The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Pith and Point.

bilious Dakota hotel.
a PROFESSIONAL beggar who died lately
in Rio Janeiro left fortune Of 5000 900.
KAsKAsKIA was once the capital of Illi-
nois, with population Of 1000 Now 1t has
| but 80 inhabitants.
A GOOSE that has been in the LaClair fam
lily for forty-one years died in Western New
| York the other day.
AN Illinois man says the hot weather
Matched seventy chicks from eggs in his hay
NOW without any aid from his hens.
PEA RIDGE, Possum Trot, Shake Rag,
| Wild Cat and Frog Town are the names OF
several villages in Forsythe county, Georgia.
THE only crop that will be above the aver
age this year is the crop of candidates. The
drought has no effect upon them.-Omaha
Bee.
STUDENT walters having gone out of fash
ion, it is suggested that students who wish
to make money during vacation should work
on farm.
WATER meloncholia is slow death and
somewhat painful one, but, all things con-
sidered, it is less Objectionable than green
appleplexy .-Nelc York Journal.
THE copy of the sermon by John Knox,
preached 321 years ago this month, for the
whiche he was inhbite preaching for
season." has been sold in England for S2,O75.
PERHAPS there are several great men in
this country who might be lifted out Of it by
an act of Providence without increasing our
porter.
FROM Belgian newspaper: "a young man
who proposes to marry wishes to meet a
man of discretion and experience who will
dissuade him from the attempt. Address
u. H., Post-offce."
az FEEL like mother EARTH" said de-
feated candidate to friend the morning
after the election. How is that?" asked
his friend 81 have been flattened at the
polls" was the reply
Mrs. HANSON, while picking blackberries
!, near Oakland, ILL.,, was bitten in the ankle
by a blue racer She was at once placed in
, a wagon and driven homeward, but she died
before her home was reached.
A LARGE cave has recently been dis
: covered in the Oregon range, forty miles
north of FL Paso, which in size and in the
beauty of its stalactites and stalagmtes bids
. fair to rival the Mammoth Cave.
LITTLE CHARLIE: Papa, will you buy me
a drum?' Fond father " All! but, my boy,
you will disturb me very much if ! do"
Charlie: ooh, no, papa; won't drum ex-
cept when you're asleep. y Dondhoe's Mag
dzine.
=. 7. BARNUM is reported to have re-
marked, in a moment of confidence, that if
Y he lived much longer and retained his pres
: ent activity he would exhibit himself in
: sde-tent as Zone of the greatest curiosities
| Barnum ever handled"
ACCORDING to the Boston Transcript, gen.
tleman in Plymouth last year sent out to a
friend in England present of a barrel of
the best Cape cranberries. The Englishman
returned his thanks, but was sorry that the
berries when they arrived were all sour.
< BILL NYE, the humorst, has been having
$ a siege of it lately from autograph-hunters.
e To one of these bores, the other day, he
e wrote: "Dear Sir-In the absence of my
n amanuensis, will you kindly excuse me if |
v write my autograph myself? Yours, Bill
l. Nye."
e A SMALL boy of the Journals acquaint-
}, ance, reading advertisements, comes to the
following " For sale-Barber shop; dirt
$ cheap" Small boy, with look of disgust on
/ his face Say, paw, don't you think it's
:. cheeky in the owner to charge anything for
II the dirt?"
u A HORSE owned in Springfield, ILL.,, chol1ed
Il while eating corn. Its owner thrust whip
= stock down the horses throat to remove the
y obstruction, and the horse bit the stock in
=, two, leaving foot or more of it in his throat
= A horse doctor came and cleared out the
- much INSTRUCTED channel.
m A LAWYER at Van Buren,, Ark, received
o. one of the smallest fees on record last week.
re A man who had some papers drawn up
ID asked what the bill was. The man of law
le replied: " just what you think is right"
al To his astonishment, his client handed him
Is a one and a two-cent piece.
IS A TORONTO cat is credited with remark
Is able intelligence. She saw rat about to
lie go through a small knot-hole in a tight board
st fence, and, knowing that she could not
N reach the rat before he reached the hole,
IN she went over the fence like a shot and cap
st tured him on the other side.
70 "THE poet is born, sir" said man, haugh-
<, tily, as he received a roll of manuscript
II from the editor with shake of the head.
n "Ob, is he?" replied the editor, with pleas
y ant smile. :" Well, when he gets old enough
u to write something tell him to come and see
s. me. Good-by," and he resumed his labors.
se - Washington Critic.
"a On recent Sunday the Rev. Joseph Scott
of Springfield, Mass, was very late at
church. AS he arose to begin his sermon,
he said " am very seldom late at church
my horse gave out this morning and had
to walk. You will find my text in Psalm
xxi: 9: Be We not as the horse the
tie mule, who have no understanding.
of On Monday daughter of Dr. John Todd
at of this borough, in breaking some eggs for
id cooking purposes, found cent of the date
~ of 1881 and United States coinage in the yollS
lie of one of the eggs. How the cent got in that
is egg is what no one can tell but it was there,
V, that is certain, for several persons saw it be-
t. fore it was moved.-PutStOn Ledger.
n "DoN'T you think it a little unfair for you
to dine sumptuousy at the hotel, while your
family dine upon what they can pick up at
home?' =" Not at all; always tell my wife
what have had when 1 get home, and you
cannot imagine what pleasure it is to her
and the children. And the best of it is that
IL, it never Injuries their digestion. "-BoSton
~ Transcript
re A MAN was about to pull little cucumber
v from the vine, when the vegetable, with an
appealing look, said: "Don't disturb me
yet; i am too little to eat Let me grow big
of and then l will afford you square meal. "
H. The cucumber spared, and in few
IN weeks it twisted that man into all sorts OF
RI shapes with the collie. Mordl-This fable
o. teaches the virtue of prompt execution.
Us THE Washington Critic tells of an absent.
90 minded United States senator who had oc.
al casion not long ago to go to New York. His
a, wife was to go with him. After they had
nc got away in good shape, a memorandum to
u this effect was found on the desk of the
70, senator: Things to take along: One pair
i i socks, one shirt, two collars, one pair cuffs
~ one wife" The senator denies it, but the
y. boys have it in black and white.
,v DE BAGGs: Hello, De Kaggs! You look
~ as though you had been run through mill. u
lie De Kaggs (doefully); Don't mention it.
e- was ont with the boys last night Never had
r such a racket. My head feels as big as a
X cook-stove and l completely spoiled a new
adj suit of clothes" De Baggs Severely:
k hope that will prove lesson to you" De
n, Kaggs: :" 1t will when go out again I'll
o. wear my old clothes. Philadelphia Cal.
k, 81 CAN'T imagine what the trouble is with
r. that COW" said New Yorker who is giving
Il 80