The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-21

think of naming my baby Harper and
should have done so If my story had been
accepted; but now no baby of mine will ever
bear the name of Harper You are all
mean set"
AT the beginning of the war Nathaniel
Kimball of York county, Pennsylvania, paid
debt he owed at the store with pumpkin
seed, on which he wrote: Good for
seventy-five cents-Nat Kimball." This
currency was accepted, and has passed as
current money throughout the community
ever since. Mr.. Kimball has tried to re-
deem the pumpkin-seed, but the owner will
not part with it.
PICKENs county, Georgia. has post-office
named Talking Rock" The origin of the
name is thus stated: " Some one discovered
in the vicinity large stone, upon which
had been painted the words Turn me
over 1t required considerable strength to
accomplish this, and, when it was done, the
command, Now turn me back, and let me
fool somebody else was found painted on
the under side of the stone"
A WESTERN editor, reading that pet
rified umbrella had been found in one of the
temples OF Nineveh, thinks it is one he lost,
and thus remarks upon the discovery: "a
description of this interesting relic is not
given, but II it is green Bingham umbrella,
with hook on the handle, it is probably
ours, for we missed one of the kind several
years ago, and just as likely as not it may
have found its way to Nineveh"
SOME time ago a learned German discov-
cred that the sting of bees was sure cure
for the worst case of rheumatism. Now the
recovery is reported, after one severe course
of bagpipe playing, of soldier who had lain
| fifteen months in a cataleptic state in a
Havana hospital. The principle of the first
cure was counter irritation; in the other in
stance it must have been soul-and-body-
searching torture.-Bu6dio Express.
A CURIOSITY in the shape of perfectly
hairless calf was born at Pawnee City, Ne
braska in the middle of March last. The
animal, now about five months Old is well
formed and apparently in perfect health,
! but its skin is quite destitute of hair. 1t is
a male, weighs over two hundred pounds,
and shows an appearance of horns. SO far
! as can be learned there is nothing in its
! pedigree to account for this departure from
the normal type. Both of its progenitors
were pure-bred Shorthorns.
A GOOD man to tend furnace Old
! King Cole - Far sealing men-Whale-
men, - Sic misunderstanding patient
to the hospital. - Too much beer may
cause you to all, and too much ale, now
don't think it queer, may, after awhile,
prove the porter who brings you at last
toyour bier. - The man who sells short
The dwarf 80 The vegetable for a
drummer beet. - Why is the man
who watches for his victim like the dis
honest grocer?-He lies in wait.-Trdceller.
n GOOD STORY Is uOlu Oh one OF our new uep-
uty marshals. The marshal sent him scire
tdcidS, with instructions that if the defendant
could not be found, to leave a copy at his
last place Of residence. When the deputy
reached the neighborhood he found that the
defendant was dead. After reading the in
structions carefully again he crept into the
graveyard and quietly laid the copy on the
defendants grave. The return reads as
follows: Served by leaving copy at de-
PENDANTS last residence. '-Greensborough
(N. CD North state.
OBEAHIsM, species of witchcraft is said
to be the curse of Jamaica. A recent trav-
eler was struck by the extraordinary actions
of a colored servant, who, instead of enter
ing through the middle of the open door,
skunk close to the posts and along the wall
of the room continually looking over his
shoulder, as though in dread of some I'M
seen but formidable power. This man, a
protested Christian, of good education and
fair attachments, believed himself to be the
victim of obeahism and was pning away in
sheer fright. Although obeahism is punish
able with five years penal servitude, it is
widely practiced throughout Jamaica, and
numbers among its believers many people
otherwise intelligent.