The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-01-06
Pieces from q Printers Pi.

There is vein of sadness running through
the following sprightly written lines, which
amuses those familiar with the mysticisms OF
printing Office
Do you know that type setter is won
derful architect? DO you see those bits of
lead and zinc lying over across, and against
each other, like the tangled braid Of mer-
maids hair" What life or light can be in
those motionless fragments? And yet they
form an army more powerful than ever
fought upon tented field. Yesterday the!
stood up proudly, professionally speaking, in
one tornl-truly, in thousand forms. You
may look upon the brittle bits with smile
upon yolr lips, but YOU little dream they are
stronger and wiser than you-that they vii!
speak when YOU are dead and forgotten.
They have sometimes made you smile and
weep and shudder. Don't YOU remember lit
tie Lucy-she whom you loved ?-she with
the blue eyes and auburn curls. You little
thought, the other day, when you took up
the morning paper, that the one word ditd,
Of onl! four lellers-which YOU laughed at as
they lay. dust! and dirty in their square
homes-you did not think tha, it would make
YOU weep. And Stocks s'-isn't there some
thing in that word? Haven't you been
mead and heels in them fer years-and don't
YOUR feelings ,,e and fall with them alter
na,ey? \ little further on you come to the
word married. All, thought that would
make YOU smile. saw you kiss a baby just
| then, and that one word unravtls it all. You
! haven't forgotten the days YOU went IA court
my, have youo Then there was magic in
the ul,crahce. You stood at the altar Oh the
strength Of the happiness you felt, and ifyou
have not loved the fair girl as You ought,
there is no one YOU love as well. You ST.
cre,!y bless the day when that single word
married" was wreathed like a sacred arch
way over the joys of thee and thine
Ii YOU will come to his workshop :o-mOr-
row, the printer will show you how to dis
tribute" knowledge. lie will pull to pieces
those tough, wiry arguments that ,es,erda!
detied the world Those pretty palaces which
the poet wrought will have to come down,
and their golden fancies become tomorrow
the intesumen,s of III. politicians prose. Il,
!. they go-,ho>e metallic dwarts, scattered
broadcast, like good seed, which shall bring
forth six,y-ay, all hundred fold. How thu
typc-setler tritles with death "Sixly live.
| lost" and "Pren,icc's last joke" march in to
i, scthrr, and the printer whistles "Yankc,
Doodle as careiessly over their dissoIutio,
as if human lie was at u discount, and Prem
tees joke below par, and 90 it is. This i
the printers life and business.
When a printer dies, the world Just gets
glimpse of his value as his coa,tails vansl
into glory, aud then ii looks very bad, rub
its hands little. calls him clever fellow -
says his only fault was in being poor. ant
then the world shoves its sympathy out ot
sight into that idiom, the human heart, ant
on rolls the great Juggernaut as though no
thing had happened.
Some day, the people will wake up ant
ii.u screw loose in the Jagged machinery Q
d human progress. If YOU do, don't waste an
!. more sympathy than possible OH those my
g biological fellows who print your books an
Il papers.
q CANADIAN STUPIDlIY.-Sumeo one al Han
II over writes to the n. H. Statesman as fo
e lows:
J. wish to make an inquiry for the publ
good. Are passengers liable to custon,-hous
ammo! ances on entering the Queens domir
~ ion? A young lady Of this place took, /
White River Junction, a through ticket /,
. Chicago. From Ogdensburg she passed ovt
to Prescott (Canada) in the night; had I
Is wait two or three hours for the train, and til
H. cust.m-house officer took her basgag
N checked through locked it up and Wei
away. Whtn the train started, he could NJ
r. be found. A gentleman passenger interfere
y broke open the baggage room door, and II
i'll baggage ~ent along. Now, Messrs. Of II
Grand Trunk Railway, if passengers are
lie suffer such annoy yances on your liEe, let pc
H. pie know it, and they will take other rout
in going West.
y WANTED-An intended bride who is "
81 ling to begin housekeeping in the same sty
in which her parents began. Twenty fas
n ionable young ladies who dare to be Sc.
or welding dusting brush, or darniug tht
brothers stockings, if a gentleman shou
happen to make an early morning call. II
-, same number of independent young ladi
of .good families who dare to wear tn.
last winters bonnet to church on fine Su
ITS day. The same number of young ladi
nd "who are anybody" who dare to be seen
the street wearing shoes with soles thi
he enough to keep their feet warm. The sa,
20. number of young ladies of sufficient aye &
r.. 20 in COMPANY who dare confess they ev
male q loaf OF bread or pudding.