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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
The Bees Sting.

The hive and its inmates afford, per-
haps, more interesting field for micro
scopic research than anything else in
the whole insect kingdom. Take the
bees sting; why, that alone might
occupy all the rest of this paper. The
sheath makes the first wound, and in
side it, so managed that they enclose a
tube-like space down which the poison
runs, are two darts, all built in such a
strictly mechanical way that Mr.. Chesh-
ire says they remind him of the guide
rods of steam engine. The poison is
gummy, but is prevented from clogging
the machine by gland which secretes
lubricating OIL The queens sting is
bigger than the workers'-drones have
none--but it is practically barbless, and
can therefore be easily brought away
instead of being left in the wound and
thereby causing the death of its precious
owner 1t is formidable weapon, the
sheath so hard that it turns the finest
razor-edge: but a queen never stings
except in contest with another queen a.;
she may be handled with impunity. OF
the worker, it is mistake to say that it
always leaves its sting in the wound
and dies from the loss. If it generally
does so, the fault often lies in your
impotence; bear it like hero, and the
bee will work its sting round and round
till it is able to withdraw it without i'm
pediment. OF course you get pierced
deeper and deeper, but then consider
the creatures life is saved by your suf-
| fering u the Year Round.
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less alike of expense and Ohe critics
say of nature. No one can come in
or out of the city without being i'm
pressed by the fact that he has seen it.
The citizens of Calvi have endured this
for years. But the Inhabitants of an
island which produced a Bonaparte
were not to be silenced by statuary or
guide-books. Recently they revolted
and claimed their rights. Such festiv-
tiles were held in honor of Columbus
that all Corsica must regard his birth
place as settled. A marble tablet has
been set into the front of the house
where he was born, and Calvi claims,
henceforth, an indefeasible honor. IN
fortunately, some sixteen miles out of
Genoa the frontage of a little mean
tavern in the village of Cogoleto also
exhibits a remarkable plaque. This is
the inscription engraved upon it, "Stop,
traveller. Here Columbus first saw
light. This too straitened house was
the home of man greater than the
world. There had been but one world.
Let there be two said Columbus, and
two there were" Till Calvi can rival
this superb piece of grandiloquence
Cogoleto is safe.-PdU Mall Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11

JOHNNY's COMPOSITION ON MEDI-
CINE" There is two kinds of medi-
cine besides the kind you Rub On and
the first kind is the Soft Kind which
you take with a spoon while A man
holds your head and you kick and Rig
gle some because it tastes so and the
other kind is the Hard kind which is
called Pills and it is the Hardest of the
whole because it is so Hard to 90 Down
but it does not make any Difference
which kind you Take when you get it
Took you wish you had not for it makes
quite a Row in your Stomach and Riots
Around" Evidently Johnny's expert
ence in medicine does not include DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, )"
which are easy to take and do their
work quietly and calmly. Neither does
it include in the way of "soft medi-
cine" DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" which, though powerful to
cure all chronic arrangements of the
liver and blood, is pleasant to the taste
and agreeable in its effects. Unequaled
as remedy for all scrofulous diseases,
pimples, blotches, eruptions, ulcers,
sweled glands, goitre or thick neck,
! fevcr-sores and hip-joint disease.
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Death of a Famous Tree.

There died last week the oldest in
habitsnt of New Orleans. 1t did not
require Aldrich's story of Pere An
toine's Date Palm " to make famous
the tall, graceful palmetto which, for
several centuries at least, has stood in
the center of New Orleans at the cor
ner of Dauphine and Orleans streets.
More than one novelist has made it the
hero of romance. Mr.. Demetry has
woven pretty story around it, Mr..
Lafcadro Hearn another, and in that
more sober work, Gayane's History
of louisiana" is given the many stories
and traditions that cling around this
of New Orleans but Pere Antoine's
date palm has figured in it; no stranger
ever visited the Crescent City but he
has been taken through the narrow
creole streets to gaze on this tree, whose
birth, it was said, antedated that of
New Orleans. Tradition fails to tell
the origin of this tree. Gayane was of
the opinion that it dated from 1927,
when Turk, who claimed to be the
brother of the sultan, came to Louis
lana and received asylum from Gov
ernor Perrier and planted the date
palm. Whenever it was. however, no
history or tradition of New Orleans goes
back to the time when it did not exist
almost the sole representative of the
vegetable kingdom, in the midst of the
brick and stone in the crowded city.
Among the old creoles of New Orleans
this tree has held place of reverence
like the caaba with Mohammedans
They have regarded it as if of super
human origin and influence. The tree
bloomcd for the last time in 1853. II
has presented a healthy appearance
since until very lately. A couple OF
weeks ago it showed evidences of sick
ness, and, whenever the wind blew
bent and threatened to break. An eX.
animation by the owner of the lot, Nine
Claverie, showed that it was dead, and
from its large size and great height
it was very dangerous. 1t was pulled
down few days ago-all but ten feet
of the trunk. A closer examination
proved that the wood was soft as {
sponge and rotten. The trunk, which
still remains, was also found to be de-
cayed and will be removed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Church Going Presidents.

