The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Notes and Opinions.

WAGES of Pennsylvania iron-workers
have been increased.
A GREAT popular change toward the
protection theory has set in in the
South and West.
Mr.. BLAINE's powerful and success
full leadership looms up before republic
can eyes as the most salient feature of
the political situation.
THE Washington Republican remarks
that Virginia shows what she would
have done last year if the election had
been permitted to elect.
THE third party prohibitionists in
Connecticut succeeded in defeating
Hon. John r. Buck, one of the best
temperance men in that state.
A PROMINENT financier at Washing
ton says the national bank circulation
for the most part is doomed, owing to
the effect of the recent decision of the
attorney general.
THE Providence Journal remarks
The threats of the gallant command
ers of the Canadian cruisers to burn,
sink and destroy American fishing YES
sells are getting little monotonous,
and the American people are inclined
to PROFOUND to Secretary Bayard the
celebrated query of Hosea Biglow as to
What'll git your dander rip"
THE house has had many presiding
officers who have been conspicuous for
their eminent fitness for the position
but no former speaker has excelled Mr.
Grout in efficiency, courtesy, and
promptness in the dispatch of the
duties pertaining to his office; certainly
no previous speaker was ever more
popular with the members Cores
pondence Messenger.
As an instance of refined, cold.
blooded sarcasm the following from the
Boston Globe never was and never can
be excelled: " Bartholdi claims that he
saw the statue from distance of thirty
miles at sea. That is hardly possible
and as he evidently saw something, il
must have been Cyrus w. Fields
opinion of himself taking walk on the
battery"
A NEW cure for consumption ha:
been originated by German doctor
He makes his patients pass the nigh
in the open air of the Thuringian for
est, well wrapped up, and sleeping il
light hammocks so as to avoid all damp
from the ground. A Waterman keeps
off any intruders who might disturb the
nights rest, and the experiment has
proved wonderfully successful.
If the public school system really
demands that children shall devote
more than five hours daily to theil
studies, there is something wrong abou
it. Girls who are compelled to take
their books home and spend two o.
three hours in the evening over lessons
and then to lie awake in bed for an hou
or two more as consequence. are i'm
periling their health in so doing. They
had much better check their ambition t
" keep up" and save their health
Glasses should be kept back to the ca
pacity of the more tardy intellects
rather than be driven by the brighte
ones.-SprinUteld Union.
IF the election of president in 1885
should be thrown into the house o
representatives, the democrats coulc
not elect their man. They have electe,
majority in the delegations from onl,
sixteen states. In the election of
president by the house the constitution
provides that each state state shall cas-
single vote for the candidate WHIT
shall be the choice of majority of TIL,
Representatives from that state. Twent,
states, a majority of the thirty-eight
are required to elect a president 4
third party movement in 1888 nigh
defeat the democratic party.-Sun.