The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Pith and Point.

THE Sultan of Turkey has $50 wives. His
personal expenses are S12,O00,0O0 per year
THE latest popular song in Australia is
said to be Straighten the Toes of My
Buried Leg"
"MRs. j. SMITH, 2. MRS" is the way the
new postmistress in an Indiana town writes
her official name.
THR exact expense Of the funeral Of Victor
Hugo has only just been added up and given
to the world. 1t amounts to S2O,306.40.
SIXTY tons of almonds were gathered from
sixty-five acres on the Oakshade farm in
Yolo county, California, the present season.
CAcKLINo hens are of great value in
boarding-house yards. They lead the
sboarder to think his breakfast eggs are
freshly laid.
A LITTLE girl, busy in making pair of
worsted slippers, said to young companion
near her: "You are lucky, you are. Your
papa has only got one leg"
A SoMERvILLE (Mass) teacher punished
a little boy by making him hold red pepper
in his mouth. Burns were caused which re-
suited in his illness and death.
A JUSTICE of the peace in Groton, Conn,
was obliged, not long ago, to content him
self with kiss from the bride in lieu of a
marriage fee. He has now put up placard,
ItIliS Cdons
ANTON RuB1NsrEIN is now giving in vi
emma his Cyclus, or series of seven concerts,
illustrating the whole history of piano
music. Selections from the works of thirty
one composers are to be performed,
A DEATH certificate was so filed in by a
Chicago doctor as to have it appear he had
killed his patient. He wrote his own name
inadvertently in the space where the cause
of death should have been specified.
A If 20
"Norma will shortly be given at Milan.
A troupe of performers undertake to whistle
through the whole of the opera, the choruses
being executed by sixteen whistlers.
DIR. PRINGLE lately demonstrated before
the British Society of Arts that in the Him.
alayan portion of India incubation against
smallpox " had been Dracticed from what
might be termed time immemorial."
The new ballet, " Amor" which is about
to be produced at Milan, requires 250 dams
euses and 1900 costumes, besides an ele-
plant, fourteen horses, twenty dogs and
quite menagerie of monkeys and bears.
A PAPER in Oswego mentions that James
Clark and wife /" were born, died and were
buried on the same day" The life of this
remarkable couple was very brief but ex-
ceedingly eventful.-Shoe and Leather Re
porter.
THE trees on Boston Common are again
labeled with their names, common and
systematic, as was the case many years ago
when Gould, the naturalist, was alive. The
Common thus becomes an object lesson in
botany.
IT is calculated that there are in Canada
from 10000 to $1,000 lacrosse-players, 1900
curriers', 1000 snow-shoers, 5000 or 1900
cricketers 1000 football-players, 900 row.
ing-men, 1000 base-ballists and 1000 BIZ
cyclists
THERE appears to be an agreement among
recent medical writers that water is fatten-
ing, or at least favors a fulness and round
ness of the body. 1t should be drunk at its
natural temperature and in considerable
quantity.
WAITRESS Ito DIR. Pullem, the dentist, who
is greatly annoyed by her constant use OF
his title in addressing him): Tomatoes
doctor" DR.; Pullem: Thanks; no
Waitress: Corn, doctor?" Doctor: " No
Observation-Disclosures.
"NExT door, said dapper clerk in an
Albany furnishing-shop to a fat-necked
stone-cutter, who asked for a nineteen-incf
collar. The fat-necked man backed out Of
the next door in a hurry when he found
that it was harness-shop.
A YOUNG mother, travelling with her in.
FAINT child writes the following letter to her
husband at home: 1--WE are all doing wei
and enjoying ourselves very much. We are
in fine health. The baby can crawl about
on all fours. Hoping the same may be sale
OF you, l remain etc.
GENTLEMEN" said an auctioneer, with
true pathos, " if my father and mother stood
where you stand and did not buy this stew
pan-this elegant stew-pan, going at on'
dollar-I should feel it my bounden duty, a.
a son, to tell both of them they were false t.
their country and false to themselves"
THE megaloscope is new apparatus lately
brought to the notice of the Academic de-
Sciences. 1t is armed with an incandescen
1.z.lt 4 4.
bladder and other cavities of the body. b,
its means an objective lens may be carrie,
into the cavity and a magnifed image of it
interior be obtained for the physicians in
spection.
81 WANT some pie said young Angus a
dinner at his grandfather's. I" Have pa
tience," said his grandmother. Whicl
would you rather have" asked his grand
father, patience or pie?' Pie" replie'
Angus, emphatically. " But then" said hi
grandfather, " there might not be any lef
for me-" WE'LL" said the small boy, yol
could have patience"
THE moderation in drinking practiced b.
their American visitors tells heavily on tn
profits of the great hotels in London ant
other cities frequented by them. One pre-
prietor felt that he had good cause for com
plant when Mr.. Mackay engaged an ex
pensive suite of rooms for six weeks, AM
yet drank only three shillings and sixpenc
worth of wine during the time.
The origin of the expression, Wave tn
bloody shirt" is said to have been an OF
currence in Illinois before the war.
murder had been committed in Pekin
and Abraham Lincoln was employed t
assist the district attorney of Tazewe
county in the prosecution. In his addres
to the jury Lincoln displayed the nethe
garment of the murdered man profusel
stained with blood. The garment, swaye
back and forth with his long arms Will
he was pleading in impassioned tones mad
most imposing and dramatic scene. TIL
murderer was convicted
THIS, from the San Francisco Alta, looks q
if it could not be beaten: "a small boy
Quincy, in this state, went up the mountain
side full of pleasure at the first fall of snow
AT the summit he slipped and rolled dow
the hill, becoming the nucleus of a vas
SNOWFALL which hopelessly imprisoned hin
He was missed after several hours, and til
searchers got on the track of the snowba
and trailed it to where it had leaped from
cliff to a canon. Looking down, they coul
see it lodged in the boughs of pine tre'
They, finally got it. broke it open and foun
the boy. inside, alive, but rather chill.
Upon this incident we rest the reputation
California for the season."
SAM JONES turn story was told at til
Methodist church, Friday night as follows
There was a married couple with half
dozen children and only one bed. I'll
whole family slept on that one bed-an
were so thick that one couldn't turn owe
unless all did. So when any one got tire
sleeping on one side he'd say turn an