1t may be of interest to our readers
to know something of the church-going
habits of our chief executive and his
predecessors in the presidential chair.
The following information upon the
subject is furnished by the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun:
President Cleveland has proven one of
the most constant of the churcb-going
presidents, and many of the presidents
have been habitual attendants upon
Sunday worship. General Washington,
while president, attended generally the
Episcopal churches of Philadelphia.
John Adams, the first of the Washing
ton presidents, Unitarian in belief
found no church of his denomination in
the fields out of which the capital was
rising, and attached himself to none of
the orthodox congregations here. JEFF
ferson's creed is contained in the
fourteenth article of the Virginia bill
of rights. Madison attended st. Johns
church, as did Monroe, but in 1919 the
vestry of Christ church, East Washing
ton, Commodore Tinsley, chairman, APP
propriated pew No. to the use of the
president of the United States. Mr..
Monroe, in reply, requested the COM
modOre to express to the vestry his
thanks for their polite attention. John
Quincy Adams was one of the founders
of the old Unitarian church, at the
building now used by the police court,
and attended services there. General
Jackson attended the Four-and-a-half
now attended by Mr.. Cleveland, this
church having been erected during his
administration. He was also an at
tendant at st. Johns church. General
Harrison, during his short term, at
tended the F street Presbyterian church
whose congregation, having disposed of
their church to be Williard's Hall, are
now portion of the New York avenue
church congregation. Mr. Tyler, OBJ =
serving Virginia customs, was an at
tendant at st. Johns Episcopal church.
Mr.. Polk attended both the F street
and the Four-and-a-half street Presby-
terrain churches. Mr.. Buchanan attended
st. Johns church. Mr.. Lincoln gave
an impetus to the New York avenue
church by taking pew there. Mr.. John
son kept pew in st. Johns church q.
General Grant established the fame of
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church by becoming one of its trustee S
and taking pew there. Mr.. Hayes at
tended the Foundry Methodist Epis-
copal church. General Garfield was
one of the founders of the Vermont
avenue Christian church, from whose
pulpit he had sometimes preached.
Mr.. Arthur occupied st. Johns church
pew, and Mr.. Cleveland, in sitting
under the ministrations of the Four
aud-a-half street church pulpit, renews
the era of Jackson in this regard"
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Select 9tlistcIlamp.
Requiescat.

All night the land in darkness slept,
All night the sleepless sea
Along the beeches moaned and wept,
And called aloud on me.
Now all about the Weakening land
The white foam lies upon the sand
saw across the glimmerng dark
The white foam rise and fall;
saw drifting phantom bark,
heard the sailors call;
Then sheer upon my strainng sight
Fell down the curtain of the night
What ship was on the midnight deep?
What voices on the air?
Did wandering spirits call and weep
In darkness and despair
Did ever living seamen hail
The land with such a hopeless wall?
The flush of dawn is in the the sky,
The dawn-breeze on the sea,
The lark is singing sweet and high
A winged melody;
Here on the sand among the foam
The tired sailors have come home.
Their eyes that stare, so wide, so wide,
See not the blessed lights
For all the streams of death divide
The morning from the light;
Weary with tossing on her breast,
The sea at last has given them rest.
English Illustrated Magazine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Fearing a New Deluge.

