The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-15

Assembly to attend convention Of dele
gates from the towns in New York, which
desired union with Vermont and make
the necessary arrangement for effecting IT,
This convention met at Cambridge and on
the 10Th of May the articles OF union were
agreed to by the committee from Vermont
and the delegates from twelve districts in
New York, and on the 16. Of June follow
ing they were confirmed by the Legislature
Of Vermont and the representatives from
those districts were admitted to seats in the
General Assembly.
The sinking OF the land, or raising OF the
water 80 feet would make Burlington a sea.
port, and iity feet depression OF the land
would submerge considerable part OF
the United States around lakes aud rivers.
At Montreal standard low water is % LOO
feet above the ocean, and hundreds Of miles
before it reaches the ocean it is q dead
level The State house at Montpelier is go
feet lower than lake Superior at Duluth.
The State house is higher than lake Cham
plain by 400 feet. The capitol is 173 feet
higher than the Vermont university.
The mean temperature of Burlington Is
a. warmer than Williamstown.
The Montpelier bank was incorporated
October 49, 1926
The crops are made in Vermont in about
| sixty days and a fall in the average emper-
ature of eight TO ten degrees would prevent
the ripening of all crops. A crop Of wheat
ripens somewhere on earth, every month in
\ the year. A failure of all crops six months
would produce death OF all animals. The
majority of all mankind are not thirty days
ahead of actual want Add to the great
state OF New York about two and one-half
| times the area of Massachusetts, and You
| will bring New York up to the average of
the area of the United ates and territories.
! AT jamestown, Va, 1920, ninety girl5 were
sent over from England, and sixty more the
subsequent year, and Immediately sold to
! the young planters as wives The price was
af HrUf hnn r4I md Off urHu nVn
hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, then
selling at three shillings the pound, and il
was ordained that debts contracted for
wives should be paid in preference to all
others. Grass when growing at night
stands perfectly erect, in the daytime it
I bends over. Saw mills run much stronger
by night than by day.
The cattle and sheep sacrificed by King
Solomon at the dedication Of the temple,
as related in the book of Kings would make
a solid train of cars 16 miles long.
Montpelier was chartered three different
times, and divided four different times. A
block of granite So feet square split up into
bases, not hammered or dressed in any
way, but delivered at Barre or Montpelier,
would come to more money than the land
of any two towns six miles square reckoned
at S12 per acre, the granite at 81 per foot
The natural life oSman is too short to &C.
cumulate large fortune unless he bring to
| his aid the unrequited labor of other men,
The ancient canal from the river Nile to
| the Red sea, left the Nile little above the
City Bubastis, passed the Arabian City
Patumos and reached to the Red sea. Its
length was voy 4ge of four days, its width,
so that two triremes might sail rowed
abreast therefore the Suez is not the first
canal to connect the Red with the Medit-
reranean Sea. In 1910 there were 1880
pounds OF cocoons raised and sold in Yer
mont. Upon this ioodful earth there has
been no record of war, 80 long duration, 80
cruel, unrelenting and bloody, as that be-
tween the Indians around the valley OF
Champlain and those further west the AL
gonkins and Hurons. 1t did not close until
they all vanished from the face OF the earth.
The Isthmu. of Panama extends east and
west about 800 miles, north and south 462
and part of the way dips to the south OF
west about two degrees or about 132 miles
due SOUTH In guns the Savage rifle is the
! last and highest penetration-a rock maple
tree twenty inches in diameter and sound
range with elevation four miles.
CARLOS x. SMITH.