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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
Press Notes.

APPARENTLY the Washington Critic
does not like the German carp, which
has lately been added to our fish sup
ply, or else we have missed the signih-
canoe of these remarks, recently printed
in that periodical: a" He will make no
play upon the hook. He has no game
qualities. He is lifted out like the
water-hog he is. Sometimes he is
taken home. He is cooked, and some
times little of his coarse flesh is eaten
by some member of the fisherman's
family. Sometimes the dogs refuse
what is left. Its meat is coarse and
unenticing. 1t is not the equal for the
table of any one of a score of native
varieties. "-Boston Transcript.
THERE is one man in st. Louis who
appreciates the laws delays. His name
is Dierberger, and in May, 1888, he de-
liberately shot and killed man in a
horse-car. On his first trial he was
promptly convicted of murder in the
first degree. The supreme court re-
versed the judgment. There was a
new trial and he was sentenced to
twenty-five years Imprisonment. That
sentence seemed too severe to DER
berger. He appealed, got a new trial
and was sentenced to ten years in
prison. But even this concession did
not satisfy him. Last week the case
was taken up on his renewed appeal,
and was compromised on one year in
Jail and 81 900 fine. Let others speak
slightingly of the laws delays. DER
berger will always say they saved his
life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
The PrOhibitOry Reverses.

Constitutional prohibition was de-
feated in Pennsylvania on the 18th in
slant by majority of more than one
hundred eighty-fve thousand, and in
Rhode Island, on Thursday, the pro-
hibitory law passed in 1886 was re-
pealed by some five thousand votes
more than the required three-fifths
majority. The situation in Pen nsylva-
MIA seems to have been this: A high
license law had been passed in 1887.
AT that time Philadelphia had five
thousand seven hundred seventy three
licensed saloons, and more than one
thousand were selling Intoxicating
liquors without license. At the pres
ent time the city has only one thou
sand two hundred five saloons. and
some two hundred dives that were in
full blast year ago have been sup.
pressed. In Pittsburgh and the other
large cities of the state similar reduc-
ton in the number of saloons has been
made. The keepers of the licensed
saloons are pecuniarily intere sted in
breaking up the unlicensed resorts, and
they are careful not to incur forfeiture
of their license by selling to minors or
habitual drunkards. The number of
Sunday arrests for drunkenness and for
crimes born of drink have fallen off
very largely in the past year and half.
The Philadelphia Record says one can
walk through the streets on which the
saloons were thickest and he will not
find even the semblance of such a
place. Fourteen months ago they were
open all over the city ON Sunday, while
now Sunday is practically day of pro-
hibition. In Pennsylvania it was evil
IDENTITY a determination to let well
enough alone that produced the over.
whelming majority against prohibition.
There was also a conviction that pro.
hibition had failed in other states
especially in the cities and large vii
! NV OhiJ w oNpPiSoo
traffic in any reasonable degree, bu
had also imposed no serious check upor
the free sale and use of liquors. Ii
Rhode Island prohibition had failed il
practice, and there was loud popular
demand to take it out of the constitu
ton that restrictive measures might b,
employed. In the country places pro
hibition was working fairly well, but il
Providence and the larger communities
according to all reports, the law was
dead letter and the sale of liquor wa
practically uncontrolled. The dissat
isfaction with the working of the Law
was great enough to secure its repea
by nearly three-fourths majority.
In nine states during the past TIVE
years constitutional prohibition ha
been proposed to the people and re
iected. The cumulative decisiyenes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

