Year: 1876

IT is estimated that there are four hun
dred thousand yards of rag carpet in use
in Vermont, and that every third family
has set of quilting frames to lend.


IT is undoubtedly just maxim, that
in the long run honesty is the best
policy" but he whose practice is gov
erned by this maxim is not an honest
man. And it may be added that
steady and uniform adherence to honesty
never will result from this maxim.
BURLINGTON Hd,ok-Eye: The custom
among elderly gentlemen of making a
common carrier of their plug hats has
become so common that the spectacle of
respectable elder in church with a red
silk handkerchief, two letters, q postal
card, and corner of plug tobacco on his
head no longer raises the ghost of a smile
in the congregation.


WHATEVER is worthy to be loved for
anything is worthy of preservation. A
wise and dispassiOnate legislator, If any
such should ever arise among men, will
not condemn to death him who has done
or is likely to do more service than in
Jury to society. Blocks and gibbets are
the nearest objects with legislators, and
their business is never with hopes or with
virtues.-Landor.


NoRRIsTowN Herald: An old lady at
Newport, New Jersey, claims that she
possesses lace handkerchief held in his
hand by Charles 1 of England when he
was beheaded. 1t may be success as
curiosity, but for an able bodied cold in
the head twelve-cent cotton handker-
chief is more serviceable. We judge
that Charles l was not troubled much
with cold in the head about the time
he lost it,


LOCK OF HAIR.


ONLY lock of hair tied with a silken string,


Carefully kept for years, like misers pile OF


gold


But for darling head long lost in the days OF Old
Only lock OF hair All, well, it were better to


Even one little tress safe from the Spoilers hand
Than, with tho light of her love down in the dark


Lonely to wander around desoate, weary land.
Only lock Of hair. Yet something to look at, and
Something to keep in mind what never can be
Something to tell Of days unshadowed by anguish
like this;


Something to bring soft thoughts TO saddened


and dreary brain.


A NEWLY married pair were on their
way to New York from Buffalo on the
cars one night recently, when the hus-
band took from his pocket roll OF
brown paper, which the bride snatched
and threw out the window, remarking:
"You said you'd quit chewing tobacco
when married you." AS gently rs he
could under the circumstances the hus-
band remarked that the brown paper
contained no tobacco, but one hundred
dollars In bills.


"AND have you no other sons r asked
a curious lady of bronzed old sea cap
tain. "Oh, yes, madam, had one that
lived in the South Sea Islands for nearly
a dozen years." Really! Was he bred
there, and what was his taste-the sea or
land ?'' "No, madam, he wasn't bread,
he was meat, leastways the niggers ate
him, and as for his taste the chief said he
tasted of terbaccer." The lady walked
to another part of the ship, and the cap
tain smiled and took fresh quid.


In Scotch Office the following notice
is posted where it can be seen by each
caller: "Shut the door, and when you
have done talking on business serve your
mouth the same way" A writer thus
improves upon the notice: " Keep your
mouth shut when you read, when you
write, when you listen, when you are in
pain, when you are walking, when you
are running, and by all means when you
are angry. The habit is difficult to ac'
quire, but improved health is worth tax
ing trouble about"


AMONG the many curious things we
find everywhere, it may be interesting to
notice few of them. Suppose we IN
quire into the origin of certain words,
customs, etc. Take, for instance, the
word humbug. 1t is a corruption OF
Hamburg. At one time during war on
the continent of Europe, so many false
reports were fabricated at Hamburg
that finally, when any one wished h to
show his disbelief of statement nc
would say, "That came from Hamburg,
or. "That is Hamburg, or Humbug,
which thus came to imply unbelief OF
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