St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-10-17
VOLUME 37---NUMBER 1890.
Squibs.

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\ four-ycar old boy recently COM
planned that his teeth had ..trod on his
tongue"
y New Haven man SAYS She longest
funeral he ever heard of took place Il
week ago. His hired girl went off to it
and hasn't got back yet
Very few horses eat corned beef, but
We SAN one standing the other day be-
fore il store with bit in his mouth.
y New Iord chemist SAYS he can re
durc old boot legs to hccfstcak. Some
Western landlords have had ten years
the start of him.
The creditors ofan absconding banker
found. on opening his safe, that the
only thing he had laid up for "a rainy
day was an umbrella.
y Young Irislman told sweet Cork
girl (tiesh and blood. not made of stop
peri that the following was phono-
graphy 1T r A B L T.LN."
a go"d-hearted but partially deaf
| old lady is much disturbed 10y the talk
about the KickapoO Indians. She
doesn't see why anybody should kick "A
poor Indian.
W hen Il fly becomes too persiStentIy
familiar with your face, yom will save
time hy laying aside all other matters
and dcvotlng Your undivided attention
To his determination.
y Young man who .'ncvcr told Iie'
has been engaged by Barnum to de
scribe the Interesting animal ..slIpposed
To he the Bchemoth described i'm the
Scriptures"
y man having hill against distant
merchant. sent il letter of inquiry to Il
banker of that locality. The reply was,
He is dead but he pays now just as
well as he ever did
What relation is Il loaf of bread to Il
locomotive lis mother. Why ? Be
cause bread Is il necessity and locomo-
tlN" an invention. and we all know that
necessity Is the mother of invention.
An Irish paper concludes biography
OF RobeSpierre with the following sen
tence This extraordinary man left
no children except his brother, who was
killed ut the same time"
y plumber had an Irish lad in his en-
ploy. and one day having occasion fora
piece of zine ordered him to get one
twelve inches square. Yes. sir" said
Pat. twelve inches square. but how
long"
The death of John Stuart Mill brings
up the anccdote of the Philadelphia
publisher. who advertised certain new
hooks aS follows, Mill on political
Economy Ditto on the Floss"
y Texas paper says that the endeav-
tNt Ni -.
"ol"rcd men To vote for them reminds if
"f he efforts of Il rcd-headed wood
perker t" extract worms from il copper
lightning
The very latest novelty at fairs is
bottle of beans" You guess the mum
hrr and y"u are apt to vary from 600
to 300.
Dry-go"ds clerks are now busily en-
gagged cutting of thousands of dress
samples for ladies. who have sick
friends OF friends in the country.
\ Missouri clergyman was lately
called upon To marry fourteen couples in
one day. and his fees amounted to fifty
pounds of dried apples and IA duebiil
l"r eighteen bushels of buckwheat.
here are experts on all manner of
subjects i'll these days of litigation. A
woman testified thc other doy in ,
turkey case. and declared tL,t sLo
knew these turkeys by tbei, wall
their countenance. and their m,nna,. nf
roasting"
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favorable comparison with beetles
Has 1t ever struck anybody how many
beetles a man can lift I'VE ,ro oIS,