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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

4.-EnigmatIc Dickens Characters.
IA pin, obtained, and half stamp.
PA piece Of ground where nothing could
grow.
ga kind Of glue, and an insect.
"A measure, and a smell.
"a familiar sound, and an auxiliary verb.
6-The gait of a horse, and grove.
IA season, and relation.
ga vehicle, and hard substance.
$40 take off the top, and slender stick
10-A small nail, an alkaline substance, and
a monument.
11-Delightful. the top rail Of fence, and a
covering for the head.
PA beam, and something painful
ia schoolboy's waiting boy, and prepo-
sition.
IA vessel and a field.
ia spinning machine, and bird.
16-Mercy, and a nip.
IA word of address, county in En-
gland, destitute of life, and fastening.
ia young person, and spine.
ia lady of high degree.
20-A pastoral emblem.
2l-A miners tool, and part of a lamp.
22-An insignificant growth.
pa sound-producing instrument, and a
wreath.
PA head man, and kind of fish.
25-A patriarch, an earth, and a rod.
M. A. S. G.
Answers to Puzzles OF Last Week.
1-Calumet. (Cal you, metz
2-He who once hits will ever be shooting.
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4-For all our early rising it dawns none the
sooner.
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g. This world Is ever as we take it,
And life my friend, is what we make it
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

g. This world Is ever as we take it,
And life, my friend, is what we make it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
Real Estate Agency.

Those having farms, other real estate for SALE by
sending description and price may find quick sale. Cor
espoudence from those wishing to purchase solcited
they be furnished with either Large small farms
in Vermont or New Hampshire. STEPHEN THOMAS.
Montpelier, VT, March LIST. 1884.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

l have from four to Ave thousand choice Grated
Appe-trees, from Ave ten feet high which will SELL
II taken Immediately for Ave cents each. Now ia your
time TO buy trees. WILLIAM PATTERSON.
STAFFORD, April 80, 1884 4I-4Sl
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
WHkins's Proverbs.
Whitehall Times.

Many are comfortable when others
are not.
The political dance is not always a
square dance.
The argument of ignorance is often
based on the force of bigotry.
Clothes don't always make the man
unless he sells them at a good profit.
The world is great barber shop and
every man waits his turn to be shaved.
No tombstones mark the graves In the
C, metery where lost hopes are inferred
. The bee that is loudly proclaimlng
that the world owes it living, goes
honeyless to bed.
Every man desires his own deeds en-
blazoned in long primer-his neighbors
in diamond type.
"Schooners" of beer sail the sea OF
trouble, and many a marir er is wrecked
when "half seas over"
Men and horses differ. The latter is
worthless unless he is broke. ana ths
former is worthless if he is ditto.
More money can be made in one day
strict attention to ones own business
than by ten days minding the affairs o
ones neighbor.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
THE STORY or "OLD FORTY"
The Peculiarities of an Old Captain-Od i'd
Incidents.
Boston Globe

His name was Capt. Ralph Devereux,
but everybody called him old Forty"
The reason for this was that he was al
ways using this numeral in describing
any event that occurred. 1t was as cold
as "forty," and as hot as "forty," there
were forty" boys came out Of the school
house and fired snowballs at his old
horse, the wind blowed like "forty," his
cowhide boots pinched like "torty," and
he had "forty" pains in his old rheuma-
tic back when he got up in the morning
Nobody around Prospect called him any
thing else, and at last all his animals,
from stubtailed yellow dog 10 his ugly
old horse with a watch-eye received the
same title. One day few young lads
hired this horse to 60 to an evening par
ty. The sum charged was 81. and the
boys went around to the country stores
and boush up all the old-fashioned cop
pers they could find. Thew succeeded in
getting 200 at last and sewed them up in
bags of forty each and gave them to the
old man in payment. He took the mon
ey, but said he wouldn't let his horse
again for forty" years. His friends tried
to break him of his habit and resorted to
all sorts devices, but they had no effect.
One night he attended the distribution
of presents from Christmas tree The
only token he received was an illustrated
copy of "Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves"
81 don't see what they wanted to give
me that for" unused he; 1--WE got as
many as forty books at home now."
He went to town meeting one rainy
day and caught cold which terminated
in pneumonia. For several days he lay
delirious, tossing and moaning and call
ing for water all the time. When his
right lung had filled up solid, and but a
small space was left in the other one,
his fever abated little an1 he recogniz-
| ed those around the bed.
Here, father, take this medicine" !"
said his daughter, "the doctor ordered it
and l know it will do you good"
Throwing his hand out on the bed with
an impatient gesture, he looked us and
said:
"Go away, child, and don't bother me.
Forty doctors couldn't help me now
He died that night and forty carriages
followed him to the grave.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
TELEGRAPHING THE EXACT TINE.
Flashing the Hour OF High Noon all Ovel
the ounary.

