The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Pith and Point.

IHE New Bedford mercury says 1t is evil
dent that the time is fast approaching when
a roller skate will be a curiosity.
CHOICE rubies are said to be higher in
price than for twenty years past while
sapphires have decreased in value.
a CLERGYMAN of Burlington, n. j., de-
clares that hereafter he will not marry a
man whom he knows to be Incorporate.
THERE is said to be a lessened request in
this country for dress silks, and this partially
accounts for the decrease of importations.
THE report is again being circulated that
the Mormon leaders are raising an immense
corruption fund to buy statehood for Utah
IT is estimated that seven hundred fifty
thousand people go into London by rail
every day to earn their living leaving it
again every night.
INFANTS, physician connected with the
New York Nursery and Children's Hospital
says, should have water given them every
hour during hot weather.
The Portland Oregonidn intimates that
the anti-Chinese craze has about subsidized
in California, and that the tide is now turn
ing in John Chinaman's favor.
"ARE you a bull or a bear?" asked an ac-
quaintance of Spectator on Third street
yesterday. Neither" he replied :" / think
L am an ass. = " OrceSteF Gazette.
A FARMER at Salisbury, Md, cut his wheat
this season with sheep-shears, thrashed it
in cart-body, and his wife famed it in her
apron. The yield was three pecks.
EIGHTEEN hundred eighty-fve will be re-
membered as the mosquito year. The old
est inhabtant never saw them so plentiful
and pestiferous as they are now.-FaH Rirer
Herald.
A PROMINENT physician suggests to occu-
pants of summer houses that wood fire in
the evening. when the moisture in the at
mosphere is excessive, prevents many cases
of sickness.
| A FATHER of triplets in Virginia has named
them Cleveland, Hendricks and Reform.
Probably Reform is the puniest of the three,
and we are quite sure that Hendricks kicks
it out of the cradle.
The title of General Grants book is Per-
| sonal Memoirs of U. s. Grant," and it will
not be issued until the first of December.
At that time the first volume will appear,
and the second about the first of March.
The civil service reformers solemnly re-
solve that the doctrine of " offensive parti-
sanship" is a great and good principle; but
| every true-blooded democrat knows that it
| is the veriest and meanest trash.-Sun.
If census could only be taken of the
mugwumps Of Indiana it would be found
that they were greatly outnumbered by
| those other persons generally classified as
Indians, not taxed. "-PhRadelphia Times.
HAVING secured General Grants grave as
one OF its attractions, New York city
| promptly offers to receive contributions from
the country at large for the erection of a
monument to General Grant.-Sprinqfeld
| Union.
| A DUTCH farmer who died in Northamp-
ton county, Penn, not long ago, left in diff
| ferent parts of the house, stuffed in stock
ings and salt bags and stored in old coffee
| no md Tin frttt lin oil
silver and bank bills.
THE terrors of the cyclone have materially
lessened to a certain Dakota farmer since he
| arranged trap-door and a system OF pull
leys, so that when he hears storm coming
in the night he can pull cord and his bed
will sink into the cellar.
Now, them" said busy lawyer to one
of number of waiting clients, you are
next, sir" I'm WHAT" Next" No
you don't" said the client, moving toward
the door. 81 didn't come in here to get
shaved."-Nep York Times.
The efforts of the New York mugwumps
to read Tammany Hall out of the democratic
party are rather too funny for any use. 1t is
somewhat like an attempt by gaudy blue
| bottle fly to drive sad-eyed mule out of a
fodder stack. Philadelphia Press.
IT is said that one hundred thousand pies
are eaten daily in Philadelphia. The stand
ard pies are mince, lemon, egg and cocoa
nut, custard, raisn, prune, cranberry, peach,
apple, blackberry, raspberry. huckleberry,
currant, cherry, damson, gooseberry, april
cot and orange.
THE Marseilles doctors have discovered
that most of the recent deaths have not been
caused by cholera, but by typhoid chol-
crime" As we understand it, the peculiar
| ity of the latter disease is that it cannot be
distinguished from cholera, save when there
is an urgent motive for making the distinc-
| ton.
YOUNG married couples off on their we'd
ding tours have in times past devised good
many able schemes to conceal from fellow
travellers how recent their happiness was,
but none that we ever heard OF equaled in
inventive genius the young pair from Somer-
ville who borrowed a three-year-old boy
from neighbor to take along with them to
avert suspicion.