The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-26

bles Of the Ny site Shrine" and which we're
to be presented to every one who was invited
to these Christmas dnners, This Is prac-
tical Christianity that will call down un
told blessings on the donors.
CLARA v, wife OF Rev. w. b. Wort hing
OF West Berlin, died last Sunday aged
abe ut forty years Mrs. Worthing has been
i'll for long time, and has borne her suf-
ferings with patient resignation. She
leaves al infant son, and daughter of nine
years. Her funeral will be held fr )m her
late home to-day, Rev. Fl. A. Spei Ger of
ficiating, and the body will be deposited in
the tomb at Green Mount cemetery. A del
egation from Vermont Lodge of Odd Fell
lows, of which Mr.. Worthing is a member,
will attend the funeral and escort the re-
mains to the tomb.
THE following data compiled from the
weather bureau records at NOrthfeld, cover
the period given for January, and should
prove OF value and interest in anticipat-
ing the more important meteoro logi-
cal elements, and the range within hich
such variations may be expected TO keep
for the coming month Of January, 1895:
Month of January for the past seven
years Mean, or normal temperature, 16o;
warmest month was that Of 1889, it'll an
average of 80; coldest month, that of 1893,
with an average of 60; highest temperature,
61o, on the 81, 1890; lowest temperature,
-26o, on the 4th, 1898; average date on whiC
first "killing" frost occurred in autumn
September q average precipitation for tie
month, 1928 inches; average number OF days
with OF of an inch or more of precipitation
10; greatest monthly prec pi5ation was 40
inches in 1888; least, 1.7S inches in 1885;
greatest amount of precipitation reCorde l
in any twenty-four conse 3utive hours was
l 81 inches on the 25th to 26'h, 1888; aver
age number of clear days, 3; of partly
cloudy days, 10; of cloudy days, 16; prevail
ing winds, south; highest velocity of wind,
"a miles from the west, on the 18th, 1890
In criticism of the portrait of T. w.
Wood, painted by himself now on exhi BIZ
tion at the National Academy of d PSI yn New
York, OF which mention was made last week,
TO,on Topics says: ut is not an encourage
ing cir umstauce in the current record of
the fine arts, when the president of he
National Academy of Design copies por-
under the velvet cap of the painter, and that
composite work becomes one of the most
striking canvases in an autumn exhi bition
OF the acade ny. And vet there is b ardly
anything in the present show more w orthy
of noe than President T. w. Woods por-
trait of himself, that hangs right plu N b in
the center of an aggregation of some four
hundred pictures of high and low degree.
The portrait is not painted quite as REM
brandt would have done 1t. 1t is trit1e
weak by comparison with the work ot the
master. 1t is even pretty And yet it is an
admirable likeness OF handsome and dig
nfed old gentleman who has hardly ever
before come so near to doing really fine
piece of work" This spicy society jour nal
feels called upon to criticise nearly every
thing it notices That it has staff of
! bright writers, no one will deny; and yet
even this critical writer cannot help prais-
ing the latest work of Mr. Wood for W whch
all the other eminent art critics of New
York have had only words of unstinted
praise.