The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-01
inquired the sweet little girl on the
front seat.-Chicdgo Tribune.

ing the most immaculate OF white eggs,
to see the weird, fantastic and horrible
designs that appear on them at Eas-
Erpress
So Mr.. Blaine is a whistler, and he
whistles " White Wings in the White
House. We don't know but, after all,
there may be some basis for the mug
wump's dislike to the secretary of
state.-LoweU Citizen.
THE sum of 81 200 is offered for
centennial ball box in New York AS
there are, or can be, none for sale, it
isn't likely that the fool and his money
will be parted in this particular in
stance. Herald.
EVERY bicyclist should use his per-
sonal influence to secure good roads, but
his duty does not require him to get off
his wheel over the handles and smooth
the highway down with the back of his
neck.-Somerrille Journal.
GENERAL ALGER of Michigan is out
early with the announcement that he
will be candidate for the republican
nomination for president in 1892. The
general has taken time not by the fore
lock, but by the whole scalp.
Now that Prince Bismarck has apollo
gized aud declared that the Samoa in
cident was all mistake, we freely for
give him, and he may slide down our
cellar-door whenever he chooses, just
as if nothing had happened.-Chicogo
NeCS.
AMONG the death notices printed by
our esteemed contemporary, the Balti-
more Sun, we find the following tribute:
Even while asleep she groaned in pain,
Yet bore it WELL would not complain.
Well, hardly, if she was asleep.-New
York Herald.
EVANGELIST MOODY declares that
" if Gabriel himself should go to Chicago
he would lose his character before he
had been there six weeks" This is
probably an exaggerated estimate of
Gabriel's power to resist evil and cor
rupting influences Louis Globe
Democrat.
IT gives him but melancholy pleas
ure, but you can catch him at it every
hour of the day-the democratic editor
with ear at Assistant Postmaster-gen
eral Clarkson's key-hole hearkening to
the sickening chug of the axe as it
blithely goes on with the decapitation
of incompetents.-Ch Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE grave of Miles Standish has
| been discovered at South DuXbury,
Mass, but it has been decided that the
! skeleton found therein was that of
woman. When woman crowds man
out of his own grave the woman's
rights movement has gone about far
enough. We had a different opinion
| of Miles - NOrri StOlDu Herald
POsTMAsTER-GENER WANAMAK-
Frs Sunday-school class now contains
six hundred eighty-five pupils, against
two hundred Lightweight a year ago.
This is very rapid growth, but it
doesn't compare with the rate at which
the rascals are being turned out of the
post-offices under Wanamaker's charge.
His politics are even more stalwart
than his piety.-B0Ston Herald.
PRESIDENT CAPEN of Tufts College,
an active prohibitionist, says that if he
lived in Cambridge he should vote for
license, because President Eliot and
Harvard professors who want their
liquors voted no, simply to get the
saloons out of Cambridge, while they
get their liquor in Boston. If they
want liquor let them have saloons under
their own noses. "-Springfeld Re
publican.
SPEAKING of the statue of Lincoln
on Union square, New York, the
Philadelphia Telegraph unkindly says:
1.-The statue in question is not thing
of unalloyed loveliness, and is chiefly
notable as representing Abraham the
Great in the act of balancing himself
between his heels and his toes in state
of semi-inebration- we are
confident, he never did in the whole
course of his long and illustrious
career.n
a TRAIN of seven Pullman sleepers
Jumped broken rail on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, near Altoona, on Mon
day, and after running on the ties for
several hundred feet regained the track
again aud went dashing along without
any damage. The train was running
at the rate of thirty-fye miles an hour.
The engineer is confident that with a
little practice and patience he can
teach that train to jump through paper
hoops, lie down, and even eat out OF
his hand. Picks Sun.
Mr.. Common, who has just arrived
III lnlS country, HAS Huu d uONci cApS'
rience. He tried to post letter in a
fire-aarm box and innocently pulled on
the hook, for the innocent purpose, as
he explained, of calling the postman.
In about three minutes the streets were
filed with putting, smoking engines,
ladder-trucks, water-tower and an ex-
, cited crowd who wanted to know where
: the fire was. 1t takes some time for a
, foreigner to get used to our little pc
culiarities.-NetD York Herald.
; THE Epoch tells little story illus
trating how distinguished moralists fire.
, quently reciprocate favors. Snowman
Barnum entered the church of which
: Rev. Robert Collyer is pastor, anC
quietly took back seat. The preacher
saw him, and said, in loud voice: {"
see p. 7. Barnum in back pew in this
church, and l invite him to come for
ward and take seat in my family pew
Mr.. Barnum always gives me good
seat in his circus, and l want to give
him as good in my church." Mr.. Bar
mum was surprised at this public invi