The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Pith and Point.

CHARLESTON had more than month of
earthquakes this year, as a careful record of
the shocks shows
CHARLESTON negroes have 1924 1876 on de-
post in the savings banks and the largest
depositor has $1,000.
HOG cholera has arrived" says an In
diana editor, and we cannot be too care
full. '-Terds Strings.
THE Boston Transcript obituaries man
of ninety-nine who has just died and " left
two grown-up childen.'
OSCAR WILDE says he writes his poems
on an empty stomach. Most fellows use
paper instead LODeU CWizen
AN amateur cnce asked Liszt how to play
the piano with soul The genial master re-
piled: You must, first of all, have a soul. "
SOME oak timber. which in 1894 had served
for 364 years for roof beams in an English
church, is still doing duty as seat in a
farmers kitchen.
A NEW York physician says " it is danger
Gus to go into the water after hearty meal. >
And we presume if he did go in after one he
wouldn't find it.-.Sh0e and Leather Re
porter
A wELL-KNowN physician reminds one of
his patients that very high medical author
ity has declared that life is but temporary
victory over the causes that produce death.
-Harper'S Bdzdr.
JACK displaying his fee0: What do
you think of those shoes only 50; Did you
ever hear ANYTHING so cheap" Mrs. Jack
Never. How can they sell so much leather
for so little money?-LQe.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD girl in Florida dropped
her kitten down well over fifty feet deep,
and at her earnest entreaty her father low
cred her down by the well rope. She got
the kitten out all right and was pulled ur
again damp, but happy.
A PITTSBURGH man, seventy-five years
old hot he hos a xap nj 1D'
meals, in which he has eaten 81 $50 pounds
of solid food and drunk 81 100 cups of tea ano
1880 cups of coffee. His meals have cos
on an average eight cents apiece, and thus
foot up 5000.
a PHYSICIAN says: When teaspoonfu
of warm honey is taken every fifteen
twenty or thirty minutes, it has a surprising
effect on catarrh. Every family should
have glass of pure honey in the house, il
order at once, after catching cold, to b,
able to use some"
A YOUNG man and a young woman o
Peoria. H., have made a wager upon thu
fate of a congressional canvass which make
the forthcoming election subject of grav
concern to them. If the candidate in ques
ton wins, the girl agrees TO marry the man
If he loses, the man agrees to marry tn
girl.
A CITIZEN of Newton, n j., noticed hi
hens standing around tree on which
He looked further, and saw another hen up i
the tree picking the grapes from the vim
and dropping them down for the fowl
on the ground. The citizen is said to b
truthful.
A GEORGIA paper says: " A farmer tell
us that he has for several years saved tn
chickens from the depreciation of hawk
and owls by sharpening scythe and Sc
ting it on the end of a pole, standing off q
an angle of forty-ive degrees. The birds
prey will light on the blade-that trims o
their toes so that they cannot carry o.
fowls"
SOME one in Hudson, n. Y. has write
to the Toronto Globe as follows: 60 AS / al
very rich man and can easily afford it,,
have decided to give the whole of Mort
America to my wife, believing from II
knowledge of a woman's nature that 81
will govern you all wisely and well. AS
am the legal husband of every woman
the world this includes every woman on Il
Continent.-EZra, King of England Mort
America, the World and the Church"
WE saw, on the way from Brussels
Cologne, sometimes three, sometimes fou
and in one instance six women to one ma
gathering harvests in the fields we sa
women, begrimed with dirt and black, u
loading coal cars; we saw women mixiI
mortar and handling stone; we saw ha
grown girls driving dog carts, filed wi
vegetables, to market, and working in va
GUS capacities which it made ones hea
ache to behold. 1t must not be inferre
however, that the lot of women over he
is altogether forlorn and hopeless. AS
America, so here, new avenues are openiI
to female intelligence and enterprise. IL
becoming common for women to act
clerks in stores and as accountants in b
tells, and at the same time the inducemer
as well as privileges of the higher fema
education are, we are told, multiplied fro
year to year.-Letter from Belgium.
PURIFY your blood, tone up the syste
and regulate the digestive organs by TAXI