The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Pith and Point.

POVERTY sticks to man when all his
| friends desert him.
BEARS are unusually plentiful in Northern
New Hampshire this season.
REV. ARTHUR GRAY-HowE, an English
clergyman, left 800, 100000 to two sons at his
death.
EVA, noticing flock of noisy, chattering
| blackbirds, said, " Mamma, guess they're
having sewing Getty"
THERE are 347 female blacksmiths in En-
gland, all of whom actually swing heavy
hammers and do mems work.
A sEwING-MAcHINE which is held in the
hand and operated like pair of scissors is
one of the latest productions of the Nutmeg
| State.
A NEBRASKA man, believing that "alls
well that ends well, ;" took a chattel mort
gage on a well, and will dig it up and take
Il away if the note is not paid when due.
THEODORE THOMAS says the Americans
must have a diversity in music as well as in
everything else, and, unlike the people of
other nationalties, do not confine their APP
probation to the performances Of any one
nationality.
THE island of Arran, off the West coast of
Scotland, is said to be so mild that palms
and camelias thrive in the open air without
injury in winter, although the latitude is
that of the northern part of Labrador, on
the continent.
CAPTAIN GRAssE of the German army has
| come to this country to inspect American
defences. He will employ eleven months
in discovering where the defences are and
a couple of days in inspecting them.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle.
A THREE-YEARs-oLD girl fell from the bal
| cony on the fourth floor of Hartford house
| the other day, but she struck squarely across
a clothes-line stretched from the third floor,
and the rebound threw her into a balcony
there almost unhurt.
THE beautiful red plumage of South
African species of birds has been chemically
examined and found to be due to copper.
When the birds are kept from food contain
ing copper they entirely lose the tint pro-
duced by that mineral.
A SMALL boy writes: One day Billy
come home holdin a little mole by the tail,
which a bad boy had guy him, and it was
alive. When my sister see him, she said,
o you crewel, crewel boy Throw it into
the fire this very minute
A CALIFORNIA farmer sent S. to a man in
the East in exchange for six gourd seeds
warranted to produce gourds of a capacity
of forty gallons. After waiting long for the
seeds to sprout he investigated, and found
that they were artistically carved out of
Eastwood.
If all the trees which shade the avenues
and streets of Washington were stretched
out in two rows they would form an UNI
broken vista to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and nearly half way to Boston.
The annual paintings add from two to three
thousand trees to the number of the year
before.
JAMES WARDER of Nokesville, Va, insists
that the following is true snake story:
"My wife old turkey hen was sitting be-
side the garden fence on thirteen eggs
About week ago a large black snake came
along and ate the turkey, curled himself on
the eggs, and stayed there until they Matched
and tbpp at tba who'll brood of -
A WOMAN called at grocer's in South
Troy the other day and called for quart Of
vinegar. 1t was measured off and put into
; her gallon jug. She then asked for another
quart, to be put into the same jug. " And
why not ask for half gallon, and done
with it?'' said the grocer. "Och Bless your
little bit of a SOUL answered she, I" it's fol
two persons. y Times.
MINNIE PALMER has still $1,000 on offer il
the English papers for the best and most
, novel means of advertising A masher re
Gently suggested to the vivacious young
actress that she should print her advertise
ments on toothpicks, for then, he declared
her name was sure to be in everybody's
mouth. This excellent idea is supposed to
be the only one the masher ever had.
, A. H. DAYTON of Springfield, Ohio, bough
a Observation-Disclosures a recent Sunday
{ dinner. The cook dressed it, and founC
t within three shelless eggs. They were pu
4 moment there were three separate explo
sions, like pistol shots each egg was violentl.
t dashed against the ceiling, ana the COOK wa
padiy burned. III Is suggested that the mel
< had been teeding on dynamite
e A KINGSTON family moved from thei
n house month ago, and recently, SAYS thu
I Freeman, the little girl of the family and he
4 mother went to call on the lady who occu
e pied the house they had vacated. Will
n there the child saw a very small baby tina
. had arrived but few DAYS before. Sh
o looked at it carefully, and then said
n "Mamma, we moved too soon; we'd hav
: got that baby if we had stayed here"
AN old woman has lust died in a 81
. Petersburg work-house at the age of 122. VIII
. had passed seventy wears in the institution
: Up to the day of her death her vision wa
! unimpaired. Another woman in the sam
! work-house is now 40 wears of age and doe
: not exhibit the slightest sign of senile weak
l ness. She saws she is lust as young as sh
: used to be. but intends to live to good oil
l age If they will give her enough to eat.
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