The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-30
Note and comment.

The usual number of saw-mil boiler
EXPLOSIONS have occurred during The
past month.
RUTLAND, Mass, is cal ed the mother
OF OLO-tne hrst setll ment OF Mari
TIA having been made from the first
named town.
IN two minutes, mail vii be sent
from the NV York to th, b ooklyn
pustC flee, as soon as the pneumatic
tube Is flushed across the Dlg bride.
A SWORD cane is rot "con,, lid
weapons according TO New York
jury, ana a ciuzen Was ail,wed 20 70
iree after having been Diet cted carry
lug one.
TWO athletic woman-p prisoners re-
centy e,caped from tue Tombz jail in
New YORK CT y, BY jumping out OF
secohd-story window aud scaiug an
iron fence.
You 10 not have to travel in order TO
get aud exhibit your Trunks covered
with foreign Label. You can buy these
IN PARIS, and, presumably, ere long il
New York.
MORE bicycle tires that are too soft
are ~ be met with on the road, thau of
those that are too hard. The air
should not be "let out of wheels
when standing.
A BLIND girl of Berkeley, California,
has determined TO become an attorney,
and Will be put into the ar Gossip
column Of this paper AS soon as she
wins her first Case.
The Italian incident in Abyssinia
WAS c.Osed by Lays pay ug Tor The
support OF prisoners taken by Menelek,
aud acknoWledg NJ the country she
had invaded rs tree and independent of
her
You are not expected to look hind
you wnIe rliing oicyl-. although
you must .Ook very sharply aueJd Of
you aDd aDuu. you. 50 decides The
New York upreme court, ia damage
suit
AMONG The undic.ionared words
! thai The tate heated campaign has de-
veloped IN the daily Il wspapers, is
blb0erygosh ,; which Was made TO
mean the gushings of an unrestrained
reporter.
A WOODEN man, eight feet high and
propelled by small gasoline engine,
threatens TO walk from New York to
san Francisco, at the rate of four miles
an hour-iiving on the country as he
progresses.
New JERSEY tramps are getting less
particular what they take. One of
them recently carried off back door,
and another honeysuckle vine.
People there are trembling for their
| rod. hot atoups
FORTY-TwO thousand elephants
were slaughtered las year in Africa
alone, for their ivory. 1t will not be
long before the giant of the pachyderms
joins his colossal forefather, the masto-
don, and remains in evidence only as
portions of him are dug up.
BUSTER, An eighteen year old dog,
who had saved lives from the freshets,
been knocked off the track by trains,
Officiated as trick dog at circuses, and
had all his legs broken in detail in
various accidents, was recently killed
at Franklin, Pa, by an everyday
blcy Gle.
The newspaper editorial commencing
"Aiter all, was considerably in evil
dence during the recent campaign. 1t
was used generally when some paper
wished to say something entirely at
variance with its record-the "all !"
meaning whatever was discovered or
remembered in the paper on the other
side.
A YORKSHIRE vicar, who quarreled
with the Squire of the parish, can OBJ
ain neither food nor lodging in the
village, the shopkeepers refuse to sell
him their wares, and he is obliged to
clean the church, light the lamps, and
ring the bells himself Such, friends,
is social and religious freedom in merrie
England.