The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-25
Notes and Opinions.

IT is said that rich Mormons are rails
ing big lobby fund for use in Wash
ington this winter.
AND now Acknowledgements Jones
of New York says President Cleveland
has no civil-service reform policy.
In Boston, the Advertiser states,
there have been fifty people killed and
eighteen injured by horse-railways
within year. Let Burlington take
warning.
THE joy of the mugwumps over the
defeat of George H. Sterling is greater
than their anguish over the victory of
David B. Hill. They are a wondrous
lot, and amid great griefs they find con-
ISOLATION in little blessings.-Sn.
THE Chicago free-trade conference
should have been held in Canada and it
should have taken the name of the
"Society for the Promotion of Foreign
Industries" If its policy should be
try would cease.-BoSton Journal.
PROMINENT mugwump, in speaking
of the spoils system, the other day.
gave utterance to the following start
ling statement: "This evil has now
assumed gigantic proportions, but,
thanks to our reform President, it will
soon be nipped in the bud. "-Tribme.
THE Times defines a mugwump to be
aperson who will "vote only for fit can
didates." The definition is arrogant
self-conceit teaching by example. A
mugwump is person who declines to
bow to the will of the majority, unless
it happens to be inclusive of his own
sweet will.-Iribome.
THE most pressing reform-the re-
form demanding the best efforts of
every patriotic citizen-is ballot-box re-
form. If the franchise is not secure,
all proposed popular reforms to be ac-
complished through the votes of the
people will prove to be farcical and i'm
practicable. Chicago Journal.
A SHEEP has been successfully Gre
mated at the Mount Olivet crematory
Now let them try mugwump, with a
temperature of $500 degrees. If in
fifteen hours the animals cheek is in
cinerated, the furnace may be ac-
counted success, and capable of re-
ducing the human body to powder by
4la nf . nf
for ten hours.-NeD York Star.
THE little boys of Europe, after
making faces and shaking fists in each
others faces, have come to blows. The
bigger boys, who have encouraged
them, are proposing to join the fray,
but at the last moment Schoolmaster
Bismarck may ring the bell and give
them to understand that the recess,
with its athletic sports, is over. If he
declares it a holiday, and refuses to in
terfere, there will be bloody noses be-
fore snow flies. Traveller.
THE senior partner in the great pub
fishing house of Oliver Ditson q Co.
(Mr. Oliver Ditson) has recently cele-
brated his seventy-fourth birthday
The foundations of this house were
laid in 1885, and Mr.. Ditson, who has
been identified with its growth from
the beginning, takes as active an inter
est in its affairs as ever. He is rare
example of the physical and mental
vigor which may accompany the closest
application to business.
The Boston Herald continues to
scent danger from the protective tariff.
1t warns the country that unless the
tariff is abolished European nations
will soon retaliate by taxing American
breadstuffs and meat products. A
foreign nation that can feed itself is
foolish to buy its food of America. If
it can't produce its own food it is
ridiculous to suppose that it will, for
any great length of time, add to the