Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-06
Social and Personal.

PRESTON POWERS, the sculptor, has com.
pleted his bust Of Garfield.
SENATOR WINDOW and family have been
visiting Mrs. Garfield at Mentor
REMENYI, the famous violinist, intends TO
spend the coming winter in Mexico and
Cuba.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx resppears in public
as contributor TO a Chicago religious
weekly.
ENGLISH capitalists hold s72,000,0OO of
the Egyptian debt, the total amount of
which is s0S,396,020.
THE proposition to disqualify married
ladies' rom teaching in the public schools
Of Chicago has been defeated.
ABOUT one hundred miles of electric rail
road are now in operation in Europe, and
much more is in course of construction.
SENATOR JOSEPH +. Brown of Georgia is
the largest taxpayer in the city of Atlanta.
He owns S263, 400 worth of real and $780,
900 worth of personal property.
In 1862 Kansas planted 2,936 acres of
corn, and sent 96, S92 bushels to market. In
1882 the acreage of the state in corn is 522,-
706 and estimates Of the best Judges place
the crop at 20,911, $40 bushels.
CETEwAYo was, it is said, more amused
than impressed by his visit TO the British
house of commons. OF the house of lords
he thought still less, remaining there only
few minutes.
SENATOR Hills physicians say that the
cancer which killed him was caused by to-
bacco. He had habit of holding cigar
almost constantly in his mouth, and keeping
the nicotine coated end against the left side
of his tongue.
YES, my boy, there are fifty-three mil
lion two hundred thousand people in
this country. And you are only one of
them. Just one. Think of that, once in
while, when you get to wondering what
would happen to the world if you should
die.-Burling'0n Hdvteye.
REMEMBER" said the venerable Brother
Gardner, as he brought the proceedings of
the Lime Kiln Club to close the other
evening, remember, as we perlocate home
wards, dat while pusson may have
voice like tornady an a mouth like
woodshed, de man who winks wild his left
eye allus gets de bes' glass of sody water"
Detroit Free Press.
EX-LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR and ex-Con-
gresham A. j. Ransier of South Carolina,
colored, died last week Friday in Charles
ton of country fever. Ransier was native
of that state and was probably the least OBJ
iectionable of the colored men who attained
high positions during the reconstruction
era. For several years he had been in abject
poverty and had been common street la
borer.
THERE is great diversity among congress-
men in the preparation of their speeches.
Many devote days and weeks to the subject,
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scripts neatly prepared and read them from
their desks. Others devote an eqnal amount
OF time, perhaps, to the consideration of
some important public measure, priming
their minds with well digested thought and
deliver their speeches extemporaneously.
AFTER Ralph Waldo Emerson had on one
occasion delivered literary address from
pulpit, clergyman was asked to make a
prayer and in the prayer came these words: {:
ave beseech thee, o Lord, to deliver us
from ever hearing any more such trans
cendental nonsense as we have Just listened
to from this sacred desk" And Mr.. Emerson
simply remarked, upon learning his name,
that " he seemed a very conscientious, plain
spoken man."
THE Belgian academies offer prize of
three thousand francs for the best essay on
the destruction of fishes by the pollution OF
rivers. Competitors will be allowed until
October l, 1884, to send in their papers.
Among the topics suggested for treatment
are the investigation and indication of prac-
tical means for purifying the water issuing
from particular industrial works, SO as to
render them compatible with the life Of
fishes without compromising industry.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN is talking about
making voyage down the Niagara rapids,
if the residents of the neighborhood will
make it an object for him to do so. He
will take the water just below the great
falls, and endeavor to reach Lewiston. lie
says he is not particularly afraid OF the
whirlpools, as there are two places on the
route which are far more dangerous than
the eddies. He believes he will be drawn
under the water at different points, but not
at any time longer than two minutes, and
saws he can hold his breath for this length
of time. Should he make the attempt he
will have a new rubber suit made especially
for the trial He has informed those inter.
ested at Niagara Falls that he will make the
voyage for $4,000.
THE Laramie City Boomerang says " The
Chinese compositor cannot sit at his case as
our printers do, but must walk from one case
to another constantly, as the characters
needed cover such large number that they
cannot be put in anything like the space
used in the English newspaper office. In
setting up an ordinary piece OF manuscript
the Chinese printer will waltz up and down
the room for a few minutes and then go
down stairs for line of lower case. Then
he takes the elevator and goes up into the
third story after some caps and then out
into the woodshed for handful Of astonish-
ers. The successful Chinese compositor
doesn't need to be so very intelligent, but he
must be a good pedestrian. He may work
and walk around over the building all day to
set up a stickful, and then half the people in
this county couldn't read it after all. )"
The Albany Journals Saratoga cores
pondent writes thus pleasantly OF well re-
nembered ch aracter; GAS for Mrs. Grant,
her fair, fresh complexion, her still abun-
dant brown hair, her handsome neck and
arms as / have seen them on stately, full
dress occasions at the White house, and the
Jewels, given by od.world potentates, with
which she is able TO adorn them, make her
a character always interesting in my eyes,
especially when think how those reposeful
arms in their younger prime did the house
work for her beloved and growing family at
| Galena, in the little brown house with a
lean-to,' there in the evening many time
mended her children's only suit OF clothes
after they had gone to bed, the maternal
toe, meanwhile, rocking the cradle of baby
Nellie while she slept. Just so faithfully
does many another wife and mother now do
her part, whose husband, like hers at that
time, works hard for his forty dollars a
month. As representative American wo'
man, one who has passed unspoiled through
yicissitudes that eclipse the widest flights
of fancy, Mrs. Grant is TO me character of
unfailing interest and not least in attrac-