the ouHary.
Washington Post.
The determination and transmission
of exact time forms, in utllitarian
sense, is an important part of the ma
tional observatory work. 1t is interest
ing to observe the routine followed
every day by the time officer. At ii
O'Clock he enters the cbronOmeter
room and spends half an hour or more III
comparing and winding the chronometers
Some of these are ready to go on sea
voyages, while ethers must undergo a
long period of correction. In the room
are also two clocks, mean time and a
transmitting clock. The former is new
er corrected, and when the Post reporter
visited the observatory it was nine and
some hundredths seconds fast. 1t is
never over thirty seconds out of the
way. Once a year it is taken down and
cleaned, but is never tinkered with or
regulated" Every day its error is
closely calculated by the lieutenant in
charge.
At 11:aO the error of the transmitting
clock Is obtained This is done by re-
cording on chronograph both its beats
and the beats OF the mean time clock.
If they do not register simultaneously
the difference can be determined 70 the
hundredth part of second. The point
of a lead pencil held just near enough
to the pendulum of the transmitting
clock to retard it, if it is fast, or acceler-
ate it, if it is slow, enables the officer to
make the difference between the clocks
lust equal to the error of the mean
time clock, which will be shown on the
tell-tale chronograph.
At 11:50 the officer signals to the
watchman on the roof and he hoists the
time ball.
At 11:56 the chronograph is connected
with the mean time clock, and the
clic&ing-each click represents a second
begins.
Half minute later the officer turns o
switch and the transmitting clock is
ready to be connected with the outgo
| Ing WlTtS.
At 1l:56.44 the repeater switch
connecting these wires is closed
and the beat Of the next second, the
forty-fifth, goes out, the first signal thai
the hour of nooE is approaching.
At 1855 an automatic break ar
rangement causes the clock to cease
transmitting the electric current, and
for five seconds there are no beats
The next click begins the last minute
before noon. This click is he sigma
for the watchman on the roof to slip q
bolt through ring, thus fastening the
ball. ,
Tne seconds before twelve final ad
| iustment is made. There is moment'i
silence-the click as the second hanl
reaches sixty, and the ball on the dome
has dropped and the hour of noon hal
has been flashed across the land in every
| direction.
1t Ised to be the custom for the time
officer to listen for the click and ther
press a key. This has been abandoned
and now the signal flashes direct from
the clock itself.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06

other girls jealous and calls down severe
criticism on herself from the mothers of
daughters who are less courted.
The infirm old bachelor who brings
his medicine to the table and takes it in
the presence of the other boarders to the
| inevitable impairment of their appetites.
The bald-headed man who avoids
draughts.
The hopeful old maid and the old
maid who has lost hope.
The kittenish old lady who has never
discovered that she is out of her teens.
The gay old man who speaks of wo-
men twenty years younger than himself
as old, and affects extreme youth in his
manners and apparel
The business-worn man who is vainly
trying to find recreation.
The man who wears gaudy bathing
suit and cuts pigeon-wIngs in the water
while he carries an umbrella with one
hand.
The male victim of corpulency who
can neither sink or swim.
The woman who wears towering
mass of false hair on the apex of her
head and is happy in the hallucination
that she is stylish.
The man who wants to talk about
books and his chum who has written a
pamphlet.
The forward boy who receives great
consideration at the hands of the ladies
because of the dearth of men, and for
ever after puts on airs in consequence.
The man who is there week or so
ahead of his family and establishes a
reputation for gallantry which is COM
pletely overthrown as soon as his wife
arrives and he sinks into abject morose-
ness.
The enthusiastic young lady who con-
stantly asserts thai she is having such a
good time, and is straining every nerve
to keep up the delusion.
The impecunious bachelor whois look
ing for rich wife.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
A Witty Prelate.

