The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Pith and Point.


one pew in church.
LADIES hair will be worn very high OF
the head in Paris this winter.
LADIES just from Europe declare that tn,
hair should be worn low in the neck.
THERE are firms in New York and Phila
delphia who hire out clean cuffs and collars
Knoxville Tenn, is built over cave
Occasionally the bottom of a street drops out
GUsTAvUs PANCAKE has been appointed
postmaster at Omega, Ohio. He is yer
popular with the lasses.
DANBURY makes one-fourth of all the hat
worn in the United States. II turns on
hourly, on an average, ,3l3 hats.
Mr.. CRAMP, the shipbuilder, says he cal
build ships which will make the trip from
New York to Liverpool in five days.
THE australian Chemist and DrUggjst say
that essence of peppermint painted on
burn causes the pain to cease at once.
"CHEEsE sticks " are a new edible a
Washington receptions, and it is claimed
that they are the promoters Of digestion.
THERE is no question but that millions
dollars are annually paid as pensions to per
sons not entitled to the same.-NdshrHl|
american.
THE Italians have new advertiser.
scheme. They put notices of hotels ant
shops in little pocket affixed to rail
way ticket.
Two hundred and two lions have beer
killed in Algeria during the last lively,
years. Also PA panthers, $50 hyenas an
q, 1875 iackals
a HARVARD graduate was found a shor
time ago who did not know who discovers,
America. He will be shocked to learn tina
it was not Boston man.
VERY little wine goes with supper at re
ceptions and parties this season. Whethe
this means economy or prohibition nobod
seems to know.-Nep York Mail.
THE fact that it's an i'll wind that blow
nobody good is once more eXemplitiedv
Saturdays snow-storm wrecked a roller
skating rink at Harrisburg. - Tribune.
REV. JOHN r. PAXTON of the West Presby
terian church, New York. last week Sunday
asked for $4,000 to establish new missionI
! Within ten minutes he collected over S21 ,0WS
| RUBINsTEIN within three weeks gav,I
seven piano recitals at Berlin, playing Is !
different compositions, by twenty-nine com
| posers, from memory. No musician ha |
| surpassed this remarkable feat.
SEVERAL medical writers have latelJ
| called attention to the fact that although
there is a marked diminution of drunken
ness in England, the use of powerful man
! cotic and stimulating drugs has increased.
a NEW HAVEN medical examiner stated
that he found starvation to have been thu
actual cause of death in the case of an I'M
FAINT that died in that city few days agoI
The infant had been fed on some sort Of
patent food.
IN the year 1893 white rose was planted
in England, and it produced Seeding. II
twenty years sixty varieties had sprung
from that Seeding, and in fifty years there
were hundreds of varieties-all developed
from one type.
THE wife of Charles p. Pruin of Chicago
Ill.,, was pronounced dead by physician
week ago Sunday. Her husband though
differently, and, after the most persistent
efforts restored her to consciousness, and
she is now able to move about.
To the list of funny typographical error]
we must add the announcement of thu
BROOKLYN Union that at Worcester, Mass
a creation society has just been organized
with list of officers whose names are sig
nificant of wealth and intelligence" TIT
Union meant to say " cremation"
TwENTY-THREE thousand three hundred
and sixty-ive signatures to petition fol
the introduction of cremation in GERMANY
include 1,H1 names of physicians, LON
lawyers and professors, $40 school-masterd
1015 government officials, ten Protestant
clergymen, three rabbis, 361 women and
6,000 workingmen.
THE 18th day of January was the forty
sixth anniversary of the burning of thu
steamer Lexington, bound from New Y orl
to Stonington, and the loss of 16l OF the 10
persons on board. OF the four persons save
Mr.. David Crowley, an employe in the bag
gage department of the Boston x Provi
dence railroad, is the only survivor.
In Canada-Fair Americaine "Oh, w
are perfectly delighted with the country
and as for Mr.. A., don't think anything
would tempt him to go back to the States.
laundering Canadian; Indeed? And err
beg your pardon, but was it bank or onl
| ,.rJi tar Inns hnI Will wi q
husband was Connected" Transcript.
A TEUToNIc coroner in an Ohio town wa
called upon, the other day, to sit on tn
case of a man who had been killed in a
iron-mill. In order to impress the jur
with his honesty, he began his address a
follows: " Schentlemen, | hef no bersone
interest in dis case. | hef been abbroache'
neder by der manufacturers nor der dc
ceased"
IN a marriage register in the Church of 81
James. Bury st. Edmunds, says an Englis
journal, the following curious notice appears
lisp, November 8. Christopher Newsam
Charity Morrell Charity Morrell being ell
tirely without arms, the ring was place
upon the fourth toe of the left foot, and sh
wrote her name in the register with he
right foot
! THE post-ofiice was not too severely take
this season, for the sending of Christina
cards had very much diminished. Indee,
, the postal deliveries were reludrhdDlN puHc
, tual. There can be no question about it
the sending of Christmas cards is going ou
I 1t became a fashion, and then degeneratet
= as fashions too often do, into nuisance
1 London Paper.
2 A DnIINUTIvE boy called at the residenc
of Judge Pennybanker " | hear that 20
/, want to hire a boy to help work in II
garden?" said the little boy. so ! d'
: Are you the boy?" Eyes mum" /" Wei
{ YOU will never do. You are too small
Why, sonny, you are so small that yo
would have to have a step-ladder to dig
J. tatoes. "-IerdS SQtings.
Il "LAYIN' eout another rairoad?" " Su
veying for one was the reply. Col
i threw my barn?" Don't see how we ca
avoid it," wall, now Mister, | calkerla
y I've got sumthin tew say bout that.
. want you to understan' that I've got sun
c thin else few dew besides running oil
s few open and shet them doors every time
|, train wants to go threw
J. " No, sir; | haven't seen the WILL but
Il propose to fight il. My uncle was crazi
3 than a loon and couldn't make will
u LAWYER Filchem: A." But drew il for hill
l. and know that he bequeaths his entire e
: tate to YOU" "Is that so? Then just 60
II slider yourself retained to defend the instr
ment. | propose TO protect my der uncle
), memory to the furthest extremity, "-Pha
u deiphid Press.
> a CONNECTICUT valley paper-making fir
sent to the Paris Exposition blank boo
>, weighing POO pounds and having 5000 enc
II nous pages as a sort of universal autogral
n album. Only one-fourth of its pages we
filed i'm Paris after which il served al