The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Clippings.
Berlin has no bootblacks.
Puck.

Berlin has no bootblacks.
A paper telegraph wire is announced.
There is white sparrow in Lafay-
cite, Ind.
Glasgow, Scotland, has eighty-two |
health inspectors, Liverpool has sixty |
four.
Why don't you say grace, Dolly? Cos
it's only hash, an I've said grace twice |
on it already.
The Hicksite branch of the Society |
OF Friends now permits union meetings
of men and women.
Tommy-Pa, why do they call mans |
wife his better half2 Pa-Because she
has all the best of it.
shakespeare house was visited last
year by 100000 visitors, who paid adj
mission for that privilege.
She-I don't look at all like myself
to-day. He-It would be a good time
to have your picture taken.
Teacher-We call thing trans
parent when we can see through it.
Who can mar such thing? Peter-A
ladder.
Railways in Holland are 80 carefully
managed that the accidental deaths
on them average only one year for the
entire country.
This is the end he angriy exclaimed.
Give me back my engagement bicycle
Hal Hal she laughed, mockingly; and
and that was ali.
According to Lord Tweedmouth, the
area of the herring nets used in Scot
land one year was no less than 1854, 000,-
900 square yards.
Hell saw your husband out bicycle
riding with Mrs. DeSwift. She-And
I'll bet she's on my wheel. If she
breaks it I'll pull her hair out.
First Lawyer--You are a shysterl
His Opponent-Yo are blackguardl
The Court-Now gentlemen, let us get
at the disputed points in the case.
Governess-Now, Tommie, if you had
eight sponge cakes and gave baby seven
and then took away six, what would he
have then? Tommie-A fit, pretty
nearly
Caller-Nellie, is your mother in?
Nellie-Mother is out shopping. Caller
When will she return, Nellie? Nellie
calling back)-Mamma, what shall l
say now?
What do you consider the most abso-
lutely certain way to distinguish toad
stools from mushroom? Cook them,
get some other man to eat them and
then watch his symptoms.
A recent count shows that Madrid
Spain, has 6,93S buildings, with 1885,
$50 apartments. The number of in
habitants exceeds half million-407, =
1859 Spanish and 8 $50 foreigners.
My daughter is very spiritual; she
kept up her church work through all
the hot weather. What kind of church
work? She went to the seashore and
came home engaged to clergyman.
The earliest discovery of iron in this
country was in western North Carolina
and the first manufacture of it was
made in Virginia in 1919. The foun.
dry was destroyed by the Indians in
1922.
In 1888 there were only twenty-nine
head of sheep in New South Wales,
but now the stock has reached 0,000,.
600. Australia, New Zealand and Tas-
mania together possess about 100, 000,-
600 sheep.
What immense ears the new neigh
boris boy has. Yes, mamma. He told
me what made 'em so big. What was
it? He said his mamma washed 'em
so much that they soaked full o. water
an swelled.
Snodgrass-I went TO consult the d.
vine healer about my rheumatism.
Sniverly-With what result? Snodgrass
i did not see him. The attendant
told me that the divine healer had been
sick in bed for several days.
Austria with Hungary, had 5,737
miles of railroad at the end of 1896.
The gross revenue was S52 900 600,
the working expenses $35 600, 900, and
the net revenue $17 100000 on an in.
vested capital of 1870, 100000.
Cholly Van Mushly-I say, me good
fellow, what would be the penalty if l
should shoot deer out of season?
Game Warden-There wouldn't be no
penalty in your case, sir-everybody
would know it was an accident.
The thickest known coal seam in the
world is the Wyoming, near Twin
Greek, in the Green river coal basin,
Wyoming. 1t is eighty feet thick, and
upwards of three hundred feet of solid
coal underlie four thousand acres.
Whereas no fewer than 107 persons
died of hydrophobia in Prussia in the
years from 1877 to 1894, there was not
single death from that cause in 1895,
although 1868 cases of mad dogs were
reported and 906 suspected animals.
Heretofore perfumery has been de-
tached from flowers by soaking them
in lard. A Partisan named Passy has
now found a way of gathering the fra
GRANGE by simply soaking the flowers
in water, a process which can be re-
peated several times without destroy
ing the flowers.
There is one thing must object to
about that lady, said the rather timid
young man. The one who insists on
bein new woman?' Yes. She Is
innAnototant Wa wara Hionnoo;pr, Tho