The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Pith and Point.


THE drummers all say that their business
is picking up.
A LEARNED physician says that a hydro
phobic dog never froths at the mouth.
THE past belongs to everybody. The fu-
ture is for him who catches on.-NeC Or
leans Picayune.
THE cows at Key West go about labeled
with the names of the persons for whom
their milk is exclusively kept.
A PARTISAN enterprise is a project to bore
big hole far down into the earth to see
what is going on inside the crust of this
mysterious planet.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE reiterates Bull
wers assertion that three hours of daily
brain work is ample to get from man the
best that is in him.
THIS season is the worst for the circuses
that they have known in ten years. 1t is
said that not one has cleared any money,
and many have lost heavily.
OLD Mat. the well-known Mammoth
Cave guide is dead, after a service of forty
seven years, during which he made more
than twelve thousand trips into the cavern.
OUT of fifty-six thousand prosecutions by
the English Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals during the last twenty
five years, fifty-ive thousand have been sue
cessful.
PROFESSOR LANGLEY claims in Science
that the sun is in reality blue. Every man
| who happens to have note due at the bank
without the wherewithal to meet it at
sight will readily agree with him-Chicdgo
Ledger.
WOMEN at Saratoga hotels wear diamonds
| as big as hens eggs to breakfast and say
| they do so because they are afraid TO leave
them in their bedrooms. They forget all
! about the safe in the Office for the keeping
of jewelry and valuables.
IT takes ten times as long TO commit TO
memory eighty meaningless syllabes as it
! does to master eighty syllables that mean
something. \ professor of the University
of Berlin devoted twenty-five consecutive
hours to the mental labor of proving this
fact
"SAY." said the editors smart little son,
as he entered "A store, " do you keep knives"
"Oh, yes" responded the storekeeper,
we've kept them for years" We'll"
returned the boy, starting for the door,
"you ought to advertise, and then you
wouldn't keep 'em so long"
JUST now the democrats are trying to
persuade the public that they have always
been interested in wool. They have, they
have For many years they have been get
ting up before breakfast and working
between meals trying TO pull the wool over
the eyes of the public.-Erchdnge
CERTAIN patent medicine men will be
RIltN ulSdIlIplibth II thoiNAo N'Noti'
make its appearance in this country this
year Their labor of changing the labels on
the bottles of their unsold stock of liver
remedies to cholera cures will have been
thrown away.-NorristocR Herdid
In the ancient town of Ratisbon, Bavaria,
there was much excitement during the
early part of this month because the crows
which abounded in the spires of the vener-
able cathedral disappeared as II by magic.
A similar occurrence was noted in 1873, just
before the appearance of the cholera, and
hence the excitement.
AN Indiana man, who started in the poul-
try business with So, now sells more than
81 900 600 worth year 1t doesn't always
turn ont that way, though y man in an
adjoining county, who embarked IN the
poultry business one night without cent
in his pocket, is now boarding six months
at the expense of the county.-N0rrjStoC
Herdld
AN acute grammaran became excited by
the incorrect English of Montana preacher,
and, accostng him at the close of par
ticularly faulty sermon, offered TO pay for
his tuition by a private instructor. The
minister took the proposition angrily, and
denounced its maker in terms forclble, but
at the same time illustrative of his need OF
the lessons.
COCAINE, the new anPsthetic, is prepared
from the leaf of bush native 10 Peru,
known as cucu or coca. 1t grows to height
of about six feet and has bright green leaf,
similar in appearance and odor to the leaf
of tea-plant, The Peruvian Indians use it
for chewing purposes, and it is claimed to
be powerful nervous stimulant, without
evil reaction.
A WRITER in the NelC England Medtcdt
Monthlv says that unreasonable apprehen-
sion of possible calamity depresses the
vitality, and thus indirectly increases the
power of disease. He cites the case OF
man so panic-stricken about cholera that he
rushed Immediately out of his town, leav-
ing his family to follow. lie died in few
days-not of cholera but of fright
A TALL man sat with his wide-brimmed
hat on at Texas concert and when com
manded to remove it he said; TIN be
worse if do; but those behind him I'M
sisted that he should uncover. He did so,
and a mass of bristling hair stood stitiiy out
from his head in all directions, like the
starched locks of imitation Circassian girls
in museums. Il told you it'd be worse If
did, he remarked.
KosCUsKo MURPHY recently passed his
examination, and is now a member of the
Austin bar. His strong card is getting the