The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22

class of 1871, for fifteen years was a profess
sor in the same institution, and forty-three
years of age at his death. He was the de-
signer OF the famous America cup defenders
of '85, 49, and 'S7, the " Puritan" "May-
flower and " Volunteer"
IT Is said that the late Hannibal Hamlin
observed to General Sherman at last years
reunion of the Army of the Potomac:
General, you and / will not attend any
more of these reunions"
IT is noted as singular fact, since the death
OF Hannibal Hamlin, that the present occu-
pant of the vice-presidenoy is the only man
living who ever held that office. OF seven
vice-presidents in the last twenty eight
years, only Mr.. Morton is alive.
The expenditures for pensions for the
fiscal year ending June 30 1891, as now
officially stated, amounted to $124, 424,-
1907. In the fiscal year ending June 30,
1890, we paid $109, 1857 ,534, while in the year
before that we paid $S7 ,644, 1911. In the
past ten years our pension payments have
amounted to S776, 2S2, 100.07.
THE money in the United States treasury
has recently been counted. The total
amount was S614, oil 1922, of which S175,-
$50 900 was gold and silver coin, the rest be.
ing paper money. The money was found
correct to a cent. The count has been in
progress two months, and most of that time
sixty people have been employed in the
work.
In accordance with action taken at the
| fifteenth annual meeting of the Illinois
association Of the Sons of Vermont in
| Chicago, June 2, the executive committee
has made arrangements for delegation to
attend the dedication of the Bennington
battle monument, August 10, coming from
| Chicago in special cars via Niagara Falls,
| the st. Lawrence, Thousand Islands and
Montreal, stopping at the several points of
| interest. The committee well says that
| xrfuif foo off a
Green Mountain hills of their childhood,
and this occasion is the opportunity of a
lifetime, and the event of a century"
THE bravery of New Hampshire rail-
| road engineer deserves prominent mention.
More than once has some brave engineer or
fireman ventured on the forward part of his
locomotive to rescue child playing on the
track, who had not needed the warning bell
or whistle. But in this instance the engi-
neer, Charles j. Hutchins, himself fell while
| attempting to rescue the child and was
pushed from the track by the locomotive
He succeeded in catching hold of one of the
cars, and found that the child, over whom
the engine had passed without injury, was
in danger from the moving wheels of the
following cars. With a presence of mind
and daring such as is seldom recorded, he
reached under the car and succeeded in
catching the child and holding it away from
the wheels until the train stopped The
only slight bruises. His act of heroism add:
a new honor to the body of brave men tc
which he belongs.
Foreign.
THE London Standard says the Chicago
fair will be the biggest show on record.
Mr. PARNELL has paid the costs in the
O'Shea divorce case. They amounted tC
$1,000.
THE Bible has now been translated into
sixty-six of the languages and dialects o
Africa.
THE provincial Legislature of Prince
Edward Island has adopted resolution!
favoring unrestricted reciprocity between
Canada and the United States.
THE Society of Authors, in London, cele
brated the adoption of the American COPY
right act last Thursday evening, with
dinner at the Hotel Metropole Lore
Numbswell was POSTMASTER.
The Japanese language is said to con
tain 10000 words, every one of which
requires different symbol. 1t is impossi
BILE for one man to learn the whole, and {
well-educated Japanese is familiar will
only about 10000 words.
GEORGE KEENAN, is to be the editor o
Free Russia, paper published in the inter
est of constitutional government il
Russia No other selection of an edito
could be made which would please tn
friends of humanity more and the Gar o
Russia less.
LARGE numbers Of Russian Jews are ar
irving in Montreal. They are utterly desti
tute, having been stripped of all thei
possessions in Russia. The women AM
children are very weak and sckly OWN,
to the sufferings and prosecutions the,
have undergone.
A MAN who had just been released from
an insane asylum attempted to take the
life of President Carnot of France, July 13
The president was at public exercise il
Paris, when the lunatic broke through tn
crowd, made his way to the president
carriage, and fred pistol. The attempte,
murder, however, miscarried.