Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-14
GLEANINGS.

A Detroit druggist says that pills
have gone out of style. He excerpts quiz
nine, of course.
"Two-dollar bluff is the name given
q village recently located on Indian
river, Florida.
En- Governor Hubbard, of Connecti-
cut, lost his daughter some years ago
by her marriage with his coachman.
Now he has lost his fortune.
Girls in bad health are not admitted
to Wellesley College. All applicants
are submitted to n medical examination,
to exclude weaklings.
The imprint of the London Times no
longer contains the name of Francis
Goodlake, the responsible printer of
that newspaper for many years.
Eleven Police Justices in New York
draw salaries of $4,000 each, or nearly
as much as the Judges on the Supreme
Bench at Washington.
The Los Angeles (Cal. Herald thinks
it is unwise to plant more orange trees,
as there are more planted now than
will be needed in ten years.
Mrs. Florence Jones, near Gerber, on
Lookout Mountain, fifteen miles from
Chattanooga, found under large rock,
tin box containing S4l5 in gold.
The SchoolmaSter, an English Educa-
tionai journal, is discussing the question
of midday meals in the schools. 1t
states that the introduction of hot
Irish stew in q London mission school
has been great success as IN incentive
to study.
The greatness and the prosperity of
this country, after all, depend not on its
financiers nor on its statesmen, but on
its soil and sunshine. Even Wall street
itself, in q moment of frankness, says:
ats all in the crops And the crops
are good. York World.
Susan Anthony says that there are
1000 women practicing medicine,i in Eng
land, and that, so far as she has been
able to learn, "they kill as large a pro-
portion of their patients, and receive as
exorbitant fees for so doing, as male
practitioners.
We have in the Southern States in
operation, or in course of erection, 191
cotton factories. This outnumbers by
27 all the cotton factories in New Eng
land, outside of Massachusetts, and ex-
ceeds by 16 the number in that State.
-Pulaski (1enn.) Citizen.
The bicycle is invading the South. 1t
has rolled through Georgia. One has
Just reached Mobile. and nobody can
be found who can ride the fiery, un-
tanned machine. The reason given is
that the streets and roads are too sandy.
The real trouble probably is that there
is not enough "sand' in the young men.
DIR. C. L. Page, of Biddeford, Me-,
makes the statement that he has
means of knowing of over 5, 200 families
in this country who adopted the vege-
tartan diet for curative purposes, after
becoming diseased under the universal
meat eating, and they rarely have oc-
casion to call doctor into their homes.
Although Chicago won't believe it,
St. Louis, us city, lies in an atmos-
phere of poetic legend and story. With
in three miles from the business center,
ON the Illinois side, at the old French
town of Cahokia, generations are born,
live and die, who do not speak the Eng
fish language. The people are provin-
cial in the extreme, and jealous Of their
origin, customs and language. -Butalo
ErpreSs
Some of the literary men of America
have been severely handled by Balti-
more critic. He says: flames is tuft-
hunter and sycophant, Howells o
smooth-bore, Stedman dead failure,
Stoddard o man who has turned his
wash-bowl into n paste-pot, Cable q
blower of literary soap bubbles, and
Richard Grant White o critic who dis
covered in cockney beauty with legs
like piano and voice like fog-horn
the lost arms Of the Venus de Milo and
u voice of vocal velvet"
Here are the rules laid down by the
Baron:de Lesseps for the physical cul.
ture Of his ten thriving children: Little
meat; less clothing; unlimited exercise;