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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

CONCERNING the health of Queen Vic
toria the american Register gives the fol-
lowing, as " a few words of truth from a
trustworthy source may be worth print
ing" Her majesty is not suffering from
SO serious malady as melancholia, and
at times is quite her own CHEEKY self but
the quietude enforced by the accident to
her leg causes her occasionally to be much
depressed, as it has interfered with her
natural activity. 1t is the sciatic nerve
that has suffered, and the reason of her
fall was that her leg gave way in descend.
ing the stairs, being weakened by previous
attacks of rheumatism. Prince Christian
is of the opinion that she will never be
perfectly well until she has been treated
by a bone-setter. The queen can just
walk with two sticks, but does not care
to be seen in her comparatively helpless
condition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
Circulation Of Silver Dollars.

The public debt statement for July 1st
showed that the treasury contained at
that time within fraction of $112,000,-
900 of standard silver dollars, against
which there were outstanding $72 ,620,0S6
in silver certificates. Since the passage
of the Bland-Allison silver law, the minis
Of the United States have coined about
$144,000000 of silver dollars, of which
$32,000,000 must have been in actual cir
culation July 1st. This amount, with the
certificates in circulation representing
silver dollars makes, virtually, total cir
culation of nearly one hundred and five
million dollars of that much-abused and
much-discussed coin. Of the total coin
age up to July LIST, the people have taken
all but about thirty-nine million dol
lars. There has been an increase since
May 1st of five million in the amount
the treasury is actually carrying, the
amount in excess OF silver certificates and
actual circulation added together. 1t
would seem that the government might be
in the neighborhood of the point at which
it would be advisable to call halt in the
coinage of silver. The treasury state
ments indicate that the sponge which has
hitherto been absorbing, directly or by
means of certificates, large portion of
twenty-four million year is already sat.
urated. If the forcing process is contin.
ued at the rate of two million month,
the sponge, already surcharged, may pre-
cipitate shower. So long as the people
took the silver off the governments hands
as fast as it coined it, no great injury could
result. If the alleged dollar contained
silver enough to make it dollar in fact
there would be mitigation of any evil
that might overtake the government in
continuing to pay out gold for silver
bullion to be coined into dollars which
must be kept on hand, appearing in circu
lation not even by the questionable proxy
of silver certificates. Unless the Bland Law
is repealed or modified, the government
must in course of time, according t.
present indications, invest constantly
increasing amount of its gold reserve il
silver dollars, and if the process should b.
continued long enough--not a very Ions
term of years either--it might have only
silver with which to pay its interest ane
other obligations. 1t would seem tina
the most ultra silver advocates should b,
satisfied with the silver experiment TO
the present and be willing to give tn
mint rest till stock on hand has beer
worked off and there is demand for
new supply.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

The bathing master at Newport says
that it is one thing to wade out until the
water touches the chin, and then swim qui.
city back to beach with an occasional reas.
surfing touch of foot to the friendly bot.
tom. 1t is quite another thing to make
Roadway against breaking sea,or to strike
out calmly for shore when boat upsets, OF
to keep drowning person afoat until help
comes. No one who hopes to make the
accomplishment of service in the face OF
danger should be content with mere sur
face swimming in smooth water. The
breaking of chance wave in the face
may easily disconcert one who is not used
to it, and the only way to be confident
swimmer is to become Indifferent to al
occasional involuntary ducking.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

TENNESSEE courts and juries seem to
have better ideas of justice than the state
has of financial integrity. M. T. Polk,
the state treasurer who stole and spent
100000 of state funds, decamped, was
overtaken in Texas and brought back for
trial. More than one thousand persons
were examined before jury gifted with
the ignorance required by law for an i'm
partial panel was obtained. About three
weeks were consumed in the examination
and rejection of persons for jurymen, but
the trial proceeded with commendable
dispatch. In six days the evidence was
taken and in five days verdict of guilty
was rendered, the jury remaining out one
night. The sentence which the verdict
of the jury would impose is twenty years
Imprisonment and fine equal to the
amount he stole. If the jury was honest,
it had some stalwart ideas of justice. If
it was designing, it would seem to have
taken, for the sake of appearances, nearly
as effectual way to clear Polk as would
verdict of acquittal, for no one believes
the verdict can or will be enforced. If
sentence is pronounced, pardon may whit
tie down the term of years and the pros
pect that the state will get back the stolen
funds by means of the fine imposed has
not caused any appreciable advance in
Tennessee bonds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

