The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-17
Pith and Point.

A HAIR-REsToRER has no brains, and yet il
expected to do great head work.-Eg.
LONDON hote-keepers say the late riots
owe hundreds of their best customers out
the city.
SEAwEED has been the main dependence
many ADMINISTRATION Irish islanders at
nisboffin.
SYDNEY SMITH once described man as
dry that If you were to bore holes in him
it'll gimlet sawdust would come out
A CONNECTICUT editor was married last
eek, and the aesthetic groom had his paper
inted in rose color to signalize the event.
II is said that Kansas is receiving large
DECISIONS of settlers from Dakota, many
bople having become dissatisfied with that
untry.
SQUARE note-paper not intended to fold
the envelope now comes in exquisite
nts, with the surname initial in the upper
finland corner.
THERE is on the plantation of Captain
bhn l.. Martin, near Washington, Ga,
ne tree that bears acorns and pine burs
it'll great impartiality
THEY can't successfully boycott reporter
the average morning newspaper, because
always has 365 nights of labor that he
IN depend upon Washington Critic.
On, those French A Paris sausage
aker displays in his window placard an
puncing Every link carefully inoculated
Doctor Pasteur. San Francisco Wasp.
BARBARA ROBINSON, little uneducated
ne-years-old negro girl of West Point, Ga,
DIS fair to rival Blind Tom as pianist. She
avs with wonderful correctness any com
psiton that she has once heard.
AUSTRALIA has been undergoing heated
rm. The Melbourne papers report the
ercury at $50 in the shade and 1882 in the
IN, with forest fire forty-five miles long
,ging on the seacoast at Cape Otway
A coLoRED railroad porter says of travel
g brides; "'Sperience teaches me dat dey
tickled nightly eff you mistakes dere
husbands for brudders. L does it cherry
me, now, an hits 'em 70 dollar, shuah."
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & Co., the publishers
General Grants Memoirs, have arranged
publish the life of Pope Leo Kill, writ
IN by himself An immense circulation is
Expected for the book. 1t will be issued in
he summer of next year.
DINNER-rABLE-Lttle Mile Ito her father,
Tho has given her the smallest piece of pie
n the plate): Papa, why is my piece of
lie like Europe?" Papa, thoughtfully: " l
ont know; why is it?' Mile; Because
is the smallest of the grand divisions"
N alleged fact.
THE usual story of the remarkable travels
pin is at hand. This time the scene is
hid in Newton, Ia, where thirteen years
go Mrs. Cyrus Gage dropped pin in her
ar. The pin in due course of time dropped
hto her throat and was swallowed. The
Their day doctor took it out of her left leg
ear the ankle.
A NINE-YEARs-oLD diplomat of Charles
treet asked his mother one day during the
ecent inundation if he might go out to play.
No. was the reply, " | want you to re-
main in the house to-day. You be good
Joy, and we will play guess" "All right,
namma I'll go out and you guess where
we one."-The Beacon.
IT was lucky for Frank Andrews, head
miller in the Touring mills, that he was a
nan of muscle. His coat caught in some
nachinery gearing, and he was on the point
# being drawn to his death when he caught
beam and chung to it, while he was stripped
# coat, vest and undergarments. His
watch was ground in powder, and he him
elf was badly bruised.
THE night clerk in an Omaha drugstore
vas reused by violent ringing of the door
bell. On opening the door a tall and hand
ONE woman entered and, Selling him by
he coat, said, hoarsely: Give me some
,oison-some cold, rank poison. l want to
ie." The clerk compounded a dose OF
brown sugar, salt and water, which he gave
the woman, who left the store.
The following ought to be embalmed
mong the curiosities of literature: The
fdtor of HdTper'S MOnthly recently received
letter from woman who wrote that she
vas dying, that her physician had warned
her that she could not possibly. live to
read the conclusion of Mr.. Howell's In
liam Summer, now running in Hdrper'S
md that she would greatly like to read the
advance sheets, that she might die happy.
AT a paper mill in Lewiston, Maine, the
following letter dated at Brunswick, Novem
per IL, 1866, recently was found: Hiram
Your ACTIONS at the husking-bee, last even
ng, left ME no longer doubtful as to wha
course / should take. | thought | cared fol
you, but | was fool and now am punished
Tor my folly. Enclosed are the lock of hair
he picture and the ring you gave me. Per
haps the ring will fit somebody else's fin
ger just as well. Jane"
A VIRGINIA farmer who owned fine cal
WAS asked recently by a friend what ht
would take for the animal I" Six dollars,
WAS the reply. The very next day the
friend rushed over to the farmers house il
furry of excitement "The train killed
your calf just now" said he. BY gosh!'
Exclaimed the farmer, the railroad mus
pay me Sl5 for that calf | wouldn't have
taken S25 for him" 1t developed however
that it was a hoax, and the farmer still hold
the calf at $6.-Baltimore San.
A GOOSE farm is one of the curosities o
agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia
Within an area of about 5000 acres liv,
1000 geese of several varieties, attended b.
herders and regularly fed with corn, etc
The object is the collecting of down TO
quilts and pillows, and once in about 81,
weeks a plucking takes place. Only til
breast and the sides under the wings ar
plucked and it requires the yield of nearl
one hundred geese to weigh a pound. Tit
raw feathers are sent to Philadelphia TO
cleansing and sorting
ROBERT BONNER is said to be engaged il
making a curious provision for continuing
the NeW York Ledger after his death in tn
same style in which he has been conduct
ing it for about thirty years He holds tina
it will take his successor fully three year
to learn his methods, so as to select til
class of literary material that has given tn
Ledger its peculiar success. He has, there
fore, begun to collect extra material, wit
the design of securing enough to last tire
years after his death. Already about enoug
copy for one year, or hfty-two numbers, Ia
been accumulated.
SHE was young, she was green, she wa
very new in Washington. AT recent swe
affair she had gone with the crowd into tn
refreshment- room. Presently an elegan
looking waiter, for all the world like
foreign ambassador, bowed politely befor
her and murmured: " Is there any one wal
ing on you, Miss" " Sir? Sir?" she stan
mered in startled embarrassment. Pa
donnez moi. Is there any one waiting o
you?" Oh!' she said, blushing bright.
+" No, sir; not in Washington. But whe
Pm at home I've got more beaus than an
other girl in town. - Washington Critic.
THE story which came to this country /
cable number of days ago about poo
woman who drifted alone in a fishing-smac
across the German Ocean seemed so il
credible that we hesitated to print it, bl