The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-24
Pith and Point.

COCAINE has proved failure as a cure Il
sea-sickness.
UxBRIDGE, Mass, boasts Of a pair of stee
that have a trotting record Of :0S.
A MAN never sees the last of pair
ready-made boots bought for him.
FLORIDA claims to have 5000 more nortI
ern visitors than at this time last year.
EUROPEAN papers remark upon the god
imitation of celluloid now manufacture
from potatoes.
MAN at Des Mones, Iowa, caDvasse
the city for funds with which to push h
suit for divorce
LAW costs more and more every year, an
the more it costs the less justice there is
| it.-NeWtOn Bee.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY says it would requir
nearly million barrels of herring to suppl
the cod on the Norwegian coast with or
| breakfast.
| A PHILOSOPHER observes: " Six things aI
requisite to create happy home. One
these is good cook and the other fy
are money"
IN Kansas Woodchuck day." which fal
on February I'd, is observed with great pom
and Enthusiastically every one except tli
| woodchucks
THERE is an Arlington flights in Illinois
so called says the Chicago journal, "bd
cause it lies an inch and half higher tina
| its neighbors."
j. ScHwErzER of Soothurn, Switzerland
| has patented a steam velocipede which hal
attained speed of about twelve and one
| half miles an hour.
A WESTERN paper hearing that cooner
is about to be established in Orange, N. j
calls upon its readers to lay over Orang
by establishing poe-cattery.
Mrs. Y. lin an aggreved tone) This
the fifth day in succession have looked owe
the Died column, and have not seen tn
name of a single person | know"
THE old lady who asked for gold rim
sixteen parsnips fine was probably related
to the elderly gentleman who said his daugh
ter was attending the controversy of music
BE sure to harvest and sell your eggs be
fore they become over-ripe. Consumer
prefer to meet the egg in the heyday of it
existence and ere 1t has outlived its useful
ness.-Jef JoSlyn.
DURING the late storm, says a Kansa
paper, a flock of sheep in Clark county
crowded close together. The snow melted
for awhile, and then freezing fastened thu
entire flock together
IT appears from paper read before tho
pharmaceutical society that one of the rea
sons for the low price of quinine lies in the
fact that the chinchona trees are no longei
destroyed in the harvesting.
AFTER ALL some of our proverbs pretty
correct "It is better to make hay when
the sun Shines" 1t would be very awkward
going out after dark trying to hold candle
and swing scythe at the same time.
SEVERAL of the Ontario cities, Toronto an6
Hamilton among Them have memorialized
the Dominion government to cease spending
public money for the purpose of inducing
immigrants to come to Canada.-IOrOntd
Globe.
AN operate manager defines the meaning
of 90 impressario " to be d" the man who is
always trying to please the public and never
succeeds" This being correct, impressario
and editor are synonymous terms.-EUdnS-
rifle Ar0uS.
FoGG wonders why people make so much
fuss about the weight of the cart-wheel
dollars. Doesn't government" he asks
!, make them as light as possible? What
would folks say if they were full weight?'-
Boston Transcript.
A NEWSPAPER has just been started in
Greenland which will make a speciality of
bear stories and cold weather stories 1t is
, a daily, but the editors are not at all pressed
for time, as the day is about three months
t long in that part of the country.
) CURES of sciatca are reported as having
taken place in Paris after single applica-
ton of DR.. Debove's method of freezing the
, skin above the painful parts with spray of
chloride of methyl. The operation is said to
) be applicable also to facial neuralgia
y MAINE farmer astonshed even the ma
r tves by his ingenuity in keeping warm.
. On the forward part of his sled was rugged a
q small, tight shanty, in which were COM
: Portable seat and a hot stove. Two small
holes admitted the reins and a pane of glass
! let him see whittier he was going.
u A WRITER in the British Medical Journal
advises people to be careful not to slice up a
pineapple with the same knife they use in
i peeling it, as the rind contains an acrid
q organic substance which is likely to cause
a swollen mouth and sore lips. In Cuba
: salt is used as an antidote for the poison of
/ pineapple peel.
i THE Paris NelcS says that at the baby show
: in that city is an infant three and a half
| horn Dipnpp which
; eighty-six pounds and is three feet ten
d inches in height. He is possessed of great
t strength and promises to be a giant, like his
n grandfather, although his father is of rather
: less than ordinary stature.
E KNFAss' Philadelphia Magazine for the
Blind is one of the curiosities of printing
: perfected in this age. 1t has been estab-
0 lished since 1867, beginning as quarterly.
S After nine years it became bi-monthly,
:. and after two years became monthly.
Now it is semi-monthly consisting of
:. fifteen pages of print in raised letters.
- BEN: PERLEY PooRE calls his book Mem
/ ory's Budget; "reminiscences Social Anec-
e dotal and Political, Covering Fifty-eight
e Years of Active Life Amid the Social Fes-
q tivites, Eccentric Celebrities, Brilliant
- Ladies and Political Turmoils of the Ma
u tional Capital" 1t looks as if Ben: had
n forgot to use his blue pencil on that title.
c AN East End man has an old hen which
s he calls Enza." He explains it by saying:
Vt Influenza is throat trouble. Last sum
-. mer every time we got the flower garden in
I, shape in flew Enza Finally | threw a
u tiower-pot at her, but missed and broke one
e of my wife's orchids. This led to throw it
S trouble and hence the name. "-PitSburg
i Chronicle Telegraph.
l. A HIGH official has lately died in one of
g our colonies; and his deputy, inexperienced,
= as ! suppose, in the literature of his calling,
Z has forwarded to the home government an
account of the funeral of the deceased:
" He was beloved by all all classes We'd in
e doing honor to his memory; and am sure,
n under happier circumstances, nothing would
have given him more pleasure than to be-
II hold such universal regret" Where does
Is this gentleman imagine his former superior
il to be?-JdmeS PAM, in independent
|, WAS in Fort Smith during session of
- the United States court, some time ago, and
= was amused at the manner in which the
IS proceedings were conducted. The court
a room is Immediately over the prison and
# the prisoners, when wanted, are brought up
through a trap-door. At sign from the
> Judge deputy marshal raised the trap-door,
G reached down, felt around as if grabbing "
l. for a fish under rock, and, Selling an
n Indian, said: Come out, old fellow"
\ :" How did you know that You had caught
= the RIGHT ona2p | asked. ooh. - raplied the