The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-23
Pifh and Point.


York.
A BOTTLE of pepper-sauce is mentioned as
one of the wedding presents : an Iowa
bride.
AN inventor in Japan has succeeded in
making good quality of paper from sea-
weed.
The authorities of Providence have de-
cided not to grant licenses to roller skating
Kinks next year.
THE touching ballad, Mother, is My
Collar Clean?" brings tears to the London
audiences of the people.
A WRITER in the National Druggist says
that hens will lay profusely all winter If
served with two warm meals day.
IT Is a fact not generally known that the
black marten fur now so much worn is
nothing more nor less that polecat fur.
ONE of the curiosities of Oxford is a
much-admired portrait of Fuller an emf
nent painter, taken by himself when drunk.
THERE are twenty-three establishments
in Paris whose business it is to write adj
dresses for circulars and advertisements to
be sent through the mail
IT is stated that Rev. G.. G. johnson of
Twiggs county, Georgia, who is seventy-tive
years of age, is the father of thirty-six chill
dren TWENTY-FIVE of whom are living.
n COW bUdU uObS dCuudIly Jump ONtT but
moon, while cat tiddles ferociously be-
meath, may be seen among the wonderful
new Christmas toys Worcester Gazette.
THIS is specimen of photography in
letter received from an applicant for office
in this city: al hop thee Bord will bee kinder
huff too xkuze missteaks. "-BostonJ Journal.
THE late Marshal Serrano of Spain, dur
ing his political career, saw eighty-four
changes of ministry in that country, forty re-
bellions and twelve changes in the head of
the state.
No matter how humbly tolls the mechanic
or clerk, he is sure of a happy day when
Christmas comes and his saved wages go to
the ones beloved in the shape of PRESENTS
Cincinnati Times.
WILLIAM BENDER of Cincinnati recently
threw into fire package containing S4O,-
900 in government bonds. He had been
drinking heavily and fancied some of his
relatives were after his wealth.
THE Wall street Neoos has figured out that
if Mr.. Vanderbilts fortune, aggregating
S200,OO0,0O0, was in standard silver dollars it
would require 25S twenty-ton cars, which
would make a train two and four-tenths
miles long, to carry it.
PLANNING a campaign: Mamma please
cut off my hair, 50 when Santa Claus sees
my head sticking out of bed he won't take
me for little girl and put dollies and beads
in my stocking, cause want a gun and a
drum. "-Aarper's Young People.
THE Union Pacific Railway Company now
operates 400 miles of road and either con-
trolls or has proprietary interests in 1,305
miles more-total, 1854. In operating this
system, which penetrateS five states and
territories, over $1,000 men are employed.
AN object of public curiosity near New
Philadelphia, Ohio, is man who never
shears the wool from his sheep, or plucks
his geese, or rings his swine He says
it is sinful to interfere with nature. His
own hair and beard are never shorn, nor are
his nails cut. Every utensil about the farm
is homemade
The sheriff of Monroe, Ga, last week at
tached the animals in a circus for a debt Of
$4,000. An elephant, monkeys, a sea-lion
etc, were quietly turned over to him, and
he has since been in quandary. He cannot
handle or do anything with the animals
and the circus men simply stand off and en-
joy his discontinue.
In Port Jervis, N Y, Frederick Richards
is ninety-two years old, and for forty-siN
years, and until recently, has carried tn,
mail from Gould's to Long Eddy, Sullivan
county, fifteen miles, three times a week
In all that time he has driven only three
horses on the route, his present horse being
over thirty years old.
The Birmingham Medical Rerie1c tells o
an old Highlander who was ordered by hi
doctor not to exceed two ounces of spirit
daily. He asked his son how much liquo
What a guild doctor" said the Highlander
Run and tell Donald McTavish and Bis
John tae cam doom the NIGHT"
FROM the German: A teacher took al
apple from one of the boys during schoo
hours. After awhile the teacher ate up tn
apple while the pupils were busy with thei
sums. The lad, noticing this, began t.
cough. What is the matter with YOU?
inquired the dominic. oh, please, sir-th
apple has gone down the wrong way"
LAKE GLAzIER, the newly found sourc
of the Mississippi, is a sparkling little gel
of a lake above Lake Itasca, which nestle
among the pines of wild and unfrequente
region of Minnesota, just on the dividin
ridge which forms the great watershed c
North America 1t was discovered in 1SS
and is about mile and half in creates
diameter.
A NOTABLE case-or group of cases-o
longevity is remarked in Cornwall, England
On October 49, 171S, Stephen Hickes was al
pointed to be rector of Blisland. He wa
succeeded in April, 1880, by William Py'
and he in turn gave place in February
1884, to Francis Woolcock Pye, who is tn
present incumbent. Only three rectors il
167 years is a remarkable record.
Mrs. BREEZE 81 am so sorry, Della, t
hear that you have had trouble with you
husband" Mrs. Geeze: "You have bee
misinformed, Amelia; merely a little dist
greement. You know married people cal
they? Well, we always agree. In fact
make it a point to see that we do agree;
rather that John agrees with me, whc
amounts to the same thing. "-Phiiadelph
CAL.
A FEW days ago a well-known socet
young man shocked one of his lady frien'
by his ignorance of history. 1t was after
dinner party at his house, and she was tel
ing him what she had learned in her pI
waite history class. One thing led to anothe
and all the time he was getting into deep,
water AT last she surprised him by j
quiring, " Now, tell me, Mr.. -, VIII
are the Knights of the Bath?" He staI
mered for awhile, and finally blurted ou
Why, Saturday nights, l suppose. "-Bl
.fdlo Courier.
"REBECCA you shall nod spheak init d
Moses Levi vonce more" "Oh, ladder, "
preak mine heardt. We vos almost engage
Wy shall | not spheak of him?' He h
sheated me. He hat sold me paste di
mond for shenuine shtone." "Oh, faddt
dot should recommends him to you as a so
in-law. III he can fool wise man like yo
see vat fortune he hat in der chewelry p
mess" "Vell, Rebecca, you vas schmard
as / thought. Get married ven you liz
/ am ankchious to go into partnership wi
mine in-law!-Ndtional Weekly
THE Palmer House, Chicago can boast
barber shop which is the most magnitice
establishment of the kind in the wor
The proprietor runs thirty-siX chairs a.
pays "a rental of $4,000 year; yet the sh
is said to pay better than any other in I
in the line The marhl