the cold, unanswering hand,
Wipe from the brow the dew of death,
And catch the softly Huttering BREATH
Breathe the loved name, nor hear reply,
In anguish watch the glazing eye
His or mine?
Which shall bend over the wounded sod.
Ny love or 1?
Commenting the precious soul to God,
Till the doleful fall of the mufled clod,
Startles the mind to a consciousness
ofits bitter anguish. and life distress,
Dropping the pail O'eT the lOvelt past
With the mournful murmur 'the last-the last"
My loveor1?
Which shall return to the desolate home,
My love OrI?
And list for a step that shall never come,
And hark for voice that must still be dumb,
While the halfstunned senses wander back
To the cheerless life, and the thorny track,
Where the silent room and vacant chair,
Have memories sweet, but hard to bear
My love orI?
All then, perchance to that mourner there?
My love orI?
Wrestling with anguished and deep despair,
An Angel shall come through the gates of prayer.
And the burning eyes shall cease to weep,
And the sobs melt down to a sea of sleep,
While fancy freed from the chains of day,
Through the shadowy dreamland floats away;
Ny love or l?
And then methinks, on that boundary land,
My love and II
The mourn'd and the mourner together shall stand
Or walk by those rivers of shining sand
Till the dreamer awakened at dawn of day
Finds the stone of the sepuchre rolled away,
And over the cold, dull wHste of Death,
The warm, bright sunlight of holy Falth,
My love and II
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
FOR HUSBANDS.

Don't think when you have won a
wife that you have also won a slave.
Don't think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her re-
lation to you is changed, not her nature.
Don't think that you can dispense
with all the little civilities of life tow
ard her on marrying. She appreciates
those things quite as much as other wo-
men.
Don't be rude and gruff at home. Had
you been that sort of fellow before
marriage, the probabilities are that you
would be sewing on your own buttons
still.
Don't make your wife feel that she is
an incumbrauce on you by giving her
grudgingly. What she needs give as
cheerfully as if it were pleasure so to
do. She will feel better, and so will
you.
Don't meddle in the affairs of the
house under her charge. You have no
more right to be poking your nose into
the kitchen than she has to walk into
your place of business and give direc-
tions to your employees.
Don't find fault with her extravaganza
in ribbons, &C., until you have shut
down on cigars, tobacco, beer, &c
Don't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children on the score of econ
omy, while you bolt down town at nights
to see the show, or spend dollar on
billiards.
Don't bolt your supper, and hurry off
to spend evenings, lounging around
away from your wife. Before marriage
you couldn't spend your evenings enough
with her.
Don't prowl in the loafng resorts till
midnight, wasting your time in culpable
idleness, leaving your wife lonely at
home to brood over your neglect and
her disappointment.
Don't think that board and clothes
are sufficient for all a wife does for you
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
SNORING.

The habit of snoring is peculiar to no
class, but that the snorer is common
pest no one will deny. A contributor
to the Popular Science Monthly tells
the cause of snoring, and how it may be
cured. First, as to the cause. The air
reaches the lungs through two channels,
the nose and the mouth. The two cur
rents meet in the throat below the soft
of the palate, the end of which hangs
loose, and swings backward and forward
producing the snoring. If the air reach
es the lungs, as it should, through the
nose, no noise will be made. If it reach
es the same through the mouth, the
palate will make more noise, since it is
not the natural channel. But when it
rushes in through hssh these channels,
then it is that the sound sleeper banish-
es rest from the pillow of his companion
by his hideous noises.
The remedy for snoring is to keep the
mouth closed; and for this purpose DR..
Wyeth, the writer of the article referred
to, has invented an article so cheap that
any one can make it, and no snorer
should be without it. 1t consists of a
single cap fitting the head snugly, and
piece of soft material fitting the chin.
These are connected by elastic webbing,
which is connected with the head-cap
near the ears. This contrivance pre-
vents the jaw from dropping down, and
thereby renders snoring impossible. The
great trouble will be to get people to
adopt this invention, since the most hon.
est and upright of men and women will
rarely, if ever, confess that they snore,
and will be very indignant, if accused
of it. AS further inducement to the
the introduction of this contrivance of
DR.. Wyeth, it may be added that breath
ing through the mouth is very detrimen-
tai to the health, and that many diseas-
es of the throat and lungs are contracted
or aggravated thereby.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

