The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
Pith and Point.

A PROFESSIONAL beggar died recently in
Rio Janeiro and left fortune of 100000.
WHERE Judge lays down the law the
lawyers should take 1t up.-N D. Picdyune.
A BOSTON child, sick with throat diff
Guilty said she had brown kittens in her
throat"
GALL things come to him who waits" A
Hartford restaurant waiter has fallen heir
to $4,000.
COUNTRY cousins are beginning to receive
letters from their city relatives.-Boston
Transcript.
A NEW salad is made of lettuce, frog legs
and capers. The legs and capers ought to
go well together.
IsN'r it pretty nearly time to pension the
men who thought of going to the war p
Philddelphid CdH
For two weeks strawberries were shipped
from Centralia, ILL.,, to the amount of about
seventy carloads day.
"YuM-YUM is the name that has been
~ given to one post-office in Tennessee and
Nanki-Poo to another.
A NEW YORK caterer has Just received a
set of moulds for producing all the
"Mikado " characters in ice-cream.
IT is said that the lady physicians of
Philadelphia will soon be numerous enough
to form medical society of their own.
Mr.. O'TooLE: az want ter insure me
place at onctl Hurry up, now, for its burn
ing down moighty quick. 1.-THE Judge.
No. George, the Hon prefxed to so many
gentlemen's names does not mean honest
that is, not necessarily philadelphia CALL
VERMONT Yankee saw the Pope when
in Rome, recently, and was polite enough
to ask after his wife and family Exchange.
A JERSEY CITY doctor has been arrested
for breaking the backs of dogs in an en-
deavor to determine whether conclusion of
the spine produces loss Of nervous vitality.
A FAMILY that advertised for a girl to do
light homework received a letter from
an applicant who said her health demanded
sea air, and asked where the lighthouse was
situated.
THE only man who has represented three
states in the United States senate was the
late General James Shields who was sena-
tor from Illinois, afterward from Minnesota,
and subsequently from Missouri.
NEVER say a woman can't keep secret.
Four of the wives of cabinet members knew
OF the Presidents engagement since Jan
uary 1st. 1t was a man who finally let the
cat out of the bag.-Detroh Free Press.
A HIGH-sCHooL boy of Lawrence, Mass,
went home last week delighted with the idea
OF military drill about to be introduced
ingly, to his sister, " 1t pays to be boy!"
REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE TALIAFERRo
BARNS Of Georgia, otherwise " Br' er larry
pin,' is said to be the biggest man in con-
gress, weighing 300 pounds and measuring
five feet five inches in diameter in every di-
rection.
SOCIETY at the Back Bay was shocked the
other day when, at large church wedding,
the organst followed the wedding march,
as the bridal couple went down the aisle,
with the choice strains of He's going to
marry Yum-Yum, Yum-Yum."
THE colored Methodists have now the
largest church in Washington. 1t is on M
hot, C;xytn
streets, Northwest, in a fashionable neigh
borhood. 1t cost $4,000, of which all but
$4,000 has been raised, and seats $500
people.
TEN-YEARs-oLD NANCY TAYLOR of Grant,
Iowa, reads with the book upside down, and
writes with inverted characters, beginning
at the right side of paper or slate. She says
that everything within three feet of her eyes
seems upside down. AT a greater distance
her sight is normal.
WHILE the OK was grazing in his pasture
a fly came along and abused and insulted
him in an outrageous manner, and finally
challenged him to combat. " cannot &C
cept," replied the OK while your abuse
does me no harm, victory over you would
bring me no credit"
In these days, when two-headed and four
legged chickens are Matched on every farm
1t is a positive relief to read that Over
Craven of Randolph county, Missouri, has s
one-legged Plymouth Rock chick that is per
fectly healthy, and hops about on it's on,
leg with apparent pleasure
No, sir remarked the irate customer
banging the bottle down upon the drugstore
showcase; " don't want any more of Potts
Liver Cure" It's very good remedy, sir,
suggested the clerk, timidly. Yes; ma.
be it is for Potts liver. Probably it is. Blu
it wasn't worth cent for mine"
CHAMPoREAU assists at a railway accident
An idea strikes him and he hunts up tn,
conductor. Monsieur" he says, earnestly
sit is always said that it is the forward ca
which suffers the greatest damage in al
accident of this kind. Then why not d,
without it hereafter. "-French Joke.
THE smallest newspaper on this continen
is published at Guadalajara, capital of thu
Mexican state of Jalisco 1t is called Z
Telegrana, and is four-page weekly, fiv
by three inches in size, and is a marvel il
the way of condensation. The motto of tn
paper is Little straw and much wheat.
The price is one cent per copy.
IT is related of Old Doe, a horse of tn
Toronto fire department, who was kille'
while on duty, that one night he got out G
his stall and found pile of bags of oats
Catching bag in his teeth, he carried it t
his two stable companions, and then carrie
two bags to his own stall. The feast tina
| followed well-nigh foundered the tire
horses.
AN assassin receives visit from celt
defence. When they see each other the
utter EXPLANATIONS of establishment. I"
cannot be deceived" cried the assassin
"you are the lawyer who defended III
twenty-five years ago in a police court.
"Is it possible?" returned the advocate
"My first client. A strange chance Ths
was when 1 made my debut" "It wa
mine also" Then, with thoughtful ali
the prisoner observed: "Ah we both hav
made great progress since that day" ~
| French Joke.
A WRITER in Lend Hand denounces til
domestic fly, especially in the sick-roon
and urges housekeepers to take him in SCI
son and do for him. 1t is estimated tn;
healthy fly, in five weeks time, will pr
duce progeny of 800, and if these keep @
multiplying at the same rate every mont
during the summer, without accident
prevention, the result will be between I'll
beginning of March and the end of Augu
no less than 8,100,000,0O0 flies. This arit
metical demonstration of fy-time is east
worked out. In the words of Josh Billing
" Drat fly! "-Sprinafeid Union.
THE most notable feat in modern rairoa,
ing has been the change in less than tv
days of the gauge of $4,000 miles of traC
in the Southern States. The managers
thirty of the leading roads in that sectiC
decided last February to reduce the gaul
of their tracks from five feet to the compr
mise standard of four feet and nine inche
AlthOuph the paIIpa Of the IN iOritv Of mort