The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Pith and Point.

gland have blossomed unusually full.
A HUSBAND and wife recently landed at
Castle Garden with thirty-two children.
JUDGE PACKER of Mauch Chunk, Penn,
has sdeboard in his dining-room which
cost S47 600
THE reason Mrs. Langtry wears a black
boa in cold weather is because she doesn't
like her white chin-chilly. -Tribune.
deficient LOVER: ct know that / am
perfect bear in my manner She: Sheep,
you mean. Bears hug people; you do moth
ing but beat."
AN Alaska letter published in Oregon
says: 1t seems quite paradox to see our
men chopping down trees with the snow up
to their knees and brushing away the mos
quitoes between the strokes of the axe"
MISTER" he pleaded, have lost leg
and" eyes, so see. It's mighty pro-
voking to lose anything. l lost dog once
that had often tried to give away, but
was mad about it just the same. "-Epoch.
IN Paris there are people who make a
living waking people up in the morning.
Come to think about it, there are people in
this country who make living in the
same kind of business. They also sell
milk.-Norristo,cn Herdid
PATRON: "That last meat you sold me
was stale" Butcher: Was it?" Patron:
Eyes, it was mighty stale" Butcher: |
can show you something ahead of that meat
for staleness." Patron: Don't believe it.
WHAT" Butcher: "Your account on my
books"
A BRIDGE across the British Channel from
Dover to Calais is projected. 1t is to be
twenty miles long and 100 feet above the
level of the sea. 1t will carry four lines of
railway track and the cost is estimated at
S160,000,000. A company is being formed
in London to execute the plan.
i" If ! might venture to make a sugges-
ton, madam" said tombstone agent in
somber yet respectful manner, 81 should
say the motto HI has gone to a better
land would be an appropriate one" You
forget sir" said the lady in black, with cold
dignity, chat he lived in Boston. '-Er.
In an Arkansas town a man was found
dead one morning. On his body they
found a revolver and $50 in money, and the
mayor of the town had the body brought in,
assessed fine against the dead man of $50
for carrying concealed weapons and d-
rected that the other $25 be used in paying
funeral expenses.
In the last issue of the Richford Journal
Brother Reed, in an item referring to Memo
rial day, makes use of the phrase " as we
approach the festivities of the day." which
appears almost as timely and appropriate as
his description of a burial three or four years
ago, in which he said, 1.-The grave presented
a cheerful and attractive appearance. -
North Troy Palladium.
Mrs. Tom SHAFT died and was buried on
Cow Creek, Logan county, West Virginia.
After the ceremony the minister publicly
invited any couple who wished to be joined
in matrimony to step forward whereupon
Shaft and a thirteen-year-old girl named
Mary Browning stepped out of the funeral
train and were united in marriage Shaft is
hfty-seven years old. The affair created
quite sensation.
JUST before visiting the menagerie Johnny
had a passage at arms with the young
hn tn1 ut III c foil OF wit !,
whom he flew into rage. Arrived at the
menagerie. Johnny was immensely inter-
ested by strange foreign animal with
long, 1.-the body. "What animal is that,
mammal he asked. " 1t is called an ant
eater, my SON. After a long silence:
Mamma, can't we bring Aunt Mary here
some day?"
THE Atlanta Constitution says the negro is
changing in appearance and losing some of
the birth-marks peculiar to the African race.
The new generation is showing the effects
of higher culture. Especially is this notice
able in the towns where contact with the
whites shows its effect. The tlat-nosed,
kinky-headed negro is passing away and
becoming an unknown race. All the col
ored children, no matter how dusly in hue,
show the change Longer hair, aquiline noses
and smaller mouths, with thinner lips, are
the rule.
A PROFESSOR of natural history wandered
and got into lawyers Office on street
where there was a very pompous young
clerk. The professor asked two or three
questions on the point at issue and the clerk
finally remarked to him, very largely: 81
tell you it's true, and it is true. What do
you know about law, anyway" "Noth-
ing, nothing at all, " replied the professor,
meekly; but / know great deal about
natural history, and | think you are an
ass. - Washington critic.
ST. PAUL's EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL at Buff
falo was recently destroyed by fire, and the
trustees of the Jewish temple Beth Zion
invited the congregation to worship in their
synagogue until a house of worship had
been again secured. The offer was accepted
and Christian congregation worships in a
Jewish synagogue The most curious phase
of the incident, however was the fact that
the gospel OF the day on which the first
service was held in the Episcopal church
contains the words of John xvi 2, They
shall put you out of the synagogue"
THE ape of Java, unlike others of his
species, possesses a very long tail. He
moves quickly up to the hole into which he
has seen the crab disappear, thrusts his tail
into it and awaits events. The crab, indig-
nant at such intrusion, makes spirited at
tack and fastens upon it, This is precisely
what the ape wants He gives a sudden
spring forward The crab, having no time to
collect his ideas, is drawn to the surface,
and in moment the ape has him in his
claws. Poor crab! victim of his anxiety to
punish the invasion of his home One
traveller tells us that there is a comical
look of suspense on the apes face as he
thrusts his tail into the hole and waits for
the crab to seize it,
"PooR Mr.. Donnelly! says the London
Morning Post. I" He came to England with
great expectations and it was thought that
after so much advertisement his Great
Cryptogram would sell by the thousands;
whereas all interest seemed to have eX-
hausted itself just as the book was ready.
1t has been in the book-shops for some days
now, but there it seems likely to remain.
One of the largest of London booksellers
pathetically assures me that he has not sold
a single copy. Even the Bacon Society can
not altogether swallow the cipher, so it is
probable that Mr.. Donnelly will return to
America a sadder if not a wiser man. One
obvious reason for the sudden diminution
of interest in Mr.. Donnelly's book immedi-
ately upon its appearance is the absence OF
novelty in the first volume and the absence
of lucidity in the second"
THE corner grocery convention got to talk
ing of old times the other day, and one OF
the delegates reported how old Deacon
Blank kept order in meeting. The old
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