Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-04
Weekly News summary.


The sawdust swindlers are at work
once more
Young Prince Nap is expected to ente
France Immediately on attaining his major
iiy. Who's afraid7
The great question at present is, VIII.
didn't Tennyson write an ode for the lat
royal wedding at St. Petersburg
The St. Louis Journal wants Emerson
to change n at " to an "f" in the following
remark "Our nineteenth century is tn,
age Of tools"
-Clara Morris, in neat little speech
from the Cleveland stage, the other night
said she wished Cleveland bad but ont
mouth, that she might kiss it.
Prophets say 100000 bushels o.
wheat will be the California crop 10 1874
Seventy wet days and eighteen inches Of
water up to the second week in February.
Baltimore contains twelve and hall
square miles of land and two square mile;
OF water; aud if all the increased annexa.
tons are made, the area will be increased
nearly fve.fold.
Speaking Of that Vermont man who
manufactured three tons Of base ball bats,
this year, and yet lives, the Detroit Free
Press says that Captain Kidd also lived
several years longer than was necessary,
A Paris letter says the Empress Eugene
has aged sadly. There are deep lines at
each side Of her R.flh, and her face looks
drawn and haggard The young prince
imperial is her very image, but the slight
moustache just budding on his upper lip
will soon mar the present perfection Of the
resemblance.
The friction of threshing machine
burned barn, last week, at Sharon Springs
N. Y. Thar" said the farmer to hi.
progressive sons, as he watched the fery
straws floating DER his head, thar, boys
that's all on count Of them ar new-fangIeC
contriyances! Wouldn't "a happened i
we'd used fails
There is good little boy in New Lon
don, n. Y, who devotes himself TO tn,
needs Of his little sister by snow ballDl
pedestrians with view to making then
dodge. The strain they are subject t
industriously gathers after the victims de
parture, and gives to his sister to put on
string.
An unsigned bank.bil, which, som
time ago, slipped out Of Troy bank un
derneath a signed one, which it stuck to
got back, recently, with the surprising sig
natures of W. NJ. Tweed as president, anc
Jay Gould as vice president. The bank OF
fcers thought it counterfeit but it wa
sent to Washington, pronounced genuine
and bad to be redeemed.
"A Philadelphia lady lost thousan,
dollar diamond out Of her engagement ring
and, though every means Of search was EN-
ployed, the case was finally pronounce
hopeless. But, one day, the lady happene,
to be brushing the dust out of the trimming
Of her street dress. when, 10 and behold
there was the lost diamond sparkling in tn,
crevice Of a hounce. 1t had gone to an,
fro in streets and shops, been brushed AM
shaken nearly every day, and yet there it la,
like an ordinary crumb or shred
Miss Phoebe Cozzens of St. Louis Ice
tured, the other night, dressed according
to an exchange, "in heavy silk, with pol
onaise overskirt, all richly befrilled anC
furbelowed, and trimmed with black lace
roses at the belt, breast, and back hair
with white frills at her neck and wrists
and sparkling aigrette in her hair" The
Lnter-Ocean says it doesn't care Phila.
delphia centennial what she wore, but is
cut to the heart because she said that the
requirements of the male lawyers were linn
TIED to poker-playing and tossing pennies
for free drinks.