Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-05-24
All Sorts.

James Wick, the seedsinaIi' pI Hp'
chester, \, T., died On Tuesday Of
last week, aged "a years,
We are glad to learn that es'edlter
Simpson, Of Beliasl, Me-, is recovering
from q severe liz Of sickness,
Twenty,iour thousand coolies are
expected to arrive At Victoria, British
Columbia, IN August, The Chinese
will outnumber the whites, There are
eighty thousand NJ Hong Kong await
Ing shipment to America,
Queen Victoria now has only one
unmarried daughter, Princess Beatrice
George Otto Irevelyan Is the new
secretary for Ireland
Al Boston u woman while half cra1ed
through jealousy attempted to take the
lives of her four children. She sue
ceeded Ia the case Of one Of them,
II Il said Scoyille Il very angry be'
ceuse his wife persists In leclurlng and
threatens 10 make II very shot for oil
the Guiieaus,
One Of the plaintiffs IN u ease before
tho New York supreme court IL now
90, but the lawyers think she Is not
yet too old to bleed
A sound discretion Is not 50 much
indicated by never making mistake,
rs by never repeating it,-[i'ovee'
We are told that AT Pompeli combs
have been found exactly like tho mod
crn fine tooth kiud." This would In
dicate-well, you catch the idea.-
Boston Post,
The buzzards are expected to pre-
vent pcstileuce in the Overlooked No.
gion of the South this summer.
There are millions Of plus used every
hour aud the wonder Is what becomes
of them. As We SILVER over the stove
to-day, We wish that ono might have
been arranged in the lap of Spring bc'
fore Winter sat down in 1t.
The late James Wick Of Rochester
was bern in Portsmouth, Eng. and
was Il playmate of Dickens 1t is re-
ported that his gifts for charitable OBJ
iccts amounted to over $40, 900 year.
lie gave s25, 900 worth of seeds to the
sufferers by the Kansas grasshopper
plague, and half rs much to the Mich-
can sufferers.
Old man Scovilc may gain some
thing out Of the Guitcau case, after all.
The chances are it'll result In his get
ing rid of his wife.
A river. dolphin Of South America
has the greatest number of teeth
found in the order OF whales, two
hundred and twenty-five. If it was Il
dolphin that swallowed Jonah we don't
see how he escaped being "chawed' up.
Somebody has invented a rubber-
headed tack. You can miss it with II
hammer just as well as one of the COM
mon kind.
The body of Under-Secretary Burke
a general suspension Of business on the
day of the funeral, and crowds lined
the streets.
1t is incorrect to use the word couple
for two objects unless they are fastened
together.
They are hunting in this country for
the Cavendish- Burke assassins. 1t Is
more likely that they are in England.
A Jew at Newark, N. j., is to be
tried for blasphemy by uttering words
rejecting on the chastity of the mother
of Jesus Christ.
He is the happiest man who can carry
the golden threads of boyish enjoyment
farthest along through the web of life.
Il Beecher.
Reed says that Mrs. Scovile recent
ly read to him extracts from her hus-
bands letters which were not kindly in
tone, and declared she was determined
to obtained a divorce. Cranky!
We don't hear as much about crema-
ton as we did, 1t will probably never
be popular. Besides it is mean to cheat
worms out of their due.
The "death watch" has been set on
Guiteau, and all visitors are excluded
from his "otfice." Yet he is confident
he will escape the gallows.
VERMONT,
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