The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-10
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scovered at Forsyth, Georgia.
PNEUMONIA has lately raised the death-rate
nsiderably in villages on Long Island.
AN entire milk diet is prescribed with sue
IS in cases of govt by French doctors.
THE rare case the remuneration of Juda-
IN by rabbi is reported from New York.
NINE. NILSSON has just refused $4,000 for
fteen concerts in Russia because II is so cold.
NEGROES employed in the turpentine
orks in the forests of Georgia claim that
ley are practically ensaved.
JONES: "Can you always tell fool?"
rown of he doesn't ask too much; what
ould you like to know?"- Binghdmton Re
,blicdn.
THERE is a man in South Haven, Mich,
no pays a dog tax of S13 and $3.50 on real
tate, and he is all the time kicking about
lie odd fifty cents.
A FRIEND of ours, absent on trip to
Washington, writes that he has been all
Trough the national capital and consider
BILE of his own.-LoaceH Citizen.
A NURsERYMAN at Interlachen, Florida,
! reported to have saved all his young
Fees, some 100000 in number, from the
feeze by covering them with sand.
GLASGOW, Scotland, though said TO be the
Eealthiest city of the world in proportion to
population, has lately had crowds of people
|arading her streets demanding bread.
THE San Francisco Wasp cynically defines
jury to be I" a number of persons appointed
~ court to assist the attorneys in prevent
hg law from degenerating into justice"
THE Organe DIES Mines states that the paper
|ails now being made at st. Petersburg have
proved to be extremely durable, while they
|ost one-third less than those made of steel.
THE purified fat of sleeps wool, which
has been introduced into the drug market
hnder the name of ianolin, is said to possess
remarkable susceptibility to absorption by
he skin.
ONE of the most insane suicides on record
S that of George Keller, an Indiana farmer,
With great possessions and pleasant fam
ly, who killed himself because he had too
much money.
A WESTERN editor having received a note
from an irate subscriber, saying Stop your
paper and send reasonable bill and | will
pay II" sent bill for 5000, saying that he
could not afford to suspend publication
for less.
AN overseer of the poor at St. Adams,
who investigated a case of supposed need,
found the head of the family saving his
money to feed his horses abundantly, while
ne let the rest of the family beg daily for
heir food.
BY the wreck of a bank in Lancaster,
Mass, recently, a widow lost her whole for
tune-S2, whereupon an unknown per-
son in Boston arranged to pay her 500 an
nually representing six per cent interest on
her loss) as long as she lived.
THE London Times lately contained an adj
vertisement for a smart-looking second foot
man, who must have uneXceptionable char
acter and be active, an early riser and speak
French and English. The inducements
held out to this paragon We're $50 year.
"SAY, pa" remarked the smart boy of
Parsonsville, the other day, "when you cut
open an apple why are you like certain of
the Southern States?" Paterfamilias strug-
gled with this problem awhile and then gave
it up, Because" said the boy, you see
seed. "-Messenger.
p. 7. BARNUM, hearing that King Louis of
Bavaria was bankrupt and would have to
be dethroned for debt of $4,000, has tele-
graphed to that monarch from Bridgeport,
Conn, offering to pay the debt on condi-
tons that he will make known to the royal
spendthrift and pauper.
AN old man in Stoughton, Mass, described
as " stalwart, robust and vigorous" has
bathed every morning for years in cold
spring near his house. The baths were not
omitted recently when the thermometer was
1So below zero. He says the custom cured
him of catarrh and is the panacea for all ills.
A SAUNDERsvILLE schoolgirl lately puz-
zled her teacher with the inquiry: :" If the
oldest child of an English rnler succeeds to
the throne, what would happen if the oldest
child was twins?" The girl was very much
at the teachers inability to answer
off-hand and tried to find out from her
mother, but the question still agitates the
Worcester Spy.
The youngest performer in the London
theaters is the infant that takes part in the
baby song in the last act of "My Sweet
heart" 1t is eighteen months old, and is
the fourteenth child of a working gunmaker
in Edinburgh. 1t is put to bed every after
noon at four, is brought to the theater at
nine and is in bed again half an hour later,
earning for this duty, it is said, more than
its father.
IT was rather green pariamentarian who
rose to point of order at the last session OF
the Huckleberryville town meeting When
requested to state his point, he said; My
point is, Mr. Moderator, that the gentleman
who made the prayer didn't address the
chair" The moderator said that the point
was an entirely new one, and he should de-
cline to rule upon it until he had time to
look up the authorities.-B Boston Transcript.
A SCIENTIFIC journal gives an account of
a pianoforte made in Paris in which paper
was made to take the place of wood, the
whole case being made from paper so com
pressed that it was enabled to receive hard
surface which took perfect polish. The
color was cream white. The tone of the
instrument is reported to be not loud, but
very sweet. The short, broken character
of the sound emitted by ordinary piano
fortes is replaced by a soft, full, quasi-con-
tinuous sound.
DIR. CANTANI, an Italian savant, has ap
piled the doctrine of the survival of the
tittest in combating zymotic diseases; that
is, he is endeavoring to destroy pathogeniC
microbia by means of microbia which are
harmless under the given conditions. He
claims to have obtained remarkably favor
able results by administering Bdcteriun
ternlO (the agent of putrefaction) in case o.
tuberculosis. The organism in question, he
maintains, is innocuous to the patient, bu
it destroys the tubercle bacillus.
A MAN who had never seen the inside of
law court until he was recently introduced
as a witness in a case pending in one of tn,
Scottish courts, on being sworn took posi-
ton with his back to the jury and begal
telling his story to the judge. The Judge
in bland and courteous manner, said
Address yourself to the jury, sir" Thu
man made a short pause, but not compre
hending what was said to him, forthwith
continued his narrative. The Judge wa
then more explicit, and said to him "Speal
to the jury, sir-the men sitting behind you
on the benches" The witness at ono
turned around and, making an awkwar,
bow, said, with great gravity; "Goo'
morning, gentlemen"
THOSE who still think of the Hawaiian
Islands as land of half-civilized being
would be surprised to see the items of TIL
daily paper published there. The adver
tsements show every variety of profession
and business carried on by people who's