The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-25
Pith and Point.

ALL known minerals are found within
one hundred miles of Ashevlle, N. G.
If you want to be happy, don't look up to
the happy ones above yOu-look down at the
| unhappy ones below.-PhHddclphid CdU.
A GRAvE-YARDin County Cork has the fol-
! lowing notice over its entrance gate: "Only
the dead who live in this parish are buried
! here"
AN unusually large number of sudden
deaths and fatal accidents is frightening
superstitious people on Prince Edward
! Island.
| GERMAN joke " Emma, you forward girl,
You must always have the last word"
But, mamma, i never know that you are
not going to say anything more"
MAX and Paul are the favorite boys
names in Germany and Anna and Martha
the favorite girls names. One boy out of
every eight or nine is called Max.
BENJAMIN FRANKLrS's "Poor Richards
Almanac" has been translated into the Chi
nese. -Four copies of the new version were
sent lately from China to London.
THE longest clock pendulum in the world
is at Avignon, France. 1t is sxty-seven
| feet long and requires four and a half sec
onds to swing through an arc of nine and a
half feet
A DOWNTOWN grocer has a sign in his
window: " Picnics Supplied" He was
little taken aback the other day when a
young fellow came in and ordered one girl
PhHddelphid Call.
In Massachusetts, with an excess of sixty
thousand women, it is said to be hard to
| get woman who can do homework They
have been spoiled by factory work and dab
bling in literature.
IT is told in st. Paul that the children in
| Minneapolis, its near by and hated rival
have refused to read the Bible in the public
schools because it is &" filled full of talk about
st. Paul. "-Tribune
A BAsTING-MACHINE that is said to be able
to do the work of fifteen girls is being tried
in large clothing house in Boston, and the
employees of the house, both girls and men,
are considerably excited thereby
AN old parish clerk was courteously thank
ing church dignitary for kindly taking
on emergency village service. worse
preacher would have done us, SIR he said,
" if we only knew where to find HIM"
A WATERBURY, paper published this mar
riage notice the other day: " In Waterbury,
August a. 1886, by the Rev. Edward Row
land, Mr.. -- of Southbury and Miss --
of Woodbury.. Notice of funeral hereafter"
GALL things work together for the good of
them that polarize toward the totality of
things was told congregation by Mil
waukee clergyman who evidently has at
tended the new school of philosophy there.
IGNORANCE, violation of all sanitary prin-
ciples, miserable poverty, the extreme rigor
of winter and neglect by drunken parents
are said to be some of the principal reasons
but 423 will reach their twentieth birthday.
TRAMPs in Dakota are not too lazy to do
the " crow act" That is, they act as scare
crows in the wheat fields, taking turns at
standing on platform high above the wheat,
and occasionally yelling or throwing a
. stone at the birds. They paid very little
besides what they eat
A JAPANESE gentleman who heard the
Mikado " sung in Harrisburg recently
says that the song which is sung in the sec
ond act on the arrival of the Mikado is a
real japanese song, which was very popu-
lar during the great revolution of 1866. A
Japanese would be punished for singing it.
On the first Sunday in August one of the
employees in tannery at Dexter, Me-,
sharpened his razor on strap on which the
, curriers' sharpened their knives, and pro-
! ceeded to shave. He cut his chin slightly,
a few days after his face began to swell,
and on the following Saturday he died of
blood poisoning.
\ IT is a remarkable fact that prisoner is
never brought into court. He is always
n dragged in" Subsequently he is ''thrown
/ into prison. This seems unnecessarily
!, rough treatment, but a long acquaintance
y with newspaper reports shows us that the
g practice has existed since time immemorial
a and we suppose it must be all right.-BOst0n
h Transcript.
n AN immense quantity of jewelry is now
a made from thin layers of gold alloy upon an
e ingot of brass, formed while it is hot. On
: the ingot cooling it is forced between steel
# rollers into long, thin ribbon each part of
}, which is of course still covered with the
It gold alloy, intellectually thin, but which
e wears for years and can be moulded into
J. any shape
= NOTICING the statement that the favorite
: feminine exclamation, so dear me, is actu-
u ally an oath, being corruption of q Dio
/ Mo-" meaning " o my God" correspond
e ent of the Hartford Times writes that Dear
me SUI is just much of a swear, being
e derived from the Spanish exclamation,
n " Deus nleo sanctuS Deus" 80 my God,
t Holy God"
!. "PRAY sit down and dine with u.s." said
h Mrs. Wilson to young Bigetah, who had
:, just dropped in as the family of six sat
u down to dinner 80 no, thank you, I'd
: : rather not" replied the youth. And why
: not?'' pressed the hosptable lady. "Well,
= to tell the truth, if did l should eat all
/" there is on the table and ask for more.'-
:, -Hdrper'S Bdzdr.
: FIGURES, which proverbially cannot lie,
3 show that the corn-fields of the United
q States cover a territory as large as England,
Il Scotland and Belgium united while the
ii grain-feds surpass Spain in territorial ex-
il tent. The acreage of our farm lands under
: cultivation is equal in extent to all the
l. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
). land, France, Belgium, Portugal, Germany
e and Austro-Hungary.
e THE new material for unsuitable apparel
II London. This material is composed of
threads of cork interviewer with cotton, silk
e or woolen-machnery which slices the cork
IS to the required thnness forming part of the
[. invention. The garments which are made
e in this manner have the same appearance
2 as ordinary clothing, and possess remark
n able buoyancy in water.
II ONE of the oddities of Partisan journal
- is this advertisement A factory in Belle
!. vile produces within few days artificial
!. negroes. The metamorphosis, which is en-
n tirely harmless, is caused by iodine. 1t opens
~ brilliant future TO young men, as black
:; servants, circus negroes etc. are always
>, in demand. Prices low and payment easy.
~ Curling-irons for the manufacture of woody
10 hair always kept on hand"
., GENERAL FREMONT, the idolized path
IS finder thirty years since, has been engaged
: here during the past winter in writing his
o. autobiography. | have understood that the
4 first edition, just completed, was consumed
q by fire at Chicago, and it has been necessary
l. to reprint it. Meanwhile Mrs. Fremont has
a not only rendered him great service with
10 his book, but has written one herself, which
II is to be published at Boston. They are a
Il brilliant, romantic couple, lacking, perhaps,
10 in that practical common sense so necessary
a. for the accumulation of shekels and ducats
l. in this hard world,-Perley.