Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11
Items OF Interest.

ELECTION Day Is legal holiday IN New York.
THE new post Office in New York is to have six
thousand lock boxes.
TRIPE is recommended for persons engaged in
active, nervous pursuits.
TnERE are about two hundred and fifty thous-
and species Of living animals in all
NEW ZELASD has twelve million acres fit for ag-
riculture and fifty million pasturage.
A YANKEE critic, speaking OF very tall actor,
said He's tall enough to act In two parts.
MANY Of the strikes in England this season are
against the employment OF female operatives.
A CHICAGO man wants the thief who stole his
well bucket and rope to come back and take the
well, as II is Of no use now.
In consequence Of long drought, Mr.. Sullivant,
a wretched Illinois farmer, will have only four
hundred and fifty thousand bushels Of corn this
year
"DEAR me, said a good old lady. who was un-
able 10 keep up with her work, " shall be glad
when get into eternity, so as to have plenty of
time for everything
THE monument 10 the author Of The Sta.-
spangled Banner, provided for under the will OF
James Lick, is 10 be placed ON hill in Golden
Gate Park, san Francisco
81 AN son Of Mars" proudly exclaimed a
West Point cadet at an evening party. Does
your mar know you're outY asked the young
lady to whom he had just been introduced
"BES Billings stole cattle and then lied about
It so his friends took him out and performed
surgical operation ON him, from which he has never
recovered" is the way the death OF n Nebraska
man is recorded in local paper
IL Belgium fruit grower has had great sue
cess in communicating artificial flowers to natural
fruit lie punctures the fruit and keeps 1t a few
seconds in n solution OF the flavoring substance,
and permits it to npen subsequently.
A HACK driver in Ellis county, Texas was shot
at the other night, and only owes his life to a
copy Of Iunyan's Pilgrims Progress which
he carried In his breast pocket. The ball struck
the book and penetrated about ffty-ilve leaves Of
It before its course was arrested.
TnF Fort Wayne lind Gazette facetously re-
marks that indianapolis has produced the greatest
wonder Of the century II is Court House cost
ing $500 600 which is nearly completed and yet,
up To the present time, no job" has been dis
covered in connection with II.
THE former residence Of Macmillan in Mexico
Is in ruins The modest establishment was once
brick cottage oyorgrown with vines and densely
surrounded with guaya and coffee trees. The
grounds were left nearly as wild Ms nature had
made them, with only enough OF the interlaced
branches cut away To let In light and air. Maxi
milan and his consort lived there only few weeks
Just previous To his death.
TIE bones Of ten dead Cinnamon were received
a few days since from Utah, and deposited in
san Francisco receiving tomb At intervals "A
large number Of boxes containing them are ship
ped 10 China, as a Celestial always stpnates that
his bones shall be deposited finally In his native
land. Men are sent from san Francisco at the
proper time after their decease, who scrape what
hesh remains from the bones and pack them in
cases Of the length Of the longest bone. Fourteen
boxes received the previous week.
DrRlNG the first year of their introduction into
this country, IL, ,0i3, 800 postal cards have been
used. The manufactory at Springfield, Mass,
where they are made, has, during the entire
period, been running from eighteen 10 twenty
hours per day, with force Of forty hands stead
ily at work preparing the cards for shipment.
Three thousand pounds of paper are daily con-
sumed at the manufactory, and about T,O0O,0O
cards are turned out every working day
TnEy have female justices Of the peace in Maine.
an an opinion OF the supreme Court that their ap-
pointment was Illegal is anticipated. As these
female incumbents have been exercising all the
functions of the office they have held, II becomes
an interesting question whether their official acts
are not null and void, Couples who have been
married by them may naturally be imagined To be
in condition Of aggrayatng doubt upon the
durability and sanctity Of the relations in which
they are living.
THE New England college presidents and pro-
iessors met In Hanover, New Hampshire, on
Thursday, and discussed among other matters
that OF boating and students regattas. The
weight Of opinion was In favor OF encouraging the
sport. Some thought that those who did the row
ing were lowered In their class standing through
consequent neglect Of study, but the Importance
OF physical culture generally deemed TO
greatly oyerbalance the drawback TWAS resolved
not to interfere in any way with the college regat-
tas next season.
AMONG the many wonderful natural phenomena
in California is a tract OF country near the head
waters OF the keweah river, which the Indians
call the abiding place OF the evil spirit The eoun-
try is rugged and roeky--mountains with deep
valleys and precpitous cliffs. Snakes and rep
tiles Of every description abound In untold num-
bers and, taken all In all, u IL a wild and most
uninyiting region. But aside from this most
curious phenomenon exists The ground trembles
and quakes almost continuously, and the abund-
ant rocks grind and grit together as fbeing urged
by some terrible Influence. Frequently deep dis
charges are heard, muiiied and dull, like the dis
tant sound OF heavy artillery. At night tho
sounds seem to bo morc abundant than In the day
time No Indian can be induced TO venture near
the locality, regarding itwth supersttious horror