The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-05
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

There are now 1880 Smiths in the
New York directory, mad $50 OF them
haze telephones.
A farmer went into Norton, Kan,
one day last week and sold 456 dozen
eggs. All Of them, Of course, were
strictly fresh.
There are three Jewish peers in Eng
land and II Jewish baronets, while the
Hebrews are represented in the Com
mons BY II melnbers.
Many columns IN the paper OF the far
Fast are now devoted to news of pro-
iected railroads in China. II is said
that the same conditions exist in Japan.
Col o. g. Munson, q state senator in
Wisconsin, Is also the governors pri-
waite secretary. c has not drawn cent
Of his pay as senator, but has returned
it all to the state treasury.
A Philadelphia physician says that
sitting on ones legs causes sciatica
chronic numbness, ascending paralysis,
appendicitis and about everything else.
Ii he is right lots of women are taking
big chances.
III ii reported that the winter in New
Orleans was the midest in 80 years
and that peaches are Isw ripe there.
New Orleans is one Of the places where
the peach crop never fails.
after a girl has learned music, burnt
wod work, china painting. embroidery,
elocution. basketball, golf, horseback
riding, bridge and few other accom-
plishmeHts she sometimes learns to
cook Topeka (Kan) Capital
II rather lpks as il a pig was in line
| for q Carnegie hero medal. A ship re-
! Gently got wrecked on the Pacific coast
and none OF thel ife-savers were able to
get line to her AT length the crew
tied a rope TO pig and slung it over
board The pig got ashore and six men
we're saved as the result.
"Willie," said the minister,
Now tell me ii you can,
What kind OF marks Tog got at school
Last W. my little man"
"Well, some Of en- the boy replied,
"Wus red, but they WIS few;
The most OF them / got last week
Nus simply black an blue"
Denver Post.
Premier Campbell Zimmerman of En-
gland is quite the oppisite from his pre-
decessor. Balfour, ia one thing. The
latter said that while he was in Office
he never read the newspapers. The
present prime minister not only reads
them, but writes for them.
Guilty OF not guiltyy" Eyes" res
pondedt he NINA at the bar. Whats
tbatg" quired the court sharply, "You
asked whether / was guilty or not gull
ty, and of course / am. OF the two
conditions | could not we'll escape
both" But khich are youg'-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
( A well-to-do Pennsylvania farmer
senth Is son to Philadelphia to work in
the store OF friend The old man
wrote letter to the proprietor about
two months later, asking how the boy
was getting on, and wrote back that he
did not know where the boy slept at
night, but that he slept IN the store in
the daytime
A. Roy Knabenshue. the Ohio airship
expert, claims that lie has at last &c.
complished his long-cherishod desire
and has built an airship which will carry
passengers. The affair has never been
tested yet, but il is all ready to assem-
bic and the inventor says that he knows
! is viii work. He hopes to take up two,
ii not three, passengers, though.
The exchange" advertisement in
the daily newspaper are not always
wanting in humor Here il one for ex-
ample: An advertiser who has large
burglar-proof safe, but no use for it,
wishes to exchange it for a saltwater
fishing outfit, and dentist who ia short
on guns, but apparently long on time
is wiling to do professional work in ex.
change for good hammerless breech-
loader" Foresta nd Stheam
As he shipped his sarsaparilla
On the River Choluteca.
Said the President Bonilla:
@Tell the people If Fonseca
And the people Of Managua
And the folks Of New Cordoya
That the war in Nicaragua
y practically ovah.D
This he really didn't say.
But the rhyme is pleasant. Eh2
New York Evening Mail.
a Kentucky Judge recently showed
his affection for an old bird dog by
sending this order Of commitment to
the superintendent;
Dear Sir: You viii please receive
and safely keep the body Of Dewey