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


MANrTEE, Mich, has an orchestra col
posed of fourteen young women.
FIVE hundred Americans are said to
living in absolute squalor in London.
A CHEMIST has discovered an extract fro
coal-tar go times sweeter than sugar
THE Odd Fellows of Chicago propose
erect temple in that city to cost $500, 600
AN advertisement for proof-reader
London brought $50 applicants for the p
sition.
LILY and Blanche are favorte nam
among the colored children in souther
schools.
NEVER borrow trouble. The interest yo
have to pay for the accommodation is o.
cessive.-Putsburg Chronicle
LoNDoNERs are puzzled by the fact tn
their fogs have lately been of pinkish hu
the cause of which is unknown.
IT was the glory of Lincoln that, having
most absolute power, he never abused
except upon the side of mercy.-Ddy Star.
IT is thought that dozen shots from th
| new German bomb, charged with dynamite
shells, would destroy the strongest fortifc
| tions in the world.
MIR. LEVI GossETT's dog bit off the Ia
of a neighbours hog. Neighbor sued an
got Judgment for S0575. Hog worth sid
A PARTISAN paper contains an advertise
ment that an orphan, 81 years, desires
ma employment in a bourgeoise family
chambermaid or lady's companion"
For dash and nerve, health, vivacity an
| beauty IL is conceded by all our guests frorI
far and near that the Queen City girls hav
no equals. Free Press. No more of that.
THE population of London now exceed
every other city, ancient or modern, in th|
Nax orb and oil fta Il ,,tt II
combined are not equal to two-thrds of it.
A FRENCH woman who has gone to III
balls in order to catch husband has caugl}
instead bronchitis fourteen times pleurisI
thrice and 100 colds in the head. And still
she is not discouraged
THE natives of the Island of Bagga in thu
South Seas, recently killed, roasted and att
an English trader named Childe, who had
| settled on the island and an English man
of-war has been sent to punish them for thu
outrage.
"SwEET disorder " is the latest style OF
wearing ladies' hair. The comb and brush
are to be dispensed with. The degree d
sweetness there will be in such disorder
can at present be better imagined than de
scribed.-ChicagO Journal.
AN Indiana congressman received lette
from one of his constituents, requesting hin
to send two White Chester pigs" TIL,
writer added: :" have always supported
you and L will support you again, and
want you to do this for me because / an
poor and want pair of them"
Miss FANNY MILLS of Ohio, who claims tc
| have the biggest feet on record, has Just haC
a pair of shoes and a pair of slippers mad
for her in New York. Their size is 30. TIL,
measurement around the ball of each is 9.
inches; instep, % inches heel, % inches
ankle, 20 inches. The cost of shoes anC
slippers was $40.
A CHAUTAUQUA county cheese maker wen
to Buffalo, the other day, and brought HON
fine imported Swiss cheese. All praise,
it but his wife, who, after the praise ha,
ceased, said she had found her husband
private mark on the cheese. He had pal,
thirty-three cents pound for the very chess
that he had made and sold for six cents.
On the 4th of July last w. E. Hermanc
started from Livingston, Montana, in
canoe, to paddle to New Orleans. Hi
brother, III. p. Hermance, joined him a
Kansas City, and on Washingtons birthda
the two young men reached New Orlean
safely They had travelled down the Vel
lowstone, the Missouri and the Mississippi
rivers, a distance of 1850 miles, in a cano,
fifteen feet long.
A FRENcHMAN, the Compile de st. Waller
has recently died. who for twenty years ha
lived only on milk, owing to an incurabl
disease of the stomach Every other die
but milk was impossible yet, with heroi
fortitude. he prolonged his existence, evel
giving excellent dinners TO his friends, a
which he would simply relieve the monot
ony of abstinence by moistening his lip
with glass of milk.
THE humorous Bishop Marley once or
dered his coachman to go to the well TO
water, the footman being otherwise engage,
at the time. But John objected. His bust
ness was to drive, not run errands. Wei
then" said the clerical wit, g bring out tn
coach and four set the pitcher inside anC
drive to the WE'LL" This the coachman wa
compelled to do several times, to the N,
small amusement of the villagers.-Man
chester (ERgldnd) Courier
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, furnishes
good bear story. The narrative states tina
the local editor, who was expecting gan
of lynchers about midnight descended t.
the cellar, leaving pet grizzly bear in hi
place in bed. The lynchers didn't brin
any lights, but made plucky attempt t
get the bear out and lynch it, but gave it u
after three of them had lost an eye apiece
two of them had suffered the loss of thumb
chewed off and the other six more or les
deprived of skin. That man now has a tire
mendous reputation as a fighter and tn
bear didn't mind the work one bit. So say
the Denver Tribune.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent from Wash
ington says that the pen-and-ink man " i
still mystery to the officers of the secre
service. The most strenuous efforts hav
been made to catch him, but he has elude
their vigilance so far and there is not tn
slightest trace of his identity or locality
The pen-and-ink man is the person know
in police circles who makes counterfei
money with pen and ink so cleverly as t
pass it without detection. The secret serv
ice has about fifty specimens of his handi
work which have passed the scrutiny @
the bank clerks and tellers and been de
tected by the experts of the National BAN
Redemption Agency of the treasury depart
ment. The pen-and-ink man" devote
most of his time to twenties and tifties.
a GENTLEMAN writing from Yokoham
says; THE japanese have acquired sue
a passion for being tatooed that law ha
been passed forbidding the marking of ma
tives. The law does not apply to foreign
ers. 1t is quite the thing now to he tatooe'
and elaborate designs are traced on man
travellers, as an indelible "reminiscences {
their sojourn in the East. The sons of tn
Prince of Wales, when here few years age
were tatooed and several Russian duke
and sprigs of nobility have undergone tn
process. The son Of Longfellow recent.
submitted to a very elaborate TATTOO decora
ton and for more than three months was il
the hands of the tatooer, who did an amour
of work on him during this time that i
usually spread over period of three or fou
years. This caused, of course, sever
nervous shock which he was only able {
withstand by application of hypodermic in
jections of morphine"
LIFE INsURANCE.-The past year has bee
one of great interest in the life INSURANCE
world Active controversy has stimulate