The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
Notes and Comments.

Boston HERALD: dorsey and Brady
don't give the administration any credit
for lukewarmness. Their hatred of Ar.
thur and Brewster is the highest compli.
ment they could pay their old friend.' {"
BosToN PosT: Nothing more deeply
wounds the feelings of Vermont deacon
at camp meeting than to be called upon
to pray just as he is at the exciting point
of horse trade with the man next to him.
His mind isn't in a condition for prayer"
NASHUA TELEGRAM: zone of the
staunchest republicans in the state SAYS
he would like TO see the republican ma
tional ticket next year thus: Edmunds
and Lincoln. 1t would be splendid
ticket, with splendid chances of success"
BosToN HERALD: "Mr. Blaine saws
that he is the richest man in Washington,
because he has enough, and is contented
Herewith. A good many men could set
up as philosophers, if they had accumulated
five or ten millions on salary of $4,000
year."
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN: "Thur.
man is delegate to the Ohio democratic
convention. Those who like to see some
thing besides pignies lead in important
political contests must be sorry that he
and Sherman will not head the opposing
tickets"
A GERMAN economic writer says that
Russian gold mines yielded last year $780,
100000. The great increase in produc-
ton dates from 1877, when the govern.
ment abolished the heavy tax on gold
mines. The output promises to become
very large indeed.
The Ohio democratic convention was a
boisterous gathering. The delegates
stormed, scolded and quarreled, and it is
reported the police had to interfere to
preserve the peace. Senator Thurman
early retired, Disguised with the proceed
ings. Judge Hoadley, renegade repub-
lican, was nominated over General Ward,
soldier and an old-time democrat. The
latter made an angry speech and an
nounced himself candidate for the United
States senate. There will be music when
the campaign opens. There is healthy
outlook for the Republicans.
Mr.. S. V. WHITE, the Wall street
broker, is described by correspondent as
dwelling on Brooklyn Heights amid treas
ures of china, marble and bronze, where
he romps with his children, or busies him
self in his elegant and famous library.
But this is only for an hour, and cit is
not until he mounts to his observatory
that he gets a thorough sense of rest, or
what amounts to the same thing, COM
plete change of ideas" His telescope has
twelve.inch object glass, and is in all
other respects the most perfect one in the
possession of an amateur on this CONT
nent. The tower it stands in has its
walls of heavy masonry carried far down
into the earth, so that passing wagons
cannot disturb the instrument. Up in
this tower, above the roofs of BROOKLYN,
4" this busy man of affairs goes at night
fall, and, turning the great glass upon
some brilliant star of restful color, or
upon some strange object like Saturn, or
on one of the curious twin stars whose
contrasted colors, as seen through his
glass, seem to dye the earth with their
hues, he gazes on the far distant noun
tains, seas, and valleys, the inexplicable
rings, the tiny moons, and all the wonders
that ara denied to the gaze of man I'M
aided by so powerful glass, and as he
looks, Wall street fades from his BRAIN