The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10
Press Notes.

A KENTUCKY farmer killed a calf
and sent the brains to the editor of the
local paper. This is insinuating Dos
ton Herald.
A MATHEMATICIAN has figured that
a man fifty years old has spent three
years in buttoning his COLLABORATION
(Penn) Argus.
WARD MCALLISTER, with his fash
ionable four hundred, makes us very,
very tired. Somebody ought to cut his
pautaloon-straps and see him 90 up
NeU Horen Register.
TODAY was our birthday, and we
celebrated the occasion by setting two
columns of type, cutting half a cord of
wood, rocking the baby two hours and
cleaning our shotgun. -Elgm (TerdS)
Times.
A WESTERN lecturer has at last dis
covered a way of being warmly
received" He keeps the hall so cold
that the people in the audience are
obliged to stamp their feet to keep them
from freezing. - Yonkers Statesman,
IT is an Australian advertising genius
who suggests that the government farm
out the backs of pOstage-stamps for adj
vertisements, which would be printed
under the gum, so that the user of the
stamp, in wetting it, would see the
ad. "-NeW York Tribune.
A REPORTER on one of the Boston
dailies sent in a paragraph about the
Australian ballot" The desk editor,
in the plenitude of his superior knowl-
edge, changed it to read " Australian
ballet" and it appeared under the APP
propriate heading of musical and dra-
matte news.-BOSton Transcript.
"MR. HARRISON should have sent
Patrick Egan as minister to England
instead of to Chill" said Major Carson
last night. cts just the same thing"
replied Colonel Mussey. 81 don't see
ingly. Because" said the colonel,
amid a sad, sweet smile, " England
would have been chilly when Patrick
got there. Washington Critic.
THE Medical Gazette says that a
prominent physician recently received
the following letter from brother
practitioner: "Dear Dock-I have a
pashunt who's physical sines shows that
the wind-pipe has liberated off and his
lungs have drop down into his stumick
| have given hym every thin without
efeckt her father is welthy honable
and inhuensha as he is member of as
sembly and god nose | don't want to
loos hym what shall | do ans by return
male. Yours frat, -"
SOME of the papers have been making
a great cutlery against the green post
age-stamp, but the color of the United
Statest stamps is less Objectionable than
their form. They are all unnecessarily
large. The small square stamps of
England and France are prettier and
more convenient. If Mr.. Wanamaker
would give us something on this model
he would gain the appreciation es-
pecially of womanknd. The fashion
able handwriting of the period leaves
no space on the envelope for Wash
ingtOn's portrait at full length
delphid Bulletin.
SOME ONE once remarked that nc
great man is ever great to his valet
For the same reason, | suppose, the
door-keepers and pages and other en-
ployes of the senate haven't so high An
appreciation of the senators as the sen
ators have of themselves. There is one
man, however, who commands all the
visible signs of respect. Whenever a
senator comes to any of the doors lead
ing into the senate chamber he has tC
do like any other ordinary mortal who
wants to enter rOom-that is, Oper
the door for himself. The exception
to this rule is Senator Edmunds. Nc
matter at what door he enters, as soor
as door-keeper spies the tall form, thu
gray beard and the black skull-cap of thu
Vermont man heading his way, up h'
gets, like sentry on duty, and hold
the door open until the senator ha
passed through. Mr.. Edmunds inva
riably acknowledges this courtesy by {
slight inclination of his head, and it i
really worth noting, as showing HOY
much Mr.. Edmunds outranks his col
leagues, that to no one else is this at
tention shown.-Philadelphia Press
Washington Letter.