An old lady living at Atlas, in the
parish of Creich, in the north of Scot
land, had had her faith in Scripture
sorely tried by very heavy rains. Not
withstanding the Biblical promise that
the world should not again be destroyed
by water, she came to the conclusion
that second deluge was imminent.
Gathering together few much-prized
relics of her earlier years, with some
clothing and bedding, she committed
them and herself to large meal-girnal,
in which she hoped to float till the
water should subside. What an old
lady of seventy could do alone in the
world after a universal deluge, she does
not appear to have considered. Hav-
ing crept into the girnal, she remained
there two nights and day. At the
end of that time her brother came to
seek for her; and after searching
through the house in vain, he heard a
voice emanating from the girnal. His
sister was praying in the following
words: ~ Lord, thou didst promise
never again to destroy the world with a
flood; but | doubt it, doubt it," 1t is
curious that she never doubted the fact
of the promise, but only the intention
or power of fulfilling it. She was at
length persuaded to return to the faith
of her youth and leave her hiding place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Billy Myers Mare.

One day Mr.. Hunt, the temperance
lecturer, was making hard assault on
rum-drinking in neighborhood where
a Dutch distiller named Billy Myers"
was a sort of king. This man was
present and continually interrupted
the speaker by saying, in loud voice:
Mr.. Hunt, money makes the mare
go!' At first this raised a laugh, which
Mr.. Hunt took in good nature. AT last
he stopped for personal colloquy with
his tormentor, and said: " Look here,
Mr. Myers; you say money makes the
mare go, and you mean that l lecture
on temperance for money, don't you?"
" Yes, that is what | mean, Mr.. Hunt"
" Well, Mr.. Myers, you carry on a dis
tillery, and you do it for money, don't
your" "To be sure | do, Mr.. Hunt;
money makes the mare 60" " And
so, Mr. Myers, you say l have a mare,
and you have mare also; suppose we
trot them out together and see how they
compare?" The meeting was in a
grove, and the sharp lecturer knew a
thing or two, and so the old distiller
found out; for Mr.. Hunt pointed to a
young fellow who was quite drunk, and
was steadying himself by a tree, and
said: "Mr. Myers, who is that young
fellow" The distiller started as if
stung, as he answered: THAT is my
SON." "Your son, is he, Mr. Myers?
He has been riding your mare and got
thrown, hasn't he? And who is that
young fellow sitting so drunk on that
log out there?" The distiller uttered
an exclamation of real pain as he said: :
That is my son, too" " He is, is hep"
said Mr., Hunt; :" l guess he has been
riding your mare also, and she has
kicked up and thrown him over her
head, hasn't she? Your mare must be
a vicious, dangerous brute; isn't she,
Mr., Myers?" The distiller could not
stand it any longer, but said: " Look
here, Mr.. Hunt, | won't say another
word if you will let me Off" Billy
Myers mare is very dangerous beast.
She steps off very gaily at first, but she
is sure to kick up before you are
through with her The man who starts
out on that beast is pretty sure to come
home on foot, if he comes home at all i,
which is by no means certain. Don't
ride Billy Myers mare, -ChriStidn.
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Where was Columbus Born !

While statesmen and patriots are
busy making history, the citizens of
the little town of Calvi have been in
dustriously upsetting biography. Every
one knows that Christopher Columbus
was born at Genoa. The intelligent
school-boy has read it in the geography
books. The Woodworking tourist has
noted it in his Baedeker. The statue
to the great navigator has been set up
just outside the railway station, regard
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11

"MAY your troubles be only little
ones, and may you always have DIR.
Bulls Baby Syrup handy said an old
bachelor to newly-married couple.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
A Perfect Nutrient for lNVALIDS
in either Chronic or
Acute Gases,

Hundreds of physicians testify to its great
value. 1t will be retained when even lime
water and milk is rejected by the stomach
In dyspepsia and in all wasting diseases it
has proved the most nutritious and paatabe,
and at the same time the most economical
of Foods. For an infant may be made
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11

~ AIM to tell the truth" Yes"
interrupted an acquaintance, " but you
are very bad shot"
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WITHOUT PAIN !

