The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
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are.-Boston Post.
SOME things are most fanciful when they
are upside down. A figure six, for in
stance. -Phiddelphid CAL.
New ZEALANDERs have enjoyed the nov
city of green crescent moon since the VOL
canic disturbances in the island.
DID YOU ever notice how they struggle to
conceal the identity of hash on a bill of fare
by putting it in French?- fonkerS Statesman
A PRACTICAL old sinner in progressive
town refused to contribute for new hearse
because he had helped to buy the old one
and had not had his ride in it yet.
A NEWSPAPER is published on Mount
Washington. Subscribers who pay in cord
wood Justly complain of the Inconvenience
-LoujSuWe CoUier.journu.
Cold weather is coming on, and so the
price of coal is pegged up ten cents a ton
FOR some kinds and fifteen cents for others.
Let no poor man escape.-Ne'o York Mail
81 WANT an empty barrel of flour to make
a hencoop for my bulldog " was the greet
ing man gave to a Bank street grocer yes
terday afternoon-Nclo London telegraph.
SIX hundred fifty millions acres of pine
land in Minnesota have just been sold by
j. S. Pillsbury to the Grand Haven Lumber
company This is the biggest transaction
of the kind on record.
WHY do people always speak of u " cool
million? asks an exchange. The conun-
drum is difficult to answer, inasmuch as it
makes man sweat like the dickens to ac-
cumulate that sum.--NorriSto,cn Herdid.
Ar Racine, Wis, a few days ago, a man
with hod of mortar on his back fell forty
feet, broke two-inch plank in his descent,
and was not in the least injured. The strain
came on the local editor who tells the story.
" But Herr Schmock, what puts it in
mind TO you for your little head one such
large hat to get? - Herr Schmoc<: " Would
then little one take when | for the same
m a ~
Blatter.
WHY didn't you come when | rang?"
said Texas lady to her domestic. " Be-
cause | didn't hear the bell" Hereafter
when you don't hear the bell you must come
and tell me So " " Yes, mum. "-TerdS
SWings-
WIFE: why don't you eat your pud-
ding" Husband " I'm afraid the pudding
will put my stomach out of order" Wife:
" Well, suppose it does That's better than
throwing it into the slop barrel. Have some
more?"-Terds SUtings.
A New ORLEANS man claims to have
solved the problem of the best protection
against earthquakes. Safety lies in being
away from the source of danger. In this
case the earth is the source of danger. He
advertised that refuge in his balloon.
"YA-As," said an Indian citizen, whose
home lies in the fertile valley of the Way
bosh," " happened ter be in Charlestown
y
did you do when you felt the trembling"
" TUX thirty grains o qunine, b gosh"
A CLERK in a mems furnishing store says
that the man who buttons the left side of
his collar first makes mistake, for he uses
his right hand for that and then uses his
left for the more difficult task of buttonng
the other side. He should reverse the process.
The Aleghenians frugal folk. A
Pittsburgh man advertised for a cook, and
received this note from citizen of Allie
gheny: Dear sir: | have seen your adj
vertiSement for a cook for three DAYS in the
papers When you get what you want
please send the rest of the girls to me, as |
don't care to advertise"
Alfred Moore of Winsted Conn, went up
in a balloon Saturday, and after reaching
height OF mile aud half, struck a strong
current, which alarmed him and he came
down, having travelled thirty-five miles in
twenty-five minutes, or at the rate of eighty
four miles an hour. He landed in the woods
and four trees had to be felled before a
farmer could release him.
A REMARKABLE spring is reported to have
been discovered near Princeton KY, which
may prove boon to victims of Kentucky
whiskey. 1t is claimed that "A spinster born
in 1776 who has drank of this water has
changed to a blooming girl of " sweet six
teen; " and that an old man of eighty who
has several times drank of the water feels
as young as he did at twenty years of age
and is delivering temperance lectures.
THE younger Pliny, writing to one of his
friends about one of his country seats, men
tons, among other things, that next to the
smaller dining-room there is a semi-circular
room with windows arranged so as to get
the light of the sun all day. He says: " Out
of this is a bedroom, which can be warmed
with hot air." He also refers to the " bath
with its cooliDg-room and its hOt-room."
AS Pliny, Jr, lived A. ID. 62-l16 we may
assume that hot-air furnaces are no new
thing.
The first japanese to settle in San Fran
cisco We're eleven persons who arrived in
1870 Now there are more than 500 Japnese
in the city, of whom about forty are women.
OF these forty, twenty are married and their
children attend the public schools. These
Japanese have come to San Francisco partly
to learn English and partly to escape mill
tary service in Japan and they are generally
well-educated. They are mostly engaged
in house service in San Francisco, in which
they are proficient. A few of them are
nominal Christians, while the rest are
atheists.
DIR. AMEs, the democratic candidate for
governor of Minnesota, ought to be a popu-
lar man If this is a sample of his practice.
Three children of laburing man had diph-
liberia, and the doctor cured them. Their
mother, worn out with watching over them,
was i'll for month, and the doctor cured
her. Then the father fell from "a scaifold
and broke "A leg, and the doctor fixed him
cred he borrowed SIT and went TO the doc
tors Office to make at least a part payment
on his bill. :" What do | owe you, DOCTOR"
said he. ooh, give me 81 and call it square,"
said the doctor, That man will vote for
Ames.
" know neat cottage in Atlanta" SAYS
writer in the Constitution, which is the
home of a man whose whole income is S75
month. He has wife and child hires a
servant and keeps a cow The four rooms
of the house are well furnished, the table is
supplied with plenty and "A variety of excel
lent food; father, mother and child have
everything that can conduce to their com
fort. All the bills are paid promptly at the
first of each month, and they average just
$40 month the year round, including SO
for rent Every month S35 is tucked away
for a rainy day. happier or more con
tented family do not know"
The feat Paul Clnquevali accomplishes
with the knife, fork and potato is as novel as
it is extraordinary. He losses the three in
air from hand to hand, at last catching the
fork in his right hand, the potato on the
prongs of the fork, aud the knife perpen-
dicular on its point in the potato. Again,
he throws the knife, fork and potato in the
air, cutting the potato in two by swift
stroke of the knife, and catching the halves,
one on the fork in the left hand and the