The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-15
Pith and Point.


says st. Patrick was a Methodist.
APPLEToN's AMERICAN CYcLopEDA has
cost the public, in various editions, nearly
S150O0,000.
A TRUTHFUL answer.-Judge to the plant.
iii; Who was present when the defend
ant knocked you DOWN." Plaintiff: 81 was"
SOME fastidious Washington people are
finding fault with the President because he
allows cabbage to be cooked during recep-
ton hours.
The vital question. What is sausage?"
is being discussed before a Nebraska court
1t is believed the jury will disagree. Nor
risto'Cn Herold
A MAN down in Maine has Just died from
swallowing bean. We are glad to state
however that it was not baked one; it
was raw.-Boston Post.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS remark that she
knows nothing about the rebellion" leads
us to fear that she will write some war
reminiscences.-PH tsburg Chronicle.
A WRITER says: Some people would
sooner help stranger than friend" Yes,
and nine times out of ten they will get more
thanks for the help.-New Hdren Ne,cs.
In Australia tramp is called a ." sun
downer," because he always reaches cat
tie or sheep ranch at shutdown, too late for
work and in time for supper and lodging.
GEORGE WASHINGTON was great dancer.
In 1873, Mt the quarters of General Greene,
Washington and Mrs. Greene danced for up
wards of three hours without sitting down.
BENIGHTED outsider, approaching the
Hub: Conductor, what is that curious muir
mur that comes from the city?" Conductor:
" That sound? 1t is the Bostonians reading
Browning. "-Life.
AT recent fire in Birmingham, Mich,
everybody " lent hand" but one man was
so excited that he carried away burning
wood from the flames and piled it up beside
the barn-Detrou Free Press.
A PRECIOUS youth in Winston county,
Miss, being about to marry, went to a mer-
chant and obtained a new suit of clothes,
was married in them and returned them the
next day, asserting that they did not fit him.
a DOCTOR who attended a Brooklyn family
in which two children died of diphtheria,
last week, says he has traced the infection
to goat that had come from family where
children were just recovering from the same
disease.
A NEGRO, on being brought into court on
Wednesday and asked whether he pleaded
guilty or not guilty, replied that he was
guilty, but he thought the matter had been
compromised, as he had returned the hog to
the white man. besides paying for it.-Rose-
dale (uiss.) Leader.
Mr. IsAAcs had enticed Mr. Treustein into
his Chatham street store and was trying to
sell him pair of trousers, when there was
great shaking of the building, and Mr..
Treustein fled, shouting Earthquake!
earthquake Come back" called out
Isaacs. That was no earthquake. That
was nothing but Jacob upstairs letting
down the price on summer goods. '-Ameri-
can HebreU.
WE see by the Shunpdo that there is
Coreau dwarf measuring two feet and
half in height. His head is one foot long,
his body is about the same length. and his
legs measure five inches only. The length
IL foot - Ia, l. oil;
to crawl in and out of his house. The Corean
dwarf is twenty-seven years of age aud is a
far more wonderful creature than Tom
Thumb Celestial Empire, Shanghai.
I" YES, Bobby" said the minister, who
was dining with the family " everything in
this world has its use, although we may not
know what it is. Now, there is the fly, for
instance. You wouldn't think that flies
were good for anything yet" :" Oh, yes,
would" interrupted Bobby. 81 know what
flies are good for" What, Bobby" " Pa
says that they are the only thing what keeps
him awake when you are preaching. life.
FRANK PIERCE, when president, was so
provoked one day by illusions to him in
speech made in the senate by John p. Hale
of New Hampshire that when the senator
and his wife presented themselves at a
reception that night at the White House
President Pierce cordially shook hands with
Mrs Hale, but took no notice of the
ator's outstretched hand. and, turning
squarely on his heel, gave the cut direct
PerleU.
CoNNECTICUT has just lost in the death
of Carlo, a dog of Farmer Tucker of oxford,
one of her most intelligent residents. 1t is
said that it was common for Mrs. Tucker to
send dinner by Carlo to men at work about
mile from the house. The workmen would
send him home with pail for water and he
would return with it. Two of the men after
cutting wood on one side of the mountain
went over to the other side. Carlo finding
an axe, and thinking it left by mistake,
brought it home half-mie or more He
would lead horse by the halter. He knew
different tools by their names. He knew a
few families by name. Mr.. Tucker one day
held a letter in his hand, saying, Z" wish
Mrs. Chatfield could see this letter" Carlo.
unbidden, advanced, took it in his mouth
and carried it past several houses to the
house of the person named, and presented
it to her.
HENRI CoUGE, a young French watch
maker, has invented "A mysterious clock,
models of which are exhibited both at the
International scientific and industrial and
the working-mens exhibitions. This clock
is called by its inventor La Transparente,"
and is composed of a thin C-shaped copper
stand, which supports two hollow glass
balls, the lower one, which is marked with
the hours and subdivisions for the half and
quarter hours, being considerably larger
than the upper one, which is marked with
the minutes. Those two balls rotate on
steel pivots before fixed indexes. The
minute index is formed by an arrow-shaped
prolongation of the C-shaped stand, which
curves over the upper ball; the hour index
is formed by copper figure, which stands
in front of the apparatus, and which repre-
SCENTS man holding lance in hand The
point of this lance is on "A level with the
circle of figures. 1t is quite impossible for
the casual observer, even after careful
study of the model, TO solve the enigma of
its working. The globes, as before stated
are hollow and as transparent as a soap
ubble.-JelCeierS' WeekiY