The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

rum and whiskey are prescribed for chills.
pill is eight inches in diameter, and is not
liked by the patient.
ABOUT GO, 600 gallons of Bourbon whis-
key were represented by the Kentucky crops
of 1881 and 1882. There are nearly 10000
600 gallons of that amount still in hand,
about 5000 900 in foreign countries, and the
balance has been consumed.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has written letter
| to the assignees of John Roach, stating that
the contracts with that gentleman for the
construction of the cruisers Boston" At
| lanta " and " Chicago" have been forfeited,
and that the government will complete the
work.
DURING the firing of the mnute-guns at
! Mt. McGregor, last week Tuesday, Private
! Oldham of the Fourth Artillery was badly
! injured by the premature discharge of the
| piece. His face was torn open and the right
eye blown out, but 1t is thought he will re-
| cover.
THE deepest sea-soundings known were
made in the Pacific, where the line reached
down 4,575 fathoms, and off the east coast
| of Japan, 1900 fathoms. Thus 1t seems that
the greatest heights of mountains and the
greatest depths of the ocean correspond
very nearly.
A CITIZEN of Kansas has in his possession
the ballot he cast in voting for General
Grant in 1868. 1t was printed on silk, and
after it had been kept on file, as the law re-
qured, in the office of the clerk, he obtained
il and will hand it down to his children as
an heirloom.
NEBRASKA has now about 100000 acres of
growing forests, in which have been set
100000 young trees. Besides this there have
been planted over T., 100000 fruit trees, over
100000 grape vines, vast number of berry
bushes and plants, and countless quantities
of ornamental shrubs.
GRANADA is to-day in desperate condi-
ton from the cholera. The state of affairs
there is really worse than it was in Naples,
last year, during the cholera epidemic in that
city. There are no doctors now in Granada
and the dead bodies of cholera victims lie
unburied in the streets.
MACON COUNTY, Mo-, claims to have the
Oldest man in the country, if not the world.
| His name is Robert Gibson, and he is said
to have been born in Randolph county, n.
c., in 1867. This would make him one hum
dred and eighteen years of age. His mind
is bright and clear, but his body is feeble.
A LARGE crowd of people from Appomat-
toX courthouse assembled and draped the
house in which Generals Grant and Lee
signed the terms of surrender, in April
1865. in mourning. 1t is proposed to allow
the draping to remain thirty days, out of
respect to the memory of General Grant.
A VERY clever invention just brought out
has been shown in New York. BY simply
turning the handle of machine sound is
produced resembling the clapping of num-
Der of hands. The applause, by means of a
large funnel, is projected into the front of
the house. 1t is a French production.
In favorable seasons California counts it's
honey crop by the thousand tons, and bee
keepers find a good profit when extracted
honey commands no more than four or five
cents per pound and comb honey seven or
eight cents. This year, however, the honey
yield will be light, flowers being few and
nectar scant.
postage: n silver dollar weighs very nearly
an ounce. Hence any letter not heavier
than dollar can go for single two-cent
stamp. A five-cent piece added will give
the ounce. If you have not the silver dollar,
five nickels and small copper cent will
give an ounce weight.
WHILE digging at the tomb of General
Grant William McGiveny, park laborer,
found, about five feet below the surface, a
Spanish piece of silver, worth about twenty
five cents, and several George III. shillings.
The Spanish piece is well preserved. 1t
bears date of 1772, and the profile of Carolus
III. is perfectly distinct.
THE high license of Wisconsin, increasing
the minimum rate of saloon licenses from $40
to $500, has now been in force three months.
Returns from one hundred towns show that
the number of saloons has been diminished
by two hundred siXty-seven, and that the
aggregate amount of annual revenue is
E--f,ONp Sicttoci uIdh idop yCdi'
The experiment that was tried by Califor-
mia fruit-growerS, two years ago. in the ship
ment of apples to China and Australia, has
proved complete success. The shipments
were of good quality and took so well that
orders were repeated and increased and
the exports to China in. the past few months
have assumed large proportions.
THERE are five great bakeries in Philadel-
phia engaged in the manufacture of cakes
in between two and three hundred styles.
The dough is kneaded by hand, as no ma
chine has been invented for that sort of
labor, but the rolling, stamping and cutting
are performed by machinery. One thou.
sand barrels of flour are daily manufactured
into pastry.
AN interesting discovery was recently
made on the site of the ancient emporium
in Rome, built nearly two hundred years be-
fore the Christian era. In the course OF
some building operations there two ware
, houses were found, one filled with elephants
tusks and the other with lentils. The dis
covery would have been very valuable one
( were it not that the ivory was much decayed
, GEORGE H. HALLy of Lansingburgh, N
Y, has perfected a " water telescope" by
means of which, it is claimed the deepest
water can be inspected as thoroughly as
the water in the shallowest dish The tele.
scope is expected to prove very useful tC
sportsmen in locating the best fishing
grounds in any river or lake, as all fish car
be as easily seen in the deepest water as
: in a pail.
THERE is natural bridge spanning canoI
about twenty miles north of the point wher,
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad crosses tn,
boundary between New Mexico and Arr
: IONA. 1t is sixty-fve feet long and tifteer
feet wide at the narrowest point. 1t con
sists of tough grit rock underneath which
| the softer sandstones have been worn ava,
I to a depth of twenty-five to forty feet be
meath the arch. Near by is petrihed forest
THREE wagons filled with people returning
: from a picnic had race near the town o
t Jefferson, H., late Sunday night. Thu
horses We're dashed into run Suddenly
I drunken man in one of the wagons jumped
q up and snatched the lines from the driver
: The wagon was overturned and the occu
pants thrown out. The driver was Instant,
killed. falling under one of the horses, Will
: baby was knocked out of its mothers arm
= and mangled to death. Several other pee
pie were badly injured.
A TERRIFIC cyclone, sweeping up the Del
!, aware river last week, struck Philadelphi;
u near Greenwich Point, demolishing a por
u ton of the works of the Pennsylvania Sal
Manufacturing Company and injuring sew
e eral employees. In its ravages in CamdeI
d scores of dwelling-houses were unroofe