The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-17
Pith and Point.

FoRTy-Two new chemical elements have
been discovered during the past ten years.
WHILE the Shakers of this country num-
Der only 1000, their wealth amounts to
S12,000,000.
THE weather is not vet cold enough to
make visitors leave your Office door OPEN
Nep orleans Picdyune.
A NEW book is out called "a Girls
Room" 1t is not so good as her company.
-Ne,c Orleans Picdyune
INSTEAD of these being the piping times
of peace they are the piecing times of pipe
stove-ppe .-PHtSburg Chronicle Telegraph.
"wHATs shall we drink" asks the editor
of the Albany Express. Drink water. The
change will do you good.-Drdke'S TrdUel-
ler's Mdgazine.
1t is reported that Nebraska is unusually
free from tramps because she is bounded on
the east and south by the prohibition states
of Iowa and Kansas
MORE than 100000 wash-boards are
sold in this country every year. The best
wood for wash-boards is cottonwood or syc-
amore, pine being too soft.
A BALDHEADED citizen of Cedar Falls, Ia,
is having his wife, who is very skillful with
brush, paint a spider on the top of his
head to brighten away the flies omaha Bee.
DURING recent tornado in Indiana
board was picked up by the wind, slapped
up against the side of a house, and held right
across a window until removed by occu-
pants of the house.
YOUNG husband TO wife,: Didn't 1 tele-
graph you not to bring your mother with
your" Young wife: al know. That's what
she wants to see you about She read the
telegram. - Texas SiHingS.
Or the $500 students who have been
graduated from Williams College, 2,229, sat
under the instruction of the venerable Mark
Hopkins during the sixty-one years of his
active connection with the College.
A: l thought you were vegetarian,
and now | see you eating mutton' b:
Well, | am only an indirect vegetarian |
eat the meat of such animals only as live on
vegetable food."-FUegende Bidtter.
THE demand for black walnut has pretty
nearly cleared out this wood in the forests
of the North, but almost incredible uuant-
ties are said to have been discovered in
Tennessee and Arkansas. 1t also abounds
still further South
THE sourest vinegar is now manufactured
from the apples in twenty-four hours. The
process consists in taking the juice from the
apple and running it over soured corncobs,
and at the end of a day the purest cider
vinegar is the result.
THOMAS TAYLOR died in Baltimore on
Friday, aged one hundred ten years. He
was for years a slave in Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, and always insisted that
he had seen George Washington during the
war of the revolution.
A REMARKABLE illustration of the endur-
ing character of human hair may now be
seen in the British museum, where has been
placed wig, lately found in temple at
Thebes, which is supposed to have been
worn by an Egyptian priest at period not
less than 3,400 years ago.
IT is hard to surprise some country land
lords. A Boston man had hardly registered
the name of Christopher Columbus at a vii
lage tavern in Wisconsin when the land
lord reached out bis paw and exclaimed:
How are We, Chris Bin expectin' We ever
since the year 1492r'-Detrou Free Press.
A MAN in Williamsburg, Va, recently
wrote as follows to The Religious Herald.
We wish $1,000 Baptist pastor here, who
will serve us for $500, and we look to The
Religious Herald to find him for u.s." And
yet there are people who say that there is
nothing in the ministry to attract bright
young men.
SHE: Do you not think, Mr.. Blank, that
Miss Codcash is very plain persona
He Extraordinarily eyes, indeed; l
think she is the homeliest girl ever saw,
present company, of course, always er-um
that is, yes; she is certainly very plain
person. Are you lawn tennsing any this
season, Miss Jones?''- Columbia Spectator.
THE Danbury Ne'cs says that while dog
was gnawing bone in that town an organ
grinder commenced playing, when the ami
NAL left his morsel and howled most pit
eously." If that dog had possessed any
instinct it would have grabbed the organ
grinder by the leg and made that individual
howl most piteously. -Norristo,Cn Herald.
HOTEL clerk: "Why do you wipe your
self on pocket handkerchief" Travelling
man (who has just finished his ablution)
"Where would you have me wipe myself;
on that towel?" Hotel clerk: "Why, GER
tainly;, it costs no more" Travelling man;
"That's true, but pardon me, sir, | have
too much veneration for old age. Chicdgo
Herald
A LONDON correspondent says that the
people of the English metropolis in years
time eat 100000 oxen, 100000 sheep, 200,
600 calves, 100000 swine, S0O0,0O0 head OF
fowls 500,000,0O0 pounds of fish, 500, 900 ,O00
pounds of oysters, 100000 Holsters, some
million tons of canned goods, no end of fruit
and other stuff, and 50,000000 bushels Of
wheat. 1t takes 200, 600 quarts of beer tC
quench the common thirst. But more thar
this, they drink 100000 quarts of rum and
50,OOO,0O0 quarts of wine. Taking out the
water used for sprinking, cooking and
fountains, and the actual drinking supply /:
desperately small.
THE Congregationalist of London tells the
following incident as illustrating the feeling
among the common people in Wales in re
gard to tithes: " A few days ago we had
conversation on a railway platform with
Welsh farmer, which was extremely sug
ReSllNt, KNOW IL ldTlueT Wut over IIt
hill there said my friend, and the parsor
came to collect 1.-THE. She said to him
'Parson, l have eleven children; will yol
take one of them? You take the tenth pig
will you have the tenth child?' The argu
ment seemed to the farmer quite convinc
ing, and the story seemed to be keenly ap
preciated by the bystanders."
my dear" said young Chicago wife t,
her husband, after they had returned from
the wedding tour and settled down t.
housekeeping, in looking over this box o
books. / find your fathers old family Bible
and here is an entry under the head o
Births, which says, Albert W., born Ma,
3, 1S40 Didn't you tell me you were thirty
seven years old?" "Ah," replied ALDER
pleasantly "that is copy of the old yer
sion. It's full of mistakes. In my offic
down town / have family Bible of tn
revision. I'll bring it home this evening
Albert's new family Bible was found {
contain different version of his birthda
and the slight cloud that had lowered owe
his household was dispelled.-Ch Tri
bune.
PEOPLE about town were more or les
interested in our new house, because tn
idea of an editor putting up ranch was s
novel. We have answered the inquiry
"How is that house of yours getting along?
more than thousand times in the last tw
months. And the question, " Have yo
moved yet?' has been fred at us over fiv
l.,A I'll.