The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Pith and Point.

dred species of ferns, or about one-Sixth OF
the ferns of the whole world.
EMBOSSED books for the use of blind per-
sons have been prepared in more than two
hundred fifty languages and dialects.
No wonder the features of Andrew jack
son are so unfamiliar to the American peo-
pie. His portrait is engraved upon the $10,-
600 bills.
LA BRETAGNE, the new French steamer
just arrived in New York, cost 81 100000
decorations, $4,000 extra. She is a verita-
BILE floating palace
THEY produce the Mikado" very thor
oughly in Chicago. The house is Japanese
from entrance to stage, the attendants, even
to the walters in the cafe, being clad in Jap
anese costumes.
AT the recent great military reunion in
California only one man of the 10000 vete-
rams was discovered in liquor. The growth
of the temperance reform has not received
better illustration.
According to paper recently read at the
convention of scientists at Buffalo, the
Niagara Falls are receding at the rate of "a
feet per year, so that it will take $500 years
for them to recede a mile.
SOME men are never satisfied with the ar
rangements of nature. The most recent
grumbler thinks that the luminous end of
the FREELY should have been hitched to the
mosquito. Philadelphia CAL.
TEN hundred nineteen children at Lake
Walden the other day consumed 200 sand
witches, 800 buns, 1000 pickles, 500 cakes
300 gallons of milk, 100 gallons of lemonade
and 80 gallons of tea and coffee.
JUDGE: Have you anything to say before
the court passes sentence upon your Pris-
oner: Well, all got to say is, / hope yer
honor II consider the extreme youth of my
lawyer, an let me off easy."-Puck.
A WOMAN recently arrived in Portland,
Oregon, from Montana, whose entire wealth
consisted of ten children, the eldest ten
years old. There were one set of tripets,
two sets of twins and three " singles"
THE Palmer Journal tells of citizen who,
when the tire-bell rang the other evening,
rushed to the man at the rope, shouting,
Stop ringing that bell right away! You
mustn't do it! It'll wake up my baby"
The oldest merchant vessel atloat is said
to be the bark True Love, which was built
in Philadelphia in 1764 and is, therefore,
100 years old. She is still in active service,
and is owned by j. S. Ward of London.
A RICH and prominent New York woman,
an invalid, has recently made will be-
queathng sums amounting to $4,000 to
various charities, each and every bequest
having been suggested by her physician.
THERE is a new baby on Deer Hill avenue.
1t is small one. Its little tive-year-old
sister watched it carefully for few minutes
yesterday, and then turned to the maternal
head of the family and said: Mamma,
couldn't papa have paid another dollar and
got larger one?"-Danbury Democrat
A BRocKToN, Mass, shoemaker has spent
deal of valuable time in making pair OF
shoes out of eight hundred fifty-two differ
ent pieces of leather. Each tip contains one
hundred nine small diamond-shaped pieces
Fourteen different kinds of leather were
used, and various colored silks were used in
doing the stitching.
A FINE fish stroy comes from the Sucker
state. 1t is that a Geneseo man floating
down the Illinois went to sleep, leaving 6
stout fish-line dangling in the water. Wher
he awoke his boat was fifteen miles farther
up the stream than when he went to sleep
A monster catfish had swallowed the bal
and towed the boat up the river.
THEY tell story of boy who was once
sent on an errand to distinguished lawyer
of Essex county. When he returned home
he said to his mother, odd Squire -
don't know much" "Why. what do you
talk so for?" was his mothers response
Coz, he asked me, where's your hat
| boy?' when it was on my head all tn,
time. Lynn Item.
A New JERSEY man was left with tift,
thousand skate rollers and enough wood t.
make four hundred thousand on hand whel
the roller-skating fever subsidized, and box
wood dropped in price from 500 to $50
ton. Now the rage for tortoise shell but
tons, of which an excellent imitation can b
made from lockwood, has come in to reliev
him. and he is going into the buttol
business
AN Eastern drummer who was in Knox
Vile listened to the complaints of noun
taineer about hard times for ten or tifteel
minutes, and then observed, "Why, man
you ought to get rich shipping green corn 2, t
Ia Won haxr fha lar /
and can get the seed?" Eyes" "Then VIII
don't you go into the speculation" " N
use, stranger" sadly replied the native
"the old woman is too darned lazy to do tn
blowing and planting Val street Neoc'
In the corridor of Hotel Nantasket in
handsome glass case is a miniature locomt
tive made of silver or nickel; all the part
are perfect and it attracts much attento
from visitors. If you slip Iive-cent piec
in a hole made for it, it starts the machiner
and the wheels of the engine revOlve, Will
miniature electric light in the lanter
shines forth AT the same time music
box arrangement plays tune. l asked a
attendant how much was collected by thes
voluntary contributions to curiosity and hi
answer was that very often sixty dollars
week was taken from the receptacle bt
h.-Correspondence Of Cape Cod Item.
A FRENCH physician, having tested h
, theory, advocates sleeping with the hea
| lower IMAM blle Ieet. Tie Slept lHdI way IL
, four years, and finds that his neck is near
two inches larger, owing to the swelling
. the thyroid gland. He says in this way IL
, brain receives more plentiful blood suppl
> and is consequently better nourshed, viii
: there is no danger of so much blood passir
to the cerebral structure as to cause congo
ton. This danger is obviated by the enlarg
! ment of the thyroid gland, which holds ba'
: a certain portion of the blood in its dilat'
vessels, and which also acts as regulat
of the cerebral circulation by exerting pre-
sure upon the carotids, and thus diminis
! ing their calibre.
g A MAN in Baltimore is running his hou
# by rules invented by himself The visit
k finds all the directions necessary for CORE
d department in the hall printed plainly OF
# card nailed to the hat-rack. On enteri
:. the parlor he reads poster telling him VIII
l. liberties are allowed and what things a
y forbidden visitors, together with schedt
e OF hours at which callers are welcome a
)f the information that visitors, If ahead
ID time, must wait for the official hour to stri
lie before any member of the family may
of seen. The dining-room is embellished
s. directions about table etiquette, the cook
g. hampered by orders concerning the prof.
ct methods of preparing food, and even
T. bedrooms contain printed rules regardi
a. private conduct, from shaving to repeati
n morning and evening prayers. The ru
r. may be very good ones, but the members
II the family are naturally little rebellious