The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-19
Pith and Point.

o officiate at an evening funeral
In Lowell, Mass, there are 400 liquor-sa-
oons and only twenty-four bakeries.
A WHITE ant like the plague of Africa has
made its appearance in Illinois, and is fully
rs destructive.
THE Easter offerings at Grace church,
New York, amounted to the remarkable
sum of $4,000
THE Reyae DIES deug MondeS estimates that
he drink bill of France, direct and indirect,
annually foots up to 227,796,12O'
AN ex-sea-captain, who lean talk in six
languages" advertises in New York for
position as master of a canal-boat.
A PuKwANA, Oak, hotel advertises among
is attractions a " cyclone cellar" with an
basy slide into 1t in case of danger.
We have seen no satisfactory explanation
bf the reasons which induced the plumbers
o strike. Do they want the earth?--Boston
Post.
Bergh expects to get indictments against all
street railways who use bobtailed cars in
fly time.
SWEET lemons are a favorite Mexican
dainty. They are the shape, color and size
of the lemons of commerce, but are sweeter
than the banana.
AT least a dozen men in PENNSYLVANIA
have recently committed suicide because of
the depression caused by the strikes and
the consequent unsettled condition of in
dustrial affairs.
WE trust that no class of society will be
offended If we express the hope that the
time will come when trousers that bag at
the knee will be in the height of fashion,
springfield Union.
AN Elkhart Ind, farmer dug into large
mound on his farm and found the skeletons
of twenty-five bodies that had been buried
face downward, and the skulls of all had
been crushed in at the back.
t1,a ~.
+" Say Boo Mr.. Smith. -" Mr.. Smith
What for, Bobby" Her little brother:
{" 1 want to know if you can. Sister says
you can't say Boo to a cat "
SMITH (nervously): care you sure there
are no toadstools among the mushrooms?'
Mary (guilelessly): "They wus bought for
the missus' table, but she told me to try
'em first on the boarders. '-Hdrper's Bdzdr.
A SINGULAR feature of all Anarchist agita-
ton is that beer cuts so large figure in it.
The cry its apostles raise is " bread or
blood" but they seem to give the most
practical attention to beer.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
THE letters which you see on silver coins
represent the name of the city in which
they were coined as :" S. for San Francisco,
60" for New Orleans, &C. c." for Carson
City. Those bearing no initial are coined at
Philadelphia.
WHILE railroad train was rafting
through Dakota an Iceander girl-an immi-
grant-jumped from car, ran 300 yards,
gathered her apron full of flowers and re-
turned smiling to the train, which had been
stopped where her reckless jump was made.
THEY were talking of a death, when one
man asked: What were his last words?'
" He didn't say anything" was the reply.
" That's just like him, +" said the first man,
with an approving nod. :" There was no
gas about him-he was all business. "-Sh0
and Leather Reporter.
" aycbopoa orounc tbot 6io+i11ipo q 1oobo1
cannot be so very bad, since it has been the
custom of all nations from the earliest re-
corded time. The writer has good case,
but while he was about it he should have
said a good word for sin, which dates back
to the first man.-Boston Transcript
ACCORDING to the Santa Ana (Cal.) Stand
ard, bees are overrunning the whole of
that part of the country. School-houses,
churches, and even private dwellings have
been captured by immense swarms of bees,
and in some districts the people are utterly
unable to make any Roadway against them.
A PASSENGER says he had a novel expert
ence at an eating station not more than
thousand miles from Macon. The steak
was a regular tough, and he murmured his
complaint. The waiter remarked You
are the fourth man that has kicked against
that piece of steak, and we won't stand it,"
THERE was a wedding breakfast. The
groom to the little girl: "You have new
brother now, you know" Yeth," re-
sponded the little one, ma seth it wath
Lottie's lasth chance, so she better take it.
The rest of the little ones talk was drowned
in clatter of knives and forks.-EyansuWe
Argus.
ONE night during the late flood on Fox
river, in Wisconsin, the crew of small
steamer were startled by hearing German
call out " Vat you doing NIT my basture?'
The steamer had wandered with the flood
over portion of the Germans farm, and the
irate Teuton thought they were about to
rob him.
ONE day in a Chicago depot a conductor
who had large hands hung one of them out
of car window. Shortly after he felt some
one pulling and feeling first of one finger
and then the other. He stuck his his head
out of the window, and saw a man, who
said: "Say, Mister, how do you sell
bananas apiece?"
and his family supposing him dead, his sol
went to the morgue to find his body " Car
you give any description of your father?'
asked the superintendent, " by which we
Guibollard, Jr., that he was little
deaf. From the French.
UNCLE BILLY DAY of London, KY, who il
over eighty-one years old, the father o
thirteen children, and who has seventy-si'
grandchildren and 1S2 great-grandchildrel
ability to read by " freight ~ without spec
tacles, and to jump up and crack his heel
together twice before coming down.
THIRTEEN boys in the school at Arcola
ILL.,, struck against further study when callet
in after recess. The teacher, who apparent,
is a born diplomatist, called up the thrteel
largest girls in the room, told them of TIN
state of affairs, and ordered them to marcl
out and each bring in a boy Within tire
minutes and half a bakers dozen of lad
with very red faces We're trying to stud
holes in their books, and have been to-
busy since to talk about the sad affair.
A STORY is told of Boston doctor, thong
do not know upon what authority. In
crowded church the deacon with the contr
button box made his difficult way up tn
aisle and held that receptacle for the casl
of the charitable snggestively before tn
young man. " am very sorry, sir" tn
doctor said, to the infinite scandal and as
constituent of all about him. "but tn
woman with a pink feather in her bonnie
has taken my purse and l can't have he
arrested until after service, so you'll hav
to wait. "-Arl0 Bates, in Providence Journd
Mr.. JOHN r. BRANTLEY of Douglasvill'
Ga, with creditable brotherly feelings
comes to his sisters rescue, in the followin
card in the village paper Certain unscrl
pulous women, who have no regard for trutl
have, with view to injuring my sister
business, circulated a report that she
stuck up and does not respect countr
people. This is false and malicious mil