The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

PLENTY of sleep is conducive, to beauty.
Even garment looks worn when it loses
its nap.-Binghdmt Republican.
In the natural course Of events the green
apple and green melon and the small boy
will soon come into PittSburg
Commercial.
A "FREAK" in Philadelphia offers to
wager 81 600 that he can eat fifty eggs, in
Guiding shells. in fifty seconds. Wen
wager $1,000 he can't, IL he will permit us to
select the eggs-Norristopn Herald.
A GUSHING young lady says there is
something heavenly" about the way Chi
nese laundry does up white skirt. There
is certainly something Celestial, as well as
queue-rious, about it.-NorrtSto1Cn Herald
ONE of the graduating class at vassar
pitched into the newspapers in her parting
essay. Since the new kind of bustles came
in the press appears to have lost some of its
early popularity with the sex Boston
Herald.
The NeW York World is receiving good
deal of information from correspondents as
to who are the Oldest twins in this country.
The oldest twins we know of are Wicked
ness and Want, and they will probably sur
vive till doomsday Herald.
60 IT is probable that Governor Hill would
have vetoed the Ten Commandments If his
name had been Moses. '-Cleueland Leader.
Probable, though we have always thought
III IOTUundUe IOr UDe commandments J0dU a
New York republican legislature never had
chance to amend them.-NeU York
Herald.
"WHAT induced you to go to Oklahoma"
asked Officer Button at the Third street de-
pot OF a man on crutches and his head
bound up. " To start graveyard" was the
blunt reply. "Well, why didn't you?'
-" Because a fellow had come up from Ar
kansas to start a hospital, and he got in on
me first. "-Detrou Free Press.
THE newspaper men who went from this
city to report the Johnstown catastrophe
started in such hurry they had but three
changes of clothes-the one they had on
the one they didn't take off and the one
they went without. On their return several
of them ran narrow escapes of being ar
rested as tramps.-Ne1C York Herald
Now, Johnnie, can you tell me what
faith is? You remember l explained 1t to
you last Sunday" Faith is belief in
things unseen" Fright; now give me an
dep bors Oh bat he sa sy
church-yard, but der windows is so high
can't get a squirt at dem. '-NebrdSkd State
Journal.
A WESTERN mother, on being asked by
teacher to furnish grammar for her daugh-
ter to study, sent a note which read: /" l do
not desire that Matte shall ingage in gram
mar, as | prefer her to ingage in more USE
full studies and can learn her to write and
speak proper myself. / have went through
two grammars and can't say as they did me
no good-I prefer Matte to ingage in Ger
man and drawing and vokal music on the
piano. "-Erchdnge.
IT is set down as a notable fact that Mr.
Blaine is the first and only head of the
state department to wear full beard all
his predecessors having worn clean -shaven
faces, excepting Mr.. Fish and Mr. Van
Buren,, who wore side whiskers, but no
beard. Secretary Blaine's beard and Chief
justice Fuller's mustache seem to show that
neither of these distinguished gentlemen is
slave to presidents, but that they rather
prefer to consult their own tastes.-Boston
Herald.
REV. A. V. SIMS, clergyman of Brooke
county, Ca, reports that while fishing re-
Gently he had curious catch. "First on
the hook was an eel, and hanging to the
eel was something like huge turtle, weigh
ing about three hundred pounds and having
a white head like a chiid's." He ran for
help, but when he returned his curiosity
had escaped. Unless the reverend gentle
man can prove that the flask in which he
carried his bait had been tempered with he
will be deposed from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tom Herald.
THE college commencement season is near
at hand, and we may expect the usual dis
QUESTIONS on the materialism of the age
We shall find the good old world accused of
many shortcomings. 1t Will be fired at us
in English Latin and Greek, trimmed with
ample quotations and decorated with power
full adjectves Rome and Athens will
flourish, and we shall become very small
potatoes indeed. But when the orators
leave their eloquence and circulate with
the world, so to speak, they will find a pros
perity, a liberality and a civilization that
affords more wonders in week than Rome
and Greece knew in a year. And while
their knowledge of Latin and Greek will be
valuable, they will soon discover that this
great age demands wider culture and a
more practical education than comes from
the beauties of dead tongues. Manual
training schools, schools Of eng neering
practical education in all its many phases
has come to benefit and to multiply. The
education of the present day is not so much
to make the student learned as it is to
make him useful; not so much to store the
mind with dead languages as it is to fill it
with live probems.-Bdltimore american.