The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-29
NOTES.

A pound Of pluck is worth a ton
of luck.
Severe cold, with snow in October
is predicted by Nennor.
Mrs. Gorden and two children died
at Patchogue, l.. l., recently from
diphtheria induced by a cat bite.
A great many men who start out to
reform the world, leave themselves for
the last job.
Cranberry picking is IN full blast on
Cape. Cod, and in many places the
schools are let out to furnish pickers.
Minnie, the daughter Of Secretary
Evarts, is just engaged to Mr.. Tweed,
one of her fathers law partners.
The woman who has turned her silk
dress twice, is commonly opposed to
a "third turn"
Opportunities are very sensltlve
things; if you slight them on their
first visit, you seldom see them again.
September weddings are by some
regarded the luckiest." But after all
it depends on whom you marry.
Miss Mary Banks, eldest daughter
of the General, has married a young
clergyman, who is going to China as a
missionary.
An aSss.siutance Of Mr.. Payne's
oncp informed him that her daughters
were going to the theater to see
Shakespeare Turning of the Screw
The New Orleans Picayune says
that a very respectable eternity might
be made up of the time killed by oilers
in this world.
California has made the day of her
admission into the Union-the 9Th OF
September-a legal holiday.
Candidate William ii. English lives
in the house Henry Ward Beecher
built when an indianapolis pastor.
No matter how poor people are,
nearly every one can afford to keep a
pair of horseshoe for clothes and
the other for wood.
Child of seven, being brought into
the drawing-room row heard outside
room /; scream from child child in
alto "Tompany orno company won't
have my face washed with spill"
One of the White Mountain walters
so favorably impressed Il wealthy old
lady that she will pay his college ex-
penses for the next two years.
Eliza Jane Liza Jane !" said the
old lady. "You take in every stitch
of that washin' tonight, for | see by
the paper that there's three delegates
at large in this parish"
The Swiss government is TO send as
its contribution to Washington's mon
ument a suitably inscribed stone from
the chapel built on the spot where
William Tell escaped from the tyrant
Gesslcr.
81 will not learn Il trade !" eXclaim-
ed the Chicago lad to his father. But
this business Of learning a trade is
only a matter of time, for within 4
year that young man was studying
harness making in State prison.
Rich tin mines, in a rock formation
precisely like those in Cornwall, Eng,
Germany and New South Wales, have
been discovered ON the Kennebcc a
few miles above Augusta, and a COM
pauy has been formed to work them.
Petroleum is now the fourth Of the
export commodities of the United
States, although the first artificial well
was sunk only twenty-one years ago.
The annual production is now fifteen
million barrels.
Miss Koto Aoki, daughter of the
chief justice Of the supreme court OF
Japan, is visiting Gen. Grants family
at Galena.
BY u nearly unanimous vote, the
women of this country have decided
that the two best bands are a husband
and a handbook.
A novel method of illumination was
used at Belfast, Maine, last week.
The ripened heads of the swamp flag,
or cat-tail, were soaked in oil and
tied to the fences, trees, &c. These
burn for an hour, and furnish very
nice illuminations.
A skunk was found asleep in a chair
in a Middletown hose house, where, it
being taken for a cat, a member sat
down on it to hear it squeal, and was
much astonished at the strength Of its
voice.-Danbury NeWs.
Cultivate gentle in the
family. When your boy grows up and
is in college he will thank you for the
training which seemed very irksome at
the time, and your little girl will shed
fewer tears of modification when she is
a young lady if you accustom her now
to ease and grace and gentlcness of
manner.
1t is a great misfortune to have a
fretful disposition 1t takes the fra
GRANGE out Of ones life, and leaves
only weeds where a cheerful DISPOSE
ton would cause flowers to bloom.
The habit of fretting is one that grows
rapidly unless it be sternly repressed ;
and the best way to overcome it is to
try always to look on the cheerful side
of things.
A Boston happy thought is to turn
the abundance of the apple crop to ac-
count for the poor people Of that city.
Bags are sent to the farmers who will
contribute, and the railroads give
transportation free.