of paying the neat little sum of 900!
If your fruit falls into your neighbor's
lot you have an implicit license in law
to go and pick it up, doing him no una
voidable damage.-Ql3 Mass. 379, II
Vt. 273).
If, however, a fruit tree stands d.
rectly in the division line, and is what
is what is called a cline tree" both
parties own the tree and fruit in COM
mon, and neither can cut down the tree
or seriously injure it without being re-
sponsible to the other. az N. H. 454
81 N. Y. 123.
Sometimes persons are tempted to
poison or secretly kill neighbor's tree
Of some kind which stands near the fence
and casts baneful shade on their gar
den plot, but this is dangerous business,
and the party doing so may possibly
find himself inside the county Jail, where
the rooms are apt to smell and are not
always very clean The safer way in
such cases is to cut off the limbs which
hang over your side, which undoubtedly
you have legal right to do, bat it
would not be safe to use the limbs for
frewood or otherwise convert them to
your own use, lest you have to to pay
their value more or less. I have thus
imperfectly touched upon some of the
leading rights and liabilities of farmers,
and if, in the brief time allotted me l
have been able to impart and valuable
information, or save you from the many
entanglements of the law, or even to in
terest you, but for the passing hour my
purpose has been accomplished.-From
Judge Benefits address before the Mas
sachuSetts Board of AqY9culture.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
WHAT is A YEAR!

What is year? 'Tis but wave
Oflife's dark rolling stream,
Which is so quickly gone that we
Account it but dream;
tbs but single earnest throb
oftime's old iron heart,
As tireless now and strong as when
1t first with life did start.
What is year? 'Tis but turn
OF times old brazen wheel,
Or put page upon the book
Which death must shortly seal
'Tis but a step upon the road
Which we must travel o'er;
few more steps and we shall walk
Life's weary road no more.
What is a year9 IT'S but breath
From times old nostrils blown;
AS rushing onward oer the earth
We hear his weary moan;
'Tis like hubble on the wave
Or dew upon the lawn,
As transient as the mist Of morn
Beneath the summers sun.
What is year? 'Tis but type
Oflife's oft-changing scene;
Youths happy morn comes gaily on
With hills and valleys green;
Next summers primes succeeds the
With flowers everywhere;
Then comes old winter-and death spring
Must find their level there.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

In accordance with an act of the last
Legislature, the Trustees and Governor
of the State visited the State Reform
School at Vergennes and made private
examination of each pupil, to see if they
had any complaints to make of their
treatment, with this result: That not
single member of the school entered
complaint of any kind against any officer
Of the institution.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

The Cuban planters are emancipating
their slaves. Over three thousand have
been set free within a month. There is
growing feeling on the island that
safety requires this act of justice; and
that the road to prosperity leads through
freedom.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose of proving the
correctness of a surgeons bill, was asked
by the lawyer whether "the doctor did
not make several visits after the patient
was out of danger?" "No, replied the
witness: Il considered the patient in
danger as long as the doctor continued
his visits"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20

A Boy KILLED BY A BEAR-For the
past two or three winters two tame bears
have been kept at William Thorn's no
tel, on the Coney Island drive, short
distance out of Brooklyn. On Monday
afternoon of last week some boys began
to amuse themselves by pelting the bears
with snowballs, and occasionally the
more venturesome boys would run up
behind the bears and rub snow upon
their heads. This was not relished by
the bears, and from time to time the
beasts would chase the lads, who easily
evaded them. Finally the male bear
having been struck by an unusually
hard SNOWFALL, sprang forward and
caught a boy named Peter Stretcher and
threw him to the ground. The next
were drawn across the throat of the boy
completely severing the jugular vein
and causing the boys death almost in
stantly. The brute shifted curiously at
the blood which ran from the wound
for moment, and then turned about
and hobbled off to join his companion.
The bear was Immediately shot, but
this did not restore the life of the boy.
1t should be more generally know that
although bears may be very tame and
gentle when young, they become cross
and wilful as they arrive at maturity
and grow older, and they are exceeding
ly dangerous animals to have around.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
FRANK A. SCOTT,