Richmond, and held at the work against the
enemys utmost efforts to take it the follow
ing day, losing his arm. In these and other
battles he distinguished himself by his cool
courage, clear insight and genius Of com
mand. Gallant, truthful, unselfsh, patriotic,
his fame is cherished as a priceless inherit
ance by his comrades and fellow-citizens,
who have joined the state of Vermont in
erecting this memorial. Sleep, soldier,
sleep; thy battles are all Ger" In the
evening there was a rousing campfire in
acknowledgement U. A. Woodbury..
Speeches were made by Colonel Hooker,
Colonel Veazey, General Stephen Thomas,
Lieutenant Henry Ballard and others. Mu-
sic for the various exercises was furnished
by male quartette consisting of Messrs. s.
ID. Hopkins, Benjamin Swift f. s. Pease
and q. 5: Cornell. During the forenoon the
Second, Fifth and Ninth regiments held re-
unions and elected officers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT have made
arrangements with Dr. j. b. Kendall Com
pany, publishers of A Treatise on the
Horse and His Diseases" which will enable
valuable work free by sending their address
enclosing two-cent stamp for mailing the
same) to Dr. b. j. Kendall Company, Enos-
burgh Falls, VT This book is now recog-
nized as standard authority upon all dis
eases of the horse, as its phenomenal sale
attests, over four million copies having been
sold in the past ten years, sale never be.
fore reached by any publication in the same
period of time. We feel confident that our
patrons will appreciate the work and be
glad to avail themselves of this opportunity
OF obtaining a valuable book. 1t is neces-
sary that you mention this paper in sending
for the Treatise" This offer will remain
open for only short time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

THE Ne,o York World, apropos of
Mr.. Brice's election as chairman of the
democratic national committee, asks
How can the democracy oppose and
denounce the undue influence of money
and corporate power in politics and
elections when it marches under a
leader whose generalship has been be-
slowed upon him because of his mill
ions, and whose interests are identifie ed
with corporations 2"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

ready in training for 1892 and has de-
termined to draw the line on dinner
parties in the future. In a letter de-
clining an invitation to attend dinner
given by the Massachusetts Reform
Club, he says 81 feel that, having re-
turned to private life and engaged in
professional work, my indulgence at
the present time in such public enter
tainments as you suggest should be re-
duced to the minimum of frequency"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

is marked when delivered to a voter,
and is returned to the moderator if not
deposited by the voter in the ballot
box. BY this means a secret ballot is
secured, but the ignorant or intoxicated
or bribed voter may enter the booths,
after ballot has been given him, and
all he has TO do is to place it in an en-
velope, seal it up and drop it in the
ballot-box,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

LAST week Tuesday, the day on
which the prohibitory amendment was
so overwhelmingly defeated in Penn
sylvania, was by strange coincidence
the anniversary of the battle of Water
loo. The majority against the amend
ment, one hundred eighty-five thou
sand, was nearly double the highest
estimate made previous to the election.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

A BILL has been introduced into the
New Hampshire legislature providing
for free textbooks in the public schools.
A similar bill was passed by the house
at the last session and killed in the
senate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

OUR agrarian contemporary, the NeD
York Tribune, is authority for the
statement that the finest beans in the
country are grown in Vermont, and
next to them come the beans grown in
Central New York" Well, well! We
had always supposed that Boston was
the center of bean-culture as well as
the hub of the stellar system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

THE NeW York Sun and Boston
Journal have transcribed the realm of
the political and are engaged in dis
cussion of the question, " What's Pan
theist?" This is not well. The Sun
should let up at once and devote its en-
tire energies to jumping on the politi-
cal corpse of Grover Cleveland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

THEY have great navy down in
Hayti Mason Cooper, Yankee ad-
miral in General Hyppolite's navy, has
resigned because his flagship, the
Carondelet," nearly sank from the
effects of firing a salute.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
senate.

STANLEY's London agent is already
arranging lecture tour for him in
October, regarding his return before
autumn as certainty. This is what
might be called enumerating the fowl
previous to incubation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

THE theory that every man has his
price has evidently been engrafted into
the political creed of a certain in
defatigable office-seeker. This worthy
recently offered the civil service COM
mission S25 to assist him in securing
an appointment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

PosTMAsTER-GENERA WANAMAKER
explored the New York post-oflice, re-
Gently, and pronounced it "the dirtiest
building l ever saw"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
Bric-A-Brac.

