The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-24
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AN escaped circus bear at Greensburg,
Penn, ate up T. Barrett's thirteen pigs.
A FUNERAL procession of 400 carriages
caused blockade of Chicago horse-cars.
TEACHER: "What is the hottest place in
the United States?" Pupil: "a hornets
nest"
The oldest inhabitant in Paris cannot
remember when the gay city has had such a
cold winter.
A CITIZEN of Lambertville, N. j., declares
that he has not drank any water for the last
twelve years.
IT is estimated that $4,000 conversations
take place daily over the 5000 telephone
wires in New York.
THE rage for roller-skating is fast dying
out in Illinois, and the Kinks are being con-
verified into other uses.
GERMAN professor (who is about to have
his hair cut: " How cold it is in this room.
Pray allow me to keep my hat on"
THE smallest man in Pennsylvania is Ellis
Reinhart of Godsboro. He is 90 years old ,
33 inches high and weighs GA pounds.
JUDGING from the great number of strik-
ers, it would seem that somebody supposes
the iron to be philadelphia Ledger.
PRUNE-GRowERs in California claim that
they can raise and cure prunes for market at
five cents pound and clear 500 an acre.
In Madagascar no one could read 60 years
ago, but now there are nearly 100000 on the
island who have some part of the Bible and
read it.
raigned in the superior criminal court at
Boston lately was without dime novel
in his pocket.
A MAN was committed to Jail at Houtz-
dale, Penn, few days ago, because he re-
fused to pay 66 cents week toward sup
porting his mother.
THE average price of orange groves in
California is 1000 per acre. There are rs
trees to the acre and each one produces
about ten boxes of fruit.
AUNT: "Has any one been at these pre-
serves?" Dead silence.) "Have you touched
them, Jenny" Jenny: "Pa never lows
me to talk at the table"
THERON E. PLATT of Fairfield county,
Conn, has raised 200 varieties of potatoes
on his farm during the past year. The study
. of fungoid pests of the potato has also oc-
cupied his attention.
THOUSANDS on thousands of men in Lon
don live the year round at the rate of ten
or twelve pence day, equal to twenty or
twenty-four cents of American money, in
elusive of food and shelter.
A WONDERFUL Chinese boy is mentioned
in the report of missionary at Pellin. AT
recent examination he repeated the entire
New Testament without missing a single
word or making one mistake.
CoLUsA county, CAL, has had a notifying
experience. A fine iron bridge was con
structed over Stony Creek at heavy expense
but now the creek has deserted its bed and
flows at each end of the bridge.
JOHN KING, cripple and newsboy who
died lately in Cincinnati, gave the public
library valuable collection of 300 vol,
umes, which he had purchased with the
savings of years of toll and privation.
A SET of Pickerings Aldine edition of the
British Poets (fifty-three volumes) has lately
been bound in morocco, each volume in g
different shade from the Others for John II
Small, a wealthy citizen of San Francisco
A GEORGIA paper injudiciously boasted
that it had sixty subscribers in the insane
asylum OF course the rival paper across
the way at once remarked that nobody out
side of an insane asylum would take sucl
paper.
A FEW Florida orange-growers, who are
wise in their generation, buried thousands
of oranges in the sand before the recen
freezing weather, and on digging them VI
found them to be in perfect state of pres
ervaton.
THE fearful mortality among the laborer
on De Lesseps canal il indicated by tn,
statement that no less than five cemeteries
are open and that in one of them, opened
less than two years ago, upwards of 300
interments have taken place.
AN Iowa statesman has won fame at
bound by introducing bill compelling PEG
pile about to marry to furnish to the count.
clerk proof that they are able to maintain
and support each other and take care of thu
children if they should have any.
THE champion hog that was killed il
Rhinebeck the other day, in the presence o
5000 persons, for weeks before his dealt
had to be fed with a spoon. He was so ia
that he could not feed himself, and so
small boy and big iron spoon were EN-
poyed.
FLORIDA hotel proprietor TO steward
." Has that alligator ordered yesterday go
here YETI" Steward: No, sir" Proprieto
(angrily): "Well, this is little too much
and new batch of northern invalids just al
rived. You will have to scratch stewed tel
rapin off the bill of fare. '-Nelo York Times,
THE big snow-storm in Maine packed tn
principal streets in DiXmont with a drift fl
teen feet high, and so solid that horses coul
be driven over it. The young men and boy
of the village tunneled this drift and afte
two days work made tunnel one hundre
seventy-fve feet long, seven feet high an
eight feet wide, through which teams wei
driven for several days.