The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-02
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held annually in Hyde Park, London.
"My works dun," remarked the COL
lector as he started out in the morning
-Attfdtllon Indepenient.
An auctioneer can never have his
own way; he Is compelled to do as
others bid. Saturday Night.
My lines are castin pleasant places. 4"
as the country editor said when he re-
turned home with n basketfnl of fish.
~ The cnttlo onia thousand hills
| Contribute TO the miIkman's wealth.
80 does the water from the rills
o. That's slipped into the cans by stealth.
The Canadian senate lately rejected,
by thirty-two. to thirty-one, the bill
legalizing marriage with n deceased
lwife's sister or a deceased brotber's
wife.
A new and curious industry has
sprung up. in Pittsburg. A glass fac
tory there has begun the manufacture of
glass balls ior sportsmen, and is making
10000 balls day.
A man who offered for five dollars 10
put any one on the track of paying in
vestment, seated an applicant between
the rails OF the Boston and Albany rail-
road. Rochester Express.
One of the fist things which the class
in journalism at Cornell university
want to learn is to make the customary
remarks alter cursory glance
over the paper rs 1t comes from the
press. ....
This is the season when the green
sward in the front yard Is kept smooth
and unobstructed, and yet man will
stumble on the lawn mower during the
nnxf fnxu, mr. he =
part OF the year.-heokatk Gate Citv.
The Aniehkof palace, the residence
with the ST. Petersburg na% Hlexandrinsk1 1nlev
theater by the telephone, and the czare-
witch and his wife listen to the music
without having to go to the theater.
That which takes the conceit out of n
rising young statesman as quick as any,
thing is to be caught in the act of going
for cents worth of yeast in his native
village. He feels like putting himself
in the hands of his friends. Picdvat,e.
An old miser, who was notorious for
self-denial, was one day asked why he
was so thin. '"I do not know
the miser; have tried various means
for getting latter, but without success"
Have you tried victualsp" inquired a
friend.
Miss Lille DeverauX Blake writes of
.'The disadvantages ~ being pretty"
1t is a subject that strikes home every-
where. Even editors and paragraphers
have suffered from these disadvantages;
but not much not much.-NeU Hdpen
Register. ''.t eis p.
The Greenville IN. -. Local has
reporter at King Hill who writes his
q ~, x-Ixx l.
hardihood to print them in that shape,
Strange to say, up to the hour of our
going to press we hear of no riot in
Grecnville.
A man had SlCO with which he was
told TO buy 100 cattle. He went into the
market and found he could buy cows
at $40 each, sheep at SO each and pigs
ut fifty cents head. He bought 100
animals with his 500. How did he
make up his assortment
When n man comes limping into his
place of business late in the morning.
and presents the general appearance of
having had his spinal column shattered
by railway accident, his friends need
not be alarmed; he has been working
in the garden.-Abapy Argus.
A report to the annual conference of
the Mormons says that the Mormon
population of Utah is Ill, $50, that the
church in that Territory has lost 600
members and gained I, 500 in Il year.
and that the church receipts in that
period were over 81 100000.
A third -of.a-century plant is attract
ing much attention in Greenville, Miss.
Thirty-three years ago lady, now liv-
ing in Greenville, was married. and this
nIanf in hlnnrn an1 of sto