The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-08-30

to manage them. the Louisville J0U1Nnt SAYS
If a woman CARVING under her dress deadly
weapons to be used by rebels against oul
people. bushes at being examined in pri
vate room by another woman. let her blush
Better that her blood should mount to hen
face than that the blood of our countrymci
should be shed through her crime. Smag-
Cling pistols under female hoops is not :
Legitimate mode of hopping barrels.
&C. The Pensacola Observer has the fol
loving hit at Wilson'S Zouaves 1T is said
that not single one of Wilson's Zouaye>
have now the clothes they came to Fort
Pickens in, having stolen each others al!
around, and that old Harvey Brown has but
one salt of clothes left (the one he wears.
and has to sleep under body guard to save
them, and further, that Wilson had to p1,
his commission in the powder magazine tc
keep them from stealing it.
\ DOMESTIC WAR FOR SUrRENAcY.-.N
traveller out West stopped at a house for
dinner Di>mounting, he found little
white haired man in the embrace of his wife.
who had his mead under her arm. while with
the other she was giving her little lord a
pounding. Wishing to put an end to the
fight. our traveller knocked on the SIDE o.
the house, and cried ont in a loud voice.
";lallo, here, who keeps this house? ~ The
husband, though much out of breath. an
swered, stranger, that's what We are trying
to decide.
y MODEL SEcES>IoSI>T-W though. We
saw enough misery in one bunch on Main
street. yesterday-a blind man. drunk. hal
looing for jeff Davis .-KeoA7M IowoJ Jo,U'-
nal, July 81.
PLEASURES OF PRoDIGNITY-It would rot
be pleasant arrangement. that a man who
was to be carried across from England t.
France should be fixed on boprd so weigh
ed that his mouth ard nostrilS should be on
a level with the water. and thus that lie
should be struggling for life, and barely cs-
Gaping drowning all the way. Yet hosts OF
people, whom no one proposes to put under
restraint, 90 rs regards their income and ex-
prnditurc precise y analogous thing. Thcy
deliberately weigh themselves to that degree
that their heads are barely above water, and
that any unforeseen emergency dips them I'M
dcr.-.llantic Monthly.
C. We'll, that's always the way with the
telegraph folks exclaimed Mrs Mellow =
the good news they sent US one day is pref
" sartin to be ccntradic.ed the next. WAY
there's our neighbor, Sally Shute. who got a
story as how her husband Rad been killed in
one of the battles, and the day arter it was
all upshot, for it proved to be another man
Gin me the old mail stage, arter ALL contin.
ued Mrs Mellow, IF twas slow, twas srIiin :,
SOLDIERS FEET IN MARCHING. \ cores
pendent sends the following receipt for max
ing an excellent composition for annoin,in.
the feet of soldiers during long Marches
Take equal parts of gum camphor, olive oil
and beeswaX and mix them together. warm
until they are united and become salve-
At nigh: wash the feet well, dry them, the:
apply this salye, and put on clean stockings
and sleep with them on. Next day the feet
viii be in excellent train for marching Ou
correspondent proved the great value of his
ec'ipt in journey across the great plains
to California in -Scienifc american.
FATHER AND DAUGnTEE-Th is no pref
tier picture in life than that of daughter
Feadlng to her aged father. The old man
while listening to her silvery notes, goes back
TO othes times when another one sat hv his
side, and whispered words he never will hear
again nor does he wish to do; for in soft
evening light he sees her image reflected in
her child, and as one by one gentle emotions
steal over him, he wells his face, and the
daughter thinking him asleep, goes noiseless-
ly in search Of other employment. Virgin
innocence watching over the cares and little
wants Of Cd age, is spectacle fit for angels
II is one of the links between earth and hca
ven. and takes from the face Of the neceSsa-
rily hard and selfish world many of its harsh
est features.
C. The Burlington Times noticing the