Bishop Bloomfield of London, England,
was great wit, and many good stories
are told of his brilliant repartee. A nav
al officer once stopped him and said: "My
lord, ! have just had short conversation
with Capt. McLintock (of Artic fame),
and he has insulted me-"
What did he say?" asked the bishop.
81 asked him, said the officer, ifhe had
any news from the North Pole, and be
replied, Damn the North Pole"
"Oh, that's nothing" said the bishop.
81 have actually heard him speak In
disrespectful terms of the Equator"
Upon another occasion the bishop had
Just ended the conservation ceremony of
a newly erected church. Everything had
passed off well but the singing, in which
the time was execrable The rector Of
the church said to the bishop: 81 am sor-
ry that the SINGING was an entire failure"
Il assure you, my dear sir" replied the
bishop, that it was quite according to
religious precedent, for we repeatedly
read that the singers went before and the
minstrels followed AFTER"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
SLEEPING CARS.
How Ladies' Travel In Them.
Chicago News.

Not ma y years ago the lady who
would willingly undertake, alone, a rail
way journey extending through night,
was looked upon as little less than he
roine. Lady travellers without escort
were rare on night trains, and particular
ly on sleeping coaches. Now, however,
ladies travel alone without fears or mis-
givings. They will not submit to out
rageous hours of rising in order to catch
day trains, nor follow the old time prac-
tice of stopping off at hotels during the
nights of a long journey. Like men, the
most of them prefer night trains and
comfortable bertks. There are still some
who shrink from sleeping cars while
travelling without escort, but their num-
Der constantly decreases.
Sensible and experienced ladies make
themselves at home in sleeping car.
whether with or without companions
They realize that they are almost as safe
from harm and insult as if in their own
rooms, and allow no prudishness or re-
uOSliOh upOu IlltlT SlJudllOH 10 ulSUuID
their rest. Occasionally an inexperienc-
cd over-timid lady will lie awake long
hours wondering who is in the berth
overhead, or spend sleepless night COM
pairing the frail curtain before her couch
TO the solid walls of her own boudoir,
but trip or two overcomes this foolish
tendency and graduates another hardy
traveller.
There are many ladies who do not hes
itate, when necessary, to display their
agility by climbing to an upper berth at
night, or TO slip down from one in the
morning. Some even make themselves
so much at home as to give their hus-
bands the customary curtain lecture be-
fore seeking slumber, and few slumber
only to snore as loudly and sweetly as if
in their own bedrooms.
There is no reason why they should
not do so. Sleeping cars were made for
the comfort of travellers. Here, at least,
men and women are equals before the
law, and the true woman will exercise
all her rights and privileges even to the
lecturing and snoring.
On most through trains sleeping
coaches out number the ordinary pas
senger cars three to one. Not many
years ago tie proportion was reversed.
A large share of this increase in sleeping
car travel is due to the growing number
of lady travellers who appreciate the COM
forts which modern ingenuity and enter
prise have placed at their command.
Doubtless this is the only country in the
world in which lady can make long
journey alone and in bed, with her per-
son and property safe from intrusion or
meddling, and with her temper unruffied
by insinuation or insult. Sleeping cars
exclusively for ladies are not a necessity
in this country. Most Americans are
gentlemen in all things; ninety-nine out
of every hundred of them are in their
department toward lady travellers
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06

