The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30
Pith and Point.

In Norway ladies are charged only half
prices when travelling.
NOT more than one-third of the people of
Mexico can read and write.
COOP news for the poor-pills and other
patent medicines are cheaper.
APPARENTLY there are two stars develop
ing in the nebula of Andromeda.
A DOG in Providence sits before piano
and yowls while he paws its keys
IT is now claimed that Louis Riel was on
American soil when captured by Canadian
pursuers.
THE remains of mastodon are to be seen
one mile south of Fort Meade, on Peace
river, Florida.
WELL-DIGGERs in Dakota hunt for ant
hills. The wise insects always locate over
vein of water
A MAN is oftener judged by his hat and
shoes than any other articles of Dress
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
THERE are about seventy steamers of
various sizes plying the st. Johns river
Florida, and its tributaries.
1t is singular that when any subject like a
turkey is laid on the table its points are
taken up and discussed at once.
IT is useless to say New Orleans has no
drainage system. The drainage of the city
treasury is perfect.-Nec orleans Picoy,tne.
JUMBO the great elephant, had three OBJ
| jects of fear-a mouse, cat and a rat. He
would howl at the sight of a cat and shiver
at rat.
BoNNETs, both autumn and winter are, if
anything, smaller than ever, and fit the face
closely. Individual taste is to be shown in
the trimming
A SUBSCRIBER asks an exchange: When
is the best time to marry" Mr. Enpeque says
the best time for such a ceremony is on the
31st of February.
MYRoN w. WHITNEY has signed con-
tract to sing in one hundred entertainments,
under the direction of Theodore Thomas,
during the coming season.
AT Liskheard, Cornwall, a man has made
for himself hat, coat, trousers, cape and
| shoes of ratskins. The number of rats re-
quired to make the suit was six hundred
! seventy.
A NATIVE of Madagascar, who studied
medicine in Edinburg and returned home.
now has seventy young men studying
under him, and large class of women
whom he is training for nurses.
BELvA A. LOCKWOOD buttons her shoes
with silver hairpin. This, it strikes us, is
| rather at variance with the recent statement
that her lecturing tour in California was a
financial failure Philadelphia CaU
IT is said of the late f. A. Storrs of
! Chicago that although he had no expensive
]
money, and that although "A brilliant stump
! speaker, he made no votes for his party.
"a coon played me de meanest trick you
! cher heard of. | fon' a hole whar de coon
went inter de ground, and | waited dar all
| day long to shoot dat coon, and when he
did come out he was polecat '-ArkdnsdW
Trdceler.
THE authorities of the Congo Free State
have forbidden the importation into that
| country of percussion guns and breech-
leaders, and announce that they will fine
any trader $4,000 francs who violates this
| regulation.
Poor old Jumbo will be sadly missed. He
was a great curiosity-not alone in size and
shape, but in being what the circus-bill said
he was. He was the only thing in all cir
Gus and menagerie history that was not
disappointment.
IT is estimated that not less than two
million Towering plants, at an average
annually in New York for the embellish-
ment of the windows and gardens of that
city and its suburbs.
A Recorder man ran across a Sumter
county farmer, recently, who has family
of eleven children the oldest being twenty
three years. and neither the man, his wife,
| nor any of his children can read or WRITE
AmericUS (Gd,) Recorder.
A FARMER in Little Compton, r. L., who
makes "A speciality of keeping fowls and has
about seventeen thousand says that each
clears for him on an average about one
dollar a year. On this great farm the natu-
raj way of Matching chickens is not prac-
ticed at all.
eyes. sir" said the disappointed office
seeker made twenty-seven free speeches
in the open air for the successful candidate,
and injured my health To such an extent
that | never expect to recover, and yet am
refused the paltry office | want" "Why
We're you refused?'' at was thought
couldn't fill the place satisfactorily on ac-
count of my health. "-ErchdaGe,
A WEDDING cake ordered for one of the
October bridal receptions will be surmounted
by a tower of candy, in which will be live
birds. The bride is to break the artificial
cage with tiny hammer and liberate the
birds. Whereupon all the assembled COM
pany will be expected to say: How
lovely" What a pretty idea!' " Well
declare; what will they do next?"--Ne,o
York NAL.