WHILE the proposition which has been
introduced into the French chamber of
deputies for taking soundings for rail-
way bridge across the Straits at Dover
may seem chimerical, yet it would be
hazardous to say that modern engineering
is unequal to accomplishing such task.
There was a fanciful scheme, some time
ago, even for bridging the Atlantic. In
the case of the British channel, the
depths, though great, are not absolutely
hopeless. The question is largely whether
the prodigious outlay would be REIN.
bursed by the travel. 1t should be under.
stood that the piers proposed for such an
undertaking would not necessarily be Or
binary bridge piers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

Ex-Governor SEYMOUR of New York,
the political sage of Deerfeld, will lose
his reputation for good nature, if he al
lows himself to make such cruel remarks
as this upon the conduct of the rival sage
of Greystone When see tottering old
men, upon the brink of the grave, en-.
gagged in an unseemly scramble for Office
am always reminded of Holbein's pic.
ture of The Dance of Death 1t shall
never be said of me that took part in
such a cotillion."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

Bishop IRELAND of the Catholic do
cese of st. Paul, Mimi, recently said !;
Z" The need of the hour is grand tidal
wave of total abstinence sweeping over
the land. The strongest protest possible
against intemperance. Total abstinence
is the prospect. Will it be made with
sufficient force to save the people 2 This
is the vital question for the future of
America, and might add for the future
Of religion"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

CAPTAIN WEBB, the English cham
pion swimmer, undertook last week to
swim the rapids of Niagara. 1t was a
fool-hardy, suicidal undertaking, He
disappeared in the fierce eddies of the
stream, fitful glance was caught of a
man tossed by the rushing stream and
this was the last seen of Captain Webb
till Saturday afternoon when his body
was recovered near Lewiston, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
WHILE England puts an embargo OF

WHILE England puts an embargo on
tunneling the English channel, French and
Spanish enterprise is organizing to tun-
mel the straits of Gibraltar. Civilization
thro' such an opening may assist to dispel
the shadows from the "dark continent"
but the present commercial intercourse
between the two countries at that point
would hardly seem to warrant the under
taking
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

AT an excursion resort on the Patapsco river,
ten miles from Baltimore, Md, at ten clock
Monday night, the giving way of the outer
portion of the pier on which several hundred
persons were awaiting boats return to Balti-
more, caused the loss of sixty or seventy lives
Little could be done TO rescue the drowning,
most of whom were women and children. The
first news Of the disaster reached Baltimore a
little after two o'clock Tuesday morning, when
the barge landed at Hendersons wharf, bring
ing number OF the bodies of the drowned. 1t
is said that sixty-fve bodies have been re-
covered,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

FURNITURE. Mandatory on Canal
street, Boston, is furnishing n large number Of
houses in this vicinity with curtains, window
Sitting-room furniture, Chamber Dining room
and Library sets in Ash, Oak, Mahogany,
Walnut, and imported fancy woods. New
patterns are now being introduced. One great
advantage in selecting from this place is the
large assortment and low prices for the supe-
rlor quality of the work, which is warranted
to be in every respect as represented.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

The latest Michigan story is that a
cyclone swept through piece of timber,
gathered up several cords of wood, carried
it six miles across prairie and piled it
up in widows woodshed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

THE cholera in Europe is interfering with
proposed trips to Europe, and Americans
abroad are preparing to return home This
will make millions of dollars difference TO
Paris, Berlin, Nice and other popular resting
places for foreign travel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

THE Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation companies have issued orders
forbidding agents to receive for transportation
ardent spirits, wines or beer consigned to places
within an Indian reservation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
yNafrttntar d gomraL.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888.

