The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02
Pith and Point.


A PRIVATE company is about to lay a
naptha pipe $50 miles from Baku, Russia, to
Batoum
TWENTY-FIVE monuments to Napoleon l.
are standing in the cities of France, despite
the commune and revolution.
FIFTEEN swords worn by Garibaldi at va
rious epochs during his campaigns are to be
placed in the capitol at Rome.
TRucK-FARMINe in the vicinity of Charles
ton, s. c., has become profitable business, last
years receipts having aggregated 100000.
JENNIE LIND will sing in public next sum-
mer for the first time in twenty-five years
Her appearance will be for charitable pur-
pose.
THE car of Russia may fear men, but he
Is not afraid of fieas. He let's his dog sleep
on his bed every night.-LouiSUiUe Courier.
Journal.
FEW people are aware how much bristles
are worth 1t is stated that common flour
barrel is capable of holding 81 200 worth of
this common article.
FASHIONABLE hats are patterned after an
Indian wigwam, and are almost as large
The wearers resemble snail travelling with
its house on its back.
A SIOUX chief is learning to ride the
bicycle, and the final determination of the
aboriginal race is now only a question of
time-LotCeU Citizen.
BuTToNs Missus told me to come down
and tell you she was not at home" Huff
cut " Go back and tell your mistress / say
have not called. '-Tid-Bits.
AN English wedding" advertised to
take place in New York Presbyterian
church is an illustration of the heights of alb
surdity to which Anglomania can go.
H. b. CLAFLTN left note to his son with
instructions to dispose of S1,000,000 of his
property chartably the public not to be in
formed of the manner of its expenditure.
A CALIFORNIA man whose store had just
burned down was telegraphed by his family
for particulars of the fire in the store"
He answered, No particulars. No store"
ONE of the schemes which will be pushed
during the next congress is Eads' Tehuan-
tepec Ship Railway. New Orleans has
already held meeting in the interest of the
scheme.
Mr.. BELL, the famous electrician, says
that the problem of seeing by electricity is
so nearly solved as to give much encourage
ment to those at work in that wonderful
field of physics.
A HARD-HEARTED tramp not only stole the
coats and caps of the pupils of school at
La Grange, Ind, but made away with
twenty-six luncheons. How the youthful
stomachs must have suffered!
A sCHooL-HoUsE containing four hundred
eighty children was emptied in minute
and a half, without the least disorder, in
Springfield last week after an alarm of fire;
but the pupils had often been drilled for it.
WE were asked to express an opinion on
certain subject and we did so. Then the
man who called us out lost his temper be-
cause we gave different answer than that
which he Observation-Disclosures (Va.) Religious
Herald.
IT is rumored that one of our magazines
.1.,1, II
the scene of which is not laid in Boston;
but it is not safe to believe such wild ru-
mors until they are veritied.-No rristo,on
Herald.
GRANDPA: "Well, Fred, you're an uncle
now. You ought to be real proud over it."
no uncle" Grandpa: "Why noty" Little
Fred: "'Cause I'm an aunt. The new
baby's girl"
DIR. ANToNIN MARTIN says that the flavor
of cod-liver oil may be changed to the de-
ightful one of fresh oysters If the patient
will drink large glass of water poured
from a vessel in which nails have been
allowed to rust.
THE town council of Exeter, alarmed by
the large infant mortality, have issued a
circular to the women instructing them
chow to bring up babies" The instructions
are to give the babies nightgowns with long
sleeves and to wash them all over every day.
"A FEW nlgntS ago, at cnurcn 1eStlVal IN
West Union, Ohio, wooden chair was ex-
hibited, belonging to George Bradford of
that village, which has long been an heir
loom in the Bradford family, and which
was brought over from England in the
Mayflower.
odd you divide that chocolate with your
little brother?' asked Mrs. Fizzletop of her
greedy little Johnny. eyes, ma "Did
you divide it fairly?" eyes, ma ate the
chocolate and gave him the paper with the
pretty pictures. He likes to look at the pic
lures. "-TerdS SUtingS.
A CORRESPONDENT of a western journal
says there is no surer way of predicting a
change in the weather than by observing
the habits of the snail. They do not drink,
but imbibe moisture during rain and ex-
ude it afterward The animal is never seen
abroad except before a rain.
NJ. CoRTEs, the distinguished microscope
list, has been experimenting upon the effects
of various condiments on the tissues of the
oyster. He recommends lemon juice as the
most valuable of these relishes, as it has the
property of destroying the animalcule which
infest the stomach of that mollusk.
The Lancet expresses the opinion that En-
gland is safe from cholera for another year
and congratulates its readers on a scare
which has been productive of so much
needed cleaning up and sanitary improve
ment, the effect of which will be quite as
useful against other diseases as in with
standing cholera
A BINGHAMToN commercial agent wore
cellulOid collars The train on which he
was riding slackened its speed, when he
thrust his head out of the window to learn
the cause. AT that instant spark from the
engine struck his collar and ignited it. His
whiskers were scorched, but fortunately he
escaped serious injury.
The great orchards of Central Illinois are
rapidly being destroyed The past two
winters have killed more that eighty pei
cent of the apple-trees and from eighty t.
ninety per cent of the pear-trees. Orchard
lists say that if the coming winter is as Sc
we're there will not be healthy tree left il
that section of the state
MISS BELLE: "Did you see my new pansy
paintings? Aren't they just lovely?" Miss
Angelina oh, the dear little things, ain
they expressive-and they do look so saucy
Oh, when shut my eyes | can their lit
tie faces (clasping her hands ecstatically)
and they are just like little pug-dogs, 81
saucy and so eXpressive!"
THE name of Gessler is still so execratet
in Switzerland that boatman who discov
cred that Prussian nobleman whom III
was taking across a lake was named Gessle
declared that he would not have a Gessle
in his boat for one hundred francs and
despite all entreaties, rowed back to hi
starting-point and insisted that the sup
posed descendant of Gessler should disem
bark.
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