The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-22
Pith and Point.

WHO says the Indian cannot be civilized?
Fargo, Oak, is reported full of aborigines
who are seeking for farm work.
A CANADIAN great-grandfather recently
was present at the christening oil ms one
hundred seventeenth descendant.
MORE earthquakes have shaken Summer
vile, s. c., and it Is said that not more than
twenty white families are left in the place.
A GOOD many Jokes are being polSed at the
earthquake but the Charleston papers are
not copying any of them.-Detroh Free Press.
THE recent earthquake in Java split a
mountain into seven parts. Where the lone
mountain stood loom up seven peaks each
1000 feet high.
THE weathiest colored man in the United
States is said to be Tonic Luton, French
quadroon of New Orleans, whose fortune is
estimated at 81, 100000.
CITY belle (pointing to wild plant by the
waysde) What's that?" Country cousin:
That's milkweed." City belle: ooh, yes
what you feed the cows on, | suppose"
SOME hogs kept in brewery in Ports.
mouth, N. H., are in the habit of getting
drunk just like men, and they are therefore
no longer admitted into good hog society.
THE little tiger in the Central Park me-
nagerie is being brought up on the bottle.
He takes as kindly to the bottle as if he had
been an alderman all his life.-BostoR Tran
script.
IHE only piece OF lanu Ill bne Z nlUcu
States that has been kept under English
entail is Gardeners Island Gardeners Bay,
l.. |. For two hundred years it has fallen
from father to SON.
"PAPA" said small boy not well posted
on lacrosse, "what does the umpire do?"
" He does pretty much as he .pleases, my
son" replied the father, who had studied
the game very carefully.
THE iron-front buildings of Charleston re-
sisted the earthquake much better than
those of stone fronts. 1t is a rare occurrence
to find fracture in wall which rests upon
iron beams and uprights.
IT is said that the water from the artesian
wells at Charleston has not been in the
slightest degree coored by matter forced in
from below. This indicates that the earth
quake was of less depth than the wells.
AT Oneida the other day baseball UNI
pire made a wrong ruling. When it was
pointed out to him he fined himself seventy
five cents. AT the close of the game his
severity gave way and he RENTED the fine.
THE Jewish Alamanack just published
states that there are 100000 Jews in Eu-
rope, 100000 in Asia, 5000 in Africa and
100000 in America. The total Jewish popu-
lation of the world is estimated at $500 900.
AN English physician says that men
shouldn't crop their hair short. Hair. he
says, is conductor of electricity to the
brain, and if the brain fails to get electricity
it will soon soften. This is bad news for
bald-headed men.
ACCORDING to the calculations made by a
scientific writer lately, it requires a pro-
digious amount of vegetable matter to form
layer of coal, the estimate being that it
would really take 100000 wears to form a
coal-bed 100 feet thick.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON holds that artificial
teeth are an evil in those of advanced years,
because they enable such persons to masti-
cate flesh. When the teeth fall naturally it
is natures design that the individual should
subsist on vegetable diet.
DURING the earthquake at Charleston, S.
c., negro drayman slept all night on his
dray. He said he had measured the houses
and knew they could not fall as far as he
was. This became popular before morning.
A long line of wagons was drawn up in the
center of the streets and filled with sleep
ing people.
A PARTY visiting Orr's Island last week
came upon an elderly citizen who, they
found always lived upon the island and
was familiar with its history They asked
if Mrs. Stoves account of the inhabitants
and their doings was accurate. Wall,
said he, =" she's got one thing right" " What
is that?' The name of the island. -
Portland (Naine) Transcript.
EARTHQUAKE stories still come in, princi.
paly from Georgia. One of the latest is
about waggish Widow Gum, who, as soon
as she recognized the earthquake, seized q
big tin horn and blew a long and mighty
blast. She did it, she said, to astonish the
natives, and was entirely successful for more
than one was certain that the day of judg
ment had come and that Gabriel was blow.
ing his horn.
IT is told of Colonel Ethan Allen of Lis
bon, Conn, that once going into the dining
room of New York hotel and no waiter
showing him seat, he walked to the head
of the table and took a chair that was turned
n tbara Tban a Unitar bnrripH nm "a nd
said that the seat was engaged. " To whom"
asked the colonel. ITO gentleman" said
the waiter. He's come, said the colonel
and he ate his dinner undisturbed.
In spite of the many adverse predictions
there will be nearly or quite an average
crop of oranges in this Immediate section
Some of the old groves will show greatly
diminished yield, but there are many young
groves just coming into bearing which will
in great measure, offset this. Many of the
bearing groves are now holding fair crop
The product will be nearly, if not quite
equal to that of 1SSi-5.-Ordnge COunt5
(FloridoD Paper.
A PROMINENT Waterbury manufacturer
recently illustrated the force of habit. His
habit is TO get shaved at half-past six eacl
evening. The other day, expecting to bt
busy in the evening, he was shaved at noon
but at half-past six he again entered the
barber-shop, patiently waited half an houl
for his turn, and when the smiling barber
rubbed his hand over his bald head ant
said " Hair cut?" remembered that he hat
been shaved and bolted from the shop.
The TrdueUer tells of an Arkansas mother
who never has trouble giving her children
medicine. When | want Tom to tax,
castor OIL" says she, 81 pour some in
glass and say, Here Tom, drink this; bu
you needn't ask for any more He drinks
it right down and always asks for more.
1t was on this same principle that Massa
chusetts farmer induced his cattle to ca
buckwheat straw. He built low fenc
around the stack and once or twice da
dubbed the cattle away The straw was al
gone by spring.
DURING the earthquakes in Georgia
woman in jackson county threw open tn
front door and fired gun, and was walking
the floor with the gun in her hand when he
husband came home. She thought BURGLAR
were around. In negro neighborhood a
Macon the cry was raised that the day o
judgment had come. An old nanny witt
her kinky hair almost straight from fear
rushed out when she heard the announce
ment and gazed upward eagerly. SUDDEN
she shouted; "No hit amt, honey; no hi
amt. De skies amt moved. When judg
ment comes hits er cumin's bofe ways
She was armed with the belief that on tina
dread day the heavens and the earth vii
rush together.
Is it the "missing link" The BIRTHS