TRRMs-S2OO per year. strictly in advance; or $3.50 If
not paid within three months.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
Notes and Comments.

New YORK TRIBUNE: zone of the cur
rent poets inquiries, Where is the Fount
of Youth p Unless Colonel Watterson is
mistaken, the fount can be found in Mr.,
Tilden's back yard"
CHICAGO HERALD "'Turn the Ras.
Gals Out farce in one act, by Charles A,
Dana, is announced for production at the
Gramercy Park Theatre, New York, with
the well.known juvenile actor, Samuel j
Tilden, in the principal role"
INTER. OCEAN: GAS the campaign pro-
crosses, we may expect to see the demo
cratic platform shorten thus
July-Tariff for revenue only.
August-Tariff for revenue.
ptember-Tariff for -.
October-Tariff.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06
Got a.GoIng and Couldn't stop.

| heard of a boy who was standing on
the topsof hill, and his father was
standing half way down, and the father
called to his boy: Come. =
Il He.ran down. btIt did not stop where
his father was, but went to the bottom
of the hill.
His father said: 4 why did you lot
come to me when | called youP'f
He said: 20, father, | got a-goingg
and / couldn' t stop.
Twill Il.you what once happened
There was young man only, twenty
years of age, and he was lying in iaH
He had killed man and he was gong
to be hung He had been, q Sunday
school bow, and his teacher went to see
him intprison He had to go through
long, dark passage, and presently b.
came into the miserable cell.
1t was a beautiful day, everything
was lovely outside; the birds were sing
ing, the s1a was shining, and eyery-
thing was green and beautiful Ana
this young man4only twenty years Of
agelAwas lying dn2this dreadful cell, BIS
limbs chained together, going to b
hung! And the gentleman spoke %
him kindly, and said, 9s1f N "
s..Oh, I'm so sorry to see; you here-
The young man burst into tears, sna
said; 4 = Ahf sir II | had minded what
my father and mother said 20 me--if !
had attended TO what you told me q
school, should not now be herel !
got into bad company ! I followed ons
young lad and then another. 81
something to drink. One bad thing g
to another bad thing, and one day, y.
ing half drunk, / killed man, fna
now, sir, | am going to die. !"
q Aht1 " He got ia-going and could lCs
stopI' Take care about the bottom. 8
the hill. DO not |" get a-going. 10y
may not be able to stop till you ges Y
the very bottom. Lille S1sueT.a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06
How q SILK. Worm hay Be Made !.
Weave.

Most OF the many boys and oirla ~.
already own or who intend to avn III III
worms viii be glad to know Of a wav ylln
which its silk-spinning powers NAV X
made TO produce immediate results anS
the silk-worm viii itself save Won III
time OF its own house-building ana spam
You the trouble of reeling and weavingi
1t can, in fact, be made to prodnce III
you, under your own supervision !
piece of beautiful golden silk. Nor h
this all; it will even shape the silk alld
fasten it to a fan. a ta1lbourine. or il
any other similar frame; provided. &
course, that the silk-yieldine capaeitv
OF the worm be not overtaxed.
The method Of accomplishing this 10.
suit is very simple one, though, lxe
many other simple things, it ii not com.
monty known. Very many Chinese
ladies, however, know it, and make usa
OF it to divert the weary hours thew
usually spend in idleness.
When the worm is fulI-grown. andhas
filled its reservoir with the silk-makilp
material it is ready to build its hopss
or cocoon. This you must not permit
it to do. It must instead be placed on /
common Japanese fan, of the battle.
dore or lawn-tennis bat shape.
Nature tells the worm that It must
spin-spin a cocoon if possible, but spin
anyhow. If permitted to have its own
way, it viii build on the fiat surface q
the fan; but If prevented, 1t win wsu.
der from side to side Of the little pllt-
form, spinning all the while its wen.
derful silken thread, fastening 1t at ihe
edges, and in the end covering the whole
surface with 3 closely woven golden
web almost as tough as parchment
/ In relating this fact, however, Be
must, at the same time, impress uponH
the young silk-culturist that, II he tries
this experiment, it had better be with
only two or three worms, and that It
would be. wrong and cruel to divert
many of the little creatures from their
proper work of cocoon making for the
sake Of the ornamental fan-covels tEey
might be made-to supply. Though the
result is, of course, interesting, 1t ~
deeidedlynot for this purpose that you
are supposed to keep silk-wormsLR
CorgeQ, IN 50. Nicholas.
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"a Ills mother and sisters ran Il -,
was the matter. = z II What

