St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-05-28
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An Exchange heads Il market advice
tI"m ti''H. - 'icu~, no longer lively -
We congratulate ouI New York neigh
hnis
"A tiNoritr dish ia ouI restaurants"
>I'> Il Montana paper, ''iS hrefha>h"
The New York Commercial Advertiser
>upp">e> it must hrGf-ha>h-iona blc.
BY singular n.i>print. the st. Louis
J"unal "t the tcnth instant makes the
sentence pronounced on Bill Morgan hy
Judge Jones t" read changed bV the
week until dead"
I'D" You know VIII" am ;" asked IL
policeman of Il fellow whom he had
seized 10y the throat Not exactly,
>ir; but fancy you are the malignant
cnllarer.
1t Is said the frauds IN repairing mail
bags were first discovered by il con
tractor" boy appearing at school with
tine seal of his trousers patched with
pieces of mail-ba" from which the
IiNct> had not been extracted.
At P"mprii they recently found Gu
ri"us record. 1t WAS scratched on the
Sturrn of IL kitchen wall. and has thus
been translated Lighted the fire,
cooked his meals. and swept his house
l"r him 2-.OOO times to this day, and he
refuses to take me to the circus" Be
meath. in different hand is written
Wv omen are never satisfied"
Five times has Oshkosh been partial
y burnt up. and fouI times has it been
rebuilt and its attractions name retained.
When it Is rebuilt for the fifth time,
perhaps its people will see the wisdom
of not continuing to tempt the fire fiend
hl calling their town Oshkosh. No
town with such Il name can be built
with impunity.
The Houston CTrXas) Age says. God
only makes Il few men in "a century,
amd il is Il little singular. but none the
less true. that the only -four in America,
living when the late war began Sam
Houston. Jcif Davis, K. f.. Lee and
~tomrwaIl Jackson were Southern
men. The editor of the Age must he
Il very ynHng man
Ia il Fort street ear the other day a
woman notircd an old man gazing at
her very attcntiVelN. During IL ride of
Il mile or more he kept his eyes fastened
on her face. and he must at least have
scen 10y her mInucr that she was an
noycd. ~ he bent over aud said "Ex-
cuSe me. madam. bat cant help look
ing at N"u. Gou put Inc in mind of my
dead wife: her no>c turned off sideways
Just exactly like Nourn does - Detroit
Free Press.
An old farmer purchased some sweet
oil m Il drug store. yesterday. and, be
f -. 4 . Il.
he laid several packages on the counter.
hrld up Il hand with several strings tied
on the fingers. and said Lets see
/ That red string is for the bar of soap
that lag Is for IL bronm that blue cord
is for Il calico dress that dress braid
means four poundS OF sIyal. aud this
other string i for sweet oil. No moth
/ ing more" DcfrOH Free Press.
They had II good deal of trouble with
/ Barmum'> elephant in Rhode Island, on
! Friday. 1t appears that they were
/ feeding one end of him in Massachusetts.
and the other end got into Il farm yard
/ in Connecticut. The mrighbOTS came
Out and attacked the Connecticut end
with pitrhtnrks. and the Massachusetts
end got mad. There was a good deal
of excitement for Il time. and Il majority
of the inhabitants stepped over into the
adjoining states till il WAS over Nor
| rjch BnIiein.
/ BY the Investigations of Nj. Emerson,
an English chemist. il appears that the
/ fly is good for something besides milk
and moiaS>r> pitchers and spiders,
Every one Is familiar with the usual
gNuia-ti"> OF II mII>ra domc>tica after
IL. Il. l. I
together. then hind trct and wings. then
the fore fees. By these movements the
Imimalculc>. which are in impure air
and which adhere 1" the fly. as it circles
| about the room, are collected together
and eaten. Thus il l. constantly at
/ work removing the seeds of disease.
/ iramncs> in tly i primd fLcia evidence
ot pure ali in = house. while cnrpulencv
/ indicates foul Wallpaper and bad ven
/ iilatinn.
DIR. Browm->cquard, Il while ago,
/ startled the public with the scientific
query. ''iiaVe We TWO brains ," and DIR.
/ Hammond has now broachcd a not less
interesting suggestion. In Il paper read
/ hcto>c the Neurological society ii few
| days since, he argued tha 1.-THE brain is
not the sole organ OF the mind, but it
is merely the largest single mass of
nerve substance. and that its functions
/ differ only il power, and not in quality,
/ Fl nm hose of the smaller ganglia situa-
| ted in other parts of the body. The
! gray tissue Is found in the spinal cord
/ aud the ganglia of the sympathetic
nerves and some others, and DIR. Ham
| mond declares that whatever gay mat
ter is there is mind, whether in the
head, or the trunk, or the limbs. This
he claims to have proved by numerous
| experiments i'll virisection.