The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-13
Pith and Point.

The earthquake was failure, but the to-
tai eclipse of Virgins was grand success.
-PhHddelphid CAL.
ACCORDING to an exchange a pinch of
snuif sufficient to produce good sneeze
will cure hiccough.
In the race of life it doesn't take very
long for poverty to overtake laziness. Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
A BEAN-PoD raised at Leroy Ill this sea-
son is said to have measured two feet and
three inches in length.
THE president has just purchased a mag
nificent upright piano for the country house.
1t cost $1,000 and was built to order.
NEBRASKA farmer says that acres of
corn are growing this year without ears. 1t
Is probably tired of hearing about low prices.
THERE is an artesian well / 900 feet deem
in Aberdeen, Neb., that throws out num-
bers of fish that look like the ordinary
brook minnow.
In order to get ahead of Virgins we now
predict that January will be snowy. We
shall point with pride to this prediction
further Philadelphia CdH
THERE are 100000 school children in
Prussia, of whom 100000 attend the pub
lie schools. There is an average of one
teacher for seventy-eight children.
The greatest balloon in the world has
been made in San Francisco. 1t holds
10000 cubic feet of gas and was made to
traverse the country from ocean to ocean.
THE following item is clipped from the
Los Angeles Express of September 16; "Died
Mrs. DIR. White, September 9TH, of ty-
phoid fever, caused by Los Angeles drink
ing water"
THERE is a man in Wisconsin who is the
owner of sixty newspapers. And still we
send money to the Charleston sufferers and
allow such abject poverty as this to go un-
relieved.-Ly1m Union.
" l NEVER heard o. putin spittoons on
the side o the house before! " remarked an
old countryman, as he walked up to our
telephone transmitter and made a bulls
eye the first shot Hammond, Ind. Tribune
THOMAS WILKINSON of Adrian Mich,
shaved for the last time about six years ago.
Since then his beard has grown at the rate
of about an inch a month. Thomas must
be hirSute monstrosity. He is becoming a
candidate for Barnum, and will doubtless
advertise himself as " the bearded woman"
The proceeds of celebration at Mt Pu-
laski, ILL.,, amounting to $1,000, all in silver,
We're placed in wagon to be taken to
bank, when the horses became frightened
and ran away and the money was scattered
broadcast over the street. 1t was gathered
up by the people and when counted at the
bank was only sixty cents short.
cont lions don't trouble me much" re-
marked a courageous Frenchman, " / met
one once in the desert, splendid fellow,
and what do you think / did? Simply
whipped out my penknife and cut off his
tall" And why not his head?' "Oh!
hunter had saved me that trouble by doing
it the day before! '-French Paper.
The novelist Howels is making study
of life in newspaper offices with the eXpec-
tation of writing story about it. The new
book will doubtless abound in anecdotes of
odd Subscriber Justice" Constant
Reader" g Vox Populi," and other mem
bers of the grand army of anonymous
genius whom we love so well. philadelphia
Press.
WILLARD FREEMIRE of Vermontville,
Mich, discovered a bee tree, but was re-
fused permission by the owner to cut it
down. Finally he got leave to cut off the
limb sixty feet from the ground and six
inches in diameter containing the honey.
This he accomplished by firing seventy-five
balls from rifle through the limb.
The Boston Gazette relates the following
story: "a lady was visiting friends at the
seaside where there was a fine dog whose
master was in the habit of giving him
money every day to buy meat for his dinner
from the butchers cart. The lady, admir-
ing the handsome. intelligent animal, called
him to her as she sat at breakfast and fed
him from her plate. The dog at once went
to his master, and, standing on his hind
legs, paved and scratched at the gentle
mans breast pocket At first the master
failed to understand, and ordered him
away, but the creature perssting, he finally
said: We'll, / do believe he wants his
money and offered him coin, which the
dog instantly took, and trotting up TO the
friendly visitor, deposited it in her lap with
a wag of his tail and look which seemed
to say: i always pay the butcher, and why
not yOu?' "