1t is positive fact that you can get teeth eX-
tracted at the office of DIR. A. CLARK without
pain by the use of cocaine applied to the jaw. He
makes record of every tooth so extracted, and he
has proof from the testimony of others that you
need not depend entirely upon what he says in re
gard to its merits. Please go and become satisfied
for yourself in reg, rd to its efficiency. ONCE
South Main street, Montpelier, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Departments of Music and Art.

Resident teachers of large and successful expert
ence give their whole time 70 these branches. hi
plomas given in Musical Department. Daily les.
sons for those making music a specially. one Of he
fnest studios 10 be found IN school IN the state All
branches of painting taught, For further informa
ton and catalogues apply to the Principal,
A, W. DANA Barre, Vt,
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ASSURE PREVENTIVE and CURE
for CHOLERA INFANTUM.

BY the use Of this predigeSted and easily as
simulated Food, fatal results in this dreaded
disease can be surely prevented.
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GODDARD SEMINARY
Barre, Vermont.
One the Best Equipped Schools in the State
FAN Term Opens August ~, 1856.

boarding and day school for both sexes. The
greatest advantages for tie ieGSt money. Good board
mcildgg room. hedf hgbt and wdShng, $3.50 per week.
Tuition moderate. -Four fun courses of study.
Special tention to preparation for college, Loca.
tion and facilities excellent, Full board of nine
teachers, seven of them resident teachers making
n diStiHcfirelV home school, Eight endowed schol
arships give free tuition to as many students
thpin.
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The BEST FOOD to be used ir
connection with PARTIAL
NURSING.

No other food answers so perfectly in such
cases. 1t causes no disturbance Of digestion
and will be relished by the child.
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Green Mountain Seminary
MlNARD COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
Waterbury Center, Vermont.

ELIZABETH COLBY, A. M...........,...P Principal.
AsBURV NJ. MARSH. frin. of Commercial College
Full corps of teachers. College preparatory Clas-
steal, English, Commercial and Musical courses. Su-
pstiOT d3rdRfdgeS for Vocal ami Instrumental Music
dad iT Rare opportunities for u thorough ana prdcfi-
dIbuSiHeSS eiucdtiOH No outside temptations First
class boarding accommodations. Expenses low.
Three terms of twelve weeks each Fan term be
bury Center, Vermont.
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$50 MEALS for S1.00.

Sold by Druggists-25c, 50c., 500.
Bg" A valuable pamphlet entitled Med
ical Opinions on the Nutrition of Infants
and Invalids sent free on application.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, VT.
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CHICAGO, ROCK island &PACIFIC RAIL WAY

BY Of central position close relation 70 prn
cipa lines East OF Chicago, and continuous lines at
terminal points West Northwest and Southwest is the
only true middle link in that transcontnental system
which invites and facilitates travel md traffic in either
direction between the Atlantic and Pacific.
The Rock Island main line and branches include Chi
cngo Joliet, Ottawa, La Sale Peoria Geneseo Moline
and Rock Island, in lllnois Davenport, Muscatine,
Washington, Fairfield ottumwa, Oskaloosa. West Lib
erty, Iowa City, Des Moines lndnnoa, Wnterset, At
lrnc, Knoxville, Audubon Harlan, Guthrie Centre and
Council Bluffs, in Iowa. Gallotm. Trenton. ST. Joseph
Cameron and Kansas city, in Missouri; lcnvcnworth
md Nchison in Kansas; Albert Lea, Minneapolis and
81. Paul in Minnesota Natertown. in Dakota, and
of nd vii
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x IL MAN

no is UsAcovAHrED WITH The GEOGRAPHY or THO
COUNTRY VIII SEE BY EXAMINING Thls MAP IhAT The
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Tho Famous ALBERT Lea Route

