The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Pith and Point.

his crop of oranges on the trees for $4,000.
AN octogenarian attendant at the recent
English Church Congress said that he had
only heard one sermon against war in all
his life.
A LONG lost pianoforte concerto of Bee
thoven has been discovered in Carinthian
village. 1t is dated 1905 and Is nearly
finished.
THE late Bishop of Manchester owed his
extraordinary mastery over his voice to
having lived for years with a deaf mother
and aunt.
A SToNINaroN Comm man, who has been
chewing tobacco for fifty years, has sud
denly received an unaccountable aversion
to the weed
AN exchange says that old names for girls,
such as Elfrida, Wilfreda, Ethel Clarice,
Rosebel, Chrstabel and Claribel are coming
into vogue again.
THE office should seek the man, it is true,
but, as general thing, it doesn't. Indeed
1t doesn't have to. The man saves 1t the
trouble.-Pbitddetphi Press.
Miss SMITH, wealthy old lady, who died
recently at Chapel Hill, N. c., bequeathed
one hundred acres of land and S125 in cash
to each six old slaves who are now living.
For fifty-eight years past some person has
found it worth his or her while to pay the
annual interest on green umbrella pledged
in the Paris Mont de-Piete for the sum of
fifty cents.
A MILLION dollars, it is said, will weigh one
and two-thirds tons in gold, twenty-five tons
in subsidiary silver coin, twenty-six and
three-fourths tons in standard silver coin
and one hundred tons in nickel.
A BRAKEMAN who was caught between
two freight cars was describing his suffer
ings to his wife. Why" she exclaimed,
that's just the way it feels when you are
breaking in new pair of cOrSetS,'
"AND are you glad to see me, my little
mani" asked the bishop of Bobby. Yes,
SIR replied Bobby. "And why are you
glad to see me?" Because it's only when
you come that we have anything for dinner
worth eating"
A CHICAGO paper and a Milwaukee paper
on recent Sunday, published portraits
identically the same one giving it as the
likeness of a famous burglar, and the other
as the portrait of NJ. Clemenceau, the French
radical leader.
ONE of the cruelest retorts made by any
musical audience is reported from Cali
fornia. A vocalist was warbling to her own
great satisfaction, {" Oh, would l were a
bird" A rough miner replied: ooh, would
1 were gun. ''-Musical Courier.
YES, sir" repeated the man in the plaid
ulster, 81 played with Mccullough for
several years" Why" said his friend,
" I didn't know you were ever on the STAGE
when we were boys at school. "-Burdette
A MAN in Barton county Ca, has dog
that minds the baby through the day, drives
up the cows at night, sees that they are
MIXED, separates the cows and calves in the
morning and puts them in their proper
places, and makes himself generally useful
about the house.
A HALF-BREED Indian in the Dead river
region in Maine has domesticated huge
moose, and uses him in the farm work. In
the winter, when the moose is hitched to a
sled and is driven upon the ice, there is no
horse in the country roundabout which can
keep zap with him.
town-house he has bought to friend.
Coming to his study, he said: "This is a
nice, coy room-not very large. It's here
where | entertain my political friends"
All! said the visitor, " 1t will be large
enough for that! "
THE New York Sun has an astonishing
cat which relates wonderful stories After
the editors had gone home on Wednesday
night the cat dictated magnificent story OF
the wonderful Sonora Consino, who is worth
untold millions. She keeps fifty young fell
lows in her train and supplies them with al
the money they want
A MAN in Salem Mass, has invented a
method of ventilating railway cars by means
of fans revolving underneath the car
through gearing attached to the axles. The
air is forced up into the car through pipes
having bell-shaped movable openings above
each seat but this air is freed from dust by
first passing through water
IT is impossible to publish the novel
Colonel Burnaby of the Guards, killed in
the Soudan, left behind him, because no
one has been able to decipher the manu-
script. 1t has been examined by one who
knew the authors handwriting well and has
been in the hands of a professional " de-
cipherist," but nothing can be made of it.
FROM time immemorial picked cabbage
has been denounced by doctors as out
rageously indigestible. OF late, however
that dietetic preparation has grown to be
quite respectable. 1t has risen to the dig
nifty of an alkaloid producer. NJ. Tuyapogu
has isolated the substance, and finds that il
suppresses the delirium due to a prolonged
use OF alcohol
THE murderers have discovered some as
tonishingly vulnerable parts of the human
anatomy of late. From paper this morn
ing we learn that a Georgia colonel wa.
g shot in the ticket office" the other day
man was fatally shot " through his door,
and not long ago another received fata
wound " in his window. "-NeD York Com
merciM AdyertiSer
The following from the early town rec
ords OF York, Me-, we give Uerbdtinl ct Hterd
tim: " AT legal town meeting holden il
York September the 25th, 1717, Voted tina
this town will have Gram'r School Maste
for one year to Teach our Children in TIL
Larned lungs and to Reade write CIPHER
to keep said School in the Center of our sal,
town of York: which said School Master i
TO be paid and subsisted by our said Town.
SIR JAMES PAGET has been tracing tn
course in life of one thousand medical stu
dents, taken at random from an Englisl
institute. He found that twenty-three on
of the one thousand achieved distinguished
success siXty-siX had considerable success
five hundred seven made a living; one hun
dred twenty-four had very limited success
not having made "A fair practice within iii
teen years after graduation; and fifty-si
failed utterly.
A FULL font of Japanese type comprise
5000 characters, of which 5000 are in cor
slant use and for 1000 more there are fire.
quent calls. The type is distributed abou
the composing-room on racks like those in
reading-room, and the compositors wande
up and down the aisles, setting type an
taking exercise at once With so man
characters it is no wonder that Japanes
proof-readers have to be men of intelligence
and high scholarship.
WHEN the East Tennessee Virginia an
Georgia express entered the depot, Wedne
day morning, an interesting group steppe
from the sleeper 1t consisted of a gentl,
man, his wife and valet. The couple wei
Mr.. and Mrs. Cain of New York City. VIII
are reported to be worth S7,000,000 to $40
100000. Mr. Cain looked very modest an
seemed to know the value of penny, bu