The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-15
Press Notes.
THERE'S row downstairs in the kitchen
A sound of disturbing the peace;
The butler and porter are fighting
VIII somebody call the police?
-KdSiinqton Critic,
Forum.


Now that bustles are going out of fashion,
it is to be hoped that the Indians will leave
off their war-whoops
PRESIDENT CARNoT has now been shot
at. This puts him on par with most of
the other European rulers.-BoSton Herald.
AN Indianapolis druggist has made the
discovery that it takes bigger dose of
poison to kill negro than it does to kill a
white man atlanta Constitution
ONE of the unfortunate results of this
centennial celebration is that about ten
thousand boy babies will be named after
George Washington.-NeW York Herald,
THE charge is now made that Secretary
Proctor was once a coon-hunter. This is
the first real hard blow the new admins
tration has yet received Detroit Tribune.
MINISTER to seedy individual in front
rev: " Are you Christian Seedy in
dividual I" No sir; | am the editor of the
only paper published in this town."-Er-
change.
NOT a single city in the state, but one
congressional district and not a ward in
Boston was carried by the prohibitionists.
These statistics are impressive. -BoStOH
Herdld.
Now the festive housewife twists veil or
towel around her noble brow and stands
everything in the house on its head, in
Guiding the old man, if he enters protest.
Erchdh9e.
OLD DARKEY: "Ladies an gemlen.
Washington used dis heah silver whistle to
stop de keers so he could be naugurated.
Come right along. Only five cents Blow
Jeloellers' Weekly
GENERAL GREEDY has bad case of
rheumatism. Now this country may eX-
pect some reliable weather predictions. A
man with the rheumatism is an excellent
barometer.-C Chicago Ne'Cs.
Tuu nhvcinions NJ Rrazi 1aclara tbat
there is no yellow fever in that country
not bit of it. They only have the hem
orrhagico.icteroidal typhus. What a sense
of relief that brings!-Ne,c York Herald,
A CHICAGO girl, visiting Washington with
her father, an otfice-seeker at last shook the
dust of the city from her feet, and the city
street-cleaner Immediately asked for bonus
on his contract,-St. PAU Pioneer Press.
Chow it feels TO take bath " is the big
headline on long article in a western
paper Western editors never hesitate to
sacrifice their personal feelings in order to
get piece of sensational news.--.SOmerUHte
Journal.
WERE Caesar to invade this country, his
commentaries would probably begin in this
way; -" All gall is divided into one part,
and the democratic minority of the New
York state senate has got "-Binghdmton
Republican.
BRIGHT boy: I'm chip of the old block,
amt |, pa?" Fond father " Yes, my SON"
Bright boy: An you re the head o. the fam
lily, amt you, pa?" Fond father: Yes, my
SON." Bright boy: "Then you're block
head, amt you, pa?"-Epoch.
THAT is novel experiment which the
Connecticut legislature proposes to try in
allowing a woman to take part in the de-
bate ON the female suffrage bill before that
body. 1t looks like deliberate purpose to
prolong the session all summer.-BoSton
Herald
THERE are sixty-one republicans and only
eight democrats in the present Dakota
legislature. 1t looks as If the two new
states which are to be created out of this
great territory would be about as uuani-
inously republican as Vermont.-BoStoH
Journal
THE words oman and "woman" are
suggestive of firmness, force and character.
Men and women landed at Plymouth Rock.
The world to-day is calling for men and
women. Society needs men and women.
1t is so full now of ladies " and gentle
men that it is tottering.
A WAGON passed through Kansas City re-
Gently which bore the following words on
its canvass cover: Chintz Buged in
Illinois, Sicloned in Newbraska, White
Capped in Indiana Bald-knobbed in Mis-
soury, Prohibited in Kansas Oklahomy
or Bust, "-Cieueldnd Leader.
UNCLE JERRY RUsK, the new secretary Of
agriculture, has demonstrated his fitness for
his post beyond peradventure. The work
men engaged in moving the first crop OF
grass ON the grounds of the agricultural de-
partment, the other day, didn't swing their
scythes with sufficient vigor to suit Uncle