Is the direct favorite line between Chicago and Mime
npos and ST. Paul over this route solid Fast Express
Trains run daily to the summer resorts, picturesque
localities and hunting and fishing grounds of Iowa and
Minnesota. The rich wheat fields and grazing lands
interior Dakota arc reached via WATERFOWL, short
desirable route, via Seneca and Kanakee offers supe
rior inducements travellers between Cincinnati In
danapolis, Lafayette and Council Bluffs, st. Joseph,
Paul and intermediate points, All classes of patrons
especially families ladies and children, receive from
officials and employees OF Rock Island trains protection
respectful courtesy and kindly attention
For Tickets, Maps Foders-obainahe at all principal
Ticket Offices in tho United States and Canada-or any
desired information address,
2. r. CABLE, I cu,c.no z. ST, JOHN,
p-est q GEM Mgr. NO' I Gen Tiki Pass AIT
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Guarantees Speed, Comfort md Safety to those who
travel overit Its roadbed Is thoroughly halasted Its
track is of heavy steel Its bridges solid structures
Of stone and iron. Its rolling stock IL perfect human
skill can make it, 1t has all the safety appliances that
mechanical genius has invented and experience proved
valuable. Its practical operation IL conservative and
methodcal-it5 discipline strict and exacting The lux
MY Of its passenger accommodations is unequaled in
the West-unsurpassed in the world.
All Express Trains between Chicago and the Missouri
River consist of comfortable Day Coaches. magnificent
Pullman Palace Parlor and Sleeping Cars, elegant
H1ing Cars providing cxcelle nt meals nnd-bctwcen
Chicago St Joseph, Atchson and Kansas Cty-restful
RpClinlnR Chnir Cars.
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advertisements.

mother is unable to nurse the child, as a SAT,
and natural substitute for mothers milk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-09
THAT HACKING COUGH can be
so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We
guarantee it. For sale at A. G. Smith
& Co.'S Drug Store. I
A Fifty per cent. Cut.

Jonathan G. Chatterton, the polyga-
mist who stated few days ago to Judge
Zane that he was no longer Mormon
and that he lived with but one of his
wiyes-the second came into court
yesterday to receive sentence. As he
was full of promises to abide by the law
in the future, he evidently expected to
receive mild "let down" Mr.. Dick
son, however, rising, said he had as
certained that there were circumstances
in Chatterton's case, which ought to be
known before sentence was passed, and
the discarded wife of the prisoner was
put on the stand to relate them. She gave
her husband black eye, by stating
that he systematically neglected, i'll
treated and abused her: that she had
left him because he brought another
woman into the house, and that he had
compelled her 10 leave her house at
various times.
The Judge, after hearing the woman's
tale, gave Chatterton half the sentence
bestowed upon Mormons, $150 fine, and
three months imprisonment. He COM
menced his term at the Pen Immediately
afterwards.
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HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, February S.-Cobb,
from the committee on public lands,
reported a resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Interior for informa-
ton as to how much OF the grants of
land to certain wagon road companies
in Oregon have been patented to these
companies. Adopted.
In the committee of the whole. Mr..
Weaver took the floor with a speech
upon the financial question, and an at
tack upon the national banking system.
There were four things, he said, relat-
ing to finance, which this Congress must
enact:
First, it must provide for the unre-
strlcted coinage of American silver;
Second, a law must be passed for the
issue of Treasury notes, to take the
place of bank notes:
Third, the largest portion of the sur.
plus in the Treasury must be paid out
in liquidation of the interest-bearing
public debt;
Fourth. it must forbid by law any
further discrimination against silver
coin.
The committee then rose and the
House adjourned.
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The London Riots

LONDON, February Slater accounts
from the scene OF the disturbance reveal
the fact that in numerous instances
shop-keepers lost property to the value
of from 61O TO $500. Orchard, jew
eler, estimates that watches and
jewelry TO the value of f300 were stolen
from his shop. A young couple who
were just starting in business, have
been absolutely ruined. One trades.
man succeeded in forcing the
rioters to retreat from his
shop with revolver. Two paint
ers named Ssvory and Bercroft
and laborer named Paul have been
arrested, charged with malicious dam
age and theft. Three policemen were
injured during the disturbance. Pick
pockets worked industriously in the
throngs. The residences of Lord Man
vers and Lord Gainsborough were at
tackled and all the windows we're
broken. At midnight quiet prevailed
throughout the city.
The establishment OF Messrs. Pickett,
jewellers on Oxford Street, was com
pletely Quilted by the rioters, who
carried away jewelry, valued at many
thousand pounds. Marshall & Smell
grove, Peter Robinson and other large
stores were wrecked by the mob. Large
quantities of jewelry, boots, clothing,
etc., which were found in the streets
have been handed to the police.