The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
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Note and Comment.

Chicago News.
A LOCAL turfman has named his
span of horses Annie Rooney and Nc
Gnty, because they are chestnuts.
THE Egyptian cotton-raisers come to
this country for their cotton-seed. The
French and Italian wine-makers are
coming to this country tor their grape
vines.
COMMISSIONER ALDRICH proposes to
paint the lamp posts bright golden yell
low. The democrats will paint the
whole town another color next June
Chicago Inter Ocean.
LEWIS BRIsTER, an old man who Is
serving ten months in a Maine Jail,
worries considerably over the prospect
that when he energies into the world
again his wife will want to live with
him.
The overthrow of Tammany rule in
this city is only question of time. 1t
Is sure TO come, but many of the black.
mailed and oveI-taxed liquor dealers
pray in secret: Oh, Lord, how long?-
NeC York VINE and Spirit Gazette.
A MAN in Caro-, Mich, who has heard
the Mckinley bill discussed to such an
extent that he is thoroughly tired, al
though he does not know the real
meaning of the act, wonders why the
republicans don't chip in and pay the
consarned bill?
A PoETEss" of the Northwest has
dedicated to Senators PETER and Kyle
a poem of which the first line reads,
Arml Go forth naked for the fight"
Senators, keep your clothes on, what
ever you do. PETERS whiskers wouldn't
go around.-SprinQtfeld Republican.
The recent reopening of the mighty
mouth of Joseph Benton Foraker was
followed by the usual physical nantes
tations. "Great tornado in Ohion was
the headline of hundred newspapers
the next day. Mr.. Foraker does wrong
to breathe hard without giving sufficient
notice to his fellow citizens.-Ne,o
York Sun.
UNCLE JESSE REEVES of Pao,a,
Kan, has lived seventy-seven v, airs
without once seeing steamboat, the
inside of barber-shOp or the inside of
saloon; without dancing, tasting
medicine, using tobacco, having law
suit, running for or holding an Office {;
and, finally, without ever having voted
the democratic ticket.
THE sap boilers of Vermont get a
cool $100,000 in bounties as a first in
stallment from the government, while
the Kansas farmer who boils sap from
corn is sent to Jail as a moonshiner
Protesting against this, Jerry Simpson
exclaims: what kind of sap. head
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that he does not know juice from
juice?'-BoSton Globe.
KATE FIELD tells a new story of the
pension building at Washington, whose
architectural ugliness is still an object
of ridicule. She says that General
Meigs, who was responsible for it, once
took General Sheridan over to see it.
Well, Melgs," replied Sheridan at
last, There is only one objection so far
as can see." whats that?" Pm
told the id thing is fire-proof."
The following bill was introduced in
the New York legislature by salcas-
tic member of the senate, as an ex
preston of his opinion of the liquor
mote the saloon industry. Section l.
Every man, woman and child who shall
go dry throughout the entire week
shall be deemed guilty of inside
meanor. Section 2-This act shall take
effect upon the passage of the liquor
dealers excl bill"
THE spectacle of Hiram Atkins ad-
dressing meeting of Grand Army
men and being allowed to depart in
peal e is one to inspire mild surprise in
angelic circles. 1t was not ALWAYS
thus, if newspaper clipping at hand,
dated 1865, is to be relied upon. What
with his new style of patriotism and
the Globes recent certificate as to his
zeal In temperance work." Uncle
Hiram is coming to be quite a decent
sort. There is room at the top, Hiram.
-BellOus Falls Times.
THE republicans appear to be max
ing substantial gains in the charter
elections now being h. Id in New York
state. It's reaction obi aiming an extra
momentum from the rebellion against
Hill within the democratic ranks. Re-
turns received in Albany from all the
counties of the interior that held cleo.
tions for supervisors on Tuesday show
large republican gains. Five counties
that were democratic last year have
been "redeemed," and among them
were two wherein the crooked action
OF the democrats accomplished the
stealing of two senatorial seats, and
thus the stealing of a majority in the
senate. Senator Hill is evident y beaten
in his game to elect demo cratic boards
for use next November.-Springfeld
Republican
The cheerful news dances over the
wires that the coffin trust is up and
well and stronger than ever. There is
one sound and sensible way of weaken
ing this trust. 1t is the way recon-
mended more Than twenty-four CEN
turtles ago by the Greek gnomic poet,
Makrobios Of Sparta junction:
Keep the head cool as a cscumhsr,
Keep the feet perfectly dry,
Keep stn upper lip and shun the grip,
And you win live till you die.
Makrobios himself didu'l take advan-
tage Of the excellent advice which he
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