The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-26

the erection of public buildings. Up to this
me not single appropriation bill has become
a law. Only twenty.six acts have passed both
houses and been approved by the president,
and Of these seventeen are OF private character.
YEARS ago John O. Adams loved the prettiest
girl In Alabama. Her parents forced her to
marry man named jackson, who took her to
Texas, where she became the mother OF nine
teen children. A year ago her husband died
Meanwhile John O. Adams, who had married
early had not been idle. He acquired con-
siderable local renown by becoming the father
OF twenty. one children. Recently his wife
died. He has gone to Texas to marry Mrs.
Jackson The families will live on the CO.
operative plan
THE drink statistics OF Belgium have a GER
tain amount Of interest. The population OF
the kingdom, now amounting to about 1900, 900,
consumes annually alcoholic liquors to the
value of 100000, 900 francs, which Is sixty-six
per cent more than thirty years ago. Compared
with forty years ago, the number Of the insane
has increased by one hundred and four per cent,
| OF suicides by eighty per cent and OF condemned
| criminals by one hundred and thirty-ive per
cent. In 1850 the number Of places where
alcoholic liquors were retailed was $4,000; 1t Is
| now 10000.
LONE MOUNTAIN PENN dispatch says
"While Professor Wilson, a Chicago geologist
was paying visit TO the anthracite coal. re-
| gions, with view of studying the geological
f0rmatl0n, ne was requested Dy farmer
named Samuel Herb TO examine specimen
| of a mineral which he had found on his farm
| Mr. Wilson found II to be sapphire corundum
AS there Is but one mine in the state, and very
few in the world, the find is particularly valua-
| BILE. The tract containing the mine, which
before the find, was worth $500, has since been
sold for $4,000"
| WESTON, who started out with the blessings
| Of church dignitaries to walk 900 miles across
| the country in one hundred days, In England
| to show the endurance of a teetotaler, has fin.
| ished the task. The Victoria coffee-house was
| crowded and the pedestrian was received with
much enthusiasm. The last mile but one was
| the fastest recorded during the walk the time
| being nine minutes and seventeen seconds. Dr.
| Norman Kerr presided at a meeting which was
| held at the conclusion of the walk, and Canon
| Duckworth and many other prominent temper
ance advocates were present.
MR.. FoREPAUGH's white elephant is on oui
| shores, and Mr.. Barnums is on the salty seas,
and will soon join the ordinary herd OF circus
| elephants. So the white elephant, a hair OF
| which was once esteemed a treasure such as
| pious Siamese man might bequeath az a rich
legacy unto his issue, bids fair to become com
mon in New York But there are skeptcs
| who will say that New York never will see
| white elephant, and that he will continue t
be only a figure of speech. Some of the skep
tics insist that nobody ever saw one of thes,
| coveted beasts, and that white elephant is sc
| called because he Is mostly of some othe
| color. Another suggestion, which will proba
bly, be secuted with scorn, is that the socallet
white elephant isn't well-that his epidermis il
out Of order.