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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What does the pupil of the eyestudyl
Morning milk is richer than that OF
vening.
When a man draws an inference He
should draw it mild. - & -, ~
A green turtle is known by the date
found on his back. q:
When big trees begin to shoot It's
about time for little bushes 70 leave.
A poor bookkeeper and a adisagreeable
aunt are alike in that they are no
account ants.
"Now is the accepted time" remarked
the young man when his girl told him
she would have him. 80 -
The Derrick tells of an Oil City man
who has to turn his toes in. II he didn't !.
they would bit the SIDES OF the Streets.
The number of submarine cablesat
present in operation is said to be 5o5;
with cable length OF $500 nautical
miles.
The total revenue from the bees ofthis
country, of which there are 100000
hives, is estimated at $4,000. 600 an
nually. .-
Sparks from an unoiled reaping MA.
chine set fire to great field OF wheat
in Illinois, and all the grain was de-
stroyed.
The chief use of a sea captain in these
days is to explain how 1t all happened
after most of the passengers have Deen :
drowned. ..,t
About 20,OOO,00O shad have been
Matched at the hatchihg establishment
of the American fish commission at
Washington this year. .'4 .....s
A new shade for silk is called ''lemons
ade color" whatever that msy mean
Ne,o Orleans Picay,t17e. 1t me, ns 9
heavy watered silk. 80
Among the assets of grocer who
failed in business in Wisconsin town
| is put down: Zone liver.pad, worn SIX
weeks-worth fifty cents" s.
The men who pack the little boxes OF
figs have wonderful memories. They
never forget to put the wormy fruit at,
the bottom of the box. Is -,
Doctors recommend people to 60 tos
sleep lying on the right side. This ls,s
all the better If you are q little deal IN
the left ear and don't get home till late.
"Only twenty" Eyes" she explained,
"George MADE me promise when we,
were married that I would never
change. Twas twenty then, and l mean
to keep my promise"
From the speed of light, which has
been measured, it is proved that at least
four hundred and fifty-one millions OF
millions of these minutes waves dow
into the eye and dash against the retlna
in each second. es.s.s..s i
The rose slug, so destructive to our
rose bushes, may be destroyed by Dust:
ing the plants. while wet with dew
with air-slacked lime. Swinging the.
bushes with strong solution OF soap
suds is also recommended. ~.
The natives of the South Pacific
islands are very fond of a small sea-
worm about the size of vermiceIli, which
they can obtain only at certain seasons.
even European residents are said to con-
slider the "pabola a rare relish.
Salt Is recommended for hens which
pull out and eat their feathers, Give;
twice q week, little salt pork chopped
fine and mixed with the food; or pusa
spoonful OF salt in two quarts OF meal,
moistened with water, and feed once or
twice week. 90:
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The Frog.

Who am but the irog-the frog!
My realm is the dark bayou,
And my throne is the mud ly and moss-grown
log
, That tho poison vine cings to
Where the black snake slide
In the Shiny tide,
And the ghost OF the moon looks blue.
And what am I but king-a king?
For the royal robes I wear
A scerter, too, and a signet ring,
As vassels and serts declare;
And a voice, God wot!
That is equaled not
In the wide world anywhere!
can talk to the night-the night!
Under his big black wing
He tells me the tale OF the world outright,
And the secret Of everything
For he knows you all
From the time you crawl,
To the doom that death will bring.
The storm swoops down, and he blows-he
blows
While drum on his swollen cheek,
And croak in his angered eye that glows
With the livid lightning streak-
And tho rushes drown
In the watery frown
That his bursting passions leak.
And can see through the sky- the sky!
As clear ss q piece OF glass;
And can tell you the how and why
OF the things that come to pass;
And whether the dead
Are there instead,
Or under the graveyard grass.
To youc sovereign then, all hail! all hail!
To the prince on his throne so grim!
ct the moon swing low, and tho high stars
tail
Their he ads in the dust to him;
And the wide world sing
Long live the kiog!
And slace to his royal whim!
jones w. Riley.
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RockaUay's Mammoth Hotel.