She dresses now in linen, or pique,
Or muslin light, or lawn
With ribbons bright, the charming sprite,
She's fairer than the dawn.
| sometimes meet her in the rural lane,
Where lilacs scent the breeze
Her lovely face, her sprightly grace
And other witcheries
Entrance, bewitch me, nay, set all
My senses in a whirl,
AS she goes by, with manner shy
The beauteous summer girl.
-BOston Courier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
Gaattbman & Journal.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1889.

THE Michigan Legislature has passed
local option bill. The governor is ex-
pected to sign it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
The Overhead Check.

The Listener of the Boston
Transcript is practical man as well
as au entertaini z writer. He hears
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
The Recession of Niagara Falls.

In an address in Washington before the United States Geological Survey, Professor Gilbert gave the following in- teresting information regarding the re- cession of the ground under Niagara Falls: The estimate is that for the past forty four years the falls have receded at the rate of PA feet in year. The Horseshoe Falls are at the head of the gorge and the American Falls at the eastern side, but the time was when both were together, before the little point called Goat Island was reached. The re- cession is more rapid at the centre than on the sides. As the crest of the Horse shoe Falls retreats the water tends to concentrate there, and the time will probably come when the sides of the present falls will have become dry shores. The gorge is known to be 35, 500 feet long. A calculation has shown that, on this basis, the falls began to wear away the rock of the escarpment near Lewiston about ?, 900 year~ ago,
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Tin Coffee Pots Healthful.

'sTin coffee pots are as healthful to use as silver, and they will last just as long," said work man in tin recently to reporter for tho New York MaiI aud Express.
 s'How are these tin pots made2" asked the reporter.
 .'They put the tin on Russia iron. The way it is done is to take sheet of Russia iron and dip it into red hot tin. Upon this molten tin is lot of tallow, which cleans the tin and gives it lustre. If it were not for this tallow the tin would be all full of little punches. Very often we find tho tin sheets very greasy when we get them. This comes from the tallow. Russia iron is the same mater ial as is used for the body of a stove. This is usually triple-coated, sometimes more. The best tin is i'm ported. For some reason or other it cannot be made in this country. The Yankee tin made here is what we call cooked tin, and cheap articles are usu- ally made with it, such as five goods. Tin tea or coffee pots must be we'll dried after using, and kept very clean, and they will then be good for a number of years.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Oueen Victoria is Getting Cav.

For the first time in 30 years Queen Victoria has appeared in public without the everlasting black bonnet which has been her headgear ever since the Prince Consort departed this life. During a recent visit to the Prince of Wales at Sandringham her Majesty so far forgot her somewhat time-worn bereavement as to appear in public with hat adorned with feathers and bright colored rib bons. This momentous fact has been dispatched post haste to all parts of her Majesty's dominions, and now expecta- tion is on the qui vive as to what other form of dissipation will make itself ap- parent. It is hoped that the Queen is at last to emerge from her conventional retirement of thirty odd years, since even the greatest stickler must concede that full honor has been done to the memory of the dead Prince.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
The Most Famous of Evangelists.


 Almost every noon the crowd of young and old men who hurry into Kinsley's for a rapid lunch is joined by short, stout man with stubbly beard, short little nose and small twinkling eyes. He invariably wears soft felt hat pushed we'll for ward over his eyes, and he has the general appearance of a shrewd and prosperous salesman in some wholesale jobbing house. He used to be this, and was in the boot and shoo line until he became converted. Now he is known far and wide as Dwight l.. Moody, the Evangelist. No ono who did not know the man would suspect him of being an evangelist on seeing him about town. It is on the rostrum where his force, fire and magnetism crop out. But he always appears dread fully in earnest, whether ordering q plate of corned- beef or appealing to sinners for repentance. His earnestncss is his success. The other day he stood in the hallway and chatted earnestly for some time with well-known business man. A day or two later it was an nounced that Moody had purchased the site for school, and the well-known business mans name was mentioned among those who contributed the ncccs- sary funds. Moody did it with his little earnestness. Chicago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Educational Shower Baths.

