The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-15
Pith and Point.


THE bottle as well as the barrel is becom-
ing too prominent in politics. Phaadelphid
Times.
THERE are 10000 persons engaged in one
capacity or another In London theaters and
music halls.
IT is said that out Of $4,000 Jews in the
city of Amsterdam 10000 are occupied in
the trade of demonstrating.
A CURIOUS musical experiment lately made
in the Brussels Conservatory was an orches-
ira formed solely of twelve clarinets.
A CANADIAN meteorologist says that Pitts
burgh, Penn, will be destroyed by mete-
oric shower in the latter part of September.
ALEXANDER SIREs Neillsville, Wis,
saloon-keeper, has tame bear that stands
behind the bar and serves customers grace
fully and politely.
PHoToGRAPHER mechanically: "Now,
look pleasant, please" with agitation)
ION, don't smile quite 50 much; I have only
small plate in"
AT Saint Ginophe in Savoy there died
recently woman, Nine. Richard Dietrich,
at the age of 126 years She was married in
1888 for the first and in 1898 for the third time
A REGULARITY of the older orange trees
IN Florida this season is that most of their
frult is borne in clusters in the tops of the
trees, where the branches were most com
pletely denuded of their leaves last winter.
Two weeks ago the town of Loire, Ari-
Ipud NOuldlutu wv people anu mncn Nalll-
able property. A cyclone visited it, and
now there is not the slightest sign left that in
dicates the presence of a once thriving town.
e IT is probable that great change will
soon be made in the way of dressing the
hair French hair-dressers are gradually
taking the hair off the forehead, which will
abolish crimps, curs, etc, says the New
York Times.
ONE of the old timers: Sonny, what time
do hit say de 'scurdgeon train start?" Young
one: " Fighter clock" Old-timer "Mornin'
or ebenin?,' Young one (reading): Eight
A. M" Old-timer (sternly): " Boy, don't
trif1e long O. me. Mornin' or ebenin'?"
A DAKOTA farmer, grumbling at the poor
! outlook for wheat in the early summer, of
! fered to give to his wife all the wheat he
would have over 800 bushels. He has Just
| threshed trifle over 300 bushels and the
wife is going to have a new black silk dress.
AN editor, being challenged by county
| treasurer for calling him " the red-headed,
malignant mule who dissipates the county
money" produced his manuscript and
showed that he wrote the big hearted, val
liant soul who dispenses the county money"
" IT is not uncommon" writes Colonel
Watterson from Switzerland, " to see dog
and girl hitched to a cart and trotting
along together like a pair of ponies" We
are happy to say that no such cruelty is
practised on dogs in this ountry.-Thdodel-
| phtd CAL.
LuMBEhMEN get twenty cents a log at
Warsaw, Wis, for raising dead " or water
soaked logs from the bottom of the Wis
consin river. They have already raised
about 100000 feet, and logs that have been
dead for twenty years are said to be sound
as the day on which they were cut.
In Russia physician who fails to re-
spond to the summons of a patient is
punished by a fine of from five to one hun
dred roubles. If the case were dangerous
one, and the physician knew it, he may be
imprisoned in the Jail for three months. The
| legal fee for an ordinary visit is from seven
and one-half to fifteen cents.
CLERK REIGLE of the county commission
er's Office was at the Changers picnic this
| week. Did you see the educated pg?"
queried the reporter to-day. "No,' said the
atfable clerk, I" but / saw the uneducated
| pig. He sat in "A car coming from the picnic
and occupied whole seat while several
women stood. "-Hdrrisburg Telegraph.
The ex-communist, General Dubisson
was encountered by Potapoux, one of his
former aides-de-camp, in small town in
Italy. How do you manage to live?" in
quired Potapoux. :" 1t is quite simple"
answered Dubisson; give run across a
beggar who is both blind and dumb. fol-
low him about, and as he can't see the pen
MES that people throw to him, l stoop and
pick them up"
HELEN A. BLANCHARD, the daughter of an
unsuccessful Portland merchant, failed as a
clearinghouse keeper in Boston, then barely
kept soul and body together by running a
sewing-machine in a Philadelphia clothing
house, and then invented an over-seam
stitch and patent sweat-band for mems
hats, and with the money from these sue
cesSful inventions has bought back the old
Maine homestead, where the family lived
in the prosperous days of the past.
The gale which struck Galveston last
month passed over the Island of st. Vincent
in the West Indies on the 10th, laying waste
the whole southern part of the island. Thou
sands OF valuable trees were destroyed, par
ticularly the nutmeg and the bread-fruit
trees. Fine churches and mission-houses
were blown down, besides three hundred
houses, with many more seriously damaged.
Five persons were killed and thirty injured.
Fifteen hundred persons are reported des-
titute.
A LION who was resting in the sun one day
tacitly permitted hornet to alight on his
nose, but vigorously repulsed wasp, who
sought for the same privilege. Thereupon
the latter observed, " We are both of the
same general species, and fail to see why
you discriminate against me-" Simply to
prove to you that every one has the right to
select the nuisance he is willing to put up
with" was the reply. Moral-There is a
difference between the hand-organ and the
northumberland Free Press.
A SUMMING up of the disturbances in 1885
shows that last year there were tifty-nine
earthquake in the United States and Can
Provinces, eight; New England, five; At
lantic States nine; Mississippi valley, three;
Pacific slope, thirty-four. Furthermore,
during the twelve years from 1872 to 1885,
there were recorded 3H earthquakes in the
same region. These figures establish with
sufficient clearness the fact that our coun-
try is no stranger to earthquakes.
A WRITER in the Philadelphia Record, re-
ferring to the Charleston earthquake, says:
, 81 see nothing in the sad kilograms from
Charleston about the monument over the
remains of John c. Calhoun in st. Peters
, church-yard, and so suppose the earthquake
did not disturb it, Possibly, however, the
, Charlestonians have not looked To see. Be-
/ fore the war Calhouns grave was covered
! with plain very plain stone. When the
} federal troops We're approaching Charles
( ton Calhoun's remains were disinterred
/ and buried under the steps of ST. Peters
+ church, lest the Yankees should desecrate
them The Yankees treated the shabby
looking stone under which they supposed
! the remains to Ice lying with the greatest
: respect. They paid it great deal more at
tention than it had before received. As the
old darkey sexton of st. Peters said in re-
! Spouse TO a soldier who asked whether many
people visited the grave: Didn't use to be
any visitors at all, but since the Yankees
came they have been a streaming in all the
= time After the war the remains were re-
,,la in no oil md N