The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-18
Pith and Point.

THE name of new town in Fayette
county, Penn, is Seldom Seen.
DAKOTA has voted in favor of prohibition
and is to make Huron the state capital.
THERE is still open traffic in slaves in Bra
zil, but they are no longer sold at auction.
AN Albuquerque IN. M Judge kept jury
out for thirty-six hours without anything to
eat or place to sleep.
BAKED apples are becoming very popular
as d breakfast dish, and are on the bill of
fare of many leading New York hotels.
AT Acworth, Ca, a few days ago, two
persons about to enter into the bonds of
matrimony stood on tombstone to be
welded.
THE new Notifications around Paris are
no safeguard, according to German military
authorities, but its siege would be more
difficult than in 1870
The colored people of Kansas town
began protracted meeting" in August,
1884, which has continued ever since with
out emitting night.
AMONG the callers at the White House,
the other day, was a bride with the third
husband she had taken there on a wedding
tour She promised not to do it again.
OF thirteen lynchings, conducted by one
band of vigilantes in Montana during the
last three months, it is claimed that the
right man was hanged in twelve instances
The Russian government has decided that
liquors shall be retaied only in hotels and
eating-houses. AS result of this edict,
10000 vodka-shops will be closed on jan
uary /, 1886.
A CHINESE banker, Han Qua of Canton,
is said to be the wealthiest man in the
world. He pays taxes upon an estate of
$3.50, 600, 600. and is estimated to be worth
$1,400,000,000.
A VERMONT man recently went into his
yard and whistled for his dog, but bear
answered it instead. Whereupon the man
fed. Some men are never satisfied.-Ne,C
York Grdphic
The opinion now held by Cloverdale
physicians that raw cows milk is better
FOR children than boiled " is very gratifying,
as raw COW gives much more milk than a
boiled one.-Clooerdale Receilte.
A PLANT lately discovered in South
America is said to possess strong electric
properties. When twig is broken dis
tinct shock is felt, and compasses are af-
fected at a distance of several feet.
THE following is the reply given by one of
our prominent scholars: Teacher" What
are metamorphic rocks?" Pupil" Meta
morphic rocks are rocks containing meta
phor. abingdon (Mdss) Courier.
A New YORK physician says if man will
take hot bath and lie in bed sixteen hours
he will arise three-quarters of an inch taller
than when he turned in. He says he got q
short man appointed on the police force in
just that way.
If the scheme to dry up the Zuyder Zee
in Holland, which is again revived, is car.
ried to completion, it will add to Dutch
territory a province twice the, size o.
Utrecht This problematical land has al
ready been named Willemsland.'
A CALIFORNIA blacksmith is dangerously
ill with CHAMBERS, contracted while shoeine
horse, and Pennsylvania woman il
c,,ffa nj fro, cd n,ly1 10 taf
while "shooing hen. There seems to bt
fatality about this shoeing business.
A CALIFORNIA paper says that a couple o
owls have been caught in Churchill county
New, which have hair on their faces, like ;
monkey, and eyes and eyebrows like hui
man being The body of one is speckleC
like trout and that of the other is yellow.
DURING the last fifty years Mohammedan
ism has made great strides on the ives
coast of Africa, whence it is striking bach
into the interior, and the prediction is freel.
made that ere long the Christian mission
aries will have to reckon with it rathe
than with paganism.
" DEDICATION is great thing" said an OF
country resident of means. Il haven't GO
much myself, but like to see it in Others
Ii money kin buy it, my boy Jim will hay
college eddication." What college vii
you send him TOP" "Well, 1 dunno.
s'pose Vassar is as good as any of 'em."-
New York Times.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN, before his death
was preparing for the publication of a boo
that his friends will publish General Fit
John Porter says: "The publication of tn
book is necessary to General Mcclellan
reputation, and, furthermore, it will sc
right many errors in history and do ava
with many misapprehensions."
THIS is from Albany, in the state
Georgia: The other day disciple of Blacl
stone was going home, carrying 'possun
when he met friend, who said: Hello
you going to c do with himg" "Im going a Il
have big 'possum supper" How man
will be Thereof "Two-me and the 'po
sunni"
CART is wonderful thing. The paintt
Rubens could change the face of a laughin
child into that of crying child by coup
of dashes with his BRUSH" said an Austi
lady to professor of the University
Texas. "There is nothing wonderful abol
that. l can do that with one well-directe
cut of peach switch. I've done it time an
again" replied the professor.
DuMLEY had accompanied friend hon
to dinner, and, as they seated themselves
the table, the hostess remarked: 81 tru
that you will make allowances, Mr.. Dur
ley. My servant left me this morning vel
unexpectedly, and was compelled to coo
the dinner myself" oh, certainly, II
dear madam, certainly" responded Dumle
with much empresSement, 81 can put I
with anything York Mail.
DR.. MAzzoTTI tells of man who had
scorbutic affection, which he set about
cure with whiskey. He got well of til
trouble, but became hard drinker, al
soon found himself the victim of a rare di
ease called opisthoporia. This curious a
lection consists in inability to walk forwar
When the patient was told to advance,
used every effort to do so, but could on
succeed in going backward, and he co
finnp1 IN Ia % 1nfi ha cd
FLATS are increasing in unpopularity
New York. 1t is said that there are nc
nearly two thousand of them for rent in Il
city. One objection is that it is difficult
learn who are the fellow-occupants of t
building and the latter may have dangt
GUS diseases without ones knowing
Another is the number of unwecome part
who live in them. In Boston the populari
OF these houses seems undiminished, a.
they are increasing at rapid rate.
School superintendent should be carei
what they say in the hearing of pupi
AT Warwick, Penn. the other day, the
perintendent visited school and allud
to the shabby condition of the furnitu
which, he said, was only fit for kindli
wood. On Saturday night the boys bro
into the school-house, took out the des
and seats and made bonfire CT them. T
Taxpayers charge the superintendent w
melting incendiarism. -iSprinqfeld Union.
THE students of the University of Tex
are ALWAYS Dlayinp some game on the %