The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Pith and Point.

A GEORGIA woman has in the last clever
years pieced and quilted one hundred
sixty-nine quilts.
A MISTAKE is a thing to which you are II
able. Blunders are made by the other fel
low.-FaH RiUer AdUonce.
IT is said that fifteen cars day for
period of four months will be required I'd
market the orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia.
How would it do for some of the men in
the theater to put on their tall hats just I'd
see how the women would like it ?-Fhild1
delphid Call
A BUFFALO debating society has dis
cussed the question: " ReSoiUed, That city
man in the country is greener than coun-
try man in the city"
A FRENcHMAN at Perry, Georgia, who ID
60 years of age, the other day broke an eight
penny nail between his teeth. He says he
never had the toothache.
UNCLE EsEK says in the Century: About
half serpent and half dove is the right mix
| ture for a man; for woman / would suggest
| leaving the serpent out"
| BARNUM has purchased from the Zoologi-.
cal Society, London, the elephant Alice, the
companion of poor Jumbo. She will shortly |
be shipped to this country.
A CoLoRED woman, Miss Carrie Bragg, is
editor of the Virginia Lancet, published inI
| Petersburg-the only newspaper in theI
Union conducted by colored woman.
A TENNESSEE court has closed term in
which six murderers escaped conviction by
sending a hungry woman to prison for twol
years for stealing quart of buttermilk.
Doctors are so scarce in the East Indies
that they receive 50 for an ordinary visit
and $3.50 more for a consultation. Dentists
L. 4 N .saI
common paste.
1888 kinds of cake. The man who eats her
1888 kinds of cake will probably have 1888
kinds of nightmare to match the cake.-
NeWmdn Independent.
IT usually is goose, but this time it is
turkey gobbler that has been dug out of
snow-bank, where he had been buried for
thirty-eight days. This was in Bryant,
Kansas, and the turkey is doing well.
A BowDoIN COLLEGE paper criticises very
severely the students who act as walters in
the summer hotels. 1t thinks the practice
is unworthy of young men who expect to
occupy an honorable position in the world.
THE individual who called tight boots
comfortable wasn't such an idiot as he
looked, after all, for he defended his posi-
ton by saying that they made man forget
all his other miseres.-Shoe and Leather
Reporter.
SOME one claims to have found out that
the bushel of corn which the distiller buys
for thirty cents is eventually sold to the
drinkers for $1,000. Times may be hard, but
the gentle distller manages to make his lit
tie profit every time.
A MEDICAL journal calls attention to the
danger of sleeping in damp bed and says
that the experienced traveller would rarely
hazard the risk of sleeping between sheets,
which are almost sure to be damp, until
they have been aired at a fire in his room.
BOOKSELLER Ito clerk: See here, James
you've advertised The Modern Salon in
our list of new books" Clerk: Well, that
was your order, sir" Bookseller: Yes, but
that's no way to spell saloon; two o's,
James. See if it can't be corrected" -
Tid-bits.
MORE snow has been seen in England this
winter than for a great number of years. In
the Moorand districts of the north the snow
drifts have been so deep that in some in
stances they have been tunneled, and soli-
tary houses have with difficulty been sup
piled with the necessaries OF life.
A COLUMBUS, w. T., man and wife drove
several miles to grist-mill, carrying with
them several sacks of corn and their child
which had bad case of whooping-cough
was kept in the hopper until the grain all ran
out. They had heard that such treatment
would cure whooping-cough
, The editor of The DondidsonvMe La.)
chief let go the Unbelievable of the uni
/, verse long enough, the other day, to write a
Draconian leader on " The Purloinng OF
Our Overcoat." He had to wear the press
blanket until brother journalist loaned
him an overcoat, which, he says, " securely
shields our symmetrical form from the
, chilly breath of the wandering blizzard"
A CHICAGO woman lately wrote TO Mrs
. Senator Stanford that, as Mrs. Stanford was
I now in mourning. she could not make a
+ better use of her ball dresses and gowns o.
a similar description than by sending them
to her! The writer said she belonged to
, that genteelly-poor class who are com.
PEELED to present an appearance out OF all
proportion to their limited incomes"
2 A THIEF who had been convicted of steal
ing hog sought to lessen his offense by say
ing: I" While it is true, your honor, that
, stole the hog, you must take his condition
into consideration. He was very poor in
flesh" d" while that is true" replied his
honor, 81 must also consider the fact that
: you probably liked lean bacon better thar
fat | shall give you two years at Jackson
-Egchdnge.
said, claims to be able to grow apples with
when the size of a small alder, and insert
the top in the ground. When the top takes
root sufficiently cut it off near the butt, and
} stake it up perpendicularly. The result viii
, be tree growing butt end up, which so de
moralizes nature that barrenness of core and
= seeds ensues.-Erie Herald
: Mr.. Edmunds, characteristics.