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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
Items Of Interest.


DETROIT FREE Press " 1t is beautiful
thought to keep ones grave strewn with
flowers, and it is so much more convenient
to do this than it is to make the world pleas
ant for him while in life"
AT Easton, Penn, the high school girls
turned upon their teacher because he abused
one of their numbers, and after mauling
him for while threatened to throw him out
of the window. Then they went into
Mysteries.
BROOKLYN EAGLE: "The coarse shouts
and ieers with which the intelligence that
the trap had fallen and launched the
wretched Guiteau into eternity was re-
ceved by the mob at the Jail renders newt
able the conclusion that there is such a
thing in human nature as patriotic bru-
tality."
THE tensile strength of glass has been
shown to be between 1000 and 5000 pounds
per square inch, and the crushing strength
between 5000 and 10000 pounds per square
inch. By trials a short time ago, NJ. Trau-
lionie found that flooring glass, one inch
square aud one foot between the end sup
ports, breaks under load of l70 pounds.
IT is either evidence of exceeding skill or
else of extraordinary luck that the murder
ers of Lord Cavendish are likely to escape,
despite the great efforts of the British gov
ernment to track them to their hiding place.
Wherever they may have secreted them
selves for season, it is altogether probable
that the assassins are now hundreds of miles
from Dublin.
BosToN JOURNAL; "Our advice and the
advice of all men of experience in Washing
ton to young men is that they keep clear of
clerkships and public employment generally
If they desire an independent life. The
greatest injury that public man can iu-
flict upon bright young man is to put him
in the public service. The young man who
covets such employment is warned that he
seeks life of worry and dependence"
Two MoRoscoPEs-called the Jumbo"
and the Midget formed an interesting
exhibit at a recent meeting of London So
cety. The former instrument, probably
made about half century ago, was four
feet and half high and weighed one hun
dred twenty-five pounds; while the Mid
get" fully equipped for work, had total
height of only four inches, and weighed but
few ounces. Six of such microscopes as
the smaller one could be enclosed in the
eye piece of the larger.
WHEN DR.. Chaplin was dining alta hotel
he was served with what was termed barley
soup ON the bill of fare "That is not bar
ley soup" said he to the waiter, sit is
barely soup" On another occasion, while
travelling in the South with his wife, who
was uncommonly dark-complexioned he ad-
dressed an old colored man as "uncle."
" How happens it," said his wife, roguishly,
"that that colored man is your uncle 2"
" lie is my uncle by marriage, suppose"
lie once asked his daughter, who was also
pronounced brunette and very small, "Ma-
rion, why are you like a certain Boston book
publishing house 7" 81 give it up, father
said she. 4" Because you are little and
Brown" was the answer
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
A Worthy Institution.

1t is often, and justly, thrown at the agri-
cultural colleges that the graduating theses
of their students indicate an interest in al.
most everything but agriculture. This,
however, cannot be said of the New Hamp.
shire College, which is already winning a
high reputation from the good work of its
farm manager, Mr.. Sanborn. The theses at
the last Commencement were as follows
Harvey L. Boutwell,, Hopkinton, " American
Producers and the Fair Trade Theory +"
Dana j. Bugbee, North Pomfret, VT, The
Marble Industries of Vermont" Robert f.
Burleigh, Franklin, " Industrial Applica.
tions of Chemistry" La Forest j. Carpen.
ter, Surry, Ensilage;" Edwin p. Dewey,
Hanover, Early Chemical Arts !" George
A. Loveland, Norwich, VT, "Changes in the
Working Glasses of New England" John
W. Mason, Hanover, Destruction of Amer.
lean Forests " Harland A. Nichols, Derry,
d" Progress of Sanitary Science;" Frank L.
Thompson, Stark, "Lumber Manufactures
of Northern New Hampshire"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12

her pretty hands in horror and resented the
imputation with hot words and angry tears.
1t is true that she was shallow, vain and
selfish; but then girls of that description
may be found outside Of Utah, and Nor
monism cannot be justly charged with de-
veloping traits that are quite as common
among the adherents Of other systems.
She really thought it too bad that she, who
was so much younger than Jessie, and in her
own estimation very much prettier also,
should have no more Of her husbands 80.
ciety than the first wife and it was an un.
heard-of-thing that bride with so many at.
fractions should live in couple of plainly
furnished rooms, while the woman whom
she regarded only in the light of an obstacle
to her complete triumph, had handsome
house all to herself.
She was fully resolved not to submit to
such an arrangement, and in the end she
had her way, for though she did not sue
ceed in turning Jessie out of doors, she tor.
mented Philip until, glad to purchase peace
at any price, he bought pretty cottage fol
her and fitted it up with the best that money
could buy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
A Professor Of Agriculture for the YER
mont University.


