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

CHOLERA IL spreading WIN great raplulty
and deadliness in Southern Japan.
SOME one has sent President Cleveland a
81 900 poodle dog as wedding present.
A CHINAMAN at Vancouver, b. c., fattened
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hog in his laundry.
A GEORGIA citizen, aged twenty-eight
years, bought his first pair of shoes one day
last week.
COUNTRY board that is much sought after
in the SUMMERTIME guide-board.-Phild-
delphia ITEM
GROVER CLEVELAND apparently has not
lost the veto power, though married.
SomerUiHe journal.
THE South African diamond crop up to
the present time has amounted to six and
one-half tons, valued at 940,000,000
To attempt to transact business without
advertising, remarks a shrewd business
man. is like winking at girl in the dark.
A MAN was Boosting that he had an ele-
vator in his house. " SO he has" chimed in
his wife, and he keeps 1t in a bottle in the
cupboard"
"wHAT beautiful form!" exclaimed
Mrs. Nifty, the first time she saw an cell
"such long waist, you know. "-BoSton
Transcript
NEARLY two hundred dead bodies are
taken from the rivers near New York city
annually, large proportion of whom are
never recognized.
WHEN an Icelander marries he is not
allowed to see his mother-in-law. 1t might
make things warmer up there If he was
YonkerS Statesman.
He "They have dropped their anchor"
She ION her first trip: Serves them right
1t has been hanging over the side all day
long."-Hdrper's Bdzar.
A PEARL that is declared the largest in
Europe was sold in London lately for SO, 100.
1t was two inches long, four inches in cir
conference, and weighed three ounces.
THIS world is full of disappointments
" Mamma" cried a five-year-old girl, q" /
started to make my doll a bonnet and it's
come out a pair of pants. "-NeW Orleans
Picdy,ne.
"PAUL," said his mamma, "will you go
softly into the parlor and see II grandpa is
asleep" Yes, mamma" whispered Paul
on his return, "he's all asleep but his
nose. San.
A LONDON undertaken advertising his
craft, alphabetically asks: why live and
be miserable when you can be buried for f3
1882" OF course money would be saved by
the operation.
A UTICA genius has invented farm har-
ness that weighs less than fifteen pounds,
and does away with whifiletrees, traces and
many of the cumbersome straps and buckles.
Moreover, it is cheap
AN extensive deposit of blood-agate, re-
sembling Scotch blood-stone, has recently
been discovered near Cisco, Utah. The
stones are large enough to saw into slabs for
mantels and table-tops.
THE discovery has accidentally been made
that plunging cast-iron into mixture of
molasses and water softens the metal to
such a degree that it can be worked as
readily as wrought-iron.
SAM JONES says that about :" two great
minds do all the thinking for this country"
1t is insufferable conceit in him to intimate
that he's one of them, and modesty forbids
us from limiting that ours is the other
Philadelphia CAL.
BIGGs says he has been experimenting with
half dozen different type-writers, but he
hasn't found one that is good for anything.
They are all alike, he says; the COMPOUNDED
things print well enough, but they don't
spell one word in ten correctly.-BOSton
Transcript.
THERE is a story going round of two poor
house inmates in the East who are each one
hundred fourteen years old. The secret
is that when half century ago they were
sent to the poOr-house they knew that their
future was provided for and they gave up
worrying and grew fat-LedvenUorM (Kdn.)
Times.
Mrs. CATHERINE WAGNER, aged one hun
dred and eleven, and her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Rebecca Wagner, aged one hundred and
near Bartersvile, Ky. They have never
seen railroad and each has had for fifty
years a silk dress laid away in which to be
buried.
The strongest Intoxicating liquor in the
world is probably the sham-sho used by the
natives of Burmah, and said to be made of
rice and lime. 1t is so powerful that it will
dissolve a Martini-HeIry bullet in thirty
minutes. Temperance societies are en-
deavoring to induce the government to sup
press the deadly poison.
PROFESSOR HAMILTON says that the cor
pus callosum is not a commissural structure
at all, "but merely represents the decussa-
ton of fibers on their way from the cortex
to lower parts" He is speaking about
brains, to be sure, but we can't get his mean
ing through ours. The brain of one of us is
added. His, no doubt.-Philddelphia CdN
PETER S. McNALLY of Boston is but twenty
one years old, yet he has saved nearly forty
persons from drowning and has received
the medal of the Massachusetts, Humane
Society. He learned to swim when five
years old, and began his career as life
saver two years later. Once he was called
upon to rescue the same man two days in
succession.
THE Rev. j. II. Munro of Philadelphia
says that the reason why so many clergymen
go to Europe every summer is that the eX-
penses of the trip are but little if any more
country; and that the great advantage is
that when once across the water they are
not likely to be recalled on "any little
emergency"
A GENTLEMAN entered telegraph office.
:" beg pardon, but as j was coming along
this afternoon l saw myriads of flies settled
on your wires. Can you suggest any ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon " About
what time was it, sir?" about four
! o'clock" All! that accounts for it; that's
the time I sent the quotations of sugar and
honey. "-French Joke.
| THE word fiend is now used so COM
monty as half-humorous name for all kinds
of people who make nuisances of themselves
that it is in danger of losing its original
meaning. Here is western paper re-
ferring to a certain clergyman as the long
sermon fend," and another which talks
about the " church-going fiend." In this
part of the country there are number of
non-church-going iends.-Trib,ne.
WILLIAM KEENAN, of Korah, Canada,
writes to the Toronto Globe that he is the
owner of one of the greatest wonders of the
age. The wonder is calf with a head on
each end, four eyes, six legs and two tails
all well formed. Mr.. Keenan, drops into
poetry in describing the wonder, which, by
the way, is dead and stuffed. This is the
poem:
| What marvellous sight for nature to send
This wonderful beast with head on each end;
Never before was thing OF the kind
Seen with six legs and two tails behind
THE man whose ha-ha reaches from
one end of the street to the other may be the