The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-07
Pith and Point.

THERE are now 81 ,2O2,3W silver dollars in
regulation.
THE spring cattle-drive from Texas is ex-
ected to exceed 100000 head.
EASTERN apples are being sent to Cali
brnia. Low freight charges is the cause.
UPWARDS of 81 900 people will sail from New
ork for Europe between April and July.
STRANGERS complain that they are not
reated with ordinary civility at many New
ork churches.
SLICES of lemon bound tightly upon the
emples are said to be sure cure for a
ervoug headache.
THE discovery of petroleum in Upper
Egypt attracts great attention, for the How
IF oil is enormous and excellent in quality.
A COMMON advertisement in English pa
bers is: Wanted, by a lady of good con-
iection, the management OF first-class bar"
IT costs very nearly S2,0O000O a year to
maintain Queen Victoria's personal house
hold. 1t comprises over thousand persons.
In January, 1885, his big scholars gave a
Wilson county school-teacher a ducking.
He has just received $4,000 damages. This
WAS in Kansas.
YOUNG housewife: "What miserable little
Eggs again. You really must tell them,
Jane, to let the hens sit on them little
longer. "-ErchaRge.
THE total loss caused by the sinking of the
Oregon is figured at 49, 10000. The Cunard
line has not received such blow since its
organization, forty-six years ago.
WORKING women in London cover and
.embroider sunshades at three-quarters of a
penny apiece, and, if work can be got, skill
| full workers do two dozen sunshades day.
Miss GENEVA ARMSTRONG, one of the
teachers of music in Elmira College, has in
vented and patented a device for feeding
and watering cattle while they are journey
ling in cattle-cars.
Tom SANDS was at work at the bottom of
well seventy feet deep, when a man at the
i top dropped a crowbar. He yelled Tom
looked up, saw the bar, and succeeded in
lodging it as it came down.
THE first penitentiary in Indiana was
built of logs and the first inmate was a
farmer, sent in for counterfeiting money.
This prisoner was allowed to 90 home to do
his spring planting yearly during his stay
THE largest authenticated snake ever seen
was an anaconda, which had swallowed a
horse. His length was forty feet, and after
his feat of Undertaking he was indisposed
and captured by naturalist who was hunt
ing specimens in the Amazon Valley.
Mr.. STARTUP: " | see that Richard Wag-
ner's gondola is offered for sale in Venice"
Mrs. Startup "Wagner Wagner Is that
the sleeping-car mani" Mr. Startup: No;
the musician fellow, you know. The gon-
=
Mr. BARNuM thinks he has discovered the
missing link in the person of monkey who
acts like a man and tries to talk He should
not commit the mistake of advertising it as
too choice curiosity. Specimens of that
class are too common in social experience
Pittsburg Dispatch.
ONE little girl was heard to say to play
mate: When grow up I'm going to be a
school-teacher Well, I'm going to be a
baua " oh 90
they come to school to me I'm going to
whip EN-" "You mean thing What have
they ever done to your"
MEN may come and men may go, but the
derby hat goes on forever. Its persistence
is due to the fact that it can be raised and
ducked in the conventional street bow much
more satisfactorily than the soft hat, that
has to be grabbed by the crown and re-
moved in one time and two notions
Springfield Union.
Two animals recently added to the Phila-
delphia Zoo are the harness antelope from
Australia and the hog-nosed deer from
India. The harness antelope is striped with
white so as to exactly resemble an animal
in harness, and the hog-nosed deer derives
its name from its popularity of making a
grunting noise through its nose, like hog.
A COUNTRY minister who, in addition to
his clerical duties, followed the profession of
photographer, was called upon to perform
the marriage ceremony. Now, then, young
man" he said to the groom, who was nerv-
Gus and excited, as all grooms ought to be,
Just keep your eye on that crack in the
wall and try and look pleasant. "-Harper' $
Bdzdr.
AT dinner in Rondout the other day
there was German, just arrived, who had
not seen United States paper money. A
gentleman opposite took a $50 bill from
his pocket and endeavored to hand it to
Int a int Il nf
soup. He took it out as quickly as possible,
and was waving it to and fro to dry it, when
a big dog in the room snapped it out of his
fingers and bolted it down with apparent
relish.
WHEN silly and selfish little boy is walk
ing in the street eating piece of pie he
firmly believes that every man, woman and
child in sight of him has designs on that
pie. When grown man holds and enjoys
a good fat office he lives and thinks and
operates on that same pie theory, and sees
in every other man an attempt on his place
or somebody elses. He judges the actions
of all other men by his standard. Green
oale (Souh Carolind) Nelcs.
Mr.. S. w. BENNETT of Frelighsburg seeks
to turn the tables on his critics in this way
During my late sickness / was doctored
thirty-one days for measles, and before il
was discovered that / had the smallpox the
disease was scattered in different places
Now they blame me for this, because some
of the people that called caught the small
pox and died. They say it was because
was not vaccinated, but it is poor rule thai
won't work both ways, and If those thai
died had been vaccinated they would not
have caught the disease. '-UOntredl Gazette
SOCIETY, even in the most aristocratiC
circles, sometimes becomes ill-natured. A
wealthy family of the city was once not sc
well off, but having received large legacy
profted by the added means in an elegan
mansion and other additions, so that they
almost forgot their former poverty. I'm
fortunately they had still poor relatives
whom they found as useless as Charles
Lamb once purported to do. AT larg,
party which they gave, on their acquisi
ton to wealth, lady said to the host
ess: 81 do not see your husbands brothe
here" "No," said the hostess, ingeniously
"you know we must draw the line some
where"
THE Washington Critic tells how Jedg,
Waxem of Wayback attended a congress
sional funeral, and how hard he mournet
on the journey. When the ledge got bacl
to Washington he was not as neatly attireC
as when he started out to grieve. He locke,
like a frizzly chicken after an encounte
with a heavy shower. His hat resemblet
an accordeon But the jedge did not care
There is nothing wrong in all this" h
said. "When a man is in grief he want
something to drown his sorrer. He pays 70
it himself When this great and gloriou
nation appints me to do its mourning it i
but right that it should pay for my woe
asshuagers."
DIR. JOHN Brooks, who died recently il
SamOS Mo. left tbp follnwinU Iirpption