Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-30
Social and Personal.

A CITY belle at Newport won a wager
that she could milk COW the first time
trying.
Roscoe CoNKLING will deliver the ad
dress at the Minnesota state fair in Mime
apolis next month.
A NORTH Carolina farmer this year sold
Ss0,000 worth of potatoes, all of which he
raised on his own land.
SEVENTY houses have already been re-
built in the town Of Grinnell, Iowa. which
was recently destroyed by cyclone.
THE Hartford Times remarks that " fox.
hunting in Newport is like chasing an Al
derney COW round barnyard and calling it
buffalo hunt"
A VISITOR in Leadville, COL, says that in
one of the churches there is notice,
Please do not shoot at the organist he is
doing his best"
THE number of Chinese, according to the
record of the custom house, who have ar
rived in San Francisco for the four years
ending August 4, is 65.047.
Mr.. Gladstone appears in grey suit and a
white hat. The pantaloons are so shrunken
that they reveal his cotton socks above the
highlows. He wears carnation in his but
tonhole and is proud of it.
SPAIN produces more lead than any other
nation-120,000 tons last year the United
States comes second, with 10000 tons (;
Germany next, with 10000 tons, and Eng
land follows with $1,000 tons.
Ten thousand copies Of the complete set
Of census reports are to be published for
general distribution. The reports will be
printed in fifteen quarto volumes of about
1000 pages each. Besides the usual stats.
tics, the series will include many elaborate
reports on special industries.
Mrs. FLETCHER WEBSTER, now the
owner of the Webster farm at Marshfeld,
has kindly offered to give the Webster His.
torical Society enough Of the furniture of
the great statesman, still in her possession,
| TO furnish a suitable room for the society
whenever they decide upon the selection Of
one for future use.
IT is announced that Mr.. Matthew Arnold
| contemplates visit to America, and may
come in the autumn, with view of lec-
| turing. He thinks of course of three
lectures in some of the chief cities, giving
an account or summary of the principal
| subjects which have occupied him during
his life-one religion, one literary, and one
social and political.
LEMUEL w. LIVINGSTONE, Just appointed
| West Point cadet by Bisbee of Florida, is
a colored youth about twenty years of age.
He is the son of slave mother, and was
born in Jefferson county. When asked if
the fate of Flipper, Whitaker and Smyth
did not discourage him, he said al am not
| discouraged. | know break must be made
some day, and !! may just as well be the man
| to do it as another"
A LONDON engraver has issued cartoon
| representing Mr.. Gladstone Disgusting him
self as Lord Beaconsfield in order to terrify
Arab Pasha and the European powers. He
has already placed primrose in his button
hole and a curl on his forehead, and is shown
in the act of pasting goatee to his chin.
Under his arm he carries a rif1ed canon,
while in the background are placed reserve
soldier and Sepoy.
PROFESSOR EsMARcH, the celebrated Ger
man surgeon, has published lecture which
he delivered some months ago before the
Physiological Society of Kiel on the treat
ment of President Garfield's wound. The
wound he maintains was not mortal, and
the injury to the vertebra could have been
healed. The death Of the patient was
mainly caused by the loose way in which
the antiseptic treatment was applied. A
great mistake, too, was made in searching
| for he bullet. Had the American surgeons
initiated Won Langenbeck's example, who
did not attempt to extract any Of the pellets
when the German emperor was wounded,
and had the antiseptic treatment been rigor-
ously applied, the president might, the pro-
fessor maintains, be alive now.
A PHYSICIAN calls attention to the fact
| that if the tobacco smoke be instantly
| elected from the mouth and throat before
descending into the chest and be made to
pass through a cambria handkerchief drawn
tightly across the lips, permanent deep
yellow stain, corresponding in size and
shape TO the opening between the lips, and
having numerous spots of a darker hue per-
vading it, will be left on the handkerchief
but that the prolonged puff from the chest
after inhalation from cigarette fails, under
similar circumstances, to produce any but a
scarcely perceptable and speedily evanescent
mark. What in the latter case becomes Of
the substances which stain This physician
thinks it remains in the lungs, and he there
fore condemns the common manner Of smok-
ing cigarettes as dangerous.
WHEN Oscar Wilde went up to see Beecher
at Peekskill last week 1t is said that he en-
countered setback which wss rather rude
but had its amusing side. After hearty
meal he and Mr. Beecher took stroll in the
woods and suddenly they came upon bevy
of Brooklyn girls who were about TO seat
themselves at a luncheon spread upon a
table-cloth on the ground. They were plump
and pleasing beauties, dressed in white and
pink and daisies with embroidered hose
peeping out from low French slippers, and
nooar ri taA HE than, cpOoaad
his legs, leaned upon cane and smiled--a
Rhode Island clam bake smile. The girls
twittered and Uttered and looked around as
though half Mortified, but by sudden inspi-
ration they all dropped upon the grass in
half reclining attitudes and when one rat
tied knife on plate as signal all Of
them began TO chant
Twenty love-sick maidens we,
Love-sck all against our will.
Twenty years hence we shall be
Twenty loye-sick maidens still.
Oscar made a bolt for the wildwood and
was soon out of sight behind some under
brush, while Parson Beecher stood still and
roared with laughter looking like the monk
in the picture.
A LADY who was anxious to send two
little girls down to Elberon the other day
brought them TO Pier No. s, and asked one
of the officers of the boat If it connected
with "the $50 train at Sandy Hook for
Long Branch" She was answered in the
affirmative; but being uneasy about the
safe conduct of her little charges, whom, she
explained, she was not TO accompany, she
asked, Z" Are you quite sure ?" A short,
stout, ruddy-faced man who was standing
near by turned at this, threw away a halt
smoked cigar, and answered for the boats
officer, Yes, madam" he said, 81 this is the
boat" She looked up at the speaker, a
stranger, and was about to thank him when
he added, " am going to the end of the
route, and will see that the children are
safe" The lady looked at him so search
ingly, and possibly so suspiciously, that he
flushed up for moment, and said, 40, I'll
take good care of them if you will trust
them to me. am General Grant" $50
you arel" exclaimed the lady as she recog-
nized the face which painting and pho
Biography have made so familiar for the last
twenty years. She gladly placed the girls
in such distinguished care, and was equally
grateful and amused to see the gen raj and
his little charges in conversation on the
deck of the boat as it moved Off