Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-08-04
Weekly News summary.

WI "NN 10 Niht ldit IN.
nrongest night in Norwaylast three months.
and when young man goes to see his Girl, her
mother, before retiring tells her not to ruin her
health by setting up more than two months
CoLrMnn professor, reproying youth for
the exercise Of his fists, said: ave fight with
onr heads here" The youth reflected and re-
Piled that butting wasn't considered fair nj his
last school"
OS being asked by one Of his fair daughters
why the bulldogs nose Is placed 40 far behind his
mouth, the reverend gentleman replies. "My
love, 1t is to enable him to breathe more comiorta-
bly, while heis hanging on 10 the nose Of the bull
DuRiSG a clerical conference, the following con-
yersation was heard between two news-boys. "I
say, Jim, what's the meaning Of so many minis
tiers being here altogether ?" "why," answered
jim scomiuy, "thoy always meet once a year to
swap sermons"
Hind man was sitting in company with some
visitors, few weeks ago when one Of the party
LEFT Tho room. What white teeth that lady has
said The blind man How eau YOU tell that 2''
asked q friend Because, was the ready an
wcr, fof The last half hour she has been doing
nothing b1t laugh"
AIrugnwtnE merchaut SAYS an exchange. rs.
Gently observed boy looking sharply at some
garden tools and he asked Bnb. II should
present you with hoe, would you 20 home and
makea garden? 90 40, sir promptly responded
The boy I'd sell 1t to the man living next door,
and bny some circus tickets"
Two tmnps entered the house Of Mr. Morse Mt
East Bedneld, Maine, on Monday, and Selling
Mus Morse hy tho thront, chokod her til she sur
rendered si5-all the money in the house--with
which they decamped rubc indignation against
The tmmps ID reaching such pitch that an exam.
pile viii soon Doe made Of some Of them
GincE GHtrNwoop recently attended party
ia London, given by an American artist, where
she met Miss Gabrielle Greeley, who, she
says, is distinguished by her bloom and the fine
classic character Of her head and face, a. well a.
Tor hc perfect simplicity and maidonly modesty
of her toileitos the fitness and fit Of her dress"
lsniANA has stringent law against the inter
marriage Of whites and blacks John Angel
Miller, German. and MARY Sims, q negroes. were
married few weeks ago in Floyd county. They
and thc clergyman who performed the ceremony
are now Ia prison, and each is liable to conyic-
tion and sentence to ten years Incarceration or
fine ofs5,cOO
AMfS amon' shouted Cedar Rapids par-
son, at Che elegant remarks OF a stranger at the
camp meeting Suddenly the person turned his
eye. on the man, and, jumping mp, screamed,
Catch him. brother. catch hint He'-the three
card monte man that got my last month salary"
This j. TACT aud the monte man isnow In Jail at
Cedar Rapids
VlcgsuuRo Miss lady was recently inquir-
Ing Of a girl from over tho river how certain old
fn inf .aI.. al
months ago. got along VERY poorly, replied
the girl "thcre- five children who ought to he |
spanked twice q day and Maria ef-handed and
can't begin 70 do EN- iusilee Poor woman my
heart ueCd- for herr
Iin audience at French theatre is never troul- |
Jed by tall hats worn by ladies' The following I
notice was posted mp in n conspicuous position, l
and proved 90 bc very effective. The manager
requests that lll good looking ladies will remove
their hats Tor the accommodation Of the rest Of .
tie audience The aged. the bald. and the plain,
are not expected 20 comply with this request"
IHA'u'- in Maine are refusing 50 day TO as /
risi in haying. aud will not work at any price. In
pccrus eoi them stole a roast out Of kitchen. /
and on searching for the lost meat tie remains Of /
% we've found ia a lane by the side Of the tramp. |
who had gone fast asleep In Yarmouth, the |
other night, number Of them nearly raised a 1
riot in thst quiet village by refusing crackers, |
cheese and fish that were offered them and de-
mandipg meat
A ayluors episode in the railroad station at LIN.
c.ln, Nebraska, tho other day. was a Mennonite
divorce The man WIS anxious to 60 TO Dakota,
aud bis wife equally anxious to remain So after a .
long argument In Russian and German, they sat \
down on the Goor, and opening bag containing I
5000 10 gold counted it ont, piece by piece, the
man taking one half and the woman the other /
They then shook hands and seIanted, tho man !
jumping npon the train for Dakota
a BOY Of five ycars was playing railroad
VITA Dbl. sister OF two and half drawing her |
upon footstool be imagined himself both the 1
engine and the conductor After initiating the
pulling noise Of the steam, lie stopped and called
ont New York, and, in 4 moment after, Pat
terson, and then Philadelphia" His knowl-
edge Of towns was now exhausted, aud the next
place he cried Heaven" His little sister said
eagerly, Top. de- ru Diet out here"
TIM Virginia City New Enia7,riss say, that
soon after the Atlantic cable was laid a Denver
operator sent this despatch for COAX as OPP
orators will, thinking It would be stopped at
Omaha: To the Emperor Napoleon Garden Of
The Fuilcries, Paris, France; Governor Gilpin will
not aecode 10 the accession Of Italy to France
Please let bohemia alone" hut 1t went through
To the Tuilcries. It, history there does not ap-
pear, but the smart operator was hunted np and
obliged to pay sis7.5o Tor his little joke
TIM curious visual defect known as color blind
ness appears to be far more general than has COM
monty been supposed. Investigations In the cases
Of Que thousand one hundred and ffty-four per
sons in Edinburgh show that one In fiity-fye con-
founded red with green one in siKty-siN con-
founded brown with green, and one in forty-siE
COMPOUNDED blue with green-that is, one in nearly
every eighteen had this imperfection The most
generally accepted conclusion on the part OF in
vestgators IS however that one out Of twenty
persons is thus affected
4 MR SmEnoLpr who lives now in Luea.
county, Ohio, but is a native Of Bohemia, has
what might be called baked Bible. II was for
merry the property Of his grandmother very de
vout Protestant, who WAS the victim Of good
deal Of religious persecution An order was passed
by the government ordering the seizure Of every
Bible for burning When the old lady saw the
officers OF the law approaching the house to search
it, she wrapped the book in batch Of dough, and
deposited it in a hot oven. 1t was thoroughly
baked before she dared to take it out.
"Wnp NAY" is the name given By the Swiss to
hay made from the grass growing on strips OF soil
to be found ON the Alps, at height of from five
thousand TO six thousand feet In places SO difficult
Of access that even the goatherd and his flock for
bear to visit them. This hay is so valuable, from
it, excellent quality and delicious aroma, that a
regular hay harvest il yearly undertaken on these
almost inaccessible places, in spite Of the danger
to life and limb, The haymakers are shod with
iron, and secure themselves with ropes to some
sure hold when in especially dangerous places,
bat fatal accidents occur every year.
Is Philadelphia Tor carrying prisoners, they use
vehicles which are like omnibuses without win
dows or other means OF ventilation. Filled with
passengers and the door closed tight there is no
access for light or air. few days ago number
Of cOnyicts were crowded into OF them for
long ride from police court to prison In a sub
urb The heat in the open air was eighty-nine
in the shade. The ride lasted for four hours.
The temperature within the van must have been
one hundred and twenty-five, and the air Initiated
besides by the fetid breath OF drunkards At the
end Of the journey, one OF the convicts was found