The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-26
Pith and Point.

lHE IlppOlylnplau Is tne name OF a Uen-
cent circus in North Carolina.
FOURTEEN thousand persons visited
Shakespeare's birthplace last year.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE gets $4,000 from the
will of Mrs. McGraskey of New York
THERE were twenty-seven bridal couples
at one Washington hotel few days ago.
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer has a hen sitting
on hawks eggs, intending to kill the young
ones for the bounty.
THE girls in the Brooklyn public schools
have to commit to memory the Constitution
of the United States
IT is western joke that the closest aft liza
ton which anarchists display for water is
when they are bailed out of jail
MAMMA" Why don't you move out of the
sun, Kitty, If it troubles you SOP" Kitty
(crying)-" Cause got here first
" THIS is great country, but it does not
raise anarchy. 1t let's it come from abroad,
free of duty. "-PutSbrg Chronicle.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the first president
of the United States to wear whiskers. All
his predecessors had smooth faces. Chicago
Inter-Ocedn.
A NEW YORK woman who is fond of no.
toriety has had the hoofs of her horses gilded
and they create a sensation when driven in
Central Park.
A BED of snowballs, with a loose mound
of long-stemmed roses rising from their
midst, was pretty centerpiece at a Wash
ington dinner.
A SOCIETY reporter wrote: CDR. Jones
and wife were present, dressed in white
tulle." Rather a peculiar costume for a
doctor.-Boston Post.
THE paid baseball players throughout the
country, the Washington Star States num-
Der over 1000 and draw annually salaries
aggregating about 100000
A FERGUS FALLS (Minn.) farmer was so
pounded by hailstones during a recent storm
that he was obliged to take to his bed, and
remained there at last report.
a LARGE Newfoundland dog in Utica, N
Y, has cost his owner $1,000 in damages
for biting people in the last year. The man
concluded to kill his expensive pet
A CANDIDATE for political honors in Union
town, Penn, gave as reason why he should
be nominated that The hain't no one of
our family never run for no Office before"
THERE are lots of people who mix their
religion with business but forget to stir it
up we'll The business invariably rises to
the top as a result Woburn (MaSs.) Adver-
tiser.
FOUR and one-haf inches of rain fell
within two hours during the tornado and
Hood in Montgomery county, Ohio, last
week. This was $40 tons of water to the
acre.
~ fOMESlCh Siudll DOy WHO was sent away
to school wrote his father the following
letter 4" Dear father-Life is very short; let
MS spend it together. Your affectionate
SON."
"RAIsE the heifer calves" shouts the
american Dairymdn Yes, raise Them and
when they grow big they will reciprocate by
raising you and your milk-pail through the
roof of the cow-shed.-DdnUHe Breeze.
SCENE, NIGHr.-Mrs. Jenkins" Do get M
Henry, and hold this child awhile" Jenk-
ms" Not much: we have just decided that
! eight hours per night should constitute a
nights work-that's the kind of union man
| | am"
AFTER change of government three
felons received free pardon. On receiving
lntlmation OF the fact, one of them spoke up:
Why, what have we done, should like tc
| know, that we should be turned off like this
in the middle of winter" -F9iegende Bldtter
THE Sussex (England) giant, who weighed
546 pounds, died suddenly few DAYS ago
while on an exhibition tour. He fell asleep
in his chair between the performances, and
| when they tried to rouse him discovered
that he was dead. Heart disease was the
| cause.
AN uptown youngster, says the Hartford
Post, had some little trouble with another
youngster about his own age, and being
very conscientious, and not daring to wisl
any one dead, merely remarked: " wisl
familyl'
A GRANDFATHER, coming to read his paper
found that he had mislad his spectacles
and thereupon declared: ." / have lost IN,
glasses somewhere and can't read tn,
paper" A little girl, desiring to assist him
answered: "G'an'p pa, you go outside anC
look froo re window, and I'll hold re pape
up so you can read it,
"UsEFUL THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SrEAN
BOILERS " is the title of book Just pub
lished. One of the most useful things t,
know about steam boiler is the exact min
ute it is going to burst, so that person ma,
get out of the way a few minutes before tn
explosion takes place; but this information
doesn't appear in the book NorristopI
Herold.
FIVE thousand crates of green peas wer
shipped northward from Newborn, n. c.. OF
one steamboat week ago. A correspondent
of northern newspaper saw one pea-patch O
100 acres, with 600 negro women and children
picking the crop, and earning each abou
seventy-tive cents day. They were happ
company. Cabbages and potatoes, and thel
wax-beans and other vegetables, will follow
THE practical questions which are no,
asked in the public schools lead to som
funny answers from the younger pupils, c
which the following is an illustration
Where does molasses come from" said
teacher, the other day. Several incorrec
replies We're given, and at last bright III
chin said Il know" Well" was the re
Spouse, what is your answer" From
} hogshead," said the scholar The teache
) could hardly say that this was not correct
though it was evidently solution that sh
did not eXpect.-BoSt0n Budget.
A NEWSPAPER in Maine quotes some r,
ports of " deestrick school " committeeman
which read like those of half a century age
One such is: Miss Abrams did not allo,
the children to make any noise, and mad
but little herself, moving her pupils aroun
z as Old Dea Drnkwater did his oxen-b
; the snap OF her finger" Another scho,
5 made fair progress, some scholars gettin
, ahead of their own accord and others bein
A dragged along Strap oil properly apple
: might have helped the matter" "Birc
3 oil is the lubricant which " makes thing
| run smooth at another school.
IT happened in town near Bangor Thel
was proposition to annex "a part of til
town to that city meeting was held I
+, consider it, and the pros and cons were st
I out by one party and the other The di
a cussion proceeded with great seriousness
u until old Uncle johnson, "a tall and solem
7, man who lived on the territory to be al
l neXed, arose and said he had given TIL
a matter careful thought; in fact, had poi
U dered it over and over. His deliberatior
u had led him to believe that il was unhealtl
0 to live in the city, and for that reason Il
g preferred to live in town, and he didn
n want to be annexed" There was not niue
solemnity in the meeting after that, but Il
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