The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
Pith and Point.

A FRENCH doctor boasts that he c
change the shape of a mans nose.
THE late Emory A. Storrs is said never
have worn a neckte second time.
THE Florida orange crop promises to
the largest ever raised in that state.
THE overcoats made of buffalo-hides ha
nearly doubled in price since last year.
A NANTUCKET woman claims to have h
a wart taken off her nose by faith-cure.
THE Lewiston Journdl insists that the
were never so many total abstainers as no
A VIGILANCE committee is to aid
authorities of Montreal in their war up
smallpox.
WAITER: " Will you have some salt wi
your eggs 2" Guest: " No, thanks; tn I
amt at all fresh"
THE latest map OF the British dominica
includes lands at the South Pole as well |
islands near the Antarctic Circle.
A FRENCHMAN says the feet of all Engli |
| girls are long and square-toed. Perhaps
| has been caught within reach of them.
THE school board of Plainville Conn, hi
| voted to employ no teacher who will nj
agree to remain single during the schoI
year.
GOVERNOR RoBIE says that the reasd
farmers sons flock to the cities is becaui
! the average income of a Maine farmer is on|
$3.50 year.
THE fashionable dog is no longer the pud
| but the King Charles and Blenheim spanid
| Toy Yorkshires are said to be also comm
into fashion.
81 WAS poor man once" remarked Get
eral Fremont to the late Sheriff Merritt
who served writ on him at Nahant, " bl
now ! owe millions"
WE are getting to make our schools ma
ter of cOddling. The boys and girls wi
are injured by too much study are as scar,
as white ackbirds.-LoWeH Courier
"WHEN / was young" said a boastf
dame to Lord Houghton, " half the your
men in London were at my feet" Reall
Chiropodists, eh?' was the reioinder.
THEY didn't pick that stuff quick enoug
did they, mammal" asked little boy, as |
passed a grocery where several cakes
limberger were taking breathing spell on
side.-St. Pant Herdid.
A PARTY of teamsters at Fresno, Cal, e
countered a dense swarm of bees, viii,
darkened the air as far as they could Sc
and were obliged to unhitch their hors
and flee to avoid being stung to death.
A WRITER in the bulletin Generate
Therdpeutigue says that refrigeration of Il
lobe of the ear will stop hccough, whatev
y
such as a drop of water, is said to
sufficient
JUMBO the heavyweight champion in Il
elephantine ring, is gone! After havil
had his praises sounded in two continent
he is at last run down, fatally-not throus
a malicious motive, but by an ordinary loo
motive.-RecOrd
STOCKTON teacher to boy in gramm
class: John, correct the following Sc
4 4 III.
wipes the perspiration from his forehe
with his shirt-sleeve: | are burned hot
-Cdl0ornid Paper.
WITHIN the century ending in 1927 fort
two persons died in the town of Hingha
Mass, aged ninety years and upwar
Two of these were centenarians. The col
piler of these statistics himself died in 49,
in his ninety-first year.
WHEN it is intended to raise monumel
there are seven rules to be observed. Fir.
Raise enough money to build the mon
ment. Second: Well, come to think of
it doesn't make much difference about t
other six rules.-Phjlddelphid cal.
: Two illterate beggars were seen, the otl
day, near the Pare Monceau, Paris. weari
on their necks two insert ptions-upon t
blind man, Fell from the fifth story
Upon the cripple, " A woman's vengeance
The placards had been exchanged.
, a LIGHTNING artist has secured pho
, graph of pistol bullet in its flight. He "
/, next try to catch the shadow of a mai
weeks salary when his wife, DESTROYS o
,, new fall bonnet, has got the wealth in
possession Cincinnati Commercial GdzeH
JOSH BILLINGS seated himself at tab
recently, threw his handkerchief across O
l knee and lectured upon The Probab
/ ties of Life" Il have been trying for
A last forty years to find ont at what time
: life man is most foolish and when | fl
: out I'll let you know, he told his audien
= CHOLERA failed to strike single one
. the four thousand women employed in
/, national tobacco factory at Valencia, Spa
, though the disease ragged violently in I'll
, city, and the Medicdl World recalls ii
tobacco-workers We're also noticed to enj
{ exemption from attack during an epiden
> at Amsterdam.
, A WESTERN man, who was touring throu
5 the East, in passing meadow, heard I
5 driver say: " A bandon the direct progr
) sion to the straight thitherward, and
r viate by inclinatory and aberrant deXt
! gyration into a deXtral incidence" 1t "
3 an amateur Boston farmer saying "g
Buck " to his yoke of oXen.-Inter- Ocean.
LEAGUE of Pity - is a striking name
F. an organization of men. 1t is a club j
, formed in London for 4" the promotion of p
sOnal purity, respect toward womanki
{ and suppression of bad literature" T
, promoter of this association gives up OF
J fourth of his yearly professional income
, of thousand dollars for the hire of
meeting-rOom.