The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
Pith and Point.


death than killed in battle.-F'dH Rive,
rance.
GENERAL WHITTHoRNE, the new Ter
see senator, is sixty-one years old, sma
stature, wiry, energetic, tireless.
TwENTY-FoUR tons of snuff were thr
into the river Liffey at Dublin, recently
cause the duty had not been paid.
THE man who never does any harm IN
crawl into cave and stay there ten
without being missed Chicago Leader.
IT was farming editor who said that
bird that is roosting on the hat of |
ought to be picking vermin from the ff
trees"
OXBERIENCE was a bully deacher.
only trouble nit him vos dot he gifts
knowledge out When it vas pooty late
tionol Weekly.
RAILWAY travelling has been improve
such perfection in England that it is sal
person is safer in moving train than in
streets of London.
THE Bermudans are a thrifty people. 4
import potatoes from the United State
So per barrel and sell us their own tuber
from SO to $50 barrel.
Mrs. TRIPHENIA BEvANs of DanbI
Conn, last week celebrated her one Il
dredth birthday in the house where she
born and has always lived.
THE discovery of two new asteroids is
ported by cable. 1t is of as much pract
Importance as the discovery of an
tional pebble on the seashore.
IT would take man three thousand yt
to read all the standard works. very
men, however, care to devote SO much t
to eading.-NeW Hagen Neocs.
THE Springfield Union refers to an
American Minister Phelps" Then
must say Mrs. Marine Insurance SmitI
and Mrs. Street Car Starter Brown.
Boston Record.
THE new colors in Paris this season ard
be Atlantic Ocean and Serpent"
lightest and darkest of green's, and Cpl
ridge and Bumblebee,' lightest d
darkest of browns.
THE undertakers of New York have form
trades union. 1t is suspected that
members will boycott all their friends W
persist in remaining disgustingly healthy
NorriStoUn Herald.
The wife of a senator at Washington
ceives callers in the midst of her pets.
these are from four to six dogs of differ|
sizes, ages and breeds, nervous visito]
not apt to bore her with long call.
PROFESSOR DARLING lived on TWEEN
seven cents week. He could have Civ
points to Edward Atkinson, who extra
gantly allows fifteen cents a day. But til
Professor Darling didn't live in Boston.
A PHYSICIAN in Laurens county, S.
claims to have found a twelve-years-old |
whose backbone is prolonged into
eight inches long, covered with a til
growth of hair. The boy can wag the tai
DO you ever sweep under the bed?"
quired the head of the family of her yor
domestic, while examining the spare roc
ooh, yes, often. It's so much easier IL
the dustpan, you know" replied the serva
Whom shall our girls marry?" ask
New York editor, with considerable ankle
Out here the experiment is tried of hav
our girls marry our boys. The scheme c
tainly will bear investigation. = EsteH
| %. IT, Bell.
SAID the lecturer: Z" l consider the V
audience a remarkable one, in view of
weather-the worst since l have begun
course" Several persons in the audiel
expressed the wish that he might be lii
less ambiguous in his language
RECLUsIoN is a punishment still inflic
in France. 1t means solitary continent
for term of years, without light or occu
ton, and the unfortunate man either lea
his prison an idiot or dies a lingering de;
before the expiration of his sentence.
JAY GOULD raises his own strawberr
and his own peaches, and it is said that
sometimes raises the market value of
own securities by little judicious wateri
! 1t is a great thing to understand how
make farming profitable Boston TrdnScr
The authorities of Montreal have begu
crusade against the nude in art. Actor
| to be taken against one of the wealth.
gentlemen in the city for keeping in
house copies of the Venus of Milo, the Vel
| d Medici, Canova's Venus, Powers Gre
Slave. the LAGOON and other works.
TEN months ago the wife of labo
named Navsak, living at Niehl, n
Cologne in Rhenish Prussia, gave brit
triplets, and yesterday, to the dismay of
unhappy husband, she repeated the offer
The mother is convalescent, and her
babies are thriving Paris Dispatch, April
AUNT MATILDA: Dear mel that's
minister, the Rev. Ananias Howler, kno
ing, and he does so dislike dogs" NJ
Prettypert: Never mind, auntie, I'll
off. Good by" Aunt Matilda: "Well,
you wouldn't mind, dear. | shouldn't
lingo to bite Mr.. Howler." Miss Pref
pert: Certainly not. He's most unwht
some-looking man. "-F'un.
GENTLEMEN of the jury" said law
of San Bernardino, Cal, while defending
client, "you would not send man to Jail
little thing like this, would you? w
| gentlemen, if some of you had been p
ished for the little offences you have &C
mitted you would be in the penitentiary
day" This did not seem to strike the il
as good argument, and they found the
cused man guilty at once.
THE Chinese emperor, with the empr,
/ the princes and the ministers, recen
started on a visit to the tombs of the
peror's ancestors with an escort of 10,
men. Once year the Chinaman, and
deed all Buddhists, repairs to the tomb
his ancestors, weeps for them as If they /
! Just died, invokes them to come back, ia
to them as if they could hear him, and 5
meat and drink offerings before them, a
they could still hunger and thirst. In
| eyes the lot of him who has no one to
these honors to his "manes " is wretched
MosT of the letters written by newspal
correspondents in Mexico give very r.
accounts of the country, but one of them
pears to have struck very disagreeable $
ton, although ii is health resort. He sa
Zone may travel for days through this be
tiful wilderness without hearing the song
bird, or meeting any animals but tn
| that destroy. The serpent is still master
the situation, and has begotten a numer'
progeny Gigantic rattlesnakes, deadly a
and hundred other dangerous species 81
away at our approach; reptiles prey III
each other in the miaSmatic lagoons, VIII
| fatal calenturas Turk under every leaf; en-
nous lizards bask in the hot sunshine;
rantulas, scorpions, centipedes ana Xl
Xins abound in the burning sands, ana pa
site plants, like vegetable vampires, su
| tha tfa- blood from tree. -