n 4iss mother anslaisess ran i ., !,
was the matter. 4, e = q NJ What
:. Nothing MUCH" said he. tr,,,
speak cheerfully, .'only this time II I III e
broken my leg and nv nose sll ~ ihaEt
haps it will be a warning to me ny pen.
Poor Geof could say no mora !,
ialntness came over him. They ,a ~ !.
him indoors, and sent for TIA SSaItlett
who soon set his leg and plaster rops q
nose. He had to lie in bed bed sas. q,
weeks, and during that time he l ss,eEa !
several lessons in gentlenea a'aiq "
mother touch was SO soft H.. ~ Il
soothed his pain. His father nv 3. |
rested SO lightly upon him that 4 a aaall
hurt him. And his brothers ana s; ne1eF
sorry for his suffering, set him : a' Saa
tlful example. He had time Il t Ssas' !.
and he thought to some purn . .l.'l y
when he again grew well and st,n y. Y
there was great change inanifas s,,S4 =
him. He had been taught how 4 a .
his hands, and he is ii q fair v = -
exhibiting in his own life thai y. u
beautiful mingling of strength and . ~
tleness which helps to make a reallys =
bic and useful character Nragiaa ~ |
FGrntnghans, tn Baptist EeeLlu5 - :
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06
For Young Readers.
A REPETITION OF THE USED
TO-RE.n TE

The mother gathered her children together,
She folded them close to her heart In glee
For the red sun had brought them rainy
And what they should do they never could
And they cried In querulous tone: "Mam-
ma
Now think back ever and ever SO far,
And think if you ever had rainy days
That troubled your plans and spoiled the
And what you did when they used to be-" :
The sR mother laughed with lev, soft laughter
know, yon rogues. what You all are after
Til tell you a tale that happened to me-
Me- Ne and some little wee bits of girls
With hair as yellow as shaving-curlS,
When it rained for day and night and 9
day,
And we thought it meant to keep on that
way, S+
And We were as tired as tired could be-
up in the attie-in grandma's attic
There's chest OF drawers, or there used
to be, sass
Though we had many charge emphatic
Not to go near enough to see.
But one rainy day we opened it wide
And strewed the contents on every side.
We dressed ourselves in the queer old caps
And brass-buttoned coats with long blue
Yes-Wait ninute-papa wants me-
They waited and waited and waited and wait,
ed,
Forty hours, it seems to mel"
Cried weary Kitty, with eyes diiAted,
Lets do it ourselyes--I can find the keyp'
30 they climbed the stair as still as a
mouse" +.
you might have heard it all over the house
And they dressed themselves in trailing
dresses
And powdered wigs and hempen tresses,
just like they did in the Used-to-Bei''
The warning stair kept cracking and squeak
ing.
There was no time to turn and fee.
What is all thisl' Ut was grandma speak
ing)
I'll take every one of you over my knee!'
(As regret to say that she did,
All except Kitty, who went and hid.)
And when they went and told mamma,
She only said, with soft ha-hal
:. Just what n1y mother did to ntet''
-Annfe 2. BtaTlhdsH. In Wide-AiUdis.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06
Farm AND PRESIDE.

