The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

Melbourne is just emerging from the
overwhelming effects of land boom.
All trades are stagnant and the unem-
ployed are clamoring for work.
Major Renard is constantly improv-
ing his dirigible balloon, and he has
now announced that he has invented
motor of seventy horse power weighing
only 430 Kilograms.
The historic battlefield of Gettysburg
is to be made accessible by an electric
road. The line takes in all the important
points in the second and third days
fights and when completed will be
about eight miles long.
The coffee crop of Brazil has been so
large that the railroads of one of the
provinces have for weeks been blocked,
every available car being in service,
freight depots being crowded and fur
Their receipts of coffee being declined.
A lady stood hanging on the strap OF
street car, when workman in the far
corner arose and politely offered her
seat. 81 thank YOU" she said in very
sweet tone, "but dislike to deprive the
only gentleman in the car of seat"
A manufacturer in New York city has
recently made brass andirons on the
pattern of Washington's andirons now
at Mount Vernon. They approach what
is called the colonial style, being tall
and slender, with claw and ball feet and
small balls at the top.
The city council of Salem, o., has
passed an ordinance prohibiting girls
from being on the streets after 8 o'clock
at night. A number of the young men
of the place are already preparing to leave
and locate where the rights of the fair
sex are not infringed upon by the city
authorities.
The oldest banknote now in existence
is in the British museum, and was is
sued from the imperial mint of China at
the beginning of the reign of the first
Ming emperor. The first bank in Eu-
rope was at Barcelona, established in
1901. The Chinese banknote is supposed
to date back to 100.
Engineers of railroad trains in Texas
and most of the western states carry re-
volvers and often rifles in the cab for
contingencies that might arise. They
alnuse themselves by shooting at the
telegraph poles or any other mark while
running at full speed, and attain Won
derful skill in craftsmanship.
A fine electric launch has Just been
built for the Earl of Dysart, which meas
ures 80 feet in length and 8 feet 6 inches
in beam. With her full equipment on
board she will draw 2 feet inches of
water, and her speed will be 81 to
miles an hour for seven hours. She is
built of mahogany and teak, with omni-
bus seating on the roof of her capacious
saloon
Mountain lions are the greatest cow
ards in the mountains, although people
who are not familiar with them believe
that they stretch out on limbs of trees
and pounce upon unsuspecting travel
ers. | will guarantee to take an ordl-
nary hickory club and chase any lion
in the mountains, although | have one
hide at homo measuring nine feet from
tip to tip.
The approach of spring in Maine Is
thus heralded by Kennebec newspaper;
"Caterpillars were discovered last week
by Brother-in-Law McFadden; robins,
in fiocks, by Jack Fardy, and singly by
Charles Fogg; crows by Brother Car
penter; spirits frumenti by James Pat
rick: finch trout by the editor; pussy
willows by the schoolgirls, and new
spruce gum by the schoolmarms."