The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Pith and Point.

PRESIDENT ELIOT Of Harvard University
and the chefin the Parker House restaurant,
Boston, receive each salary of $4,000.
"Too muchee by'm-by" was the express
i've way in which Chinaman informed
matchmaker that his watch gained time.
A CRAZE for chewing gum has set in among
the women of New York. They find the
exercise develops the muscles of the Jaws.
DIRTY streets, unclean water, neglected
sewers and characterization ideas are said
to be the causes of the visitation of small
pox in Montreal.
A PHILADELPHIA man claims that he will
shortly fly without the aid of wings. 1t is
coniectured that he will start from bank.
-Chicdao Leader.
woman in Philadelphia. She is worth,
perhaps, S10,000,0O0, inherited from her
father the famous DR.. Rush
GROCER: "Half pound of tea? Which
will you have, black or green % Servant:
Shure, ayther will do; it's for an auld
woman that's nearly blond. "-Chrtstidn
Register.
ALL of a pig except his squeak may be
said to be utilized, now that they are MAX
ing his blood into vest-buttons and using
the cartilage Of his feet in the manufacture
of car-sprngs.
In Iowa, it is said, there are 955 farms
owned by women; twenty of these are dairy
farms and are managed entirely by women.
There are in the state 100 women physicians
and five women lawyers.
Hon. MARTIN I. TOWNSEND thinks this
the best thing Josh Billings ever wrote:
" Any man who accepts the office of first
lieutenant in his own home need not look
for promotion. "-7roy Telegram.
In western town. the other day, Mr..
Dunn was married to Miss Wright and all
the papers went and put Dunn-Wright"
over the account of the wedding. But only
time will tell whether it was or not.
THERE is an orange grove in Liberty
county the value of which is estimated at
$4,000. 1t is said that thirty hands will
not gather the fruit between this and the
LIST of January .-JdcksonUiUe (Floridd) Herald.
II has been discovered that there is a reg
ular market in Montreal where certificates
of vaccination for smallpox can be had in
any quantity at the rate oftwenty-tve cents
each; They are no protection against the
smallpox.
THE Medical ReuieU in an article on
Triplets," says that plural births occur
most frequently in Russia, and that when
they do occur in this country the fathers
and mothers are generally found to be of
Russian birth or descent.
A ScoTcHMAN is suffering from painful
disease of the hand and wrist, brought on
by the pressure against the palm of a round
knobbed cane. The surgeons say that the
thing to carry is a stick with a plain,
smooth, cylindrical handle.
THERE must have been a frghtful waste
at the recent meeting of the emperors at
Kremsier, for 900 bottles of Rhine cabinet
Wines 5000 of champagne $500 of claret,
300 of liquors and 300 of brandy were con-
sumed by 800 persons at two meals.
81 WAS drummer" said the young man,
all through the war; Z" Is that SOP" re-
piled the old man; " L didn't think you had
seen so much service. What part OF the
country were you in ?" "New York,
mostly" New York 2" eyes; 1 repre-
sented Boston hardware firm. '-Puck.
A WOMAN who rode in the baggage-car,
rather than be separated from her pet dog,
attracted considerable attention on the
morning train over the White Mountain
division recently. She needed not the gibes
and sneers of rude spectators, but Rugged
her dog the closer and treated the curious
crowd with contempt.-COncordM Monitor.
BOB ELAN, a Baker county coon-hunter
gives us the following recipe for cooking a
coon: " Fust ketch de coon, den skin him,
den parbile him, take him off and put him
on agin and bring him down to a small
moist, and souz few pods er red pepper
and salt in his karkess, and eat him right
out oh de ubun. "-Leary Georgia Courier.
MASSACHUSETTS will be interested to learn
that on an original map of the world, by
which Alexander VI. divided the discoveries
between Spain and Portugal, and which is
now in the possession of the Vatican, all
the present United States form a blank
! space marked " Terra de Bacalaos,'' or The
Land of Codfsh.-CincinnaH Commercial
Gazette.
ASIA is said to possess the most powerfully
equipped hornets. The Indian Medical Ga
zette tells of a man who was bitten the
neck by one of them. Within ten minutes
he became cold, pulseless and unconscious
He was robust man, but the use of active
remedies only brought him to after a couple
of hours. The hornet was of medium size,
bright yellow and striped with black.
A PHYSICIAN who has studied the causes
of insanity offers the suggestion that the
brain of modern man may adapt itself in
course of time to the greater demands made
upon it. He argues that overpressure in
schools chiefly affects children whose pa
rents did not enjoy school training, and
who therefore did not inherit capacity for
brain-work. In a few generations this
factor will disappear.
HOBBS: $50 you're engaged, hey? Well,
Pm glad to hear it, Who is the lady, may
ask ?" Nobbs Miss Baxter of Boston"
Hobbs: ooh, yes. Miss Baxter, who comes
into possession of fortune on the first of
the year. | congratulate you. When is the
ceremony to take place 90 Nobbs: Well,
didn't want to have it said that / married
her for her money, so we've arranged the
wedding for the 31st of December"
CITIZEN to country editor: "a pleasant
little affair occurred last night at my house,
which terminated in the marriage of my
daughter. Would you like the particulars %
Country editor: Weller, might make a
short mention of the matter, but we are
badly cramped for space " a little later,
another citizen: "My wife ran away last
night with another man. Do you want the
particulars ?" Country editor eagerly:
Yes, yes; give me the whole business
Ne,C York san.
A CANADA thistle, which had taken root
in farmers garden, one day saw blade
of corn peeping out of the ground, and in a
tone of ridicule called out: "What "A little
one for a cent! 1t is wonder you have
cheek enough TO force yourself into my COM
pany." The blade continued to grow from
day to day, and it was of such bright
color and looked so thrifty that the thistle
finally called to the farmer, and said;
Really, but | can't put up with such i'm
pudence, and hope you will remove that
cornstalk at once" "And who are you ?''
queried the farmer, having for the first time
noticed the thistle Why, I'm the biggest
and handsomest Canada thistle in the bust
ness. My genealogy carries me back TO
King -" "Umph!" interrupted the
farmer. One grain of corn is of more value
than hundred thistles. Come out of that
by the roots"
Down in the basement of the treasury de-
partment is a room in which about dozen
pirls Sit and sort over the waSta Daper which