The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-25
Pith and Point.

ABOUT 10000 people visit the tomb of Gen
eral Grant daily.
THE emperor of China is moving in favor
of railroadism in his country.
TOPEKA, Kansas, has spent $500 in four
new school-buildings this year.
PLATINUM wire may now be drawn so fine
as to be invisible to the naked eye.
THOSE who eat boiled onions cannot hope
to be free from the breath of suspicion.
IT is thought that the section of Iowa near
Des Moines will prove a natural gas region.
PROFESSOR SARGENT says the nutmeg hicx-
DRY of Arkansas is the strongest wood in the
United States.
MooNsToNE buttons, with narrow gold
rims, are the newest things in shirt-studs for
mems evening dress.
A TOY for the coming holidays is bear
that works so naturally as to scare little
boys and girls into fits
AUSTRALIA is in bad way financially.
The earnings of railways are small and trade
of all kinds exceedingly dull.
Do LEWIS says that wearing large, thick.
heavy boots and blue hand-knit stockings
will improve awoman's complexion.
AN awful sense of loneliness must fall
upon Mormon when he is snatched from
eight or ten wives and thrust into durance
vile.-Chicago Inter- ocean.
A SINGLE ticket from Boston to Denver
and return was recently sold in Boston for
S2,4Sl. 1t carries party of nine in special
car with stop-over privileges.
PROFESSOR BINz finds that coffee is an alb
solute antidote to alcohol, if it be taken in
sufficient quantity. Dogs saturated with
caffeine could not be made drunk.
A PROMINENT physician says the health
lest persons are those who live in the top
story That's so. Who ever heard of cats
dying with consumption?-N. Y. Journal
"SHoULD thou prove false to me, to the
dark and dreary woods I'll f1ee," sang the
poet, but on second thoughts he only fled to
Camden and opened meat shop.-PhHddet-
phid Gail.
THE young violiniste, Signorina Teresima
Tua, has just signed an agreement with the
impresario, Mr.. Henry Klein, for grand
tour in America in 1867, for which she is to
receive $4,000.
FROM private sources at Washington it is
learned that the soldiers on guard at Gar
fields tomb are to be removed ON January
LIST next. The tomb has now been guarded
by the military for four years.
a RECENT investigator into the causes of
consumption says that the disease is often
inherited because the heir has taken for his
personal use the decedent's old mattresses,
upholstered chairs and carpets.
The president of a life insurance COM
pany recently received letter, in which the
writer said In case of deth please ex-
plain to me what the airs would get when
dye,"-AUentolcR (Penn) Register.
THE St. Johnsbury (vt.) postmaster com
plains that of nineteen special delivery let
tiers passing through his Office in October,
one-half were love-letters. How does he
know they were love-letters?-N. Y. San.
SUCCESSFUL trials were recently made in
the Thames river with clothing made of a
newly-invented texture, which renders the
wearer perfectly buoyant. Fine threads OF
cork are interviewer with wool, silk or other
material in the cloth.
81 DO not grieve at the prospect of DEATH"
remarked fat Thanksgiving turkey, but
the thought of what am to suffer at the
hands of the Yankee Doodle Photographer is
what makes the tears trickle down my beak
and causes me to beak cast down."
MUSTARD plants used to be the terror and
disgust of the California wheat-grower.
Now they are source of profit By in
genious mechanical harvesting both crops
are gathered separate and the mustard is
worth more than the wheat on the same land.
MAN wants to sell a farm in which
meandering streams and rivulets permeate
luXuriant pasture, singing as they flow,
while majestic oaks and stately naples at
tract the eye of the beholder, and cultivated
orchards give promise of fruit second only
TO that of the Hesperides."
HE ITttkS utNOuTtu lit IltSH Vi lHt
hedgehog. When it has been well-fed it is
sweet and well-tlavored and the flesh is
eaten in many places in England and on the
Continent. An American gentleman who
partook of this dainty, stewed, on the other
side says it reminded him of quail.
IT is said on good authority that just be-
fore the outbreak of cholera in Toulon the
swallows suddenly disappeared from the To-
cality. An oticer in the Bengal cavalry said,
in reference to this, that during cholera
epidemic in India he had noticed that,
though many of the dead remained unburied,
all the carrion-eating birds had disappeared.
"PooR George" said fond mother. re-
ferring TO her son, who is home on vaca-
ton from college. Poor George! l am
afraid he is studying too hard Last night
he was reading in his room until after one
o'clock" "What was he reading?" inquired
the old man. " English literature, he said.
Hoyle, think, was the name / saw ON the
cover. "-Nep York san.