The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

my child, is your subscription nearly made
up?" Ethel: ooh, yes, papa Almost.
All need from you is ninety-eight cents"
AN exchange speaks of the vitality of
frogs" We know something about this.
We heard singer twenty years ago. He
had a frog in his throat. We heard him
again last week. The frog was still alive.
Musicians say this is not at all unusual
Puck.
THOMAS JAMES, colored, residing near
Gainesville, Florida, has a family of fifty
four children, thrty-three of them being
now at home with their father. He has had
three wives, and the three were all living at
one time. Only one of them Is now living,
and she claims nineteen OF the children.
AT the end of favorable criticism of
astonishing announcement: lie was SEN
fenced to five years penal servitude, so that
society will for some time be freed from the
inflction of his presence" The printer got
a criminal case mixed up with the criticism
THEY have an original way in Vienna of
protesting against bad tenor. A gentle
man in the parterre of the Teatro Malibran
recently opened his umbrella and held it
toward the stage, evidently to keep off the
shower of false notes. The auditorium at
once became a forest of umbrellas. The
tenor fled, the curtain fell, and art was
avenged.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE eats five
times day, sleeps nine hours, including
usually nap after dinner and takes out
door exercise by walking or in the horse
cars, as business or professional duty calls
him hither and thither. The critic thinks
it is not strange that he can perform as
much as half-a-dozen dyspeptc, half-starved
night moths"
WHEN Rubinstein was in this country
I" Josh Billings " was introduced to him,
and the pianist, in conversation, presently
andpauOrpd n innragq tba Xaplrap n
idea of his high family rank. Indeed"
he said, 81 have ascertained that my an
cestors were prominent men in the crusades,
and one of them accompanied the Emperor
Barbarossa." I" On the piano, / suppose"
said JOSH
Mr.. WALTER RYE has published " His
tory of Norfolk" He gives some curious
instances of fictitious Norman pedigrees.
The Towards, it would seem, are descended
from hog-ward, whose business it was to
mind hogs the Townshends, from one John
atte Town send, who was a small tenant
farmer in 1893; the Bulwers, from the bull
ward, as the man was called who looked
after the manor bull.
A Boston man in England has been ex-
aiming the original charter map of Massa-
chusetts, and finds that the little rocky islet
called Middle Brewster, off Boston harbor
lies outside of the boundary, and was never
claimed by Massachusetts colony. 1t was,
therefore, not part of the United States,
and must now be deemed the property of
Great Britain, from which, apparently, it
has never been cut Off
CAPE COP young people have persistency
and decision of character. young scholar
who was particularly fond of bears was
asked to mention the animals of the Arc
tic regions "Wbite bears" The teacher
nodded approvingy. "Black bears" "That
will do for bears, interrupted the teacher.
Brown bears" "You may sit down."
was the severe command. And, as the
scholar resumed his seat, he seized one
more chance" Polar bears"
THERE is no more thriving hot-bed for
nick-names to be found than the average
boarding-school for boys. | knew of one in
Southern Pennsylvania where the name of
the organist at the church the boys at
tended happened to be Mr.. Eveningham,
and merely from his connection with that
church the poor man will probably be con-
demned to pass the remainder of his mortal
life under the by no means euphonious des-
ignation of Morning-pork and Afternoon
bacon"
WILLIAM CLEwsoN died recently in Frank
lin macon county,, N. G., aged eighty-fve
years. During his life he never bought a
pound of meat or barrel of flour or corn.
He did not owe dollar when he died. He
never wore spectacles, never saw railroad,
had SOW twenty-seven years old, never
snapped horses, never was out of money,
Wore one pair of shoes thirteen years, kept
one pair of plow-lines nineteen years. and
never moved from the place he settled in
when young man. He was married, in
1923, to Cynthia Gupton, who died last year.
AN old lady read paragraph in one of
the papers. the other day, describing how a
grind-stone burst in saw-mill and killed
four men. She happened to remember that
there was small grind-stone down in her
cellar leaning against the wall; so she went
out and got an accident insurance policy
and then, summoning her servant, and hold
ing pie-board in front of her face, so that
If the thing exploded her face would not be
injured, had the stone taken into the road,
where twenty-four pals of water were
thrown over it, and stick was stuck in the
hole bearing a placard marked Danger
GUS" She says it is a mercy the whole
house was not blown to pieces by the thing
before this Wood and Iron.