The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03
Pith and Point.

RUSSIA seems determined to give Bull
garia a large dose of czarsparilla.-Post.
IT is estimated that the prune crop of
Santa Clara county, Cal, this season will
be worth $1,2O0OOO.
Tom AcREFooT is the name of Key
Wester whose feet are sixteen inches long
and six and half inches wide.
THE earthquake gave the islands on the
Georgia coast lift, and they are now per-
ceptibly higher above the sea level.
AN Orange county, n. Y, farmer carried
to market six barrels of apples, none of
which weighed less than pound apiece.
WE don't wish to defer anybody from
being polite, but we can't help observing
that many a man has been heavy loser by
a civil decentralization Post.
A VIENNA writing-master has written
forty French words on grain of wheat
that are said to be easily legibe for good
eyes. 1t has been placed in glass case and
presented to the French Academy of Sci
ence.
AND now they tell of an old church organ
ist in this city who, at the wedding of an
antique belle whom he knew years before,
astonished everybody by playing fam
TASTE on the air, "When You and l Were
Young. Rorbuy AdUocdte.
CoNTRIBUToR-I called to see why my ar
ticle on the L" Fall of the Leaf" was not used.
Editor-It was used, my dear sir. found
III very useful. l saw mourning OI III III
your paper" " In the paper! o, certainly
not. l started the fire with it last night"
IT is said the only way an express car on
the Pacific roads can be robbed is by collu-
sion with the messenger. The cars are
lined with boiler iron and provided with a
shotgun and two revolvers, and the doors
so secured that they cannot be opened from
without in an hours time.
The Salvation Army has rival in a band
of seven yOunU men and women of Canada
who have volunteered to work among the
Hindus as evangelists. They dress in uni
form, and when they arrive at their desti-
nation will walk barefoot, eat from the
floor and beg for food from the natives, all
in order that their influence may be greater.
A CURIOUS fish was recently captured with
hook and line near Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina. The animal had twenty-five legs
its eyes standing out from its head about
half an inch, and had head about five
inches long and sword protruding out OF
its mouth, mustache, and was in eight
pieces, having two tails. The Oldest fisher
men and sailors say they have never seen
anything like it before.
THE New Orleans Tyn,eS-Democrat says
that lockjaw, which so often follows the
running of rusty nail into the flesh, may
be cured by simply smoking the wound, OF
any bruise or wound that is intiamed, with
burning wool or wooden cloth. Twenty
minutes application of this remedy will
take the pain out of the worst wound, and
repeated once or twice it will allay the
worst case of inflammation.
A BosToN publisher says that 100000
copies of the first volume of Blaine's book
We're printed, and but $1,000 of the second
volume. The author gets a royalty OF
seventy-five cents on each volume sold
which will make its receipts, when the
edition is exhausted, S13l go. If Mr.. Blaine
had known book-publshing as well as ht
politios ha rnuII ha mazda
$4,000 to $4,000 more, it is said.
A CHICAGO expressman says that the odd
est thing he ever received by express was
grave. 1t was in box about four feet long
covered with glass Inside was the eartl
of a child's grave-the turf, flowers, head
to California. Some man had moved on
there, and had the body of a dear chile
taken up and shipped to him. The thought
struck him that he would like TO have
little sod from the old homestead, and so h,
sent for the top of the grave.
AT the battle of Shiloh a single man o
the Louisiana Tigers continued to marcl
against the Federal lines, after his regimen
had been nearly annihilated by the terribl
fire they encountered, and the survivor
were on the retreat He had not, during al
the terrible conflict, taken his gun from
right shoulder shift and kept up his marcl
in straight line toward the men who wer
firing at him. He marched up until II
stood within few feet of the first line
when he calculated in sort of drunken
wonder, Hello, Yanks, what are you al
doing here?' 1t was then seen that thi
cool representative of the Louisiana Tiger
was as drunk as a fool, and that he ha
moved forward mechanically, without an
realization of the circumstances about him
WHAT would the world do without VIC
man? asks the essayist who starts out {
say something new on this oft-treated sub
ject. or course the human element of til
world would not exist without woman, so tn
question is gratnitous. 1t would have bee
far more sensible to ask: What would tn
world do without the salvation OF woman
without panacea for her physical ills an
cure for her peculiar diseases. In wor,
what would the world do without ID
Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" the gres
remedy for female weaknesses? 1t is il
dispensable for the ills of womankind.
A SINGULAR accident is just reported frol
Parkersburg, West Virginia, which occurre
Saturday. A train struck a COW on I'll
track, on bridge, and was derailed. I'll
bridge caught fire and gave way Sever
teen cars, some loaded with oil, WEI
burned The repairs will take several day
A HANDSOME HOLIDAY PREsENT.-As IL
holidays are now approaching we know
no article that will prove more useful an
acceptable present, than the " Wonderfl