The greatest of all hotels, says the
New York Sun, is the. new hote! at
Rockaway beach, thirteen miles in
straight line from New York. The
new Rockaway hotel is l,ls0 feet long
as long as the longest main building
at the Centennial exhibition. 1t is tour
times as large as Madison Square gar
den, 1t is as long as seventy Filth
avenue houses. 1t will accommodate
permanently 1900 people, and give enter
tainment temporarily to 2O,0O0 visitors.
The building is six stories high from
base to summit, with a promenode pa
vilion for 1900 people on the ROOF.
From this promenade the view IS
superb. In the distance the brookIYn
bridge stands up like the Arc OF IT.
umph in Paris. Coney Island to the
westward, with Manhattan, the new
Oriental, Brighton, and Cables, Iooks
like Venice from the sea. Sandy HOOK
rears itself from the ocean on the south,
the Garden City cathedral pierce the
sky on the north, and the Palisades on
the Hudson and the distant Orange
mountains in New Jersey stand against
The sky beyond Prospect park in Brook
lyn. Crates and bath tubs are in 200
rooms, and fresh water comes from
eighteen wells. This hotel, like the
hotel at Atlantic City, is to be kept open
all the year round. There arel5, 900
ooms. 1000 OF them fronting on the
ocean. The house is built after the
Queen Anne style of architecture. Two
mile of dado are made of California red
wood. The piazza is seventy feet wide
and $500 feet long. One dining-room
will seat 5000 people at one time. The
hotel company made one purchase o.
10000 chairs.
This colossal building is erected on s
narrow peninsula or strip of beach run
ming out into the ocean like Cape Cod
The building has its front and two ends
on the ocean. and its rear on Jamalcs
bay. The hotel is almost entirely sur
rounded by water.
The point of the beach jutting int
the ocean beyond the hotel will b.
turned into a race course: The new
tubular bridge, 1900 feet in lea 9Th, witt
its 2, coo gas jets, is near the hotel. l
cost 81 l,260;O0O. 1t is safe to say tina
S3, 900, ,UGT will have been spent OF
buildings at Rockaway before the fall.
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the day it is to be housed the cocks
should be turned over and spread very
little, simply to air it.
Hay is improved very much by keep
ing it in the cock the second day, open
ing it and housing it the third. If it
were not for the risk of having it
out in storm we should always prefer
to have it stand the second day than
to spread it and get it in the barn.
Massachusetts, PloaIghnaan.
Milk for Poultry.
This is one of the verv best things to
give either young or old fowls. Most
every breeder has tested it's value and
recommended it as wholesome and nu-
tritious diet, naturally adapted for
young chicks ard poultry. On every
farm and in most all suburban homes
milk is fed TO pigs. This is one way to
utilize it. But il farmers paid more at
tention to their poultry stock than they
do. they would find that they could turn
it to better account by feeding it to
their chicks and laying liens.
All kinds of poultry are fond of milk.
Although they soon become satiated If
fed exclusively on grain, animal, veg
etable or insect food. they seldom re-
fuse milk in any form-fresh or sour, it
makes no difference to them. Nova
days milk enters largely into the bill of
fare for chicks and fowls. Fanciers have
found out that it contains properties
beneficial to their health and early de-
velopment. Almost the first food-and
with many the first after the yolk is
assimilated-its soothing and nutritive
effect is apparent, and if mixed with
stale bread crumbs or oatmeal cake
nothing is better.
Now for laying hens milk is nourish.
ing and induces laying. Where it can
be spared it is more valuable to the
poultry stock than to any other. If
farmers would give it fair trial, and
lay aside the fogy notions of their an
cestors and look at things in a new light,
they would abandon the practice of
feeding their spare milk to pigs and
give it to better paying ock.--PoslL
trv World.
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While plowing in field, boy of
St. James, Mimi, was struck by light
ming, and his hair and clothes were
parity burned off. He was supposed to
be dead when found, but physician
took the body, laid it in a newly
plowed iurrow, and covered it with
fresh earth up to the neck. In half an
hour the boy showed signs OF life, and
recovered.
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Although paper collars have to a
great extent gone out of use within the
last ten years, 200, 600, 900 of them are
now mall ufactured annually.
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One of Barnum's Zulus has run away
from the show. Show this to your wife,
if she wishes to venture out on a picnic.
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There is variety of opinions as to
the best method of curing hay. Some
farmers believe it should be spread thin
and exposed to the sun and air several
days; others, that two days is enough
and still others who believe that few
hours SIN to dry the warer from the
outside is sufficient. The objections to
curing it wholly in the sun are: First. If
the stalks are large, the outside is dried
so hard that the moisture in the center
ofthe stalk cannot get out until the hay
is packed in mass, when by moisten-
ing and softening the outside it comes
to the surface and makes smoky hay
second, by drying rapidly in the sun
the leaves are dried so hard that thev
break off and are lost; especially is this
the case with coarse clover.
We have seen clover cured in the cock
so nicely that all of the leaves and
flowers were preserved 80 we'll that all
through the winter they looked almost
as fresh as when first cut, sending forth
an odor reminding one of the new-mown
fields. To cure hay we'll in the cock il
should first have four or five hours o
hot sun and then kept in the cock dur
ing at least four days of good weather
and The cocks made over once or twice
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
The Universal Want.

