The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

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Have uttered fifty times this year,
" Have you read Robert Elsmere2''
Have / read Robert -? Yes,
Thank heavenl the deed is donel
At last J. We read it, though it weighed a ton.
Now, when a friend chance to meet,
In church. theater, or upon the street,
| shall not rush into a store,
Or turn aside, as oft before,
Lest should hear that everlasting same
Have you read Robert-whats his Nance"
But bow and say, with eager zest
Eve read your Robert, and he needs rest"
boston Transcript.
IT is at the Christmas season that
days and men are at their Shortest
Chicago NewS.
TIE next cabinet seems to be suffer
ing from bad case of rumOrtism.-
Boston Herald.
II there is any person in the country
whom we should think would wish to be
saved from some of his friends it is
President Cleveland. -Nep York Sun.
IT is thought that a cheap line of
coast defences could be secured for this
country by planting Chicago oatmeal
mills along the seaboard. - atlanta
Constitution.
You may abuse Mr.. Blaine as much
as you please, but we ought to be eter-
nally grateful there is only one of him.
just suppose for single, awful mo-
ment that he was a twin! Gadzooks,
gentemen!-Ne,C York Herald.
THE New York Herdld characterizes
the third-party prohibitonists as " the
QuiXotic party in politics." and as
seniimentalists, with unbounded elo-
quence, a purity of motive that has
never been questioned and a most as
founding ignorance of human nature"
THE New York Ereni,g Post prints
figures to show that the democrats were
not defeated on the tariff issue. These
figures should be wrapped in red fan
mel sprinkled with camphOr and pre-
served until 1899. Just now there is
danger that they will catch cold.-At-
lantd Constitution.
You've MEN, don't burn the candle
at both ends. John DeCourcey Ire
land, a Yale student in the class of 80,
tainted recently as he came out of the
examination hail. Afterward he be-
came delirious and brain fever is
threatened. He is a victim of over
study. For long time he has allowed
himself no relaxation whatever.
NERVOUSNESS is said to be charac-
teristic of Chief-iustice Fuller He
seems to find it impossible to sit still
upon the bench. His hands are con-
stantly in motion at one thing or
another. Often he takes scrap of
paper and folds and refolds it into
thousand shapes or turns over the
pages of a book without looking at
them. But, as usual thing, he is pull
ing at his moustache like nervous
graduate on commencement day. First
his left hand twists and pulls little at
his left hirsute; and then the right,
not to be outdone in caressing, per-
forms like Office for the long gray
hairs on the other side of the nervous
mans mouth.-1rib,ne.
SENATOR SHERMAN thinks that the
annexation of Canada is near at hand
and Representative Butterworth pro-
poses some steps toward the attainment
of that end. Professor Goodwin Smith,
however, argues that political union is
far remote and that the practical need
of both parties is an assimilation of
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right in maintaining that political union
is the ultimate destiny of the Dominion,
but wrong in their present theories.
The assimilation of duties is impracti-
cable SiXty-five millions of people
will not change their tariff laws to ac-
commodate four millions. If a change
in the rates of duty to suit Canada
means a change in rates for the whole
outside world, it is not probable that
this nation will subordinate its revenue,
industrial and commercial interests to
secure satisfactory trade relations with
Canada. -Ne,c York Press.
THE race issue certainly is the means
of enlivening the local columns of
southern papers. Here is a New Or
leans paper which narrates the serious
results which came from a practical
joke. An itinerant dentist who was
exercising his vocation at street
corner induced an immense colored
man to submit to the operation of hav-
ing two teeth drawn. Just at the
crisis, when the dentist was pulling for
all he was worth and the colored man
was clinging to the chair, mischiev-
Gus boy stuck pin into the patient.
The patient became impatient, and,
Selling the tormenting boy, inflicted
upon him well-merited punishment.
Immediately the rumor went out
through the crowd that colored man
was numbering a white boy, and the
mob, with pleasant anticipations of
lynching him, attempted to seize the
negro. Though they succeeded in in
flicting bad scalp wound on the negro,
the latter succeeded in gaining the sec
ond story of house near by. A po-
liceman sought to take the negro into
custody. The negro then jumped to
the ground. The mob caught him, and
would have beaten him to death but
for the interference of the police.
Great solicitude was manifested for the
boy, whose injuries were pronounced
slight. "-IranScript.
THE collapse of the Panama Com
pany is on scale so gigantic that it
may easily begin one of those prolonged
periods of depression which have fol-
lowed lesser failures in the last cen
fury. In all, about S207 100000 have
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