The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Pith and Point.

hltANBhitO lttu on IuTD-uDSs
CoNNEcTIcUT will have large apple crop
this year.
New HAMPSHIRE has law against double
taxation.
A PTTsBuRG church objects to having
flowers on the pulpit.
ARTIFICIAL human ears, made of celluloid.
are the latest novelty.
MIsERY-A girl with new dress and no
place to go-Nordthon Independent.
THERE are still public lands open to set
Element in nineteen states and eight terri
tories.
GERMAN biologists estimate that the Dead
Sea will be mass of salt thousand years
hence.
ONE of the October weddings in New York
will have the novelty of married men for
ushers
ONE hundred fifty inventions relating to
roller-skates have been patented since jan
uary LIST.
THE New York Herdld denies the report
of a proposed change in the proprietorship
of that paper.
BETTER times are coming, but not with
rush-like the falling dew rather than the
heavy shower.
THE national government will be asked to
pay about $4,000 as its share of the expenses
of General Grants funeral.
IT is estimated that nine thousand actors
! will start out of New York with travelling
combinations in the next two months.
THE Waterbury american thinks that st.
! Mime would be good name for the COM
bined cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
THERE will not be much roller-skating
next winter. The Kinks are generally being
| devoted to other purposes or torn down.
! Sun.
A CITIZEN of Barnegat, n. j., has three
acres in sunfowers, which are roughly esti-
mated to number between fifty and one hum
dred thousand.
Two Englishmen met in md-ocean on the
deck of steamer One asked, " Going
across?" " Yes, are you?" and then the con-
versation ended
DOES any one know of person having
been killed by lightning while asleep in bed?
An electrician in England says there is no
| such instance on record.
A Boston bank which daily receives a
large amount of money from Montreal has
each bill dipped into carbolic acid and then
dried.-BOStOn TrdCeiter.
THE rice harvest has begun in Louisiana,
and the crop is estimated at from 100000 to
100000 sacks, which is a wonderful in
crease over last year, when the yield was
100000 sacks.
A MISSOURI paper announces that, owing
to the absence of the editors on their vaca-
vices of gentlemen to edit the paper for
few weeks The Rambler.
IT is said that some of the wholesale oys-
ter-dealers of Boston have a happy way of
supplying their customers with Providence
river, Stamford and Norfolk oysters all out
of the same cask.-LoweU Mail.
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how from exDerience): "And the spanker,
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CALLING man big buffoon IN Naples Is
considered the highest honor you can pay
nm. DuHoohery Is d me aru uhere' aequllI1
liiS uhilll!'eu ,aients, ailia.e'io aio oia? ;
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IT is amusing to hear man who left the
stone-heap of farm in his boyhood days to
go to college and finally become lawyer,
because his father thought him too lazy to
WORK az manual Ia tiS get up at a Gaetle
SNOW uliiiier Anu teil ,nT ooys noV " leaNe
'iie ldilh' "o'ceS'e' I"'eS'
LADY from New York, who was on
board the steamer " Ticonderoga on Lake
George at the time of the accident, was so
agitated that she rushed up to the captain
and, throwing her arms around his neck,
pathetically asked him if there was a
: telephone on poaru'-ute"S fduS f"'eS'
A CORRESPONDENT says: "The old-fash-
Toned crier at Salem who has opened the
courts here for two hundred fifty years with
his Hear We, hear We, all persons, etc, will
! be heard no more" Salem has certainly
lost a wonderful institution in crier who
has been able to fulfill his duty for two hun
bred fifty years.
STATE Mate of the value of $3.50, 900 was