The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Pith and Point.


tall hat
The Florida frost has done one cd
thing. 1t has killed insects that were da
aging fruit and forest trees.
DIPHTHERIA is shown by official reports
have increased almost double in fatal
during the past four or five years in Englai
THE single town of Besancon, in Swift
lard, employs over 1900 persons in wat
making, and the annual product approach
100000 watches.
THE latest female freak is that of won
at Pittsburg, Penn, who has four diamor
set in her teeth the jewels taking the pls
of ordinary filling.
FARMER in New Hampshire has be
fined for cruelty in not providing shelter
his cattle during the late cold weather.
was the richest man in the neighborhood.
THE number of people who find death
Niagara is increasing yearly Last sunni
and fall fifteen people went over the fa
or these, over half are thought to have be
suicides.
WE learn from Minneapolis that at
corner block of the ice palace has be
placed in position with beautiful and app
pirate ceremonies" That's what the ce-m
does for us every morning. Post.
- BosToN1ANss never utter the vulgar sayii
Money makes the mare CO." Profess
Sullivan and all other residents of Bost
say: " The speed OF the feminine horse
greatly accelerated by pecuniary prop
sion"
THIS side-light is thrown upon New Yo
manners by the Mail and Express. "The
are funny stories told of unlimited guests
a recent reception, where the hostess ga
herself she didn't know half the people
the house,"
A STUDENT of the University of Georp
w niyap thiq liprla I no ri
six be three, what would the fourth
twenty be? This bright student after fig.
ing for half an hour, gave it up.-AMe|
Georgia. Banner.
"WHAT is the first thing you would
Jones, If you were stung by a hornet
asked Smith, who had been reading an
ticle on the treatment of stings. "Howl
replied Jones, solemnly. And the convers
ton abruptly ended.
az MUST have order in this court-room|
sternly demanded justice of the peace. 4
must and will have less noise and confusid
here. have already disposed of three III
portant cases without being able to hear OF
word of the evidence"
THE organ-grinder, accompanied by II
inevitable monkey, was performing, to Il
delight of the children. A father asked II
son of five years how he liked the musi
| GO like il very much" he replied, "but|
|
ooh, mamma, you'd be surprised to kno|
how dull Bessie Barton is! She took n,
into what she said was the apary. VIII
do you think saw there?" ~ don't knoJ
dear" Why, nothing but lot of be-
hives. There were no apes there; not evd
a monkey. "-Phaddelphia Gail.
The grand spectacle of Paris is MN. Ere
mann-C hatrian's La Guerre at the Chale
1t represents Massena's campaign in II
against Suwarrow. The great scene is II
capture of Zurich, the ensemble of which
spoken of as being the finest military spe
tacle ever mounted on the stage in Paris.
A PETITION has been presented to the Co
necticut general assembly asking that re-
aration be made to Mrs. Prudence Phil,
(nee Prudence Crandell, who now lives
poverty for injuries inflicted upon her
1888 by citizens of Canterbury, because 81
persisted in teaching a free school for neg
girls
A KANSAS contemporary heads leade
"Where Shall We Find Water" There
no sense in person fooling with an artic
he doesn't know anything about, and it
hoped no one will enlighten the Kanst
man until he lets people know what he
going to do with it after he gets it.-Rochest,
Post-ErpresS.
In the Pacific Medical journal the case
reported of a youth who swallowed an ope
penknife measuring three and one-ha
inches A common and unwise treatmel
in such cases is to give castor-oil, but d
Hutchings, who had charge of the case, az
mnistered hearty meals of mush and buc
wheat cakes, which impacted the instr
ment, and it was recovered without haviI
caused the least injury.
In his after-dinner speech at the Typ
theta dinner, last week, Dr. Paxton sal
"The press has killed gossip. When me
fr;n 1,1l A nt,f 4
town paper which quoted this part of Il
speech got it this way: "The press h
killed gossip. When | meet my friend '
are both full" The good doctor will no
doubtless see his mistake in not sayil
something pleasant about the proof-reader
IT was a nervous clergyman, and he hi
been called on to offciate at the funeral
a young girl. In his address he broug
tears to the eyes of the mourners by
pathos. In closing, he said: Finally, bret
rem, may the bereaved father find conso
ton for the untimely death of his on
daughter and then remembering tn
there was another daughter, the offspring
a second marriage, he added, by his iii
wife. '-Erchdnge.
THERE are shops in London where sui
of clothes may be hired for an evening.
Paris an agency has been started for hiri
out wedding guests for the special bene
of people whose relations live in the pre-
inces. The managers say: We can pla
at the disposition of the bridegrOoms
choice society, well-educated young me
charming takers, elegant dancers, sever
of whom are besides endowed with all t
necessary talents appertaining to fine {
Getty
"YEs,' said Frenchman in Paris,
Gently, 81 was walking in Place Vendor
when poor women with two children
tracted nv attention. They were sufferir
| stopped them. The husband had di
went to their home and there / saw the pc
father. | gave them money and left t
home of sorrow | thought when / reach
the street that had not given them enoug
and | mounted the three flights of stat
} l knocked at the door and the poor de
father opened it. l left"
A MAIDEN school-mistress thinks IL
some of her pupils compositions are funn
than anything of Mark Twains. From
essay ON Fashion" written by a boy
twelve, she cites the following: Sensil
people wear sensible fashions, and insen
BILE people insensible fashions" Anoth
/, hopeful of hers, writing on the subject, 81
Rainy Afternoon" evolved from an inn
consciousness, deeper than that of Josh Il
lings, the following sentence: 1t rain
hard and / could not go owdoors, and 81
went out in the shed and sod some wood
| In little straw frame on her mantel Ii
sentence from the pen of her youngest a
brightest, given in answer to the reque
Write, in Thirty words, a definition
Man." 1t reads thus; Man is an amin
that stands up; he is not very big, and
has to work for living"
JUST as the people of st. Paul began to
real proud over their ice palace, a wick