Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

There are natures SO gracious that
the patience and kindliness of good
breeding seem theirs by inheritance.
Mrs. j. H. Taylor, of Poquetannuck,
decided to discard an old pin cushion,
but curiosity prompted her to disem-
bowel it first. She recovered just 434
needles that had been lost therein.
A western Massachusetts dentist is
said to have small boy sit in his Office
and yell at the top of his lungs occa-
sionally. 1t lends an air of business to
the establishment
Sydney Smith, in his youth, was very
shy. He cured himself of the disease
by making two discoveries: first, that
people were not employed in observing
him; and next, that the world estimated
man at his true value.
An Astoria man is 70 years of age
and a capitalist and is willing to run a
mile race with any man of his age for
purse of $4,000.
The projected railway up the Jung
frau goes to height of Is, 900 feet, far
above the lowest limit of perpetual
snow and it is proposed to tunnel the
mountain the entire distance.
Howard Taylor, the expert tennis
player and winner of this years Water
bury cup, is still young, despite his
length of service on the tennis field.
He is but "a, having entered Harvard
at 16. He graduated in 1886.
Rev. Dr. Wayland, who has been
called the Chauncey Depew of Phila-
delphia in the matter of after dinner
speaking, is six feet one and one-half
inches in height has a dark complex
ion and heavy eyebrows. His physical
appearance is much like that of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Waterbury, Conn, has adopted an
economical plan for securing new sign
boards on the principal thoroughfares
leading into the place from the adjoin-
ing country towns. The selectmen have
authorized an advertising agent to erect
thirty-six of these boards, on condition
that the town is put to no expense.
The agent has sold the advertising
space on twenty four of the boards to
two merchants.
OF the three prizes offered by Public
Opinion for the three best essays on the
Importance of the study of current
topics as a feature of school and college
education, the first prize, $50, was won
by Rev. Hamilton Bartlett, of Provi-
dence, r. /. ; the second. of $50, by Re
becca ShiveIy, of Chambersburg, Pa,
and the third, $50, by Frank Morton,
of GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
A Greek woman who died at Limfer-
opol, Russia, lately, is said to have
| been 112 years old. She was working
| in her garden to the last moment. Be
coming tired she lay down to rest, and
| passed away without struggle. There
are many centenarians in the Crimea.
| Three years ago there was in Kertch
an old soldier whose dismissal from the
army dated from the time of Katherine
II, and whose authenticated creden-
tails put his age at 128 years.
A little 2-year-old girl of Brooklyn,
while playing on the second floor,
managed in some way to fall out of
the window, and would no doubt have
been severely injured but for the fact
that she pulled two pillows with her
that were on the sill. She turned over
in the fall and struck with both pillows
underneath her After a short cry she
got up and resumed her game, this
time, however, in the street.
Although Rev. Sam Small is a d. d..
and the president of a university he
can't get a certificate of church mem
bership. He lost his membership in
| the Methodist church when he joined
the Episcopal church, and then he lost
his membership in the Episcopal church
when he went back to the Methodist
church. Consequently he has no pa
pers of any kind to show, and may have
to join the local Methodist church in
Ogden, Utah, on probation.
The Albert medal of the English So
ciety of Arts has been awarded to DR..
w. II. Perkin, F. f. S., for his dis
covery of the method of obtaining col
oring matter from coal tar, a discovery
which led TO the establishment of a
new and important industry, and TO the
utilization of large quantities of previ-
ously worthless material"
A pretty story comes from England
about a poor shepherd who was also a
geologist, geographer and an admirel
of Stanley Stanley's publisher met
this man while walking on Beachy
Head, and was charmed with his learn
ing. The shepherd offered the publish
er a pound-pretty much all his hard
earned savings-and asked if it would
pay for Stanley's book, promising to
send the balance of the money as soon
as possible. The publisher says the
shepherd shall receive his money back
again and a copy of Darkest Africa
with Stanley's autograph in it.