The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Fact and Fancy.

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A COUNTRY editor, having received Gift
of doughnuts, thanks the doughnor."
A FRENCHMAN asserts that he has made
a balloon which can be as easily navigated
in the air as a ship on the sea.
A MULE at Macon, Ga, has an artificial
wind-pipe made out of silver They call
him the silver-throated warbler down there
ASTRONOMY is the latest hobby among
fashionable Frenchwomen, many of whom
are having small observatories built in their
gardens.
IT is one thing for a person to know
good thing when he sees it and another
thing for him to seize a good thing when he
knows it,
PETER JONES of Buffalo, wishing to name
his infant son after himself and dsliking
the affix " Jr.," had the poor child chris
tened Repeater"
sPUNKY young woman at ST. Paul an
Swered " Irrelevant immaterial and impu-
DENT in reply to an insurance company's
question about her age.
The Salvation Army consists of 1862 corps,
with 1884 officers. During the last year
1,S10,3S0 meetings have been held 2717 $3.50
houses visited and las, 905 persons were con-
verified in Great Britain alone.
For sample of pure American humor
listen to the gentle American landlady as
she takes up the pitcher of skinned milk
and asks the new boarder if he will have
cream in his coffee. -NebrdSkd State journal.
The doctors admit that they were mis-
taken about the crown princes throat, but
they insist that their bills rendered to
date are all right. A wrong diagnosis
hasn't knocked off a cent. = NOrristolgn
Herald.
SEEDLEss raisins are obtained by burying
the end of the vine in the ground when the
grape is half ripe This prevents the forma-
ton of seed and the full development of the
fruit, but it ripens all the same and has a
delicious flavor.
DIR. VAUGHN says that there are annually
in Michigan 900 deaths and 10 900 cases of
sickness from typhoid fever, adding his con-
viction that nearly all this may be pre-
| vented if the people will only stop polluting
the soil and the water.
LONDON has six hundred places of amuse-
ment, of which more than four hundred fifty
are music halls. The theaters are about
| fifty. Direct employment is given to about
10000 people, beside indirect employment
to a host of tradesmen and their work.
people.
:" WILL be fair with you, darling" said
| George himself, tenderly; "when we are
married you shall always have one-half my
income" And l, dear George" said her
self, ." will not be nsensible to such unset
fishness; you shall ever share one-half of
my expenses. "-Burdette.
YOUNG man Ito editor) "What do you
think ought to get for the poem, sir?"
Editor You ought to get ten dollars"
e Young man (overioyed); I" Oh, that is
! fully as much as | expected" Editor:
Yes, ten dollars or thirty days" That
was more than he expected-EpOch.
CONVERSATION between traveller and
| lad of six or seven: Your grandfather
there seems very old Do you know what
his age is?' No, sir. i couldn't exactly
say, sir; but I'm sure he can't be very
| IIatn al, IL.
| as long as | can remember. '-Judge.
STRANGER Ito Dakota landord): 81 no.
ticed party of Scared and crippled gen.
tlemen at a table in the dining-room. War
veterans, | suppose, enjoying an annual
dinner" Dakota landlord: mo, sir; it is
press dinner given by the editor of the
Daily Pdrdlyzer to his staff ''-Epoch
IT is an important duty of the country
press to convince its constituency that the
advertising columns of a newspaper repre-
sent cash value. No paper can afford to
| give advertising or "notices - free any
more than merchant can toss over the
counter free gifts of dry-goods or shoes
Erchdnge.
ACCORDING to the Boston Record, Master
Josef Holman recently told Miss Nettie
| Carpenter, the charming young violnist,
| that since meeting her he had reconsidered
his determination never to marry. " Very
we'll" said she, I'll wait for you" ooh,
! bub IL L, ItluGItu WHO IL nave 10
wait You're all ready"
ALEXANDER T. MITCHELL married off a
niece shortly before he died and the we'd
ding cost him $4,000. His son paid not long
| ago $4,000 for single picture, and his wife
! having once sent him some fruit from the
family orange grove in Florida he remarked,
| as he looked upon the oranges, that they
ought to be good, for they cost him 500
! apiece.-Nelc York Letter.
| THE pedagogue at one of our suburban
| schools gave young lady a severe whip
ping the other day and then said: Now,
If you think did wrong in Furnishing you
| thus you may take the rod and serve me in
! like manner" To his establishment the con-
| trite and repentant girl took him at his
word and gave him such a lam basting as he
had never dreamed of. - PunrsutdaCney
! (Penn) Spirit.
A PUG and Newfoundland dog belong
ing to New Jersey gentleman were seen
to halt before brook. The big dog took
to the water but the pug refused to do so.
| The Newfoundland then persuaded the pug
to get upon his back, but he slid off when
half way across when the big dog yanked
him out and set him on the opposite bank.
Since then the pug has carried out of the
house to the Newfoundland the choicest bits
of his food, and he seems to enjoy seeing
the big dog eat them.
THE "vestibue" trains running between
| New York and Jacksonville, Fla, in thirty
six hours, include a library-car, two parlor-
cars, two sleeping-cars and dining-car. to
say nothing of one for smoking, all of which
are united into one continuous covered train
| by the construction of handsomely-fin
connecting vestibules upon the car plat
forms. The chief advantage of this arrange
ment is in the fact that passengers are thus
enabled to pass through the entire train in
! going to and from the dining or other car,
while trains are running at high speed with
out the slightest exposure or danger in
crossing the platforms.
THE Springfield (Mass) Good Housekeeping
says " The public towel is never safe to
use. 1t not only removes the moisture that
| it is its purpose to do, but it rubs off scales,
pieces of dead skin, lymph from cuts and
abrasions, perspiration from the pores, mu-
Gus from the nostrils, pus from sores and
ulcers and any liquid that is excreted upon
the surface of the body. These impurities
and disease germs are retained in the
meshes of the towel and are ready to attach
themselves upon subsequent users of the
| towel, and those who are among the last
especially run unpleasant chances of catch
| ing some i'll or other"
A FOX that had given the hunters lively
! chase across the hills from Lincolntown to
| Birdsboro, where it was being hard pressed