The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

and last from ten to eleven seconds. The
most careful measurements of the heights
of waves given were from fOrty-fOur to forty-
eight feet as an extreme limit.
SOME years ago the soft clam of the East
ern coast was introduced into the bay of San
Francisco, where 1t throve and has now in
creased exceedingly, The Pacific coast has
returned the compliment by sending its lit
tie round CLANS, which are much like our
" little necks," to be planted in the Attain
| tic. The United States fish commission
agents started in their car from Puget Sound
with five thousand packed in wet sand, and
after much difficulty succeeded in saving
about eight hundred, which are planted in
the beach at Woods Holl, Mass.
MAYOR GRACE of New York city has APP
pointed committee of citizens to raise New
York cty's share of the expense for the
erection of a national monument to General
Grant. Among the members are Samuel j.
| Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, A. b. Cornell,
William M. Evarts, George Jones, Thomas
| l.. James, Edward Cooper, Roscoe Conk-
ling, Noah Davis, George Bliss, Whitelaw
Reid, John Jacob Aston, General George b.
! Mcclellan, DIR. Fordyce Barker, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jesse Seligman, Joseph W.
Drexel, Hamilton Fish, Pierre Lorrillard and
Joseph Pulitzer
WITH moderate care and good usage a
horses life may be prolonged to twenty-five,
thirty-fve or forty years. An English gem
| tleman had three horses which severally
died in his possession at the ages of thirty
five, thirty-seven and thirty-nine years. The
oldest was in a carriage the very day he
died, strong and vigorous but was carried
off by spasmodic collie to which he was
subject. A horse in use at a riding school
in Woolwich lived to he forty years old, and
a barge horse of the Mersey Irwell Nav
igation Company is declared to have been
in his sixty-second year when he died.
THE most recent volcanic eruption in the
| United States was that which half filed
| Feather Lake, Northern California, in or
about the year 1850. This locality has lately
been visited by the eminent plutonist c. f.
| Dutton, who says that the lava sheet poured
out was over one hundred feet thick, and
covers a space about one by three and one
| half miles in extent, in the center of which
a cinder cone six hundred feet high, covers
the rent. The lava sheet is rough and jagged
in the extreme, he says, but shows as yet no
trace of weathering. For space of four to
five hundred yards from the cone the trees
We're all killed.
AMBROSE CHAPMAN, a Waterbury Conn }
farmer, has discovered way to kill snakes
which has heretofore been unknown. He
has for many years been a sheep-raiser on
the hills of Walcott and he says that his
sheep have a novel method of destroying
their enemy, the rattlesnake. As soon as
one of the reptiles approaches flock of
sheep they quickly but quietly form in a
line and walk round and round the snake,
breathing upon it as they pass, until it be-
comes stupefed and finally dies. Mr..
Chapman insists that he has seen the oper-
alton performed by his sheep a number of
times and always with success.
A BOX was shipped by express from Black
River Falls, Wisconsin, to Chicago, Satur-
day night. The messenger. Major Pierce,
became suspicious of the contents and tele-
graphed to the authorities in Elroy. Wis.
On the arrival of the train at that place the
box was opened, and inside was found a
man armed with thirty-eight calibre re-
volver, a billy, razor, bottle of choro-
form and bunch of cord. He refuses to
give his name. The box was shipped to
Sydney l.. Barnard Chicago. Two more
persons, supposed to be confederates, were
arrested there and all three are in Jail. 1t is
supposed that they had planned to rob the
mail and express car.
A LETTER scale has been invented neces-
STATED by the recent change in the postal
rate for letters. 1t is to be held in the hand
and the part grasped resembles a small table
knife. Where the handle joins the blade
one end of a piece of clock spring, about ten
, inches long, is attached. This spring is
curved upward in horseshoe form, the up
, per end passing through a slit in the knife
blade. At the extreme end the wire is bent
so as to catch and hold a letter. The slit in
, the blade is marked off from one to fouI
, ounces A letter placed on the end of the
, spring bends it more or less, and the ounce
, scale on the blade indicates the weight The
scale can be sold at retail for fifteen cents
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