St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-05
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y Boston dry goods dealer adveltisrs
'tinancial crash towels"
Some people have their thinking. like
/ their washing. done out.
The Vermont. ILL.,. Chronicle anuoun-
cr> that it will exchange Il few tender
lines for >parr-rih> or sausage"
Our in Montana when they >talt ii
man down hill in Il barrel. they speak
"f his 'app'arHncc in a new role.
Nv hat is your name. little girl ,"
"Minnic. Minnie what - "Nlinuie
Don't: that's What Mamma calls me"
\ pckin. Ill.,. coromcl's jury rendered
Il Verdict that II man. whose body was
tound in the river. came to his death hN
Il blow on the head. (which WAS given
either before ur attcI drowning"
\m Imaginative hi>hmam gave utter
anrc I" tins lHmcntation: II returned
I" ihr halls of my fathers 10y night, and
found them in ruins. | cried aloud. NV
fathers, where aIc they p and echo
answered. Is that You. Patrick Me
tathl
\ Young lady had c"qucttrd until the
victim WIS completely exhausted. lie
r">' I" g" away. She whispered, as
she accompanied linn T." the door Il
shall hc at home next sunday evening"
''>r shall |. he lcI,li, d.
.An ayrccaII, and Versatile Iowa 40
cal >il>: "Crdal River i in Ian
gUishiug c"nditi"m 1t is very low and
confined to it, bed The catfish ret
aground. and have to Ice helped oil the
S;Iud-har> hy the good d-matlIrcd bows.
\ Maine woman ate four quarts of
"N>tcl> At one sitting. the other tlay.
and Won one hundred dollars hy so do
in@. which. after dcducting her burial
EXPENSES. cighly-iivc dollars. left her
fifteen dollars To commence the next
world with.
\ Philadelphia Quaker rompimcntcd
"m' of his sect. Who had joined an EpiS-
c"pal 'hurch. on the new organ used
there. "Whl. thought thee objected
to church music - .'Ah. so do" WAS
the reply ''hut if thee must Worship
G"d 10y machinery, want thee to have
the best"
Among the prominent failures during
The, late panic We have To record that of
joan Paul For" SAYS he. in Il withcr-
mg tone. Nv hat mIau or men. what firm
had u"thug L" pay with ;" But he
rrncmhrr> Bruce and the spider and
takes heart. His tailnl having dunned
and deserted him, he has sent his linen
dU>l,r to an obscure place to have IA
fun collar put on it and, hearing there
l. Nalmth IN new Sl'apcI>. he has order
cd it lined with the Tribune supple
m,ut>, =" THAT when | am called to
l"In ;iic IIInnmeralir caravan that moves
ON IN the horse ears this winter, | may
WIap the drapcrl OF my Evangelical
Alliance about me and sit down to
scientific drcamS."
There aIc men living who have had
the pleasure of reading obituary notices
of themselves. But there are few of
thrm VIII" have made it ii point to cor
rect such. except to amend the main
statement upon which an obituary
notice l. necessarily founded. In Ken
lucky. however, there lives IL man who,
having no objection Ia the main state
mcnt contained i'll Il mortuary para
graph III il l"cai paper relating to him
self, was rather sensitive in regard to
the details. and wrote to the editor as
follows:
sir: notice few errors in the
obituary of myself which appeared in
your paper of Wednesday last. VAS
born III Greenup county, NOT Caldwell,
and my retirement from business III
lseO was not owing to i'll health, but to
Il little trouble had in connection with
a horse. The CAUSE Of my death wds not
small pOr. Please make correction. for
which mclo>e 30 cents"