Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-08
Weekly News summary.

now llttie cnhnges
1t isn't safe to stop at Chicago for half an
lour. They are making directory.
1t has been satisfactorily settled that the
,iamcse twins were not Baptsts, but United
Brethren.
Hats, " lined throughout with satin Of
he most gorgeous colors," are advertised in
Chicago.
Tweed has been an "invalid for ten years."
but he has done some pretty healthy stealing 10
hat time.
A raw-hide hangs in an Iowa boys bed
room, with the paintiye inscription, " BE kind
to thy mother"
st Louis has wuxed modest and admits
that there are four Merchants Exchanges that
are larger than hers.
If stick Of wood is too long for the stove,
kick it few times with your heel. Then take
it out and saw it off,
"A young woman IN Geneva, ILL.,, received
a gift of 800 from her mother for reading the
Bible through in six days
The Courier-JourNai is dismayed at the
Of the wrath Of the undertakers when
cremation shall be generally adopted
Among the minor wedding presents given
10 the duchess of Edinburgh al st. Petersburg,
was a single bracelet worth $780, 600.
A Texas man has invented 0,nat-iron that
will smooth u sheet in minute, but It is too
heavy to be used as a domestic missile.
The Swiss landlords have an association
which meets annually to devise plans for at.
tracing travellers, and systematic prices
Ono of the New York spring bonnets has
a ball Of lace hanging at the back. The mil
liner said that she couldn't find any other place
for it.
If there is one time more than another
when a woman should be entirely alone, it is
vbona full line of clothes comes down in the
mud.
The Danbury Ners man Is merry over the
fact that Shepard gill have sold thirty.four
thousand of his book and forty thousand Of his
almanac
king koaees umbrella, which is as large
as a tent Is among the spoils Of the Ashantee
war, and will be exhibited at a public museum
in London.
"A stranger who threw $40 bill into the
contribution box Of Savannah church got
trusted for $500 Of goods next day on the
strength Of H.
The jewels which the Duchess Of Edin-
burgh brought With her to England are said to
be worth SO 500 900, and include as many as
one hundred bracelets.
Says the Cincinnati Times A." Boston Com.
mon is getting its Spring green on. There is
no sky visible but the women answer for oil
purposes Of contrast"
The Cincinnati Tiaps thinks that the New
York Herald isn't afraid Of bears, because it
telegrnphed to its North Carolina correspondent
to " Go up, old Bald Head. "
Since young woman in Baraboo, Wis.
obtained : 900 damage for being kissed by
railroad conductor, the conductors in that re-
gion take ladies' tickets with pair Of tongs
Rev II Stebbins, Of San Francisco, said
in recent lecture, that man who is simply
honest because " honesty is the best policy, is
a hawker and peddler Of religion for its acct.
dental results
The umbrella the season is 80 deliberately
different from that Of last sumner that any wo-
man who dares to carry her old one will 30
considered either very near sighted or very
strong minded.
"A granite monument to Bishop Kingsley
Of the Methodist church is to be shipped, pres
entity from New York TO Beirut, where be died,
four years ago, while on an an episcopal tour
around the globe
The Chicago Journal says that, probably,
if the truth were known, that young man who
says that he would rather be lamp-post in
in Portland than Mayor Of Chicago, is only cit
for amppost in Portland.
"A youth from the Iowa backwoods followed
a letter carrier over bis entire route in Buring-
ton, the other day, watching him open the mail
boxes on the lamp posts, in the vain hope Of
discovering the secret Of making gas.
Peter Andreas Hansen, the German as
tronomer just deceased, in his 10Th year, ha.
been director Of the observatory at Seeberg
near Gotha, since 1925, and his best known
work was concerning the per,urbatons Of the
moon
Miss Emily Faithful complains that outof
The hundreds of women seeking for situations
she recently found it difficult to find one com
netent to undertake the management Of busi.
ness supposed to be in their special sphere
iressmaking.
A quarrelsome couple were discussing the
subject of epitaphs and tombstones, and the
husband said Ny dear, what kind Of a
stone do you suppose they will give me, when
lie? " Birthstone, my love, was the aztec
Tomato reply.
Chicago must engage her most prolific d.
'ectory man, this year. The ST. Louis stats.
iieal astronomer has brought out his annual,
showing that that city has population of 473,.
$50, and is therefore the eleventh city in tho
civilized world
"A colored Mississippi legislator lately pro-
posed bill to make each member of the legis-
AZURE, present and future, a bona fde attorney
md eounselor-atlaw. His reasoning was d..
'ect " For, said he, " if we know enough to
make de laws, why don't we to practice Jump
Sure enough, why not
If the crusade in Iowa should produce
many puns like the following, every well.regu-
ated mind would be saddened The ladies OF
Ayoca are preparing to assume the ayocation
VI crusaders, and there is heard Avocal re-
nonstrance from their husbands, who are al
eady raiding upon the bars, as usual.
The lower branch Of the Mississippi LeRis.
ature has fftyseven negroes among its ono
hundred and thirteen members. They and
wenty whites make the radical strength
Lieutenant Governor A, X. Davis is a dgni.
ed and capable quadroon a son, it is said, of
'olonel A. r. MeClung, the famous duelist
nd likely as any one to be the next United
tates Senator.
The jury in the Tchborne case were allowed
hree hundred guineas each for their ten months
service, or somewhat over 81, 500. They
etitioned in open court, early in the trial, for
wo gulneas day, and were as good as prom
'ed It by the bench, but =" the present govern.
tent eoolly observe that they don't find
ny record of such promise on the hooks of