The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Pith and Point.

LOT Ine mortality among Cnlluren AZ new
Orleans.
PEOPLE going on excursions are so happy
to get home that they are glad they went
Ne,0 Orleans Picdyune.
Mrs. MARY CoLBY of Vienna, Maine, al
though seventy-eight years old, has just per.
sonally worked out her road tax of "a.
If a man will read and understand good
newspaper for three or four years he will
acquire pretty liberal education.-Spring
field Union.
If you are homely console yourself by
thinking that there Is one time when you are
the best-looking man in the crowd. That
is when you're alone.-DdnsrWe Breeze.
A MAN in Campbell county Georgia, had
thirty-six boys old enough to fight in the
late war and twenty-three of them were
killed. He had been married nine times.
THE conductor exclaimed, angrily, Here
don't do that. You're ringing the bell al
both ends of the car" "That's all right
Bedad, an / want both ends of the car tC
shtop."
BUTCHER Ito young housekeeper): al have
nothing left, mum, but hindquarter OF
lamb and liver" Young Housekeeper
Every well. You may send small hind
quarter of liver"
EXCEEDINGLY short matrimonial engage
ments have been highly fashionable of late
The popular impression is that the engaged
people who hesitate are lost and that mar
is an uncertain anmal.-NeW York Mail
JOSEPH BARTH of Pierron, ILL.,, hid 1856
gold, in his oat-bin last fall. Last week he
sold his oats and dumped them into cal
before he remembered his money. They
shoveled the oats over three times without
finding anything, but fourth trial fetched
'em.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia In
qoirer, writing from the Perche district in
France, says that NJ. Tacheau, the larges
breeder of Percheron horses, has mad,
1000, 900 francs in the business in ten or fiji
teen years, his profits this year up to JUNE
amounting to $4,000.
Mrs. j. NJ HALL of Tolono, ILL.,, had &
hen that laid two eggs day. The hen was
killed this week, and out of curiosity al
anatomical examination was made, which
revealed the fact that the hen had two egg
sacks, each containing fully-matured egg.
which would have been laid that day
EASTERN drummer Ito st. Louis merchant)
That was a pretty bad failure of Isaac
Stein 81" Merchant: " Pad? Veil, you va:
right it vas. 1t vas de worst failure of d,
season. His creditors made him pay seventy
vive cents on the dollar 1t is better to stay
in peesness as to fail like dot. '-Puck.
SISTER LAVENDER, a negro exhorter, il
opening her season of Sunday meetings a
ath-on-theHudson, declared You young
women who came here to spark and laugh
with big feathers in your hats, ought to pull
the feathers out and go down to the ribbe
and jump in, and say here goes muffin. -
A WYOMING editor of gallant and sociabl,
tendencies remarks in his paper (publishe,
at Fort Fetterman), after giving the Location
of the editorial Office "All will be welcome
regardless OF age, sex, color, religion o
politics. We want to become acquainte,
with every man, woman and child in thu
territory, especially the women"
In his salutatory the new editor of Wiz
ginia weekly paper says he does not " re
enter the theater of journalism as tn
glitter of pictured scenes, nor assume it
more sacred functions as the neophyte
whose swinging censor but deepens tn,
awful mysteries of the sanctuary"
LIGHTNING struck house in Voluntown
Conn, the other night, and after ripping NJ
things generally, the current divided int,
two One went to house near by, KILN.
goat on the way; struck girl, burned he
stocking and shoe off, and blistered and par
TALLY paralyzed her leg. The other curren
went Off at right angles from the first, dam
aged pig-pen, and knocked down a hors
in an adjacent barn.
THE " Gospel wagon" which the Contra
Union Mission of Washington is using, com
mends itself as being the outcome of prac
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nibus, and contains cabinet organ, gooC
choir and several speakers. Every Sunda,
afternoon it is driven to regions where tn
inhabitants do not often hear the gospe
preached, and religious services of an inter
esting kind are held.
CHAPLAIN: "Ths is your third term il
this prison. Are you not ashamed to hav
your friends see you here" Abashed con
vict: Indeed | am. The prison is disgrace
full. The reception-room smells like a bar
room, the cells are dark as caves, the warde
is no gentleman and the table is not fit t
sit down to. Ashamed to have my friend
come here? | am mortified every time | Sc
them, but what can l do?"-Burdette, i
brooklyn Eagle.
THE other evening the little daughter of
congressman was paying visit at a neigh
boris and the respective mothers were tall,
ing of physical ailments and their remedies
After awhile the little girl saw an oppol
tunity to make remark. My papa" sh
said, always drinks whiskey when he
sick" Then she stopped for a minute, he
eyes softened and saddened and she cor
tinued, slowly: "And poor papa is sic
nearly all the time. - Washington critic.
In show-window at Washington is
golden chameleon from Yucatan. 1t is
long, cream-colored beetle, wearing daint
gold harness and tethered to pin with
six-inch gold chain of the lightest pattern
He wanders aimlessly to the end OF hi
tether and round and round his beate
stake. A popularity of the creature is tha
it will live some months without eating
The ladies of Yucatan and Central Americ
very generally wear this curious pet, in
harness of gold, tethered with gold chat
to their corsage.
THE chief qualifications to be sought fC
in clerk, next to ability Says an old mel
chant, are honesty and politeness.
high degree of moral principle is in itself
necessary qualification in a post of tru.
and responsibility, and it is usually assoc
ated with cultivated and improved stat
of the intellectual faculties. Politeness
manner and patience, or a serenity of tempe
which nothing can disturb are essenti
qualifications of good clerk. An impolit
impudent or ill-tempered clerk may driy
away more custom than ten good men ca
bring together.-Dry Goods Chronicle.
A NEW tenor has made his appearance
Stockholm He is soldier named Bradbo
and possesses such marvellous voice tn
several musical professors have been co
tending for the honor of educating hi
gratuitously. He made his debut recent
at the Theater Royal, and his appearan
attracted all the Swedish arstocracy al
elite of society. He sang " William Tell
and the purity of his voice and the ease wi
which he attained the higher notes so e
cited the admiration of the audience tn
they unanimously pronounced him ii
worthy peer of his country-woman, Mn
, Nilsson.
} AT one time King Louis of Bavaria had
l harmless mania for tiying-machines. !
+ another he bowed down and worshiped /
! animate objects-pictures, statues, trees al
! flowers. One of his ideas was to found
secret society to watch the Bavarians al