A member of the board of education of Milwaukee, Wis, is trying to intro- duce shower baths into the curriculum of the public schools of that city. He has high respect for clear lake water as an educational factor. He thinks that pupil should be supplied with 8 clean cuticlc before any attempt is made to rub up his intellect. While he would not make the shower baths compulsory he would try to make them popular with the ambitious youth of Milwaukee. He believes that they would do much to transform that city of well-scrubbed school children into fowery field of intellectual promise.
 This able apostle of cleanliness draws his conclusions mainly from the success of an experiment made in washing the pupils of the schools in the German city of Goettingen. There the educational shower bath has proved great success, banishing grime and replacing indolence in many small and untidy bodies with a generous supply of vim. Consequently he is desirous of inoculating the systems of small Milwaukecans with the potent shower bath.
 If the Chicago board of education does not take kindly to this Goettingen- Milwaukee idea it will be about tho first matter of the sort which that board has not snapped up hungrily. Music and gymnastics and clay modelling and German and what not are already on the list. Why not add shower baths. = Chica00 Neus,
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Economy of "Old Hutch."

It is said that the day cold Hutch" of Chicago made $1, 900, 900 on wheat he entered Chicago barber shop and asked for a shave. This was few hours before he made the $1, 900, 900. Before the barber administered the father, "Hutch" asked what the tax was to be. The barber replied that the price was 15 cents. ''Hutch' said 15 cents was too much, but that he would give 10. The barber refused to bo knocked down, so clutch" went across the street and got shaved for dime. Thus encouraged, he went abroad in the marketplace and shaved wheat until he made s1, 900, 900. He is the king of financial razors. .-Boston Globe.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Tho Soap Tree.

During the past year, for the first time in any western country, . begin. ming has been made in England in tho cultivation of the Chinese ''soap-tree. This tree is very useful to tho Chinese; the soft substance inside tho pod, O. cording to the naturalists, is used for washing tho face by Chinese women. They do not tell us what the Chinese men make use of for this purpose; per- haps they use nothing at all.
 The seeds of the treo arc strung to- gethcr and made into sort of "chain- armor undershirt" for wearing next tho skin in summer by the coolics. To a sample of pods at the Kew Museum near London the following recipe for making the soap is affixed:
 "Thcy are beaten with mallct and used as soap. Sold at about 16 to 20 . penny"
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
How n Frog Utilizes Q Turtle.

At Heublein's restaurant on Mulberry street large green turtle and frog arc inmates of the fountain tank. A frog cannot always remain under water, and there is no chance for the fellow in qucs- tion to reach landing place on tho side of the tank. But he has discovered that the top of tho turtles back is out of water except when tho turtle dives. So he mounts the back and rides around the tank with an air of owning the whole business. When the turtle goes under he swims around until the back comes to the surface again, when he again mounts and continues his trip.-Hast- ford C0,tront.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
Japanese Kitchens.

The Japan csc kitchen IS an exceed ingly primitive affair. The cooking stove or range is simply furnace made of plaster, with three separate compart- ments, in which fires are made with sticks of wood. Over each compart- ment is place for setting a kettle or pot. This stove has no draught or chimney. The smoke comes out of the opening in front and fills the kitchen. When the cook wants the fire to burn faster she blows on it through hollow reed or bamboo, or else fans it with little fan made for the purpose. At one end of the range is the pot in which rice is boiled. It has wooden top, with heavy blocks of wood for handles. On top of this pot is fiat wooden ladle used in dishing the rice. The rice is boiled so that it's grains keep their shape. It is never made into mush. In the vessel placed in the center of the stove stews are made, and at the end next to this, or at the left hand of the stove, is a kettle for hot water, with the wooden dipper used in serving it out. On the wall and shelves near by are the knives used in chopping meats, graters for grinding up radishes and other vegetables, sieves, and different culinary utensils A basin with long wooden stick is used in preparing the misc, or bean soup. The misc is mixed with hot water in the basin and stirred with the stick. This forms the soup stock. The Japanese water bucket has handle made by inserting cross piece between two of the slaves which are prolonged above the others. A wooden dipper with long handle is used in taking the water from the bucket.
 The Japanese housekeeper does not use market basket, but instead has a box about 10 inches square, with bale or handle and lid. In the exhibition case near the stove stands a ''safe," in which food is placed for safe keeping from flies or other insects. It is dimin- utive affair with shelf inside and sides and door covered with fine netting.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
The Deathless Song.

