The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29
Pith and Point.

at the rate of 5000 year
A CITIZEN of st. Thomas. Ont, expended
800 in lawyers fees and costs collecting $50.
THE poet who sings of the light and heecy
snow never shoveled off a sidewalk -PhHd-
delphid CAL.
THE crop of grapes in California this year
Is estimated at 17S,00O tons, OF which 10000
tons were sent to the East.
"HURT KoRv " is the name of New York
shoemaker; and yet some people claim
there's nothing in name.
PAPER at Oakland Call said a recently
deceased citizen hal "gone to a happier
home" and now the widow threatens a libel
suit
THE latest French book on female beauty
and its adornment condemns the wearing
of earrings as an absurd and unnatural
custom.
IT Is reported, on excellent authority, that
no pet dog IL properly accoutered now I'M
less he wears silver bangle on his off
hind leg.
THERE is room for everybody in this big
world Friction comes through the fact
that too many want the front room.-NeU
Orleans PicdUUne.
A FARMER of New Hope, Cal. who planted
| five hundred acres in potatoes has had such
an abundant crop that he calculates that it
will yield him $4,000.
4 FAMOUS chess-player has a set of chess
he slow work urging such aged men over
the board.-Nessenger.
CATHOLIC BISHOP IRELAND of Minnesota
tersely remarks: A laborer earning two OF
three dollars day cannot support his fam
! lily, church and saloon"
A MOUSE built nest in a Tuscola girls
hustle, and when she discovered the fact
she uttered a scream that cracked the plas-
tering on the ceilng.-Ne,cmdB independent.
GAvARRE, a Spanish tenor who sixteen
years ago, received eighty cents an evening
| for singing in a Madrid concert-hall, has
been engaged for $4,000 to sing fifty nights
| in Italian opera.
a CHICAGO woman is attracting consider
able attention by appearing on the streets
| leading a big cat, covered with a rose-plush
blanket, and wearing a collar on which are
little silver bells.
A SUBSCRIBER asks: d" Can you send me
receipt for good horehound candy?" Ger
tainly we can, dear. Send along your candy
and you will get receipt by return mall
NeW Huren NelCs.
THE two great lenses for the Lick tele-
scope, on which the Messrs. Clark of Cam
bridge have been so long at work, are now
practically completed, and will soon be sent
to their destination.
"YoUNG men believe in nothing now-a-
days" says Mrs Ramsbotham, with deep
sigh. Why, there's my nephew, Tom,
who was brought up as Christian, and
now he's an acrostic. Exchange
A SOCIETY note in western paper says
that "Tommy Peters and Ted Van Wrinkle
Sundayed with their parents" After the
society editor had been interviewed by his
superior he felt that his lot was not happy.
A FRENCH crank's estimate of humanity
in 1886 foots up: "A lot of fools who spend
most of their time and money in making
iron balls to 90 through steel plates and in
making steel plates to keep out iron balls"
If you are poor there is one consolation
your heirs will not 90 into court to prove
that you were an imbecile during your child
hood an idiot at the time of your marriage
and gibberng lunatic for years before you
died.-Erchdnge.
AN eccentric woman, recently deceased,
left S1500OO by will to Miss Chrissie King
of Ontario, Canada, provided she marry a
young man named Gilbert Allen on the day
of the funeral. The provisions of the will
were promptly complied with.
! BROOKLYN dry goods dealers denounce
the big church fairs for which that city is
famous, and are striving to put stop to
them One large retailer says these fairs
cost him 5000 year. He is obliged to do
nate goods to them to keep his big customers.
JAMES G.. RICHARDSON of Lake City,
, Mimi, has invented several contrivances
so that while lying in bed, by pulling wires,
he feeds his horses, lights the kitchen fire
and opens the drafts of the base-burner in
the sttlng-room. Mr.. Richardson Is from
= Connecticut.
, Two students ring a hated professors bell
at midnight. He puts his head out of the
window and wants to know what's APP.
One of your windows is wide open''
Where" exclaims the startled professor
''The one you are looking out of,"-FVie-
gende batter.
AN Oxford University man insisted on
keeping bees. One day local clerical Dig
5 nitary told him plainly that his bees must be
2 sent away because a gentleman commoner
! had Just been stung. He replied instantly,
1 Mr.. Dean, | assure YOU that YOU are doing
5 me a great Injustice | know that bee we'll.
= He is not mine at all. but belongs to Mr..
+ Bigg of Merton"
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