Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-04-08
miscellaneous Ftrms.

/ CHeblO - piOuuONiNI Vi BiN'' ''tl''-ONhD9o'
~ The pair most talked Of nowadays is
the Sickles pair The blush, however is sad
| ly wanting.
/ to Woman has found her true "sphero'
at last it is about twenty-seven feet round,
made of hoops.
The Chicago journal calls the result of the
New Hampshire election " the morning gun
Of 1860 That's about what it is.
/ ~ An exchange says that an old sheep
gave birth to a lamb, in Cambridge last week,
belonging to a widow lady with SIX legs, and
/ fine wool all over her head
- Horace Greedy says, in one of his let
ters from Pennsylvania, that whiskey-iugs
and pro-slavery Democrats far outnumber
spelling books and meat barrels.
A Cincinnati paper considers a grocers
wife in that city a very remarkable woman,
because she had 2l children in % years.
Poor Grocer.
/ ~ 'Doesticks," describing New York
boarding house, says that you can always tell
when they get new kitchen girl, by the col
or Of the hair in the biscuit.
- Prentice. cannot forego a joke He
says, "The editor of the New Hampshire
Democrat says that he is sure he knows him
self If be does, he knows about the mean
est fellow in New Hampshire
A tpsy lrishman who was leaning against
lamp post as funeral procession was pass
ing by, was asked who was dead " can't
exactly say sir, said he- but presume it's
the gentleman in the coffin.
~ One Of the late Democratic candidates
for the United States Senatorship in New
Jersey, it is said, remarked, THAT the present
was the highest priced legislature that he
ever had dealings with
10 A New England minister once remarked
that his Sunday afternoon discourses were
preached to about three bushels Of baked
beans but discourscs nowadays are deliv-
cred 10 congregations composed Of one part
human, to about fifteen parts dry goods and
millinery.
a gawky' coun;ryman lounged into a
New Haven saloon on Fridav-inmates got
him to shaking dice 'ior the drinks and
presently proposed to shake for W
country didn't want to--hadn any thing but
ten. and did mt want TO lose that-sharpers
o oycr-persuaded him. and changed his bill for
two fves-said hc'd shake Just once-shook,
won and travcled-saloon man afterwards
/ discovered his ten to be worthless, and con-
cluded they'd lost about sl5 on that chap.
A JuvENuE BoDY GUARD.-A Protestant
/. widow lady in Cincinnati, Mrs Klein, whose
husband, a Catholic, died recently. took her
boy from a Catholic school and sent him to
the common school of the district On his
return home, a few evenings since, he was be-
} set bv his former Catholic schoolfeliows. and
beaten violently. Thenext day, however, the
3 Protestant boys of the neighborhood, armed
with sticks and stones, formed themselves in
to a body guard, aud saw young Klein safely
home. and have continued to do so ever since.
From the children the excitement has spread
b to the parents, and more serious results are
feared
Know -NorHINGGsM. - The editor of a
Georgia paper overheard the following con-
versation on the reopening of the slave trade ::
Glen, Use tell you, if dey gwine to 'deay-
ors to fetch dem ported niggers ober dis way
which | hear dey be. darrell be fuss in de
family. sure. Spect dey want us to sociate
wild dem niggers ON quality. Neber do it,,
sure"
"Sam dus you rally think dy'll fotch dem
niggers here
For sartin. Glen, heard massa say dare
was five thousand ported souf in Carolina,
and half OF dem now ready in dis State. l
tell you, Glenn, if one Of dem form, unat' allied
niggers calc late to sociate with this chile, he
10 hoing de wrong patch. Somethin' will hit
him like mule kicked him for sarten, and it
won't be dat animulo eder -
ANoNYMoUs LETTERS. Persons often COM
plain because editors of well regulated publi-
{ cations will take no notice of anonymous COM
+ municatons. Henry Ward Beecher says of
: this kind of correspondence
/. "a man name is meant TO be a safeguard.
Where man is known, he is silently re-
y strained from q thousand incidental tompta-
B, tions which would assail him if he were con-
seiously unknown. A mans name on paper
is the representative Of his person. 1t will
y be a strong inducoment to care, honor, truth
and proprety. The want of name to let
p ter is presumpiive evidence that a man has
$ been doing something of which he is asham-
't ed. And all honest men ought to make it a
J. rule to burn up, without reading, anonymous
communications This is our rule. 1t is
IS only now and then that we begin to read
4, without knowing that the letter is nameless
ID but usually letter without signature goes
n into the fire, or into strips for the winds to
C. play with.
Charles NJ. Wilick ofLondon has publish
ed a simple rule for computing the probable
value Of human life at any age from five tc
Il sixty His formula stands thus :-E=2-s
N (SO--a,) or, in plain words, the expectation
T. of life is equal to two thirds of the dihferenc,
>. between the age of the party and eighty
At Thus, say man is twenty years old Be
tween that age and eighty there are sixt,
years. Two-thirds of sixty are forty; anc
this is the sum of his expectation of life. l
d man be now sixty he will have an expecta
tion of nearly fourteen more BY the same
rule child of five has a contingent lien on
- life of fifty years. Every one can apply the
rule to his own age. Mr. Willich's hypothe
sis may be as easily remembered as that by
De Moiyre in the last century, which has nov
Is become obsolete from the greater accuracy o
mortality tables. The results obtained by
the new law correspond very closely witt
!. those from DR.. Fairs English Life Table,
at constructed with great care from an ,mmens
mass Of returns.