Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-04-05


the spolls of his own rod and gun and
the products of the little cabbage gar
den round his bower of bliss. He has
just sailed for Scotland, where it APP
pears the old lord is on the point of
death and desires to be reconciled to his |
successor before he goes where even
great lords are mighty small potatoes.
Not only are we to be able to cook.
do your chores and light our homes, Off
ces at cost of next to nothing by cleo
tricity laid on everywhere, but it now
seems we can beat the sun itself in de-
veloping crops. DR.. Siemens, a scientist
of renown before Edison was thought of,
has been experimenting with vegetation
under the influence of the electric light,
and has succeeded, it is stated, IN fore
ing rosebuds into full bloom in forty
minutes, while he believes that In fields
lighted by electricity he could grow
strawberries in the open air during the
rabidest raging of a Dacota blizzard.
Madame Blavstsky and other devotees
to the study of magic, have already
claimed that the wonderful feats of the
Indian jugglers, who plant seed, show
shrub in five minutes and pluck ripe
fruit off it in fifteen, are attributable to
electricity. and are simple enough when
you know how to do them; and there is
no humbug about them at all, and that
the results are actual as claimed, and
not the manifestation of mere brilliant
sleight of hand. Perhaps the magicians
are right, and. if we can manage about
the ventilation. it might be we'll to come
in out of the rain, and for all of us to
take dive through Symes hole into
the bowels of the earth and follow the
methods Of the Coming Race as describ-
ed by Bulwer.
Festive as the days of Lent have been
when balls and operas have been going
on as if the pious were not Mortified at
the idea, gayer times are at hand. The
lambs of the fold bud out brightly when
Easter dawns, and great have been the
preparations for the occasion. Never
before were such ravishing toilettes dis
played, and the Easter bonnets were
never so exceedingly scrumptious.
Choirs have practiced and iirted togeth-
er, and amid wagon-loads of exquisitely
arranged flowers. culled from the choic-
est collections, sweet voices MARBLE.
Soon the merry wedding-bells will ring,
and the world will wag merrily. Pock-
cts promise to be heavier than they have
been for years, and the great Summer
City, as New York may now justly be
styled, with its wide stretches of beaches
crowded with hotels, race-courses and
all sorts of attractions, will be like a
gigantic circus in little while.
The anonymous assailant of DR.. Dix
whose vagaries | told you of in my last
has been run to the earth. In a dun
geon dire he has leisure to repent, and
will probably get little more leisure,
varied possibly with sboemaking. for a
year OF two. The Salvation Army still
prayeth diligently, and undergo the ter.
ribly infection of being reported by
stenographers. No caricature could
possibly be more ridiculous than theil
own utterances so faithfully reproduced
But few days in the country, theil
pilgrimages from one temporary shelter
to another have been incessant, and
everybody is laughing at them. Anoth'
er person who has again achieved the
end of being we'll talked and writer
about is Mrs. De Bar, who claims t.
have been annoyed by a ghost. Fl is
wonderful how many people have believ
ed her, and crowded to the scene of the
alleged intercourse with the shadowy
visitant. The lady, it turns out, has
before been notorious as the avoweC
claimant of the, doubtful honor of being
the offspring of Lola Montez and the
amorons but irregular old King Ludwig
of Bavaria, who was invited to take ;
back seat among ex-monarchs in l048
mainly on account of the famous beauty
whose remains have long ago molderet
under the green sods and fowery par
terres of old Trinity churchyard. l
does not appear that Mrs. De Bar, tn
friend of the spirits, is justified IN he
pretensions. Her husband is an acto
and says she is nothing if not magma
tive.
$3.50 day is nice little sum t
receive in the way of interest for Gov
ernment bonds. Some lucky person
supposed to be W. HI. Vanderbilt, get
this, and day or so ago a check 70
S3lO,5O0, drawn by the Treasury DE-
partment was passed through the Clear
ing House. 1t represents principal {
s31 $3.50, 900. RAD1x.
1t will be remembered that the oil
Webster homestead at Marshfeld wa
burned few years ago. The onl
living representatives of the grea
statesman, are Mrs. Fletcher Webster
his sons wife, and granddaughter, VIII
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