The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Pith and Point.

PRESENTATION is having great run at the
theaters these nights Washington Critic.
A JUDGE who escaped brickbat thrown
by felon by suddenly STOPPING, said to
friends who were congratulating him on his
escape: eff / had been an upright Judge
i had been slain"
LITTLE Dor: :" I bet Miss Folsom's awful
glad Tilden wasn't 'lected, don't you?" Lit
tie Tot: eyes, l bet-why?" Cause
she'd had to marry him then, you know,
and he's awful old"
A SMALL Louisville boy, after being
naughty and suffering justly at the maternal
hand-or rather slipper-stopped sobbing
long enough to look earnestly at his mother
and say, with emphasis Mamma, I'm
sorry you ever married my papa"
AN Indian chief who is visiting Washing
ton at government expense was introduced
to a senator recently who has very bald
head. The chief looked at him for some
moments with great interest. Finally he
said: ugh! Where you fight Injun some
, time?"-NeW York san.
John, dear, +" she said, yesterday I COW
cred your boot-jack with silk plush and
painted some flowers on it, and it is per-
fectly lovely. You will be delighted when
John. "You have; when?" Last night
threw it at cat "-NeW York san.
A KINGSTON lawyer appeared before the
board of education of that city few days
ago and asked that $1,000 assessment be
taken from the property of a neighbor and
put upon his own lot This was such an
extraordinary request that the members of
the board were nearly struck speechless.
"CAN you conceive" asked the professor,
an eternal vacuum, portion of space I'M
occupied, an empty void into which nothing
ever enters, from which nothing can ever
come, which maintains inviolate and for
ever its own eternal emptiness 81 can, ;"
| 1,alt n.tr N1,,n
pen. '-Philadelphid NeWs
THE climate of the Island of Jamaica is
said to be highly conducive to longevity.
There is peculiar immunity from colds,
malaria, diphtheria, pneumonia and other
diseases that are so prevalent in this coun-
try The temperature at Kingston seldom
falls below sixty degrees and scarcely ever
reaches ninety. The country is mountain
Gus, and by ascending any of the mountains
one may find almost any climate.
WELL, Bobby" said young Featherly,
as the former entered the store, what can
l do for you this morning? And how is
everything up at the house," All right j
guess. l heard sister Clara tell ma that she
dreamed about you last night" " Is that
sop whispered Featherly, bending over the
counter. And what did your ma say"
" She said that Clara must have eaten some
thing what didn't agree with her l want
to get spool of No. 60 cotton and a dozer
bone collar-buttons '-NeW York san.
AS matter of good taste the publishing
of long list of wedding presents is question
able, but the list recently published in {
country paper is in one sense interesting
including as it did: "From father ant
mother of the bride, one Jersey calf; from
bride to groom, hair wreath made from hail
of her entire family, and also six fine shirts
from brother Elias, one book of poems, on,
dream-book, one Polite Letter Writer anC
a dog; from Aunt Harriet, six hens and {
rooster, also one jar of tomato catsup; from
Cousin Sarah one poem made up by hersel
on bride and groom, fifteen verses in ALL"
A YOUNG man planted large telescope OF
the sidewalk in San Francisco one evening
and then eloquently invited people, withou
any charge whatever, to behold the beau
tiful orbs of the heavens in all their mag
nihcence." Soon man stopped to pee
through the instrument; another followe,
his example, and before long there was
line of people of both sexes waiting thei
turn. A reporter, who observed the solemn
way in which they skipped, waited in tn
line, and when he finally got up to the tele
/ scope and looked in, saw, in large char
: acters, these words; Buy Blowhard's SOAP
J See that the trademark is on every bar"
THE New Bedford Mercury has this illus
T tration of the sorrows of a tramp: :" A tram
3 applied at house in the north part of tn
a, city yesterday for refreshments. The lad
l of the house, thinking to give him trea
7 handed out large wedge of strawberr
a short-cake. The fellow commenced to or
$ bitterly and, when questioned by the SUI
prised giver, said that he had eaten nothin
9 but strawberries for ten days, and If ther
U wasn't rise in the market soon he shout
I starve to death, as his stomach was kickin
against the monotonous diet. The lad
grasped the situation and substituted piec
of solid corned-beef. and the traveller weI
away happy"