Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-20
Social and Personal.


VANDERBILT's income is sl,29O0OO a
month or $4,000 day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is running for
secretary of state in Michigan.
MooDY, the evangelist, has been invited
to go to Asia Minor as missionary.
ONE of the lawyers for the defense in the
Malley case has sued Malley for his fees.
THE prohibitionists are actively at work
in Minnesota and are troubling the political
waters.
OVER eight hundred millions of the inhab-
itants of the globe are still under the shad.
ow OF pagsnism and idolatry.
ACCORDING to Henry Ward Beecher the
hay fever will make man forget his God,
the Bible and everything else.
RUFUs PORTER of Bristol, Conn, though
ninety years old, hopes to invent steam
wagon for ordinary roads before he dies.
THERE are 34,7S4 pensioners in Massa-
chusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont, and the aggregate of their pensions is
1851 1866 year
DENNIS KEARNEY, the Sand Lots states
man and warrior, announces that he is for
Arab Bey. That settles it. Wolseey may
as well go home.
REFRIGERATOR beef, shipped direct from
Texas, will soon be for sale in all Atlantic
cities. Then there will be tumble in
prices of that great staple.
WHILE an orator was addressing green
back mass meeting in Iowa the other day,
lightning struck the audience and killed
him. His last words were, "My punish
ment is just"
THE nobility which was created in France
by Napoleon |. is almost extinct. Those
soldiers and functionaries who became dukes
and princes by the grace of Napoleon lived
fast and died out rapidly.
AFTER the reading of the Declaration
at Mound City, Illinois, on Fourth, man
rose and moved that the speech be published,
as it was one Of the best speeches he had
ever "heern " in his life.
Thus far 1882 has been an extraordinary
year for fires. The estimated losses in the
United States for the eight months foot up
more than s6l 100000, or S7,000,000 more
than the average for four years.
EX-SENATOR BEN HILL, when challenged
by Alexander ii, Stephens TO fight duel,
replied 81 decline your challenge, for the
reason that l have family to support aud
a soul to save. You have neither"
EDISON thinks that telephone commu-
nication between America and Europe is
possible. He and other inventors have &C.
complished so much that anything more
they do will scarcely surprise the public.
HUGH S. THOMPSON, the democratic can.
didate for governor of South Carolina, is
graduate of West Point, and as state super
intendent Of instruction is said to have
made himself popular with the colored
people.
WELL taken " Is the point well taken 2"
asked member of the convention. "Ge-
whillikens, yes ~ shouted member near by,
springing to his feet. Some one had bent
a pin with view to just such coincidence.
Burlington HaUteye.
BAYARD TAYLOR had a droll habit of
making verbs. One day conversation turned
upon man who was noted for his missrly
fions hisbt7 .. POqt yss y.aaa think hiW REPLIED
Taylor, he penures good deal"
CzAR ALEXANDER III. evidently expects
to survive his coronation. He is adding to
the seventeen palaces of his father new
one at Peterhoff, overlooking the Gulf of
Finland. Its foundations are to be COM
pleted this fall at a cost of 100000.
IT is now estimated that forty thousand
people come to this country yearly as tour.
lists. A few years ago very few of this class
came to America at all now a journey
through the United States is considered al
most as essential a part of wealthy young
education as journey through
the continent.
The great organ in the Boston Music
Hall has been sold to church congregation
in western city and is soon to be removed.
Years ago this organ was considered one of
the finest in the United States. Organ con-
certs were given to display the instrument,
but the concerts were not renumerative, and
now the organ is to be sold.
THROUGHOUT Delaware at this season
of men, women and children are
seen camping out at the roadsides, often
sleeping without so much as canvas shell
ter, and looking like tramps. They are
berry pickers, who swarm out OF the towns
and cities for two or three weeks of employ
ment by the farmers, but not so much for
the small wages they earn as to get trip in
the country.
A STRANGER dropped in one morning be-
fore breakfast at Washington drug store
and called for a bottle of congress-water.
The intelligent clerk ducked beneath the
counter and promptly produced bottle of
old Monongahela. The customer tasted it
and then, depositing his glass, remarked,
" d you call that congress water ?" :" That's
it," answered the pillcompounder, smiling
pleasantly. every congressman who comes
here drinks it,
SARAH WINNEMUCcA, princess OF the
Piutes, has an opinion about the pale-face
people that is an opinion. In sketch of
her tribe, which she wrote recently for the
Californian she says see very well that
all my race will die out. In few short
years there will be none left-no, not one
Indian in the whole of America. dare say
the white man is better in some respects;
but he is bigger rascal, too. He steals
and lies more than the Indian does. hope
some other race will come and drive him
out, and kill him, like he has done US.
Then will say the Great Spirit is just and
that it is all right"
NELLIE PICKETT has seen a great deal of
wild life for girl Of twenty. She married
Tom Pickett and went with him to New
Mexico, where they joined the band OF Billy
the Kid, and she being fine horse-womsn,
a crack shot, and both vivacious and pretty,
is said to have ruled the gang. After Pickett
was killed she became the wife of Bawdry,
the second in command, and when he was
killed she found husband in Billy the Kid.
Many stories are told of her exploits, whether
acting as a spy in female attire or riding at
the head of the band dressed in the buck
skin male attire of the plains. She died
few days ago.
A RECENT visitor to the poet Tennyson
says that his manner has a brusqueness and
bluntness about it which is at first rather
startling to one who has only known him
through his books. He utters his opinions
in plain, straightforward way, choosing
the homeliest Saxon words and rarely rising
TO anything like the heroic strain. His dis
regard for the conventionallties of life is,
however, thoroughly natural and unaffected.
He is an inveterate smoker. A brother poet
who spent a week with him at his country
seat says that cigars have no charm for
him. He prefers pipe, and of all pipes in
the world, the common clay pipe is his choice.
His den is at the top of the house. When he
sits down to work in the morning huge
tobacco jar, large enough for an ancestral
urn, is at his feet, together with box full
Of white clay pipes. Filling one of these he
smokes until it is empty, breaks 1t in twain,
and throws the fragments into another box
for their reception. Then he
pulls out fresh pipe, fills it, smokes it and
destroys it as before. He will not smoke
pipe the second time His chief delight is
not in communion with his fellows. Rather
IL is to lounge at the window Of his study,
by few choice books Of favor