Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-16
gin General
Social and Personal.


OF acouchement in three hours.
SPUN glass makes dressing for flesh
wounds through which the injury may be
examined
AFTER the transit Of Venus, next Decem-
Der, there will be no recurrence of the event
until June, 1904.
AN Iowa man tried to raise $40 by giving
a chattel mortgage on his wife, but no CAPT
talst would advance over 81.
CONGRESSMAN HARDENBERG of New
Jersey fell in Washington the other day and
broke both bones Of his right leg.
Mrs. BETsEY YOUNG of Georgia is sew
enty years old, has never taken dose of
medicine and has never seen railroad.
A citizen of Hoosic, New York, has Just
bought eight pianos, which he will present
to his five married daughters and three
nieces.
THE empress of Germany has for some
years given much of her time to the study
and improvement of the peoples stoves and
kitchens.
THERE is considerable curiosity in Lon
don TO see the portrait of Shakespeare
which, it has been claimed, was made the
day before his death.
GEORGE LEssARD, born in 1777, appeared
lately in the court of records, Montreal, ac-
companying his wife, cited as a Witness He
married only in 1878.
A YOUNG man in Toronto Canada, who
took pledge not to drink at a public bar
has his liquor sent out to him and drinks it
standing on the sidewalk.
MISS ANNIE LOUISE CARY-Mrs. Ray
mond-has so far recovered her voice that
she delights the boarders of the Atlantic
House, Cape Elizabeth, every evening.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON said that infdelity
would probably prevail until it had quite
banished superstition, but then would be
swallowed up by the great light and evil
dence of true religion.
WILHELM, the violinist, has been travel
ing steadily for four years and has not Wis
tied his family in Wiesbaden in all that
time. He will take an opportunity to do so
at the close of his present engagements.
ALTHOUGH the 1,400 Chinese who sailed
last week in the three British steamers from
San Francisco to Hong Kong had lived in
San Francisco for from fifteen to twenty
years, not one of them was able to frame
simple sentence in the English language.
Mrs. FRED DOUGLASS, wife of the mar
shal of the District of Columbia, whose
death has been recorded, was coal black
negress. Mr.. Douglass who is about the
complexion of an old saddle, was forty years
ago a slave on the same plantation with
his wife.
In order to secure the greater purity in the
atmosphere of the st. Gothard tunnel an at
tempt is to be made to propel the locomo-
tives by electricity. Experiments, for which
the sum of one hundred eighty thousand
francs is set apart, are now being made at
Berne with this object.
Mr.. HENRY G. VENNoR, the Canadian
weather-prophet, who is spending the sum-
mer at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is de-
scribed as the possessor of a striking coun-
tenance, pale, with dark, brilliant, restless
eyes. He is tall and well proportioned, and
carries himself with half martial air.
JUDGE SPEED of South Carolina owns
bayou full of alligators, which in the past
twenty-five years have devoured fifty ne
groes, eight white men, and scores of cattle
and pigs. The owner will not allow the rep
tiles to be slaughtered, since he intends to
preserve them until alligator skins bring
higher prices.
The meat production of Great Britain
and Ireland has fallen off. In 1865 there
were for every head of the population 80
COWS, l16 sheep, II pigs, or l57 of all cattle.
In 1882 the total was only ll5. While this
decline has taken place the consumption of
meat has increased to SIG, 9s Cd in 1881,
from SO, %. in 1850.
COMPARATIVELY few Englishmen and
still fewer Englishwomen, even of the upper
| 100000, have ever been in Ireland This
even applies to those closely connected by
family ties with that country. Lord Beacons-
field was never there, and Mr.. Gladstone,
though born and bred at Liverpool, was
never in Ireland until he was nearly seventy
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was never known
to be late during all his long service in con-
gress. One time, just as the clock struck,
a member asked the speaker if it were not
time to call the house to order. "No," he
answered, "Mr. Adams is not yet III his
seat" Just then Mr. Adams appeared and
proved that the clock was three minutes fast.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has very bright
and interesting little son, who affords con-
siderable amount of entertainment to the
clerks and visitors to his fathers Office
The other day he was amusing himself by
copying the names of the presidents, and,
pausing, he looked up from his work, and
with great naivete remarked: "Why, ever
so many of the presidents were named after
streets in Chicago"
In 1854 the average cost of Russian SOL
dier's rations was Sl9 in 1881 it was $40.
In 1856 his equipment, exclusive of arms
and knapsack, cost Sl1,25; it now costs
$lS25. The total weight which he carried
in 1856 was seventy-two pounds he now
carries sixty-two pounds, although he is now
provided with eighty-four cartridges instead
of sixty, and he has lately been supplied
with new water bottle weighing two and
half pounds.
THE champion nuisance is the fellow who
borrows newspapers on the cars. Because a
fellow has laid his newspaper on his lap,
that is not to say that he is done with it,
As he rides along, thinking over what he
has read, he may often wish to refer to the
paper and it is an imposition TO his polite
ness that it should be in the hands of some
body else. Newspapers are cheap enough
and are to be had everywhere Be man
enough to pay for your own reading.
ALTHOUGH Imprisonment for debt has
been abolished in England, 5,444 people
were last year sent to jail for non-payment
of debts. The explanation is that court
can commit for period not exceeding six
weeks any Judgment debtor lowing under
S250) who has, or since the date of his judg-
ment has had, the means to pay the sum in
respect of which he has made default. IL
the debt exceeds $780, he can go through the
bankruptcy court, and begin again with OBJ
legations lifted.
| MARY CLEMMER says " am not per-
sonal acquaintance of President Arthur and
know nothing whatever of his private
outcomings or ingoings; but | do know
that, while have read in various public
| journals that President Arthur spends his
Sundays in heavy sleep, getting over his
Saturday orgies, every Sunday morning |
see him walk into st. Johns church, lead
ing his little daughter, quiet and gentle
looking gentleman, who may have been
drunk the night before, for all | can prove
to the contrary, only he does not look like
it and do not believe it"
THE statistics OF longevity in Prussia are
striking. In December, $780, there were
living 359 persons who were at least 100
years old, l28 of them being men and 23l
women. OF the men thirty-two were still
married of the women five were. Twelve
of the men had never married and nine of
the women never had. OF persons born be-
tween 1881 and 1890 5355 were still living,
the men being 2,025 in number and the
women 1880. The records further show
that the number of persons born in the last
century and still living, those, therefore, who
were at least so years OF age, reached total
of 7766S.