The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Pith and Point.


THE colonel considers it an equivocal com
pliment to be told that he fought like
maior.-Pucb.
Mr.. PEACOCK, an English author, is
writing a story A Peacock s tale should be
a brilliant one.
WOMAN feels where man thinks" says
a writer. Yes, that's what makes man
bald.-Richmond Bee
LAST year no less than one hundred
twenty-three persons were lynched in this
country. Texas heads the list
AN experienced Adirondack guide esti-
mates that there are now in the Adrondacks
60,OOO deer, 1000 bears and 100 wolves.
THE fanatic, species OF earnest and
often most respectable fool, is generally
wholly without humor.-AtIdntic Monthly.
In one of the districts of Shawnee county,
Kansas, a mother and daughter are pupils
in the same school; both are of school age.
THE eight hundred seventy-fourth hero
of the "six hundred " who made the
celebrated charge at Balakaya has just died
at Buffalo.-Troy Times.
"BUT why do you weep? The acting is
certainly not so touchingb Excuse me, I
am bewailing the money | paid to come
in. FIiegende Bldtter.
A YOUNG lady who teaches school at Clar-
ence, Mich, has among her pupils nine of
her own brothers and sisters ranging in
age from nNe TO twenty years.
HENS make a great mistake in laying so
many eggs in the summer, when eggs are
cheap, and taking a vacation now, when
eggs are forty cents dozen.-SomergWe
journal.
4" Poor fellow he died in poverty" said
a man of person lately deceased. "That
isn't anything" exclaimed a seedy by
stander. Dying in poverty is no hardship;
it's living in poverty that puts the thumb
screws on fellow"
CHARLEY: "Gus, what necessities of life
deprive many family of food?" Gus:
'Give it up. As the interlocutor at the
minstrel show says, what necessities of life
deprive many family of food?' Charley:
Meet and drink."-JUdge.
A BUFFALO man hung his watch at night
over a pan of dough in the kitchen and the
next morning it was missing He of course
thought it had been stolen, and was consid-
erably surprised at supper-time to see the
lost tme-piece roll out of loaf of bread
his wife was cutting
THE editor came downtown yesterday
morning, after shoveling some fourteen tons
of snow from the sidewalk in front of his
house. and found he had strength left to kill
poem on Gentle Spring" The most
difficult thing in the world is to exhaust an
editor HOWeH citizen.
A WAS paying attention to a rich widow
| " Madam he said, as he offered her bou-
quet, you grow more and more beautiful
| every day. " on eXaggerate, my dear
| sir" exclaimed the lady, very much flat
tered. "Well, then let us say every other
day. "-FIjegende Bldtter.
THIS is truly an age of iconoclasm. A
| cold booded scientist now comes forward to
say that the old oallen bucket, celebrated in
song and story, is simply an iron-bound
! death-dealer, a condensed mass of nitro
| genous and phosphate filthiness, and the
| no of M mi ha
THE late A. Bronson Alcott was a vege-
tartan, and often criticised meat-eaters
harshly. To one of them he declared one
| day that the eater of mutton becomes a
sheep. the eater of pork becomes a hog, etc.
And is it also true" interposed the other,
that eaters of vegetables become small
potatoes"
In the Office of the recorder of deeds,
Philadelphia, is preserved Justices docket
over one hundred years old. One of the
entries in the volume is as follows "Com-
monwealth agt. Stephen Blunt, July "a,
| 177S. Charged of drinking Damnation to
General Washington and all his army. De-
PENDANT held in 200"
Mr. LINCOLN said: " You can fool some
of the people all the time and you can fool
all of the people some of the time but you
can not fool all the people all the time" 1t
would be well for our politicians to ponder
over this saying, and also merchants who dc
not advertise their goods. The latter are
fooled all the e-Dry Goods Chronicle.
Two observing youngsters land it is a cool
day when youngsters are not observing
were walking down street the other night
and were thoroughly pleased, as many OF
their elders have been, at the blaze of IL
Elimination which now turns night into day
Standing under one of the arc lights and
gazing up at the new moon, which was
putting in its work, one of the lads ex
claimed: "This is the boss light, amt it
jim? / tell you it just lights up the moor
in big shape!'-St Adams Messenger
A SHORT time since Mr.. James Rodgers o
Perry's Plain (abouttwo miles south of Tariff
ville) went on Sunday morning to attend
the First Baptist church at Tariffvile
When putting his horse and carriage under
the church sheds he found an old hen be
longing to his flock on the farm snugl,
perched upon the forward axle of his car
riage. Without disturbing her, he went tt
church and attended service. After service
the hen was yet on her novel perch and re
tanned her position all the way back home
Hartford Times.
A BANGOR cat was chased up tree by {
dog just before the blizzard and remained
to receive the whole brunt of the storm
When she had been there two days the at
tention of the long-named society was callet
to her condition and young man dispatched
to the rescue. But the cat mstrusted hin
! and went to places where the young MAJ
was untitled by nature to follow She wa
then left to her supposed lamentable fate
but after remaining twenty-four hours longe
the cat touched land, and her present con
dition is an eloquent testimonial of the won
derful endurance of her race.
A LIVING wall of martyrs to loyalty an(
curiosity patiently waited to enter tn
cathedral where Emperor Williams re
mains were lying in state. The men cOul,
hardly be distinguished from the womel
on account of the thick coatings of snow
which covered their garments. Many wer
unable to enter. A disgraceful scene o
pushing and struggling took place outsid
of the cathedral. Many women tainted
; The conduct of the crowd became so ba'
that orders were given to close the doors
When the great crowd was finally disperse'
the ground was strewn with every imag
Unable article of feminine apparel and broke
umbrellas. The crowd numbered $4,000, |
is believed that many received severe in
iuries. One woman was tramped dow
and left marks of blood upon the ground
Berlin Letter.
THE article in Sundays World shown
forth the ideas of Mr.. Vanderbilt's lates
acquisition in the way of French cook /
> too valuable to pass unnoticed That Amer
= cans have too long INDUCED in elaborat
2 bills of fare, TO the detriment of their stom