The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-27
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Develle, has never seen a pillow.
A LOT on lower Broadway, New York,
lid for S101 per square foot last week.
POWDERED rice is said to have a great eff
ct in stopping bleeding from fresh wounds
THE wife of an English baronet advertises
London papers for position as com
anon.
THE Fiji Islanders have just been cele-
rating the Jubilee of the advent of Chris
anity into the islands.
HALF-PENNY dinners have been estab-
shed in Birmingham, England for the
benefit of poor children.
TT is better to properly carve duck than
lead a cotllion, and better to eat an
range properly than to wear sealskin.-
keiC York Mail
MOTHER: "You haven't given the child
hny prize" Teacher: "Alasl he's always
die" Mother: "Then he's deserving
prize for perseverance. "-Erchdnge.
OLD farmer Ito amateur ditto: "What
10 you feed your pigs?' Amateur farmer:
Corn" Old farmer " In the ear?'
Amateur farmer dn disgust: ono, in the
mouth"
A NEW kind of cheese is made which is
said to appeal strongly to the imagination.
That may be so, but we never heard mans
nose called by that name before.-Nec York
Graphic.
ASBESTOS cloth has been chosen as the
jacket " for the boiler of a new locomotive
built for the Boston & Albany railway. This
will not char, as does wood, and will retain
more heat.
THE Lowell Times contains this announce
ment: Anybody wishing to board good,
kind, tractable donkey for his children's
use this winter can apply at the Times Office
The editor is certainly frank.
A PLATINUM wire too fine to be seen with
the naked eye is said to have been made by
Mr.. II. T. Read of Brooklyn. 1t is to be
used in telescopes as a substitute for the
spiders web usually employed.
SEE here. fadder. Dot celebrated DIR.
Hammond says dot in tousand years all
mankind will be bald" "My gracious, my
son. ish dot so? guess may be den We better
mark our stock of combs down."
FORMERLY the kings of Spain, for nine
days after death, were placed sitting in
robes of state, with their attendants around
them, and solemnly summoned to their
meals and amusements as if living.
The most valuable postage-stamp known
to collectors is said to be one issued by the
postmaster of Brattleboro, VT, in 1917
which was suppressed after few weeks
A specimen is now worth S6OO or $500.
If the people of this country would pay
about S25 apiece it would wipe out the ma
tional debt. If every inhabitant of the
country gets his share of the years grain
crop he will have to consume or waste fifty
three bushels.
" AMT it time you paid me that five dol
larS? asked a farmer of his neighbor.
Taint DUE was the reply. " But you
promised to pay me when you got back from
New York" "Well, l han't been there"
he replied-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
REMARKABLE, isn't it, the great age to
which some animals attain? | have just
read that Pittsburgh donkey has recently
died at tifty-seven years" " didn't know
they lived to be so old Nor /. Oh, by
the way, Hobbs, how old are you? My wife
was asking me, yesterday
WHEN General Sherman was at Fort Bay
ard he was asked by an Indian chief for an
closure. Can't have it, was the laconic
answer. "Why not?" "What do you want
with it; to kill soldiers?" Soldiers! Ugh,
no. Use 'em kill cowboys. Kill soldiers
with club"
A BERLIN woman lately attempted to kill
herself by drinking five ounces of kerosene
She became unconscious, but was fully re.
stored to health in three or four days. The
Deusche WoehenschriH tells of a man who
drank habitually an ordinary glass of pc
troleum several times weekly, without any
disagreeable consequences.
"THERE is another cold wave coming,
remarked Mr.. Fangle to his wife last night
Where from?' asked the lady. From
the Northwest, where they all come from
"Why do all the cold waves come from
the Northwest, my dear?' "Oh, because
there is so much GOODNESS between st. Pau
and Minneapolis. '-Putsburg Chronicle.
EVEN editors are sometimes unreasonable
The editor of Georgia paper said, in a re
cent issue of his paper: " If the man who
sold us five dozen rotten eggs just before
Christmas day doesn't come in and make
them good we will teach him what the pen
atty is for cheating and swindlng." Jus
as if any one could make that kind of eggs
good!
The Sacramento Record Union thus deli
cately tips the wink to an indiscreet young
man: If the young gentleman who is pay
ing attention to an III street belle will in the
future not sit between the lamp and the win
dow, the shadow pictures will not attract
such assemblages as nightly gather in from
OF the residence, neither will he furnish foo(
for comment for passengers in the stree
cars"
IT is said that New York scientist il
devoting himself exclusively to the discov
cry of some means of making the shells o
eggs transparent, without injury to thei
membraneous lining. His object is to max
a study of the changes and processes b.
which life is developed from the ovum
From utilitarian point of view, transpa
rent eggs would be desideratum for tn
purchaser.
AN Englishman who lately came into tn
possession of the estate left by his fathe
did remarkable thing according to tn
MARQUIS OF IOrne, WHO Tells tne story. III
mans father had claimed and obtane
0,000 as compensation from a railway con
pany which had made a line through the e'
tate. When the son succeeded to the e'
tate he returned the 100000 to the company
holding that, instead of the railway damal
ing his estate, it had enhanced its value.
A WESTERN editor of country newspi
per thus announces the acquisition, in h
domestic circle, of two fair, fat and fou
ishing (" babies; Bring out the brass ban
and place its noisiest members on the higl
esf pinnacle of the hen-coop! Sound II
loud horse-fddle and let the nation rejoic
for one of the humblest citizens of the con
monwealth hath been justly exalted over h
compeers, and we have the honor to be thi
fortunate and meritorious individual. Still
we are not proud; we yet speak to our neig
bors, occasionally but at the same time
must be admitted that we feel several inch,
taller than we did week ago."
THE king of Bavaria has been much di
tressed because his manager, Herr Won Pc
fall, had failed to provide him with re
nightingale In Wagner's " Parsifal Il
song of the nightingale plays part in
story. This is usually produced by a skillf
flute player behind the scenes This W
not do, said the exacting royal critic; :"
ought to have a real nightingale" Herr W
Perfall promised to do what he could iowa
engaging "A nightingale as one OF the COZ