We have travelled good deal, north and
south, east and west aud have long been in
the way of seeing many of the newspapers
from all sections of the country, In the
west the great cry is for eastern capital I"
to develop the country, and especially its
agricultural resources. In the south the cry
is for northern capital" Very little can
be done, and that little but poorly, when
this capital from somewhere else is lack
ing. And right here in the east whence
these rivers of "capital" are expected to
fow,-in New England, which the rest of
the country supposes to be "made of money y
the one thing lacking for the development
OF our agriculture is declared to be "capi'
tai" Two-thrds of our eastern farmers
are in debt and not more than one in ten
has any money in hand, after paying his
debts, with which to improve his land, oil
carry on his business TO advantage. We dc
not believe that this looking and longing
this anxious and aimless waiting for "capi
tai" TO flow in 4" from somewhere else, il
going to amount TO much. Capital is thu
joint product Of intelligence, industry ant
economy. If New England possesses a sur
plus of capital, it is not on account of an.
natural advantages, but because her peopl
have possessed those virtues and profted b.
them. But they are not universal, even il
New England. The one-third of our farmer
who are out Of debt, and the on stenth VIII
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
"Shut up the Traps that Catch U.s."

A few years ago, while riding in manu-
featuring district, returning home one Sab
bath evening from ministerial duties, was
accosted by man who, though intoxicated,
seemed resolved to enter into conversation.
He admitted that his conduct was wrong,
and said he was constantly forming resolu-
tions of amendment. He was poor and I'M
happy at home, because he was drunkard,
and drunkard because he was Sabbath
breaker "Many a time" he said, " leave
my house on Sunday morning to go to a
place of worship but then the public-houses
are open. | get past one or two, and at the
door of the third stands, perhaps, an old &C.
quaintance. He invites me in, and then it
is all over with me. spend the money
should keep my family with, and have to
work hard all the week. and to struggle at
the same time with headache and hunger.
| shall never forget the concluding words
they were spoken with the energy of great
feeling. The poor fellow talked himself
sober. "Sir," said he if the great folks
want to keep us poor folks sober they should
shut up the traps that catch us.'-Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
Playing with Fire.


Some elderly citizens remember well the
late Judge ~, VINO 1eii from MS chair into
the hre and was burned 10 DEATH Inc Judge
didn't know II, but he had really been play
ing with hre Tor several years, before ne got
roasted; lie was hne specimen oil man
hood, pnyslcally ana mentally, win clear
strohg mlnu, nashing OUT tnrougn Keen
pair OF plack eyes ana ne won puohc CON
hdence ana hohoraoie position oy aoiity
and integrity In MS Gays, the temper
anoe ianaticism broke out. oomeoouy
coiiected STATISTICS 10 snow tnat one Oh every
elght New Engiahu poys WHO gre" 10 ,nan-
nood became orunRard' inere were rurl-
tanic zeaiots IN every cnurch ana IN every
neighoorhood VINO said mere VIII DE
blood on our garments IL we let TINS curse
60 on unchecked' III Is sorrowiui business
Tor wives and mothers IL makes heils OF
thousands OIL househoidsi IL roos the state
OF It's citizehs' IL is aii loss ana no gam
loss oil the worst kind'-not one item OF ad-
vantage 70 oe SET Cd tne credit slde neavy
drain on INDUSTRY ana property, constant
Puohc ana private oauagei degradation
ior many thousands ana no good 10 any one
AN evii without mixture Oh goou; ana as
one eignth hian--our heighoor ano o,otner'
VINO becomes sou Is Always detailed lor
sacrihce 70 the aevil from tne everIull ranks
Oh moderate urinkers' we must break .hose
ranks or wneei them rouhu 70 narcn .ne
o.neI way; anu unuer 'his sor' Vi appeai
great mullltuues oiu lace fight ABOUT IN
many towns, 1haJoIiy ol .ie PeoPie' oi1
anu young, saiu WIN an .hei. hearts anu
sometimes WIN Pehlteht Tears IN their eyes
we can gee along without strong urlnk
ana De none the worse ior IL ana many Oh
us cannot get along with II. we Will never
drihR ahother drop linus the TOTAL aosti-
| nence movement IN New England stayed
iatai Pestllence' ana saved thousands Oh
iives' IL tooR men up OUT Oh horrioie pie
OF mliy clay ana set their ieet on rock. IL
healed tne aeeP huro OF many woman
heart, anu iiiteu horrioie shauow from Tue
pain Oh little children VINO nave since grown
| up IN happy sunshine, haruly showing from
what "retchea late tney nave peeh saved
ana IL came Just IN time 70 help on that
great moral ana inteheGtuai awakening
wnich mas put new me ana ,ight lnto ciVli,,
za.ion' Ahu "hat ula jugs a. say 10 an
luis lie was philosopher lie saiu !.
was all nonsense ana iahaticism' lie sai1 |,
man was 1901 VINO couldne use good
tmhg without ABUSING IT, lie, poor Save,
talked high aooue ilper.y ne saiu ne couiu
drink ana ne couiu ie. IL alone bu, 'ne
time came wheh ne uiuht want 70 ie. IL
alone the time wnen all .he Chains Oh nonor
ana social s.ahulng anu uu'y anu safety
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
SWAYNE'S OINTMENT

