St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-06-23

An expensive wife makes pcnsivr husband.
y Se"tchnan asked AN Irishman, Why were half
tarthings coined in England Pats answer was,
| To give Scotchnrn opportunity "f subscribing
| I" charitable institutions
An English doctor SAYS that "A strong. PASSIONATE
love will bring on heart disease. and it therefore
stands all in hand Ia love mildly and with a
good deal oi lrthar. " Detroit Free Press.
A man i'll town yesterday. with Ii" hair and Il
bullet hole in the calf of his left lrg, SAY, h" is
isiird that there il gold III the BLACK Hills lie
also says he is satisfied that there are Indians in
| the Black Hills.-ChicdgO Tunes
At the laying of the corner stone of the MoutTir
monument i'll Charleston. :. e, the silver tr"wrl
used 10y General LafiN rttr III lay ing the Drkalh
monument AT Camden, i'll i-95. in that STATE, Will he.
used. The tr"wrl has "m it the same blue ribbon
| that given bN Lafayette.
| Rather II neat thing i'll advertisements l. t" b,.
seen the banks ot the Clyde. in bnnny scotland
The pr"pri-t"rs "l the Glasgow News. a Tory iour
nal. have rented the estate of Bullw"nd, near
Dununn, which lies -lnping to the Firth "f CLYDE.
and "n the turf they cutting the name of the
| paper i'll letters seventy feet long
| \ kiss Tor each falling star. is the lovers rule.
and whenever meteor sh"nt~ across the trm;nrnt
the listening pedestrian may hear ir" he shadow
I u
George. don't There nov You nausht, man
! hope You satisfied
| In the fall "t l1.6 when Mr.. John Adams and
| Nj. Samuel Adams both III Philadelphia the
former sent his wife. hy Mr.. Gerry. pound al
green tea as a choice present pay Ing t"r the same
| upward "f forty shng-. Through some mistake
"n the part ut the r>Srn.'r the canister wa> given
I" Mrs. Samuel instead "f Mrs John. un h",Ii
talItN intent. the f"rmrI it-d the latter, with
some friends t" "A tea drinking. Mrs. John praised
the tea which Mrs Samu-l- Sweetheart had sent
her and gTumblrd ii little ia her neat letter Ia
John that he should not have been attentive As
| his kin-man. The cream uf the JOKE Appeared
h"wrNrI. when Mrs. John dI~'"N cird 1t Was hrI
"wn tea with which she had been h"nntifully IN
| t-Ttainrd
| The most mrIn"rahlr cleaning that dome
! with soft soap when IT cl-anrd out a band "i
| saNagrS 'S"it SOAP tir-i most rtfrctually ap
| piled III tins country by the Swedish women wh'
defended th, old h"gl Swedish church brl"w fhila
d,Ihit before the city laid cut \ friendly
suuaw gave notice, nf intended attack hN the In
dian-. The Scandinavian lndir- were h"iling soap
and they AT once, urd To- convert the content
| al the kettle into ammunition uf defence. They
lifted il into the church with trrwnrd I" keep II
hot. A. the warriors began tn undermine th" i"undi
t"ns they rrci, r an their bar, backs spirited iii,
ut the terrible material which IN due time sent then
h"wline int" the wilderness. The incident Was r'lai
ed b, participant wh" died ia L"nd"nat an adv inc
ed age She was a granddaughter al the SwrdI,l
| bur cher Surn Schul-
TiI. Sacrament" Union thus describes the mus
! tang: The army mule l. perfect Ihr>trrt"ld {"
an animal i'll comparison with the native tahi"rml;
mustang. 1t the mustang thai invented TIN
mobile art OF bucking. We aware that the army
mule has experimental IN that direction. hut n'
other animal hut ia. California mustang ever cam-
| rd his rider I" describe IA parabnhc curve oi th'
same extent the man VIII" has moi hrrl
huck-d by IA California mustang AT all conceive TIN
process. The victim while undergoing 1t would III
tinitrlN prefer being delivered I" an iNrcanal
tiger or IL Lrrnran hN dra "r Numidian lion 4"
| immediate ma-ticaiinu and " hen the operation 4
completed and bN mtTcitul dsp.nSati'n "f tat
la, il landed upon the nf his head in the near
r-i pile "f road metal, with disl"cat-d spina
column and pang i'll every nerve, muscle -lnrv
and bone. he regards the author "f his woes with
horror and drtrstat"n far smIpassing the cm"i"
that would he evoked by contemplation of the mos
furbidding antrdiluvian Saurian Professor Owen
ever revived for the satisfaction of the curious.
During the trial of a case IN Louisville. lately,
witness persisted in trstifying what his wifi, o,
him To this OF course. the attorney objected, an'
II was ruled out by the Judge. II" would proceed L
tell ''shust how il vas when the attorney woul'
sing out, How do you know that :" My wife toll
me. the answer. This was repeated sev"r'
times. Presently the judge becoming unable 4
contain himself longer said Suppose yonr wifi
were to tell you that the heavens had fallen, wha
would Won think :" Veil think dry down.
The Canadian Farmer, not I" he "utd"ne by tn
newspaper fashion of telling big stories. gives IL
that nt IA man named Langley. VIII" went To ~
Mary's bay geese hunting. Seeing m""sr On tn
| Opposite shore. he fired and, AT the same moment
a p"rp"ise lraped from the water and tn" bue
killed both it and the The p"rp"se i"ate
to the shore and the hunter used ii as a raft I
paddle across to tn. moose. There he found tina
tn, bullet after killing the moose, had gone int"
hollow tree in which store of wild honey
which was flowing through the hole made by til
bullet. Reaching for What he thought was "A stick
to plug up the hole. he caught rabbit by the lrl
Rather startled. he threw il violently from Inn
, and struck n covey of eighteen partridge KILN
them all