The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-02
Pith and Point.

with her ninth husband.
MANY a poclSet-book now has a spring
opening - Worcester Gazette
IT takes eight hundred full-bown roses to
make a tablespoonful OF perfume.
In the whole of North Carolina, 1t seems,
there is not a single savings bank.
A WESTERN correspondent has been trying
to set a hen to music.-rOnker Statesman
A SPECIES of kangaroo which has claws
and climbs trees has been found in Australia.
THE circular saw is a rank anarchist. 1t
always has revolutionary designs.-Cteue-
land San.
A MAN at San Rafael, Cal, has disproved
proverb by literally making whistle out
of pigs tall
THE liar is always more indignant at hav
ing his word doubted than the honest man.
Philddelphia Call
The two hundred fftieth anniversary of
the city of Springfield, Mass, was appro-
| priately celebrated last week Tuesday.
IT is interesting to notice that in this
era of strikes and labor commotion Mount
Etna keeps steadily at work.-BoSton Post.
A PECULIAR Partisan fashion, which has
grown rapidly within the past few years, is
the custom for women to go bareheaded out
of doors.
THE losses by the recent storms at the
West foot up total of 100 persons killed,
1913 wounded and $3,300000 worth of prop
erly ueSuOyeu'
IT is a smart man who knows how to
make a speech, but it is a smarter man who
knows how and when to end one.-Shoe and
Leather Reporter.
SHE: "And that scar, major Did you
get it during an engagement He lab
sently) Engagement? No; the first week
of our honeymoon"
The accumulated photographs of babies
that have been named after the President
number some 700 and fill three drawers in
White House closet.
New YORK editor says that General
Woseley ought to be I" sat upon as danger
Gus firebrand." Who wants to sit upon a
rebrand?-Bufalo Commercial
CAN twins git penshun whene one is ded
and the other is a CURL Let me know afore
my old man dies who has got misery in his
stummuck?-Letter to the Commissioner Of
Pensions.
A DISCONNECTED young man says there
are not so many openings as there were.
This is mistake There are more open
ingS, but it takes live men to find them
Galveston Neaos.
WE understand that gentleman at the
city of Maquam has received through Col
onel A. b. Jewett an order for three thou
sand toads, ninety-two thousand frogs and
two pickerel, which are to be used in trim
ming ladies hats, the bird crop having been
used up burlington Clipper
Mr.. AND Mrs. SALATHIEL BURKE of Neoga,
ILL.,, have been married thirteen years He
is thirty-seven and she a year younger.
They have nine fine children, and among
them are four sets of twins. First pair of
boys then pair of girls, then pair of boys,
then pair of girls, and the baby is poor,
lonely little girl.
THE Boston Traveller says that at a recent
wedding near Boston the bride entered on
her uncle's arm, and was met at the church
by the groom. The uncle then retired in good
order. took his seat in the bOlV of the
church, and when the clergymen asked,
Who giveth this woman ?" etc, arose in
his place, and loudly and emphatically
Said Me"
THREE weeks ago an Indiana man taught
his dog, very finely-bred, well-behaved
setter, to chew tobacco. Now the dog comes
into the house by the back door, never
scrapes his feet on the mat, never goes to
church, is careless at his meals, gets burs in
his tail, goes with lower grade of dogs,
and it is feared that he is beginning to take
an interest in politics. -Brooklyn Eagle.
AMONG the steerage passengers who en-
barked on the Catalonia at Queenstown was
a family of five persons-father, mother and
three children. When few days out the
two elder children fell sick and died and
were soon followed by both parents, all four
being buried at sea- The child that was left
is two or three years old. When the vessel
reached Boston it was given in charge of the
officials at the Chardon Street Home.
A MAINE doctor describes his experience
in making a call: "The woman opened the
door and let in a cat. Then the old man let
in a dog. Pretty soon heard a pecking at
a window pane and weird voice saying
Cold, cold The woman hastily raised
the window, when in flew an old black crow
distinctness. l had not seen all their family
yet In short time two white mice ap
peared on the floor"
"HERE, boy" said the humorous editor
d" take this three-ply church fair oyster skit
this eighteen-carat plumber joke and this
hilarious all-wool skating-rink paragraph
and pack 'em away in cotton and camphol
to preserve them from the moths, and get
out and FURNISH up the strawberry short
cake quip, the picnic custard-pie rib-hcklel
and the green apple mirth-provoker. They
are little frayed about the edges and smell
rather chestnutty, no doubt, but l guess
they'll last another season. - NorriStoWr
Herald.
THE fire at Amecameca is twelve miles
broad, and is travelling rapidly. The dam
age so far is incalculable. Great forests have
disappeared which have been worth at leas
$2,O00,OOO to the people of the valley and it
surroundings on account of their effect OF
the climate and the rains. Five Indians
persisted in one day by being burned t.
death. Huts and novels have gone dow
like straw, and it is as yet impossible to as
certain how many lives have been lost. AL
army of about 600 men, including Indian
and soldiers, are tenaciously fighting the fir
and trying to head it off.-Ttco Republics
city Of Mesico.
ACCORDING to the newspapers, it is be
coming almost epidemic all over the coun
try for extremely young men to fall in low
with mature women," says the New Y orl
World, in an abrupt and startling manner
The spectacle of rosy-cheeked boys hang
ing around women verging on fifty is not a
all uncommon. These youths are infatuate
and so are the mature beauties. They ar
stepped in sentimental folly and care not
whit for the sneers or comments of thos
around them. The secret of this attractio
seems to be the power of mind over matter
Mature women of the world, whose int
lects have been cultivated, are far more il
teresting to young men than are simperin
schoolgirls, and from becoming intereste
the callow youth soon becomes fascnate
and then finds himself hopelessly in love.
A MYSTERY hitherto as unsolvable as ths
of the Man with the Iron Mask has SUI
rounded the reason which induced Phil
l.. Moen, the Vanderbilt OF Worceste
Mass, to give his hostler, Levi Wilson
nearly 800, 600 simply to keep silence. FL
ten years this incomprehensble affair hs
been going on, and detectives have in d
spair abandoned theory after theor.
Mems life has been quite spotless and irr
proachable always, so far as can be asce
tanned, and yet il is hard to understand no
Wilson has been able to eXtort such sums
fro. .,lnpu L. ants