testify their regard for her persistency,
the ladies of the court adopted dingy
yellow color for their ruffs and stockings
which they christened PIsebeau. This
was the origin of the tint known as ecru
which comes up to the top wave in fash
ions occasionally.
In medieval times religious vows of a
character similar to the above were so
very common that the sanctity of the
friars was ganged by their dirtiness. In
like manner VOWS never to cut the hair,
boards or nails until greatly desired
but more or less impossible scheme was
carried through have always had a fas-
cination for certain minds. During the
time of Cromwell in England certain de-
voted followers of the crown vowed nev-
er to trim their boards till the King had
come to his own again. These were
freed from their self-imposed penance
by the Restoration, but two noblenen
who made q similer VOW in behalf of the
younger pretender were less fortunate,
but had to carry their patriarchal boards
to their graves.
In 1862, when Belgrade was lombard
ed by the turks, certain Servian patriots
vowed not to allow a razor to touch their
faces until they could shave within the
fortress itself. For five years they had
to forego the services of all friendly bar
bers, but at last the triumphant hour
came. One day in 1867 they all march
ed through the streets of Belgrade, pre-
ceded by BARRIERS, razors in hand, their
long flowing boards exciting the amaze
ment and delight Of tine populace They
went into the fortress, and some time al
terward all came marching out again
with clean-shaven faces, looking vastly
younger for the operation. Only few
weeks ago Chicago was honored by Wis.,
it from a long haired gentleman, who
vowed forty years or so ago to follow the
custom of Samson, to wit; to let no razor
come nigh his head until Henry Clay
should be elected. Obviously this man
was set free from his VOW by the death
of his candidate; but such IS the respect
accorded to VOWS that many regard them
as binding, although the conditions on
which they were built have vanished.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
Wasn't Popular.
Arkansaw Traveller.

Asa Justice of the peace, old Nicholas is
undoubtedly preiudiced. Several days
ago he was supmsned before the grand
jury, an indictment, charging him with
nalfeasance in Office, having been found
against him.
ave have proof here" said the fore
man. Showing that one Andy Tobman
was arraiRnfed before you, and, that re-
gsrdless O the fact of his innocence,
which was clearly shown, you sent him
to jail. Now explain why you did this,
since the evidence showed that he was
innocent" !,
"Yas, sab; couldn't fine no fault wild de
eyerdence. But, Cap'n, de fack am dis
Dat man Andy amt popular wild me, al
wen er man amt popular wild me, l sen, =,
him ter iail de fust chance l gifts. Dat
de sort o jedge is. but lemme tell yel
I neber sens none O. my trein's dal
Look out how yer bap'les me. l doa
know how long yer's gwine ter be popr
lar,
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
HUMAN VOWS.
Some Pledges. Wise and Foolish Which
Have Be, ome Historic.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Catherine de Medicis was quite given
to taking vows of altogether needless
stringency on others. For instance, after
succeeding in some enterprise in which
she was greatly interested, she would
send pilgrim on foot to the Holy Land,
who should, for every three steps forward
on his journey, take One step backward.
More personal and less agreeable to
the chief person concerned was the vow
taken by Queen Isabella, daughter of
Philip H., IN the twelfth century, not to
exchange her linen till the city of Ostend
had been taken by her soldiers. The
siege lasted three years. and so singular
ly truthful was her Maiesty's character
that she kept her oath to the last, To
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
sample Business Overdone.
Philadelphia Call.

Soap Man-"Good morning, madam.
Sorry to trouble you tc come to the door,
but wanted to leave you sample bar
of our new patent soap. Please hy it.
No charge, of course"
Madam-"Certainly. will try it with
pleasure. l was afraid you would not
come"
"Afraid / would not come? Why you
surely could not have been expecting
me. for only got this job this morninc." !"
"No, was not expecting you partitu-
larly, but ] was afraid no soap aIcni
would gethere in time"
ain timer"
ayes, the soap sample men have cen
dropping off a little during the past we
years, and as my stock Of samples V IS
running low, / was really frightened
"Why, what about?"
"At the thought that might actually
have to begin buying soap again."
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
TERMS: &2.Gn PER YEAR.
A SLIDE ON SIMMER SNOW.
The Break-Neck Coasting Experience Of
an Artist of Mount Adams.
Portland Oregoniar

Portland Oregonian.
j. +. Stuart, the artist, who left here on
the 18th for trip to Mount Adams, re-
turned yesterday evening in very
dilapidated condition. Mr.. Stuart was
accompanied on his trip by Mr.. II. F.
Sucksdorf and Mr.. William Sucksdorf,
botanist. At six o clock last Monday
morning they started to ascend the noun
tain, arriving at the summit at noon.
They spen. two hours there, ate luncheon
and took nap on the rocks i'll the warm
sun. The summit of the mountain con-
sists of four benches, comprising in all
abo'.t one hundred acres, and Start says
it l. the boldest and grandest of the SNOW
peaks of the Northwest. When they got
ready to descend the Messrs. Sucksdorf
started first and slid down some distance
slowly and cautiously, as the descent was
at an angle of sixty degrees.
Stuart followed, squatting down and
gathering speed as he went past his
friends like shooting star. So great was
his speed that he wos not able to choose
his course and after proceeding a few
hundred yards found himself headiug Tor
a ledge of rocks rising through the snow.
He rose to a standing position and en-
deavored to stop his headway by digginL
in his heels, but without avail. He came
up against the rocks. His impetus was so
great that he went. prancing over the
rocks, keeping his feet for about twenty
five yards, when he missed his footing
and turned a couple of somersaults, but
instead of landing like circus tumbler
on one toe and kissing his hand to the
audience be landed all in heap. His
friends picked him up badly bruised and
with difficulty carried him TO the base.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
IMITATION PEARLS.
A Venetian Art that Costs the Lives of
Thousands of Little Fishes.