ave understand that the trustees of the
University Of Vermont and State Agricul-
tursl College have under consideration the
appointment of professor of agriculture,
who shall give his whole time to scientific
and practical agriculture, both in the insti-
tuition and throughout the state. The trus-
tees are making every effort within their
power to meet all the Just demands of the
farmers Of the state, and no step thus far
taken promises better results than this.
The right man in this position will accom-
plish more for the agriculture Of the state
than any board of agriculture. Our farm
ers should not only appreciate what is being
done for them but give to the institution all
the encouragement possible" The above
paragraph is cut from the Woodstock
Standard and we believe the feeling among
our farmers who care for such things will
be, t hat it is about time for our agricultural
college which has been in nominal operation
for upwards Of dozen years at last to have
a teacher of agriculture. We tender our
W tho oiuotcco WnOoo cNcly cl-
fort within their power to meet all the just
d demands of the farmers" (with upwards of
$4,000 year at their disposal for that
purpose) now results in their reaching the
point of having" under consideration this
their first and most urgent duty in the prem
ises,-a duty alike to the general govern
ment, which bestowed the fund to the state,
which intrusted them with the duty of ad-
ministering it, and to the industrial citizens
of Vermont, who are the lawful benefciaries
in the case. But, better late than never"
1t is certainly manifest, as it is a long
neglected duty of the trustees, to put an
end to the diversion of the fund of the agri-
cultural college to the use Of the literary and
professional departments of the university.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
Bathing.

But few realize the general utility of bath
ing. There is nothing like it, or that can
take its place. In the case of the head, the
practice of bathing it daily in cold water
(not too cold, but just cold enough) will
assist the brain in its action and prevent
dandruff in the hair. A correspondent asks
by what means this nuisance may be pre-
vented, and if it has already made its ap
pearance, how it may be removed. As usual
it is much easier to prevent than TO cure
The prevention consists in the avoidance OF
sharp combs, and brushes, and daily bathing
the head with cold water. Numberless
cases of dandruff have been produced by
scratching the head with sharp combs and
brushes. If any one doubts it let him try
the same practice upon the back of his hand
He will find in few days, bran'like scales,
closely resembling dandrutf thrown off in
considerable quantity. When the difficulty
already exists in the hair it is removed by
the same simple means. We have particu
larly spoken of the head, because that por-
tion OF the body is the most liable to GO
without the benefits of both. But its bepe'
fetal effects are by no means confined to any
one part. The whole body should be bap
tized and thoroughly shampooed at least
every week, or oftener and those who observe
this rule receive more interest in cleanliness
and health for their outlay of time and trou
BILE than upon any other investment. Bathe
often and thoroughly, and all over, and keep
it up.-Selecfed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
Carl Schurz on the Situation.

This eminent German-American, who re-
Gently delivered an address before the =" Fie
Betty Cappy society of Harvard College,
reads the signs of the times better than
many "to the manor born" Speaking Of
the various working.men's organizations, and
the grange movement among the farmers,
Mr.. Schurz said:
I" Does 1t not mean that the laborers say to the
capitalists engaged in industrial production vir-
tually this If you think that these factories and
implements of production are your own exclusive
private property in the sense that you can do
with them whatever you please to make them pay
a maximum Of profit while leaving to the labor
ers who help to produce that profit only minimum
of compensation, you disregard our rights which
we are bound to protect Does 1t not mean that
the producers and consumers say to the transpor-
taton corporations: II you think that your rail-
roads are your private property In the sense that
you can manage them so AZ to make us pay any
price for servitude we cannot do without or so
as arbitrarily to benefit one place or person to the
injury Of another, we must find means to teach
you that we have some rights in that property,
tooT Now, this may have startling sound.
But these are not imported fancies. These are
movements and endeavors grown upon our own
soil from existing circumstances, not born OF fan.
tastic theories, but of facts Neither will they be
mere seven days wonders. There are undoubt-
edy many ill-advised and also sometimes very
reprehensible things connected with the conduct
of these movements but they will live and grow
until that which is really just in their demands Is
fairly won. They are even likely to take wider
range, 1t will not be surprising at all to see
some day movement set on foot to put an end to
the operations Of the modern robber barons, who,
by corporate rascality, supplemented with tricks
OF the stock exchange, manage to punder at will
not only their fellow gamblers, but the innocent
bonafde investors in corporate enterprises-doing
1t all within the forms of law woven into ingenious
meshes, from which there is no escape"
The careful readers of these columns will
find nothing unfamiliar in the words of Mr..
Schurz. The ideas he puts forward, and even
the very phraseology, are to be found scat
tered through them for the past eight years.
We have mourned that American scholars
an d American statesmen could see nothing
except to condemn in these demands of the
working people, who seem to embody not
only all the patriotism but all the political
wisdom and foresight of the time and coun-
try. Wendell Phillips gave the Fie Bet
ties " stiff dose last year, but the Dutch
man gave them sitter. Still our "men
of culture" are blind deaf and drunken.
No help is to be looked for from them. For
tunately the people can furnish their own
leaders, when the time comes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
"The Popular Unrest,o