A singer sang his little song
 From all the world apart; He cared not for listening throng, But sang because his heart Was full of music as birds
 And oftentimes ran OCT His lips in sweet and simple words That none had heard before. A weary traveller passed that way, And heard the cheery strain. It followed him through all the day, And fingered in his bi ain. And sometimcs on his way he sang The song that cheered Linn so, Till far and wide the echoes rang Across the wales below. And others, listening to the song, Caught up its glad refrain, And scattered, as they went along, The blitheness of its strain. And many learned the song of cheer, And sang it for their own, Till all the world grew glad to hear The song before unknown. An, little dreamed the man who sang This little song that day, That he was singing to the world What proves deathless lay. His grave is green upon the hill; He lived and died unknown But all Che world is singing still The song the ages own. -Eben E. Rerford i,, Youths Companion,
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12
HUMOROUS.

Hair may be plaited and yet be golden.
 A cat with its fur ruffled doesn't feol fur-straight.
 Song of the drygoods clerk: "swing ing in delaine."
 Fall fashions can never be popular with an aeronaut.
 The hotel clerks training consists largely of inn tuition.
 Harry-I always pay as I go. Larry Yes, but you don't go.
 The men who make the most on tips are the feather manufacturers.
 There is one article the hardware dealer always has 'on hand"-Nails.
 Why is it anger fills our hearts,
 Why are we like to 'bust"
 With rages Because the watering carts
 Don't lay the dust.
 Carl--So the duel did not come off Fritz-No; the principals both apolo- gized to each other, and thrashed their seconds.
 The soprano gently laid her head on the basso's shoulder and went to sleep and was immediately put out for nap ping on second bass.
 Bradley. .Hullo, Biggars! Hard at work, see. Say, Biggars, 1 heard a good joke on you awhile ago. It was about you and" Biggars-"S-shi My wife is in the back office"
 "Well, that's funny" remarked young Munkee. ''What was funnys" "Why, that remark of Miss Johnson's. Iasked if I might see her home, and she said: Certainly, on clear day, and then she walked off with that jay, Blod- kins.
 Spectator to defendant)-"Well, guess tho jury will find for you. The iudge's charge was certainly vcry much in your favor. Don't you think soi' Defendant (moodilO = "Oh, l knew all along that the judges charge would be all right. It's the lawyers charge that's worryin' mo-"
 At village school, not many milcs from Canterbury, precocious boy being asked to parse the sentence, 'Mary, milk the cow," wont on accurately till he came to the last word, whom he said "Cow is a pronoun, feminine gender. third person singular, and stands for Mary" "Stands for Mary2" asks tho master in astonishment. "Yes, sir" responded the urchin with grin, "for could Mary milk the cow1"
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-12

The Chinese are queer people in many ways. The North Cafna Neaes says that an English gentleman was recently rid ing on horseback near Pekin, when he saw an excited crowd. Drawing near he discovered circle of people quietly watching man desperately attempting to commit suicide by dashing his head against a wall. He dismounted, re- strained the man, harangued the by islanders, and learned that this was a coolie, who claimed that his payment for a certain porter's job was short by ten cash-less than Q penny-and as the employer refused to pay more he was proceeding to take revenge by killing himself on the spot, knowing that by SC doing he would get the other into con- Giderable trouble.