The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-21
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pieces.
CEYLoN now claims to grow the finest tea
in the world.
THE new national library, just ordered by
congress, is to be constructed after the style
of the capitol.
For five years Verdi has been working
more or less at his new opera, Iago," and
II is not finished yet
INFANT mortality in the Bermuda Islands
is something frightful. 1t is said forty-two
per cent of the deaths occur in childhood.
AN Italian claims to have invented a lum-
inous printing ink which will make it posi-
BILE to read newspapers or books in the dark
Mr.. BARNUM says that he has wasted
5000 in trying to get boomerang-t hrower,
and that the famous boomerang is practi-
cally myth.
A FLORIDA hen having laid two eggs in
one day, 1t is understood that she will be
boycotted by the Knights of Labor for over
production Burdette.
A GARMENT, half ulster and half new
market, with hood is introduced as spring
wrap. 1t comes in plaids of the kind to be
seen twenty blocks away.
THE old Moravian town of Salem, n. c..
has not permitted any liquor to enter the
place for one hundred years. 1t is the BAN
ner temperance town of the country
THE chaplain of the New Jersey senate
in his prayer the other day, managed to
work in defence of an official whose inn
parchment trial is in progress by that body
IT is estimated that the pictures sent to
the Paris salon this year would, if placed in
a line, extend for seven kilometres. A min
ute's examination bestowed on each would
take 116 hours.
AN Illinois editor defines philanthro-
pist as a jealous person bent on doing the
greatest possible good to the greatest possi-
BILE number with the greatest possible
amount of other peoples money.
The Germans have devised an ingenious
method of advertising their manufactures
A vessel, fitted up with complete assort-
ment of German products, has been sent on
voyage round the world. 1t serves as a
floating industrial exhibition.
THERE have been fought in France since
1870, SAT duels, besides many between Off
GERS and between private soldiers, which
are scarcely ever mentioned in the papers
Out of these 847 duels, only nine resulted in
one of the parties being disabled.
THE marriage of the French Marquis
d'Aulan with an American girl is rather
more interesting than these international
marriages usually are, for this time the
bride, Miss Christmas, has no money at all,
and her titled bridegroom is very rich.
THE onions of Wethersfield, Conn, have
long been famous, but Sunderland town.
ship, in Western Massachusetts, devoted
sixty-three acres to that odoriferous bulb
last year, which yielded 524 bushels to the
acre, worth $4,000, or about 1917 per acre.
THE war which Forepaugh, the Phila-
delphia Snowman, fought for so many years
with Barnum. has been waived and peace
is declared. The two big circuSeS will play
together in Philadelphia, instead of fighting
one another, and thus save $4,000 apiece
instead of losing it.
THE Christian Examiner hits q good many
people in an article entitled Joining Pas
tor" 1t says they do not join the church.
They " unite unto themselves " the popu-
lar pastor. While he stays, they stay. When
he goes, they scatter and hunt for the next
popular pastor to join.-iSprinatield Union.
The famous green corn dance of the Semi
noles is described by "a witness as wild,
grotesque series of leaps and contortions to
the weird music of a dirge-like, mournful
chant" Then, so far as we can grasp it, it
seems to be an imitation of the common
green-apple dance of the pale-face, with the
painkiller left out. -Burdette.
A wELL-To-Do farmer of Wilkes county
went to Athens few days ago to do trad
ing, and while there he had his picture taken
When he reached home he presented it
to his wife, who, on seeing it, asked him
why he was so selfish about it-why he didn't
bring picture of her also. He tried to ex-
plain but she would not be comforted-
tSdUdnndh Ne,Cs.
THERE is great rejoicing among the people
when the price of great paper is reduced
from five to four, from four to three, and
from three to two cents, or from two to one
cent, and there are no doubt men who
would like the price to go down to one-half
cent. | never rejoice at such a time, be-
cause it means perjury, domestic privaton,
starvation! No newspaper in the land can
afford to be published for less than five
cents sheet.-ReC. DR.. Ialmage.
A GOOSE which has Just died at Stuttgart
Iaft ha cell 1t,,r, n,,1
solved to have nothing more to do with its
companion geese, but to try new way OF
life for itself. So 1t boldly marched into
the barracks of a Uhlan regiment one day
and stationed itself next the sentry-box
The Uhlans were touched by the goose
choosing to ally itself with their corps, and
built shed for 1t to live in. For twenty.
three years neither threats nor persuasion
were able to separate this bird from its
adopted regiment When the corps changed
quarters the goose went with them, and
when the Uhlans went to fight for their coun
try the desolate creature took up for time
with battalion of infantry; but no sooner
did the first UhlanS enter the town than the
goose marched out to meet them, and wen
with them to her old quarters. Since hel
death she has been stuffed, and is to bt
seen in glass case on the gate of the bar
racks of Stuttgart.
JOIN, G. CALHOUN once pointed to drove
of mules Just from Ohio, and said to Ton
Corwin: There go some of your constitu
ents." " Yes said Tom, gravely, they are
going down South to teach school," Gov
ernor Brough was once matched agans
Corwin, and in the midst of his speech said
Gentlemen, my honored opponent him
self, while he breaches advocacy of hom
industry, has carriage at home which h
got in Engand-had it shipped across tn
ocean to him. How is that for supporting
home industry and labor" When Corwil
came on the stand he made great show o
embarrassment, stammered, and begal
slowly: Well, gentlemen, you have hear
what my friend Mr.. Brough has to say G
my carriage. plead guilty to the charges
and have only two things to say in my dc
fence. The first is that the carriage came t
me from an English ancestor as an heirloom
and | had to take it. Again, | have not use
it for seven years, and it has been standin
in my backyard all that time, and the chicl
ems have converted it into a roost. Now
gentlemen" with steady look at Brougl
have nothing further to say in my do
fence: but would like to know how Broug
knows anything about my carriage if he la
not been visiting my chicken-roost."
JOSEPH BRECK & Sons catalogue of ga
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