was sorey afflicted with one Of the most
distressing Of all diseases, Prurtus or Pfurigo,
or more commonly known as Itching Piles The
itching at times was almost intolerable, increased
sore. ! bought box Of SwAyNEs OINTMENT
its use gave quick relief, and in short time
made a perfect cure. ] can now sleep undis-
turbed, and | would advise all who are suffer
ing with this distressing complaint to procure
SwAYNE's OINTMENT at once. | had tried pre-
scriptions almost innumeable, without finding
any permanent relief JOSEPH W CHRIST,
firm Of Roedel Il Christi, Boot and Shoe House,
3:A North Second Street. Philadelphia.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12

NEW YORK AND LONDON.
For sale by all Druggists aud Fancy Goods Dealers.
Orders for SO worth, carriage free on receipt of
s2"' Orders for a. N1r'N. c'~-'"-e free rcraipi
Of S. Il addressed to No. IA WEST FOURTEENTH STREET.
INV YORK.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12

The Bill OF CosTs.-ln spite of the hard
times and increased taxation, the British
public spent a million dollars more last year
in all kinds OF intoxicating liquors than
they did before. This does not seem a large
amount, but when ii is considered that the
whole sum so expended during the veal
reached no less than S7l0,000,000, it viii
not be wondered that the paternal govern
ment stands by the distillers and brewers
from whose trade is derived very large par
of the public revenue.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
Idurrfsrnienfs.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
Commencing on Monday, November 24th, 1879.


Leave Montpelier at 905 and II .45 A. NJ, 6. % P.
NJ, and 1880 ?. NJ.
Portland Expreps-Ffom Syracuse and Ogiensburg
~ Adams and Burlington, arrives at Montpelier at
peler junction at 9.2S 4. Tor White River Junction
MaI-from Montreal 81 Alhans Burlington etc.. leaves
Springfield, New York and intermediate points.
Mixed Trsin-teaves H. Aibans at i0P. w. Burlington
at f5Of NJ, Montpelier at 655 P. NJ, for Mortified.
Night Express--From Ogdensbury, Montreal, 1t. Al
bans and Huntington, leaves Montpelier at 1880 p. NJ
ior boston VIA Lowell or ftchbufg, Springfield, New
York and intermediate pointa.
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 3. 30 A. NJ, 005 A. NJ, 10 So A.
NJ, and g. 80 p. NJ.
via Lowell at 500 A. ~, New London AZ $50 A. H.,
Springfield at 500 A. NJ, Montpelier at 355 p. NJ, for
Burlington, 81. Adams, Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Acoomm odation Train-Ieaves Northhed at $40 A.
~, Montpelier at s05 a, NJ, for Burlington, Rutland,
1t. Albans, IT. Johns and kchford.
Mixed-Laaves W. r. Junction At $50 A. NJ Northneld at
1910 4. Montpelier at 1855 A. NJ for Burlington st.
Albana Richford, Rousea Point, etc.
Night Express-Leaves Boston via Lowell at 535 P. NJ,
via Fitchhurg at 500 NJ, New York aOO p. N.
Springfield at 500 P. NJ MONTPELIER at $50 An for Bur
hngton st. Albans, Montreal and Ogd'bg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre At 100 A. H. 40 A.
n aud $50 Pm Returning, leave Barre at 1854. NJ,
1920 A. N. and $40. Pm.
Sleeping attached Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and SPRING
des and New York Troy and paror cars 10 bay Er-
press between Boston and Montreal,
principal stations. j. W. HOBART, General sup't.
st. Adams, Vt, November %, 1873
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Temperance.
LOVES WARNING.