When the bitches are dry clean
them out and haul the cleanings to the
yard for manure.
do not feed animals that pasture
in orchards late at night or early in the
morning, in order to encourage them
to make early forays for fallen fruit,
By destroying wornly specimens they
are of great benefit to the orchards
~ Y. Herald.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
states that he has positively driven bugs
awayfrom his vines by putting a gallon
of clean sand around every vine. Where
sand can be obtained this is very con-
venient protection against very bad
enemy, and single trial may satisfy
any one whether it is efectual.
For boiled apple dumplings, pare
and take out the cores of the apples
without dividing them; sweetea and roll
each apple in piece of crust made to
taste; be particular that the paste is
nicely joined. Put the dumplings into
Toured cloths, tie them securely and put
them into boiling water. Keep them
boiling from one-half to three-quarters
of an hour, remove the cloths and send
them hot and quickly to table.-EZ-
change.
To amuse q child take a piece OF
board, draw out any figures upon it that
your skill will allow, and place the let
| ters of the name of the object over it.
Give the child o small hammer and a
paper Of diminutive tacks, and let him
a. e
and letters with the tacks. / have had
child amuse himself over an hour in
this way, and it was laughable to see
the little fellow look at his work.-Ibe
Household.
"A correspondent writes: 1t may
not be generally known that a piece of
rock salt, dissolved in the mouth and
swallowed at intervals through the day,
is reliable remedy for common diar-
rhea and summer complaints, when
taken seasonably. For dysentery. add
| finely pulYerized charcoal and West
India meantime, we should
say, sending for the doctor and follow
ing his advice when he comes.-M T.
Examiner.
A good supply of fall and winter
cabbage comes in so well on farm
and is SO easily kept for use during the
winter that there is no good reason why
large supply should not be raised on
every farm. The requisite is good seed.
There are SO many. varieties that it
would be hard to tell which is best.
Cabbage, to do well, require a nice,
deep, loamy soil, easily worked, and
should, to have the best results, be well
MANFRED. Cabbage viii head on good
rich land-what we would call good
corn land--but not so well as if a good
dressing of well rotted manure is APP
piled.
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Jakey.

You may always know him bv the
loud and blatant manner in which he
asserts his proprietorship of the hotel.
He is a commercial traveller who has
"been over in Europe for the house, q
circumstance that has enabled him to
buy In fee simple the earth. He wears
pointed shoes, coat too tight, panta-
looms that are absolute terrors. ahat Of
enormous hight and breadth. and when
he comes into the hotel dinino-room the
walters bulge out their eyes in admira-
ton and fear of him. The head walters
name is Isaac, but the owner of the earth
addresses him as George, orders him
In loud voice to send him a waiter.
and then proceeds to. eontemptuously
inspect everything on che table. The
waiter sets dish of berries in front of
him. he orders them to be taken away
AID something fit to eat'' brought in
their stead. While the crushed waiter
is absent on that errand the CONNER
cial Jakey looks his table knife over.
hnds 1t unsatisfactory, and with nose
elevated, falls ostentatiously to work
polishing the blade with his napkin.
The waiter returns, is also called
George and gets from Jakey an or
der for breakfast comprising everv ar
ticle on the bill of fare. When he AGAIN
returns with the overladen tray he Is
loudly denounced for being too slow,
and Q "sSSt.n' is fired at the head waiter
who Is 100 feet distant. That agitated
funetionary rushes up to Jakey and re-
celyes the latter's command to .ssend
along another waiter; that feller's too
bloody slow for me. .
Three times very1day-at breakfast,
dinner and superior shall see this
Jakey, whom no law has ever yet sue
ceeded in suppressing. and who is by
odds the most vulgar. offensive and
least endurable human hog THAI
sffiicts the hotel table. -Detroa Frse
Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-09-06

Buffalo has been multiplying the
names in its new directory by three and
one-half. with the usual result. The
census has done the city an injustice.
1t has 100000 Inhabitants instead Of
10000. This is very sad. The mis-
understanding between the city direc-
tory and the census-taker seems in
eyitable. They never can agree.-BuJ4
falo IN. 7. Express.
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"A New York newsboy fred seven
shots at mad dog, hitting three citi-
zens, two horses and one baby carriage;
but he killed the dog and win probably
be promoted TO the police force. Rbila.
deLphta Meas.