The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-27
Pith and Point.

HARD times can be worked away in half
the time they can be talked over.-Phiia-
delphia cal.
THERE is no place like home after one has
spent all his money traveling.-NeU Or
leans Picdyone.
THERE are in the employ of the govern
ment $50 Smiths $50 Browns, $40 Johnsons
and go Joneses.
1T is said that flower has been discovered
at Tehuantepec which is white in the morn
ing, red at noon and blue at night.
ONE of the best crops of raisins and cur
rants ever cured has been produced this
year, it is reported, in the Mediterranean
country.
Any insurance company that will insure
Dan Flowers Montana cattle range and Sc
cure him against all loss this winter can
have S250,0O0. This is Flowers's standing
offer.
A VETERAN who is often seen in the streets
of Columbus, Ind, led by little girl, has
been granted pension of SO ,i26 and So
per month 1t is one of the largest pen
sions ever granted.
boxes of raisins this year, which will sell
for something like 500 900. This is the
yield of 900 acres of vineyard, say an av-
erage of 500 an acre.
ROME will soon have church for every
day in the year. To the 364 churches al
ready in the city there will soon be built
church dedicated to the great Irish saint
and to be called the church to the Irish
people
A LITTLE five-year-old boy named Web
ster, from Springfield, visited his mother,
who is i'll at the Massachusetts General Hos
pital, and after gazing wonderingly around
remarked, "This is the funniest hotel |
ever saw something seems to all everybody
here"
HERE is good Irish story. We fancy it
has not been in print before. a pair of
victims " are waiting behind hedge for
their landlord-guns loaded cooked and
ready for action. 1t is past the time at
wait and wait until at last they become un-
easy. Bedad Pat" says Tim, hope
nothin' has happened to the poor ould jintle-
man! - whitehall Rbrie,c.
A GENUINE tramp was seen on Benton
park Sunday morning, deliberately chang
ing his stockings, or, to be more precise, his
stocking, for he had but one. He slowly re-
moved both shoes and then very carefully
took off his single sock and tenderly slipped
it upon the other foot, thrust his feet into
his dilapidated shoes, and his toilet for the
week was completed. Who would not be
tramp?--SprinAield Homestead.
THERE is a wonderful Maltese cat ont
West, and the Cheyenne Leader wants its
readers to believe this of him. 1t was his
regular evening duty to go after the cows.
He found one of them so badly crippled
that she could not get home. Detaching
the rest of the cattle from her, he got them
| corraled, and then he separated calf
which belonged to the injured COW from the
others and drove it back to its mother.
While it was being sucked the cat waited
patiently, and then, happy in the conscious
ness of a duty faithfully performed, he
drove the calf back to the corral.
A CURIOUS lawsuit is in progress in a small
| town in SaXony. A man caught rat, tied
a small bell around its neck, and let it go
again, as he had heard that such IA rat would
scare every other rat out of the house. The
| plan succeeded, and his house in a few days
was clear of the plague. A few nights later,
however, his neighbours family were nearly
frightened out OF their wits by hearing the
mysterious sound of a bell in various parts
of the house. They came to the conclusion
that the house was haunted, until the
servant girl accidentally heard of their
neighbours doings, who now is to be fined,
if he loses the suit for creating nuisance.
PROFESSOR FRANzEL, the head physician
in the Berlin Charlie, publishes in the
Chdrite-4nndlen some observations upon
"immoderate smoking" Some of the re-
suits at which he has arrived are calculated
to astonish those who suppose that the worst
cigars, or at all events the cheapest, are
most deleterious. The contrary, according
to his examination of his patients, appears
TO be true. Heart neutrality-suspicious.
irregular action of the heart-are almost al
ways produced by the smoking of the best
imported Havana cigars, which are by no
means, as DR.. Franzel says, rich in nicotine.
! "Strange as 1t may SEEM" the doctor
adds, "such complaints rarely show them
selves among those who smoke the ordinary
trade cigar, even in an enormous quantity"
You make mistake when you use DIR,
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