The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-31
Sm General.
Items ef Interest.

Durlng Ulfee weeks elgnty-One cases
Of horses overcome by the heat were re-
ported to the Philadelphia Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Hans Ungman, aged sixty, prosper
Gus farmer residing in the town of Fish
Lake, committed suicide by suspending
himself from tree with barbed wire.
Tuberous begonias for winter use
must be kept in COOL dry place until
they insist on growing. When they re-
fuse to longer remain dormant pot them
and let them grow
Joe Webb, the seventeen-year-ol
giant drum major of the Citizens band,
of Memphis, when dressed in full uni
| form is said to measure feet ~ inches
to the top OF his plume.
An exhibition called the Magic
Maze of Mirrors" has sprung up in
London. AS the visitor enters the door
he sees a crowd reckoning him from a
hundred different angles-an effect pro-
duced by one stuffed image.
The greatest summer danger comes,
as has been said so many thousand
times, from uncleanliness. If people
would insist on breathing pure air and
| living in clean houses and neighbor-
hoods the average length of human life
would be increased by ten years.
Get common earthenware pitcher,
the commoner the better, as it will be
the more porous, wrap it all around,
leaving no inch of it bare, with wet
flannel Keep the flannel wet and the
water will shortly be as cold as is good
for drinking purposes, almost ice cold.
Fresh evidence of the straying pro-
pensities of the umbrella is furnished by
the recent annual sale of unclaimed
goods at London depot of the Great
Eastern Railway company. No fewer
than ,S97 umbrellas were disposed of,
all of which had been found unattended
in the company's carriages and waiting
rooms.
The Rev. Elijah King, aged eighty
nine years, an energetic Baptist preacher
of the old school, which surmounted
every obstacle, walked from Parkham
to Wellington-715 miles-the other day
to attend a quarterly meeting. If that
doesn't illustrate old time religious
vigor we should like to hear of a case
that does.
An elderly lady who lives near At
lanta, is deaf. A few weeks ago she
rode on an electric car for the first
time in her life, and when she returned
home she declared that she could hear
perfectly while on an electric car One
of the family went with her, boarded an
electric car and found that the elderly
lady could hear perfectly.
A farmer of North Mahoning town
ship, Pa, purchased some phosphate a
few months ago. 1t was not all used
and several pounds remained in barrel,
where nest was made for hen. The
hen Matched thirteen chicks in sixteen
days Another hen was set at the same
time, but it took her the usual time
three weeks--to bring out her brood.
Burns in Bohemian has a curious
sound, but no less an enterprise has been
undertaken by Professor j. d. Sladek,
the editor of the Prague newspaper
Lumir, then translation of some 15C
Of the songs and ballads of Burns into
Czech. This version is shortly to be pub
lished by the Royal Academy of Science
and Letters in Prague. In every in
stance the Bohemian translator has pre-
served the nletrical form of the original,
an extraordinary feat of skill and pa.
tience.
A glacier has been found in southern
California, and now American pride
ought to be satisfied. For many year;
tradition has told of such phenomenon
of nature, and recently an expedition
was sent out to investigate the matter
The tradition was verified, for upon the
levels of Greyback mountain, the great
est of the San Bernardino range, gla
cier one mile long and on the average o.
200 feet in depth was found. The icy
mass, according to computations made
moves downward at the rate of forty
seven feet year.