The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-09-18

'Iug Cusr or CArAClrY,--A wealthy COM
mon couucilman6 lady, I've do not think il
could have been in this city, paving her
daughter q visit a. school, and inquiring
what progress she had made in her education
che go,crncss answered, "Pretty good, mad
am Miss ls very attentive IL she wants any
thing it is capacity but for that deficiency,
you know, We must not blame her NO,
madam replied the mother, "but | blame
you for not having mentioned It before, Her
father thank Heaven, can afford his daugh-
tor . capacity, and beg she may have one
Immediately h-coNt Whptit may J. Post.
10 A Washington correspondent Of the
Hartford Times, says that the President
sometimes sheds tears over the disscnsiuns
or the democracy. lie seems to he c,yiHg
trR--JoWHdt.
to- We are sorry to say tive do not
wish to say iJ-but must os faithful cmoui-
clcrs, say it-uQmcly; Nictoria's daughter,
MrM Princess OF Prussin-quurrCis with her
ltsjaitd 90, NJ, Itiu,, sc IIuNsiU guam els
with Mrs. priuccss-thnt is, they do not
think exactly alike, and Mrs Victoria rs with
the "happy pair trying TO tie the true low
crs knot" a little tighter, The story that
the Young wiuccss actually elected the prince
from the puptial couch los placing hcI royal
little feet against his royal highncss ribs, ard
then suddenly extending her royal curved or
gans Of locomotion into n positive bee line, is
doubted by Prussan engineers Boston
luh
- sa.44teA A'-iitts-rHti- irartt- sT'ri-ttJr sTTtt
Democratic party are both growing prodig
iously-thc latter growing big and The former
little.-LOmSriHe Journal
TV' The woman who never intcrrcrcd with
her husbands affairs, arrived in town ycster'
day. She is unmarried.
~ A friend thus describes his summers
gardening operations: 1.-The bugs ate our Gu
cunbers, our chickens ate the hugs, neigh
boris cats ate the chickens, and We are in
hopes that something will now eat the cats
IIoRRipLE, ,-"Thosc are very handsome
show-bills," said DR.. Spooncr, as he stood at
our window, looking at the circus bills, print
ed in several inks on the wall opposite, land
IL seems to nae as il such printing must add
materially to the printers ink '-BosioH
Gazette
INpANs AS MATTER or FACr-A man
who had been West and been chased by Al
Indian, writes:
Much has been said 10y poets and remain
tic young ladies about the picturesque aspect
and the noble form of an untamcd, untamca
BILE warrior of the prairie, and far be it from
me TO gainsay them. An Indian is a noble
spcctacle--in a picture, or nj n safe distance
but when this noble spectacle in company
with dozen other noble spectacles, is moN
ing his moccasins in your direction, and yot
have to do some tall walking in order I,
keep the capillary substance on the SUNNI
of your crunium, all his mobility variShcs
and YOU see in him only painted, grcas,
miscrcant, who will, il you give him,a chanc,
lift your hair with the same Christian spirit
composed and most serene, with which he
would ask another spectacle for "a littl,
more of that baked dog | used to thnl
like the pocts Hor the sight of an lndiar
gives me cramp in the stom Ich.'
r6~ Many a speculation has failed for tn,
same reason that the old Texas ranger CAV,
when he was asked why he didn't buy lane
when it was dog cheap. We'll, ] did com,
nigh onto taking eight thousand acres onest.
said old Joe, mournfully. You see, two of
the boys came in one day from an Ind;ur
hunt, without any shoes, and offered me thei
titles to the two leagues just below here, foi
pair of boots. For pair of boots p cri
ed out. Yes, for n pair of boots for eacl
league but why on earth didn't you TAX,
it? They'd be worth thousand dollars to
day. Why didn't YOU give thom the boots
Jest cause didn't have the boots to give,
said old Joe, as he took another chew Of to
hacco, quite ns contcnted as it he owned tive
leagues OF land.
- ~ 1t is stated, upon the authority of
those who have heard it, that a cat, when het
tail is pinched between door and n post, ut
ters the vowels, a, q, 10, u, with great dis
tinctncss. II the injury is prolonged SHE
gives ana Y.
III A wicked wag from New Orleans
whose rccl>lessncss must be proof agains
yellow fever, Yesterday propounded to us th'
following couundrum: ''