The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Pith and Point.


VIENNA has had the longest winter in
fifty years.
THE colonists of New South Wales have
lost "a ,0OO,O 900 sheep in the last five years be-
cause of drouths.
ALL men are created equal, but the ma
iority will not take the trouble to live up to
it.-NeW Hdyen NeDS.
SOME one has estimated that nearly 49,
600, 0000 900 would be duel all insured Ameri-
cans were to die at once.
Mr.. PowDERLY gets only 81 1900 year
for devoting his entire attention to the inter-
ests of the Knights of Labor.
THIRTY million logs are said to be ready
to be floated down the Connecticut. Ihey
will be sawed at the foot of Mount Tom.
THERE is a fortune for some brilliant man
who can invent rattlebox that can be
heard only by the baby using it-hngSton
Freeman.
Two months ago a baby that weighed but
one pound was born in Clinton, Penn. The
| little thing is alive and healthy now, but has
grown very little.
In 1880 an adult black parrot from Made
gascar was placed in the geological collection
of Regents Park, London, where it re-
manned tifty-four years
Nor particle of fruit of any kind was
| found by a Paris chemist in currant
jelly " which he analysed lately, and which
had been put up expressly for import to this
country.
LITTLE BEss (who is so used to seeing baby
creep that she thinks it his natural mode OF
traveling): " o mamma, come quick Baby
is standing on his hind legs!'-Hdrper'S
Young People.
The churches of Philadelphia are said to
pay less for music than do any others in the
large cities of the country The average for
the 662 churches is about $500, and ma or-
ity of the choirs do not cost that amount.
NEW use for pills has heen evolved in
the West. A farmer loaded his gun with a
box of pills and killed two burglars. This
will give the pill-maker a chance to adver-
tise them as " dead shot for all burglars
and other diseases"
A WALL STREET broker says that rich
men are not specializing any more. Clerks
and haberdashers are having the stock
market very largely to themselves, and
margins deposited in brokers' offices were
never so small before.
MAUD LONG, the brave Kansas girl who
immortalized herself last winter by rescuinP
two children lost in the snow, has received
besides several hundred dollars and a dia
mond or two, free tuition for a three-years
course at the Warrensburg Normal School.
AT the shoemakers: Monsieur, these
shoes hurt me-" "Take them off and lei
me look at them" The artist of shoe-leatheI
takes the dainty little shoe, examines il
carefully and frowns ominously. Madame
1t is not your shoes that hurt you. 1t is youl
feet, on the contrary, that ruin my shoes. y
French Uu.
In the society column of an Arizona paper
it is told how the brother of a fair bride
threw an old shoe at the groom on the
conclusion of the ceremony. 1t says that
the groom vigorously objected to this time
honored custom, not so much because it hit
him on the back as because the brother,
foot was in it.
gives by request the bill of fare of a " rea
Yankee dinner" and includes among tn,
beverages buttermilk, York State tea,
sage tea, black tea, catnip tea and boneset
1t would be interesting to know where this
intelligent Georgian got his ideas concern
ing Yankee dinner.
A PHYSICIAN in Wings Station writes t.
the Medical Record that woman of that vii
lage, hardly past middle life, and now il
good health, has given birth to twenty -fivt
children. The same writer tells of tire,
sisters in Northern Vermont who have re
spectively borne twenty-five, twenty-five
and eighteen children.
RESULTS of obstruction Scene /. Mrs
M. p: Eyes, my dear, it's terrible thinl
nowadays to be in parliament, and al
through those Irish members. Poor Georg,
rarely gets home now before three A. NJ, anC
he is generally so exhausted that he car
hardly stand on his feet" Scene2 9. Billiard
room. Cause of Georges exhaustion.-Lon
don Ju1y.
PoNsoNBY: Going to raise the Oregon,
hear" De Twirliger: "Yaas. 'Fraid they
cawn't, though. Very sad case. Poor DeGuy
will be barred out of our set in consequence.
81 can't see why He didn't sink the Ore
gon." "No, but he had twelve spring an,
summer suits on board from Lunnon, yol
know, and you cawn't buy any clothes il
this country"
DANIEL - is as vigorous and hearty al
old man as can be found in Orange county
n. Y, but is phenomenally thin. In fact
he has about as little flesh on his bones as
man in good health can have. One day hi
little niece was visiting young frien,
whose father is a doctor, and in wandering
about the house opened closet in whicl
was skeleton. "Why," she exclaimed, a
she hastily shut the door, " | didn't know
Uncle Daniel was dead"
A RURAL editor in Lassen county, Cal
makes this announcement to his subscribers
DO we take potatoes on subscriptions
Well, we should remark, for they are abou
as scarce as hens teeth about the I'ribun
premises. Bring them in, bring them in
And every time we pare one and spread
over with butter, preparatory to making
happy the department of the interior, W
will reflect upon what thoughtful subscrit
s'the Tribune is so fortunate to have"
The southern variety of proof-reader
described in the Memphis (Tenn.) Agdidnch
DIS d man WHO ~ only present Wnen lie is al
sent. He is the Ishmael of every Office
Every mans hands are against him. He
the scapegoat on whose back are laid ever
mans sins. In addition, he bears his ow
burdens, and these be many. He acquire
feline stealthness and sidelongness {
walk, as if he We're expecting a bootjack t
turn every corner. He sleeps with his eye
open, like rabbit. To the public he is
nonentty when his work is done, and onl
visible when some big blunder obscures hin