A Venetian Art that Costs the Lives Of
Thousands of Little Fishes.
"You would hardly think" said a
dealer in fancy goods, holding up string
of glass beads as big as a cherry, made
in imitation of pearls ''that to get the
pearl tint on each one of those little
globes the lives of about fifteen beautiful
fish had to be sacrificed, would you?
But they do, though, and although they
are made in Venice, and that string re-
presents a catch of nearly five hundI ed
fish and tie exhaustion of a good many
cubic inches of glassblower's breath, l
can sell it to you for quarter and make
fair profit.
They've been turning out beads ike
these in Venice ever since 1856. There
is fish in the Adriatic they call the
bleak fish, but why bleak can't say.
There is nothing bleak about its appear
ance. 1t is graceful fish, with glitter
ing armor of silver scales. They are
more prolific and swarm in larger schools
than herring. One day in 1856 resident
of Venice, Salvador Joaquin by name,
placed several of these fish in small
aquarium, to observe their habits. After
they had been confined in the aquarium
for some time, he noticed that the water
took on a pearly hue. Believing that
this was communicated b. the scales oi
the bleak fish,. Joaquin tried some ex.
periments with them. He found that
water could be 80 densely charged with
the tint from these scales that glass on
being dipped in it and then allowed tc
dry had every appearance of a pearl
He coated glass beads with the liquid
andthey were readily taken for large
pearl. The coating would not resist much
| friction, however, and soon rubbed off o.
the surface. Finding that great sale
could be had for beads made IN imitation
of pearls if the coating could be made
| permanent, Joaquin conceived the ides
of having the globes blown hollow anC
then fixing the fish-scale liquid to the
inner surface. This was a success from
the start, and the glass pearl bead busi
ness got its first boom. 1t requires thu
scales of four thousand bleak fish t.
make hall pint of the pearl liquid
They are simply removed from the fish
which are as cheap as mossbunkers, anC
soaked in tepid water. Nowadays
very small quantity of sal ammonia ant
isinglass is added to the liquid. 1t i
introduced inside the bead by smal
tube, and when it is dry, a coating Q
wax is run over it. Fortunately for tn
fish, the trade in these beads, pretty an
cheap as they are, is not alarmingl
| laruen
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
CHANGE.
NARY q. BRsREToN.


A.. b,rds sang It, all the bells rang It,
the Hyelong Summers day;
.ns ali too soon she learn'd the tune,
For none could say 1t nay.
n, rife ia sweet, and the earth ie gladi
xsny are happy, If some are sad.
=. tho mountain side, in the Autumn-tide,
W Gorse and purple heather
,r,,rl;no their bloom and sweet perfume
Mnrmur the same together
n. Home is bright and trust is I'll ng!
ST1po,nSb the world is wide and II years arr
long.
.,o,r could not chill IL, rain could not Kill 1t,
on' Through the long Winters night,
ror the pipe- woods roar, and voice from
Said II with all their might.
oh Earth Is changing, but the Truth ID sure,
4 M weak the heart that cannot endure!
lga,n the bells ring, again the birds sing,
The chime and the song are changed;
And the wind and snow OF the long ago
Come like old friends estranged.
nh Youth is feeting and Life has Ills
Summer is sunny, but Winter chills.
A, n,rbt the rain beats a sad refrain,
'Tbe dawn cometh all to soon;
rJke folks i'm dream the neighbors seem,
And the world is cold in June.
Alasi for the time when all the bloom
Is brushed away from the purple plum.