The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04

discovery of America by digging hole.
1t would be impossible to dig deeper
hole than the one now occupied by the
exposition boom of the Windy City,
New York Herald.
WE are paying at present one dollar
and thirty cents per mile to German
steamers for carrying the mails, and to
American steamers only ten cents per
mile for mail service to South America.
That is the way we are building up our
carrying trade.-Boston Journal.
No person living will again date
document without using a 60" 1t
now stands on the extreme right-1SS9.
Next year 1t will take second place
1890, where it will remain ten years.
1t will then move into third place
1900, where it will rest century.
AN empty pocketbook was found in
front of the Journal Office Monday
morning. We shall be glad to have it
taken away as soon as possible, as we
have no use for it. We have an empty
pocketbook of our own, and another is
quite superhuous.- Gdrdiner Journal
"a sELF-MADE demagogue" is the
pleasant epithet the Boston Post applies
to New York's democratic governor.
Our excellent contemporary may wish
that it had left something unsaid in
1892, when it is supporting David Ben
nett Hill as its party candidate for pres
ident.-BoSton Journal.
THERE is a pathetic side to these
annual Grand Army convictions. Every
year fewer and fewer of the noble de-
Tenders of the Union get together and
talk over old times. And as to the
pension business, the nation can not
be too generous with them, so long as
its bounty is honestly paid to bona-fide
! veterans.-BoSt0n Globe.
DENMARK for twenty-five years past
has spent $4,000 yearly in the mainte-
nance of dairy schools. As result of
the training the butter-makers have re-
ceived at this school the butter of the
country has so much improved in quality
that within twenty years Denmark s
exports of butter have increased from
81, 100,0 900 to 13,000,O 900 per annum.
If the republican party is true to
itself and to the nation, the coming
congress will throw such safeguards
around the ballot of both white and
colored men in the South and in the
| North, that it will be a long time be-
fore the old-time Buchanan Bourbon
democracy again gains the ascendancy
in the national affairs.-NeW Haven
Palladium.
GENERAL BoULANGER is bent on
parodying his illustrious model, the
/" Little Corporal" to the bitter end.
He has aspired to the consulship, bur-
lesqued the Napoleonic proclamations
and gone into involuntary exile. Now,
on the eve of the French elections, he
threatens us with a return from Elba.
An electoral Waterloo would complete
the parallel.-Nep York Herald.
To our friends, the enemy -:
Kindly bear in mind that General Golf
does not need the office of governor OF
anything that goes with it. And please
don't forget that the republicans OF
West Virginia can do without it until
next time, when they will gather it in
by majority too big for you to wipe
out with the ready sponge of an inves.
tigating committee Wheeling IntelH
geRcer.
THE New York Erening Post pre-
tends to think that the abandoned Yer
mont farms which it is sought to re-
people with Swedish immigrants are
evidences of the blighting influence oil
our protective tariff. Perhaps the
Erening Post will explain how the state
of things would be improved in Yer
mont were foreign wool and Canadian
produce admitted free of duty -BoSto1
Journal.
THE democratic journals are doin.
the best work possible for the repub
/, lican party in their scurrilous assault
upon Commissioner Tanner. Every da,
these coarse and often brutal attack
unite still stronger the tie that bind
the soldier to the patriotic political or
ganizatioD that stood by the flag anC
the army in war. If the mud THROWN!
is kept up the Grand Army boys arr
likely to be solid for the g Grand Oh,
Party" that has something to do be
] sides railing at veterans.-BoSton Trdr
eller.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in replying to
toast to his health at a dinner in Nun
ster castle the other night, espresso
the hope that the Westphalian swor,
would in the future, as in the past, keel
its keenness. This is very natura
sentiment on the part of young mai
who likes to play soldier and wear
new uniform every day, but the hop
of the peaceable part of mankind il
3 regard to Westphalia is that the West
phalia ham in the future, as in the past
keep its sweetness and succulence. Il
the hands of men entirely great tn
meat-axe is mightier than the sword
Ne,U York Sun.
f IT is not rash to predict that befor
many years there will be more none
| invested in electricity in the Unite
States than in railroads. 1t is roughl
estimated that there are already in
vested in electrical contrivances in thi
country over 100000, 200, and tina
over $S0,000,000 have been investe
within year. We have already up
wards of eighty-ive electrical railway
l in operation, and nearly one hundre
/ are reported to be in process of con
: struction. Over 100000 arc lights an
= 100000 incandescent lamps are bla2
inc every NIGHT and there are 3 Ga