1t is curious how mans spectacles (even
though he be an cable edito) color every
thing he looks at. The Springfield RepubG-
can is sort of a free trade paper, and would
be more so if it were prudent. Discussing
"The Popular Unrest" in recent issue, it
refers to the various signs of discomfort
among the people, and says
Back OF all these manifestations OF popular
upheaval, becoming clearer as the needs and
grievances OF the people find intelligent voice and
formulation, IL at least one underlying cause
the growing power OF immense combinations of
capital over the comfort and peace Of life The
people are burdened and they begin TO find 1t out
Pending issues no longer rally the parties along
opposing lines, and the vital questions are seen TO
be those which concern the economies OF life"
This is all true, and was foreshadowed
more than dozen years ago in some OBJ
scure country newspapers, of which the old
Vermont Farmer was one. But now that
they are beginning to realize the fact at the
" centers of thought" we find able journal
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
Want of Sleep.

Are you afflicted with insomnia Perhaps
you have too much time for sleep. Perhaps
you depend too much on sleep for rest and
recuperation. For sleep is not the sole rest
of used-up nerves. Sociability cogeniality
and the enjoyment of good company rest
the body quite as much as sleep. The dreary
monotony of life in many household, in.
volving this tumbling into bed with the me.
chanical regularity of machine at nine OF
ten o'clock in the evening, does not always
rest weary bodies. Early to bed and early
to rise" does not always make man
healthy, wealthy, or wise. Numbers of or
ganzations are only capable of five or six
hours sleep at time, and their early lying
down to rest is often succeeded by an early
waking up and consequent restless tossing
for hours preceding daybreak. These prsc.
tisers of punctuality are often surprised af.
ter breaking their own cast-iron rules, and
passing two or three later hours of mirth
and jollity past their usual bedtime, to find
themselves even more refreshed in the morn.
ing than usual. The relaxation of so
ciability has rested them more than would
sleep or an attempt to sleep. But these are
conditions not so easily reached in the aver.
age family. In fashionable life we have q
formal exhausting and mechanical evening
of more or less dissipation. On the other
hand, the evenings of great numbers of fam
lilies are generally of monotonous humdrum
They involve an assembage of the same
people, the same surroundings, the same
pateifamilias yawning over his paper and
the same querulous mamma overladen with
family cares. Fresh people with fresh
thought, fresh atmosphere, anything to stir
up and agitate the pool of domestic stagna
tion are sadly needed and sadly scarce
There needs to be also constant succession
of such fresh people to bring about these
results The world is full of men and
women, and in a better regulated life ii
would be the business after the days work
was done to entertain each other and give
each other fresh life. As it is now, hun.
dreds if not thousands of our households
are little better than cells for the incarcera.
tion Of each family. Thousands are thus
worn out prsmaturely from the utter lack Of
domestic recreation. There might be writ
ten over the graves of thousands, " Bored to
Death by the Stagnation of Domestic Life
-NeW York Graphic
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12

IMPORTANT DECIsIoN.-A decision of
considerable Importance to farmers and
hired help was rendered by the supreme
court of New Jersey the other day, in the
case of Mather Us. Brokaw. Mather con-
tracted to render service to Brokaw for a
certain period but before the expiration of
the time agreed upon left his employment
without the consent OF his employer and
without any good cause. Being refused
wages for the work done, he sued for them,
but the court decided that the employe
could not recover for the work which he had
done under the contract, for, having broken
the contract, he could not maintain an ac-
tion under ii.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
HannY Childhood.

How pleasant it is to gaze on the limo
cent amusement of happy childhood There
is little Johnny playing beside the newly
painted fence. He draws his dainty finger
over the moist surface, making beautiful
arabesques and undecipherable hieroglyphics
that would set an antiquary into Mysteries
of Joy. Johnny's new suit is made pictur-
esque by its borrowings from the fence,
and his face and hands are eifectually dis.
guised in the pigment. Happy, careless, in
nocent childhood And here comes Johnny
mother, How eagerly she seizes her dar-
ling How closely she hugs him in her
fond embrace Now she has disappeared
with her darling within doors. WHAT are
those sounds which issue thence 1t is
Johnny's voice. Is he laughing merrily over
the remembrance OF his recent sport Pos
sibly; but it does not sound like laughter,
Again we say, happy, happy childhood
Boston TrluscTiDf.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12

steal our own presidents or shoot em into
power. Be patriotic, my frens, but doan
shoot off hull battery of artillery to call
yer dog, when whistle will do jist as we'll
Let us now enter upon de business which
has eliminated us together. r."-Detroa Free
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12

