Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-01-01

MoRMoN MovrY-Tho Mormons do their
own coinage, and, as might be expected, their
$50 pieces arc worth but SlT.
~ " Come here and tell me what the four
seasons are !" Young prodigy answers
" Pepper, mustard, salt and vinegar-thcm's
what mother always seasons with"
Ur TO sNurF.--1t is estimated that there
are four millions of female snuff takers in the
United States, using on an average two pounds
each per annum, or eight millions of pounds,
at an expense Of two millions of dollars
PLow1NG IN DEcEMDER-We observed a
span Of horses blowing yesterday on a piece
Of new sod ground. This is about as late for
this operation as we have ever known in this
vicinty.-Nev Bedford Mercury, 23d.
EXTRAORDINARY LARGE Cow-Mr. Ran
some Burdttt of Pittsford, in this County,
has raised heifcr. now three years old, which
has had two calves, and weighed day or two
ago, 2,155 pounds. --RWland Courier.
A young lady recently remarked, with
much simplicity, that she could not see what
her brother, George Henry, saw in the girls
that be liked them so well, and that, for her
part, she would not give the company Of ono
young man for that Of twenty girls.
Lucy Stone, Of Woman's Rights celebrity,
is reported TO have refused to pay the tax
upon her property at Orange upon the ground
that she is denied all privileges and rights of
citizenship which arc allowed the male Sex,
and therefore should not be taxed. The col
loctor will probably test by law the validity
Of Lucy's plea.
Unsopliaicatcd bog Mamma, papa is get
ting very rich, isn't he 2 Mamma | don't
know why childT Unsophiaicated bog;
Cause he gives me so much money. Almost
every morning, after breakfast, when Sally is
sweeping the parlor, he gives me sixpence
to go ont and play Sally received short no.
uce to quit.
~ A gentleman soiourning at a iashiona-
bic watering-place hotel, who roomcd next to
two young ladies, overheard the following
conversation one morning recently; My
dear, | cannot find my bones, and how can |
60 to breakfast; | shall look as if ! had fall
len to pieces will lend you my skeleton,
DEAR if it will fit you Oh, thank you
how kind yes, exactly. Only one young
lady appeared at breakfast. What was the
condition of the one who lent her skeleton;
Too Coon TO WAsrr-Tho medical atten-
daut Of the st. Louis Hospital accosted an
Irish servant at the door of the same the 9TH
or day with
Did you give the medicine as told you =
Faith an did, sir
And the Brandy
Shuro and | thought it pity to waste so
much good liquor on man that was bound to
die any how, so | drank it myself
Gop-wARD OR MAN-wARD.-Th editor Of
the New York Baptist Examiner says he fears
that Mr.. " is a representative of too
large q class of men in all churches Of whom
it was said, when some one asked, is Mr..
W good man, " that depends upon
whether you mean God-ward or man-ward.
God-ward no man in our church is sounder
in the faith, prays oftencr in our meetings,
or gives more money according TO his means.
But man-ward, | am sorry to say he is regar-
dcd as rather tricky"
SAVED by HER Hoops.-A young miss of
fourteen summers was indulging in the de-
lightful sport of skating, on a small water
privilege about one mile out of the city, one
day last week, and the ice gave way where the
water was twelve feet deep, and in she went,
but being surrounded by most fashionable
array of hoops which made wide ring around
her on the neighboring ice, she was saved
from sinking far below her waist. Another
pglvl came To her rescuc and she was sawed -
Had it not been for her hoops her chances
would have been very poor.-Hdachester Mr..
A WARN SEAr.-ln the carly days of the
present adm nistration, it was widely bruted
that Mr.. Cass was only occupying the chair
Of secretary Of state for the purpose of keep
ing it warm for Gov. Walker ltwould COM
fort the country to know whether the tenn
pcrature of that seat has been raised to the
proper point for man of Gov Walker s
blood, or whether it is intended to give the
place to the great brecch in the democratic
party 1t was recently stated that the breech
had been officially recoguizcd.-SPringield
Republican.
/ ~ Tho Montgomery Hail tells the fol-
lowing, and we are glad to learn from the
same authoritive source that there was no
backing out in the Natter
eve have bachelor friend that we think
much of, who was horribly outraged an eve
ming or two ago. He was industriously ply
ing with his attentions a young and very
handsome widow, when some one remarked
that Miss Blank-a very lovely young lady
by the way--was without an attendant j
can't leave, said Cplebs. I'm engagedP 90,
exclaimed the widow with charming naivetto
i did not think we had gone as far as that
A GRANDMOTHER AT TwENTY-NINE YEAR,
OF AGE.--A woman who was recently brough
before the magistrates of Wigon, for an as
sault committed upon a neighbor, affords
striking instance of reckless early marriages
J She is the wife Of Patrick Casey, a tailor
They reside in Douglas Terrace, Wigan. IL
is forty years Of age, and she is twenty
They were married before she had attaine,
the age of fourteen years and several months
Since that time she has had eleven other chill
dren. Strange to say, the eldest girl who wa
, fifteen years old few days since, is the moth
or of two children, the elder of whom is near
ly two years of age, she having married EARL
: er in life than her mother. Mrs. Casey is
$ therefore, at the age of twenty mine years, tn
mother Of twelve and the grandmother of tw
{ children
Lord George German was the man who an
nounced to Lord North the capture of Lor
Corvallis, at Yorktown in 1881. "An
how did he take it :" was the inquiry. "A
he would have taken a ball in the breast.
replied Lord George, "for he opened hi
/, arms, oxclaiming wildly, as he paced up an
y dovn tho anartmcnt .Ob God I, !. ,i