o brother. brother, stay thy hand
Touch not the glass, pray,
Twill lead thee, dear, In paths Of sin,
From home, love, far away.
We two alone are left tonight
Ofall the household band
Some sailing on the stormy sea,
Some in the better land
IT'S scarce a year ago. beloved,
When with her dying breath,
Our mother blessed her youngest born
o love. strong cen In death
Her dying eyes were turned on thee;
Then was thy promise given
To follow where her footsteps led
To live for God and heaven.
Canst thou forget that dying prayer,
That dying look Of love2
As II she saw thy promise-words
Safe registered above.
Her trembling hand was on thy head
Her words came low and sweet
Father Almighty, keep him safe
Till In thy home we meet"
Safe safe, alas thou canAt not be,
Wandering as thou art now;
The fiery draught has left ia stain
Upon thy heart and brow.
oh, stopi think ere II be too late
Too late forevemorel
Turn back with me from hauhis OF sin
To homes dear sheltering door.
o God bring back the wanderers
To Swallowed earthly homesi
Oh, speed the day with tidings glad,
That thy pure kingdom comes.
Blot out runs curse from every land,
o'errule all earthly powers.
Thine shall the praise and glory be
The " and blessing oursl Selected
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agricultural DeparfWrh.
t. II. HosKINs. Agricultural Editor.


Gods greatest thought Ia home. From seraphlm
who sreed them through the universe on fleet
And sapent wings, and do the will complete
OF God unhlddcn,-so at one with him.
Down to the lowest life that creeps its dim
And idle journeys underneath our feet
All creatures have their home, fixed retreat,
To which for rest they wend. or ny, or swim;
There were confusion otherwise, or strife.
Hence instinct-zeal to choose or build sways all,
And loves domain, that none may dIsobcy,
Ia broadened out from what hath merely life,
Yea, to the path on which at even-fall
The weary feet tread out their homeward way.
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New sadrerfisemenfs.
ALL WHO SUFFER
with
ITCHING PILESy

This distressing complaint is generally pre-
coded by moisture, like preparation, distress
ing itching, IA though pin-worms were crawling
in and about the rectum, particularly at night
when undressing, or in bed after getting warm
II appears in summer ~ well as winter often
times showing itself around the private parts
and IL not confined to males only, but II II quite
M frequently that females are sorely afflicted,
at times proving very distressing, almost beyond
the power Of endurance Cases OF long stand
ing, pronounced incurable. have been perma-
nently cured by simply applying
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
"Evergreens and Blinds"

The Chicago Inter Ocean notes as a fact
that "a man enters barbershop, divests
himself OF coat, hat, and collar, Tolls into an
ungraceful attitude, but is unhappy unless
the whole front of the house is open to the
public gaze while he is being lathered and
sheared," and then adds; " Upon the very
next block he drops in to imbibe little
cider through straw, or warm his stomach
with sour mash or 'old crow, and he
gances uneasily around to see if the door is
hedged by evergreens and the windows all
closed by blinds" These evergreens
and +" blinds" mischievous as they doubtless
are, are very significant confession that il
has become vulgar and offensive to drink
intoxicating liquors openly and freely in full
view of the public.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12

MODERATE DRINKISd.-Total abstinence
is positively safe, while moderate drinking
is unsafe. Were all the drunkards removed
from the world, and moderate drinking still
permitted, in short time the sots would be
as abundant as now. The habit of moder
ate drinking is the seed Of new and heavy
| harvest Of drunkards.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
CON SUM PTION :!

Highest Death Rate from Consumption.
The number of deaths in Philadelphia
last week was three hundred and ten,
eighty-two of which were from Consump-
ton and other Diseases of the Lungs,
whereby it appears that the quiet ways
Of Consumption, although attracting less
attention than other forms of epidemic,
are nevertheless to be guarded against
Immediate relief and permanent cures ef-
fected. Stubborn coughs and apparently
hopeless cases Of consumption cured by