The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-23
Pith and Point.

A HEADLoNG man is not a man with long
head washington Critic.
ONE of the business colleges at Cleveland
has department of phrenology.
A FRENCH paper speaks of 4" Mr.. Powder
horn, president of the American Knights of
Labor"
If every man were as wise as he pretends
to be we would all be living about thou
sand years ahead of our time PhHddelphid
Inquirer.
THE largest flower known is the Raffesia,
native of Sumatra. 1t measures three
feet in diameter weighs fifteen pounds and
has calyx holding six quarts. The odor is
offensive.
A LITTLE Rochester girl drew the picture
of dog and cat on her slate, and calling
her mothers attention to it, said " A cat
oughtn't to have but four legs but | drew
it with six, 50 she could run away from the
dog"
THE national cemetery at Fredericksburg,
Va, is the third in size, there being over
fifteen thousand soldiers buried there,
drawn from the neighboring battle-fields of
Charlottesville, Spottsylvania and the Will
derness.
THERE are some appalling circumstances
in human life before which even the bravest
quail. One of these is female book agent,
the other is another female book agent
or the same female book agent another
time.-Burdette.
NEVER use nitric acid when cleaning
glycerine bottles. A nurse recently tried
this experiment and the bottle exploded.
Nitric acid and glycerine form lively COM
pound called nitro-glycerine, which won't
be pounded with impunity.
A YOUNG lady in Aroostook county, Maine,
has been an invalid for upwards of year
in consequence of some one sportvely draw
ing chair from under her as she was about
to sit down. She fell to the floor and has
never recovered from the shock.
THAT philanthropy which has induced
men and women to pass out provisions and
old clothes to people with whine in their
voices has done more than all else to de-
grade men who once worked for their
bread.-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
AN improved railway passenger.coach is
so arranged that if it falls off bridge into
the water the side panels, roof and ends of
the car become disconnected and float about
as life-rafts. Air-cushions are attached to
the various parts to insure greater buoyancy.
"DEAR Inc" said the little Boston boy,
after intellectual suasion had failed and
they had spanked him for the first time, " if
/ had the slightest suspicion that the result
ant sensation was so poignant | should
! never have invited the experiment. '-Puck.
AMONG recent mechanical curiosties are a
scarf-pin with birds head that, as you ex-
anime it, is made to twitter by pressure on
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wheels siv and onehaif faat ~, yJia ~ien
between which the r;dar sits an an tha coz
noct;nn ala o' '''' ''>''' 'i0' y" '"o 'oA-
lRRirATED frenchman ITO American who
has mistaken him for a water) Sir-r, you
hal grr,ossly INSURED me. There Is my,
card MY SECONDS VIII Vait upon you, slr-r.
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pass n,s +ba Woraastarshir nie aus. 'a "1in
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PRACTICAL revivanst requested all IN
the congregation who PAID their debts TO
rise The rising was general After they
had taken thelr seat, call was made Tor
those VINO dldn pay their debts, and one
sohtary Individual arose, VINO explained
that he was the editor ana could not pay be-
cause the rest OF the congregation were
owing MN their subscriptions.
SOME time ago we heard of " first fam
lily" young Boston man who refused splen-
did business offer made him by a relative in
tbopSb his saiarv nla"ad I;,' '" AZ u Ill
vantsga in IL iIii case xas nora than