The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Pith and Point.


Apostle Paul was born, has railroad.
IT is said that John Kelly, the New York
Tammany chief, died worth 81 800 600
A WOMAN with a beard ten inches long
lives at Union Point, Ga. but she is rich
and the side-show has no attractions for her.
THERE are 675,0OO persons convicted an
nually of crime in the British empire. OF
this number more than nineteen-twentieths
pertain to India.
A LITTLE city girl, upon seeing cats-tails
near the road on her first visit to the coun-
try, exclaimed: "Oh, I never knew before
that sausages grew on sticksl"
THE town of Woburn, Mass, is about to
| do the handsome thing by President Cleve-
land 1t has invited him to visit his great
grandfather's grave, which is in that town.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago e. G. Short of
| Carthage, n. Y, stamped his initials on q
| copper cent. A few days ago the cent came
back to him through the hands of a Gus
toner.
THERE is great deal of nonsense talked
about the wonderful achievements of men
who play chess bindfolded. We can play
equally as good game blindfolded as with
eyes open.
A LETTER from England recently came to
this country addressed to gentleman in
q" Horse Wiggers, Horse Wiggers County,
| State of New York" 1t was properly sent
| to Oswego.
OWING to the strained relations between
the two countries, Canadian mammas who
visit American beaches will not be permitted
to fish in our matrimonial waters.-Lo1ceH
| (Mdss.) Citizen.
AN Indiana man has detected on the sun
a spot as large as the earth. This should
| brighten no one. 1t will be time enough to
| get scared when he discovers on the earth a
spot as big as the sun.-Norristo,cn Herald.
CoNTRIBUToR: Here is a manuscript /
n. IL IN.
I'm sorry. We are all full just now" Con-
tributor (blandly): Very well; | will call
again when some of you are sober. "-Boston
| Courier.
PROFESSOR: Mr.. b., can you tell me
with what faculty we could most easily dis
pense?" Students Yes, sir" Professor
" Good. Now speak up loud; what is it?"
Student (soberly); "The college faculty.
Rorbury Adyocdte.
els your son going to become farmer"
asked Mrs Blank of Mrs. Oates. "Why,
lor' bless you, no" replied the latter. My
son is graduate of the state agricultural
college, and has no intention of adopting
such profession. "-Norristo,on Herald.
A YOUNG man in Mulmur Township, as
charm against the mumps, consented to have
a halter placed around his neck, to be led to
a creek to drink and to be walked seven
times around barn. No statement of re-
suits is at hand.-Toronto (Cdnada) Globe.
AN Arkansas farmer writes that last year,
when 'coons made havoc in his corn-ield,
he went to the drugstore to buy strychnne
with which to kill them By mistake the
druggist gave him morphine, and the next
morning he found his field full of sleeping
| coons.
THE hopeful six-years-old son of one of
Waterbury's best known lawyers walked
into the district courtroom the other morn
| ing, and, presenting black kitten with a
string about its neck, said: " Papa, will you
take care of my cat until school is out?"-
Hartford Times.
A KENTUCKY farmer says he gathered
about twenty of the cut-worms which have
been devastating the crops in his section
and put them in a cgar-box half filled with
dirt, covered the same with pane of glass
and set it in the sun. The result in less
than two weeks was brood of grasshoppers.
A BABY carriage containing nine
months-old infant got away from the nurse
and rushed violently down a steep place in
Eau Claire, Wis. Fortunately, mail car
rier with the unheroic name of Sloggy
grabbed the carriage just as it was about to
jump the sidewalk and fall eight feet to the
road beneath
A FAMILY not many miles from Boston
has such a love for mural decoration that it
displays on the walls of its sitting-room the
Gone, but not forgotten with spaces
members of the family are yet dead, the
spaces remain blank.-Boston Herald.
THE new condition of things: "Dan,"
asked the President as he unlocked a trout
and laid it gently in the basket, What's in
that black bottle?'' Bait " catch on, u
said the President. MY hook is now bare. u
Then he suddenly turned pale, and his knees
knocked together. DAN" he whispered
with baited breath, 81 forgot-have you a
Glove about you?'-Sun.
THREE years ago, after tornado had de.
vastated the farm of Georgia farmer, he
found three-years-old boy among the
shrubbery of his garden. No one claiming
the waif, the farmer kept him and cared fol
him. Last summer the farmer took the boy
with him into Mississippi, and then another
tornado took the child and he has not been
heard of since.-.S0uthern Paper.
THE exposition mania is spreading st
Louis, Chicago, Washington and Mnneap-
oils are thinking of having one. The city o
Mexico wants to have one. One or two art
now in full blast in England, with several
more in contemplation. Australia prom
! Uses big show in 1887, while France, Ger
, many and Austria are also to hold interna
! tional exhibitions within two or three years
A WOMAN passed through Hannibal, Mo.
a few days ago, having with her four pair
1 of twins, all boys, the Oldest pair being
t fourteen years old and the youngest pal
: seven. The father was a six-footer ant
1
/ delicate little blue-eyed, fair-hairet
woman, who would not weigh more thai
a 115 pounds. The boys We're fine, rugged
: looking children.
e On recent night the garden of JOSEPH
!. Texter, in Fetterman, Penn. was visited b,
Il a severe frost that destroyed his early veg
= etables, blistered his frut-trees and froz
d his grape-vines. Gardens lying near, an,
I some adjoining his and quite as exposed
i were not injured in the least. The reporte
a who tells of this suggestively says: MI
q Texter is an honest citizen, has no ba
habits and is moral person."
LAST Saturday noon athree-years-old chill
strayed into the woods at Motley, MINI
and was lost. 1t had not been found b
e Monday morning, and then all the saw
n mills shut down and over two hundre
3 men began the search They found it tina
s. day, stuck fast in a swamp, within mile {
d its home. When it was found the sigma
u was given, and the whole line took up til
d shout which reached the ears of the mother
e who tainted at once. The little one was /
II the swamp two cold nights, but was not il
g Jured by the exposure.-Erchange.
e Mr.. Edmunds and OleOmargarine.