lists, like the editor of the Republican, turn
ing 1t all, by sort Of sea-change," not
into something rich or strange, but into q
free trade argument, thus:
Simmer down this declaration" tthat Of the
Maine greenbackers) "explain 1t intelligntly
and we come to the same protest which is being
made by workiDgmen OF Pennsylvania, who re-
mind republicans that in 1880 they were promised
high wages In return for vote for Garfield and
high tariff, but now prices are up and wages are
down. 1t Is a tremendous problem how TO reach
the throat OF the money power, but here Is limb
which can be grasped and mastered. Revenue
reform can be obtained and must be-"
Now, however desirable reform of the
tariff in the direction Of freer trade may be
(and we favor iD, yet nothing can be surer
than that the popular unrest has nothing to
do with any question of tariffs. As mat
ter of fact if you talk with them, you will
find the working people everywhere are high
protectionists, and violently opposed to free
competition with the "pauper labor of Eu'
rope" The people are getting pretty mad,
and harder times will make them madder,
but when they formulate their demands free
trade will not be one of them. They will
cut a good deal nearer the bone than that,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
IarirnhnaI DeparfHenf
OLD FRIENDS

like to hear the old horse neigh
Just as c ONE In sight,
The oxen poke me with their horns
To get their hay at night.
Somehow the creatures seem like friends,
And like to see me come.
Some fellows talk about New York,
But shall stay at home.
The Florida agriculturist., 1882-03-22
A Good Housewife.

A good housewife, when she is giving
her house its spring renovating, should
bear in mind that the dear inmates of
her house are more precious than many
houses, and that their systems need
cleansing by purifying the blood, reg
ulating the stomach and bowles to pre-
vent and cure the diseases arising from
spring malaria and miasma, and she
must know that there is nothing that
will do it so perfectly and surely as Hop
Bitters, the purest and best of medicines.
Concord (N. II. } Patriot
The Florida agriculturist., 1882-03-22
MARCH 22.
Home Reading.
Oar Home Life.

OuT Home Life.
One of the pleasant and noble du-
ties of the head OF the family is to
furnish it's members with good read.
ing. In times that are past, it was
considered enough TO clothe and teed
and shelter family. This was the
sum of parental duty. But laterIy
it has been found out that wives and
children have minds, so that it be-
comes a necessity 10 educate the
children, and furnish reading for the
whole household. 1t has been found
out that the mind wants food as well
as the body, and that it wants TO be
sheltered from the pitiless storm of
error and vice by tie guarding ard
friendly roof OF intelligence and vir-
tue. An ignorant family in our day
is an antiquated institution. Itsmells
Of the musty past. 1t is dark spot
which the light of the modern man
Of Intelligence has not reached. Let
good reading go into home, and
the very atmosphere OF that home
gradually but surely changes. The
boy begins to grow ambitious, to talk
about men, places, principles, books,
the past and the future. The girls
begin to feel new life opening be-
lore them, in knowledge, duty and
love. They see new feeds Ut useful.
ness and pleasure.
And. so the family changes, and
out OF this number 60 honorable
members Of society. Let the torch
OF intelligence be lit III every house,
hold. Let the old and the young vie
with each other in introducing new
and useful topics of investigation,
and in cherishing a love OF reading,
study and improvement.
The Florida agriculturist., 1882-03-22
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The Florida agriculturist., 1882-03-22
Card.

To all who are suffering from the er-
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weakness, early decay, loss Of manhood,
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-03-11
a Hlnnee OF Isenlll.

From the Glohe-Demoerst.
sUae.ot tue most startling, Meird and
feaiistic tragedies yet FeeersleSi fnseen-
neetten with the great smallpox
seourge Winch has swept over the
country occurred about "A month ago.
y gentleman living ~ the eity OF itch
mond, va, gave q ball, and lem Hay
ler, famous negro hddler ~ those
parts, Was called upon 10 teraish ns0sle'
a lSrse company OF ladies and gentle
men atteieaea the party aud dancing
was Kept Up until tae niernlng hears.
affer midnight II WAS noueed that
tFhaoltng lSn, who had eempAatned
early IN the evening OF teellng had,
l''so seemed 10 grow Wild and has muse
gre" 9aieker, SO That the teet OF the
yeang dancers, ptlnhle Though they
were, could not keep pace with the
rush OF ms MUSIC. lie sang cut TIE
hgares m a steniorlan Teiee, and, seem
ih@ hnRned with the Wlldness OF has
own Maslc, sMayed has body to and
iro h&e enc eeWlaehed, Nhlte his eyes
t'ses,1f'e etoedslot ana has velee haskY-
Isaa9eRty' just before Inc heqr Tor
eraaAtag ap the party. arrived, the
a l. isil troan hts lefty scat m de7
hrsasG, ana me &ttrighted dancers
efoMaed around hltn until one OF their