IA a week in your own town. So outfit free
IOkONo risk. Reader, II you want business at
SOwhch persons OF either sex can make great
pay all the time they work, write for partic-
d TO II. Hallett Co., Portland, Maine. oil
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BARTON. VT.

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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-25
r

The following general special orders
have been issued from the headquarters
of the department of the Platte:
Fort OMAHA, NEB., Nov. 81, 1879.
Col. Wesley Merritt, Fifth cavalry,
will detail one field officer and four
companies, to remain, until further
orders. at White river agency, with the
infantry companies thereat, and with
the remaining companies of cavalry of
his command march to Rawlins. Wyo.
Ter.
Capt. James Z. Kimball, assistant
surgeon, U. 8. A., will return with the
command to Rawlins. !
The pack train now at White river
agency, will remain with the command
at that place.
Captain John A. Belcher, assistant
quartermaster, U. S. A, having re-
ported at these headquarters, in COM
pliance with paragraph Especial orders
No. 125, current series, headquarters
military division of the Missouri, will
proceed to Fort Sidney, Nebraska, and
report to the commanding officer OF
that post for duty as post quarter
master.
Leave Of absence for one month, on
surgeons certificate of disability, with
permission to go beyond the limits OF
the department, and to apply for an
extension of three months, is granted
Second Lieutenant John T. Bar nett,
Fifth cavalry, Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-25
THE uxIoS.
The New TELEGRAPH Company A-boo,
-oas ~ing-1Iore Purchases. 1ga

The New telegraph Company A-boom-
ins-AIore Purchaser 09a
Supt. Dickey furnishes the Informal
tionthat the American Union Telegraph
company have, within a few days, COM
pleted the purchase of what is left Of
the old Great Western Telegraph COM
pany's property, covering from 1900 to
1000 miles Of territory in Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri, Iowa. Illinois and
Wisconsin. They put a force of men
at work Immediately, and expect to have
the old lines repaired and ready for
business within sixty days. This will
enable the new company to reach many
points this winter which otherwise
would be left until spring. The line is
already constructed from Chicago to
Milwaukee, Chicago to Monmouth,
Chicago to Springfield, Bloomington to
Decatur, Joliet to Princeton, Geneseo
to Cambridge, Princeton to Peoria and
Pekin, Wyandotte to Rock Island, Rock
Island to Omaha, Omaha to Kansas
City (via Lincoln, Nebraska City and
st. Joseph, Kansas City to Topeka,
Lawrence to Ottawa, Nebraska City to
Seward, and, besides, the old company
has 291 miles oflpoles up without wires,
making a total of 1880 miles Of tele-
graph line. There is also a Hamburg
and st. Joe branch. y
This Great Western telegraph COM
pany was n of the wildcat schemes
of twelve years ago, and numbers
among its stockholders several of the
solid men Of Omaha. It has been a
bankrupt concern since about 1871, and
was recently sold to satisfy old long
standing claims. For some time it has
been In the hands Of a receiver, who
made the arrangement whereby the
American Union came into its posses
sion. The Claims satisfied by this
change are not all that stand against
the company, and a short time since the
stockholders were informed that they
must pay the balance or stand suit.
In 1871, when the company ceased to
operate the line, it was opened under a
lease by the A. & P. In 1874, the
Western Union secured possession un-
der an arrangement in which they
agreed to keep the wires in repair for
their use. They held control until
within a few weeks, when it went into
the hands of a receiver, and now Is
owned by the American Union.-Oma-
| ha Republicnn.