The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-11
Pith and Point.


IT is estimated that for the past six years
strikes have cost the country Sl6,000,0O0 a
year
A FARMER at New Garden Penn, has
sheep whose wool made nineteen yards of
cloth a ward wide.
THE indiscretion of our first parents was
a mighty good thing for tailors and dress
makers. -TOronto Truth.
IT wonderfully softens the pain of making
mistake to be the first to find 1T out.-BoS-
ton journal Of Education.
A NosE-PRoTEcToR is an Idaho invention
by which wooden pad is snugly carried on
the end of the nose in cold weather.
PROFESSOR STEWART estimates that for
every missionary that goes to Africa 5000
gallons of liquor are sent to that country.
IT is true that the busiest man is the
happest man, but he often doesn't have
time to realize it-PhHddeiphid Telegraph.
A WESTERN paper says that man who
recently died "passed into the eternal slum-
Der in the rich, cool, somber arms of death"
SAxoNY and Thuringia are the home and
paradise of dolls. The annual production
of dolls stockings alone in Saxony is 5000
dozen.
THREE citizens of Scott county, Kansas,
made up purse of 500 for the purchase of
counterfeit money and received brick in
return
A DALLAS, Texas, inventor has an cleo
trio fsh-line which kills a fish the instant it
seizes the hook and at the same time rings
a bell on shore.
THE fob chain, which gives the wearer an
excellent opportunity to crafty his taste for
the beautiful is said to be on the high road
to public favor once more.
MISTRESS: Lima, who was the man l
saw in your company last evening"" Lima:
Madam, that was a distant brother of
mine. F'rdnkturter Zeitttng.
A WOMAN at Belfast, Maine, in response
to all inquiries as to what she wanted for
Christmas present, said she wanted calico
apron She got forty-one of them.
IT has been discovered that number of
wealthy people in Cincinnati have placed
their aged parents in old mems and old
women's homes in order to save themselves
! trouble
In order to keep her husband away from
a saloon Pennsylvania woman trapped a
| polecat and threw it into the place. Even
the proprietor was glad to take weeks
! vacation
In order to introduce railroads into
Morocco the king of Belgium has devised
the ingenious scheme of sending the sultan
a complete railway train, with lot of rails,
as present
WILD GEESE are so thick in Dakota that
when they settle down on ten-acre tract
the ground seems to be covered with snow,
and the farmers get their sleighs out.-De-
troE Free Press.
THE empress of Russia has been presented
with sewing-machine of solid silver, stud
ded with Sapphres and nclosed in a case
made in the form of the imperial crown.
The fittings are of gold.
AT a dinner party in Boston young
| man who was visiting from the West was
asked if he was fond of ethnology. Well,
yes" he replied, at venture " but don't
think I'll take any tonight"
r
worry, John; it doesn't do any good to bor-
row trouble" Husband; Borrow troubled
Great Caesar, my dear, | amt borrowing
trouble; I've got it to lend."-The Epoch.
In a school not a thousand miles from
Augusta an urchin in answer to the teach
er's question, What are the parts of gram
marc said, "Syntax etymoogy and er-
er-er doxology ."-Angustd (Naine) Journal.
THERE will be plenty of international
exhibitions this year. Among Others will
be one relating to music at Bologna, one at
Vienna covering architecture, sculpture and
painting, and one at Melbourne comprising
everything.
ACCORDING to the Musical Courier the
number of pianos manufactured in this
| country in 1887 has been $1,000, requiring
4,576,00O keys, as many hammers, 100000
casters, over Il, 00O,0O0 tuning pins and some
100000 brass agraffes.
A MEDICAL authority says there are some
| people who can breathe sewer-gas with i'm
punity. We know that is so. The plumber,
for instance, can live and thrive for weeks
in house where he says it is suicide for the
family to remain another day.-LOlCeU
Citizen.
A GERMAN is reported to have invented a
paper that resists the action of both fire and
water Asbestos, aluminium sulphate,
chloride of zinc and resin soap are the in
gradients. Paper is now used in the shape
of compressed blocks for the building of
the sides of chimneys.
THE population of Japan is about 50 ,0O0,-
900, and is supported on 100000 acres OF
cultivated lands, and exported last year of
the products of this II 100000 acres S2l ,000,-
600 of silk, nearly SS,OOO,000 of teas and
nearly S3,0O0,000 of rice. The export of
rice was almost, if not entirely, to China.
OF her teas exported large portion went
to the United States.
THE old Connecticut pilgrim known as
the darned man " is dead. In young man
hood his mind was unhinged by the sudden
death of his atfianced bride, and for the rest
of his long life he tramped through the state,
always wearing his wedding suit. The
great desire of his life was to preserve that
suit. And the only articles he ever So
lcted We're needles and thread or yarn to
mendit. AS years passed on the repairs to
which the suit was subjected were so nu-
merous that but little of the original cloth
remained. But in the eyes of the poor old
pilgrim it was always the same.
IT appears that during the year 1886 the
number of persons killed by wild animals
and venomous snakes in Hindostan was
24,S41. This is an increase of 1874 over the
figures of the previous year. The fatalities
, from snake-bites rose from 90 l42 to 22,134,
, while wild animals killed 2707 persons as
| compared with 2,765 in 1885. Tigers were
responsible for 92S deaths and wolves for
, ODD, these figures showing ninety more
deaths from tigers and twenty-six fewer
from wolves as compared with the preceding
, year. Elephants, leopards, bears hyenas
, wild boars, bsons, wild hogs, jackals, alli-
, gators, crocodiles, wildcats and panthers
, had also their quota of victims-IimeS Of
, India.
OUR native food materials are abundant
! and every locality is famous for its treat
) ment of some particular dish If our eat
ing is bad it is not on account of the quality
of our food material. 1t must be because,
2 even with all the cook books and writing
about cookery, most of the cookery is still
done in a perfunctory way. 1t not only
requires brains to be a good cook but the
exercise of all the brains we have and
? maybe more The development of the
,nathatip Sila of life has sDoilab tnuph pnolx.