St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
Our Radix Letter.

TORS-BEER IN THE ASCENDANT THE
GARBAGE WAR THE SILK WORMS
STRIKE PHILADELPHIA THE NEW
CENTURY CLOCK.
NEW YORK. Aug. II, lS16.
To the Editor Of the diectonidn:
Like Munich and Dctmold of to-day.
and Rhodes of old, New York is to have
her Colossus. Right after the Franco
Prussian war the French government,
to show It's gratitude for flvOrs shown
that suffering realm and in furthcrance
of the reciprocal good feeling which has
existed between the two countries ever
since the struggle in which the Ameri
can Eagle was Matched. voted to give
t" our metropolis Il colossal bronze sta
tue of Liberty to stand before our wa
terry gates and bear alott in its mighty
hand Il beacon to warn off danger, while
it should greet with ii symbolic welcome
the voNager to the home of the Star
Spangled Banner. But great bodies
move slowly, and thus it was not till
last fall or several years after the pas
sage of this laudable resolution that We
began to hear much about steps toward
its practical carrying ont. Then it was
that after choosing Bcdlor's Island rs
the site of the monument. work WAS
actively commenced and soon the pa
prrs teemed with paragraphs relating
To the progress of the work in the Pa
ri>ian studio. where the figure was being
modelled. :" rapidly have operations
/ been pushed that there have been re
crivcd this week at the Custom House.
eight enormous boxes, containing ~
many sections of the gigantic female
who l. hrnccfnrwar,l To preside over
our lIarhnr. At last accounts only two
of these boxes had been landed. one. of
which contains the right hand and wrist
and the second. the torch W hich the
hand will eventually hold. This hand.
while not exactly the sort that Il fond
lover would Nrarn L. press. would he
Il positive gnd>end t" ANY mother with
numerous and turbulent offspring Ion.
beside hcin" fourteen feet LONG il i >iN
or seven feet broad and weighs a good
many pounds. and | have II" doubt that
IN any little case "t family discipline. Il
little of 1t w"nld Z" good WAY.
haven't been able To find any body who
c"nld give me the correct dimensions ot
tia" finished statue. hut if Your readers
are generally familiar with comparative
anatomy ta> | doubt not l. the easel tn.
foregoing figures together with the. fact
that the thumb nail on this lttl, Hip
per l. TWO feet long. will afford them
data enough /" enable them to calculIt,
the total height I" II nicctN. The eight
big boxes. forming the inst im>talmcut.
contained one ann only. the freight on
which. from HAVE to New York. was :,
trtic under 300.
Probably At II" time in his long and
eNcuttul lite has Cummndnrr Wander
hllt been the focus of such general and
constant attention a. now in his last
hours on rather What all the doctors
keep iu>i>rin" oHJLt To hc his last hours
But ~ he has had three IN, uth> of then,
already and shows no >Igu> Vet al an
early REIMBURSEMENT at life. thc>. Wis,
descendants of Galcn are beginning fl
recall Nj. O'CuuoI'> resurrection after
them fellows had pronounced him To- all
Intrnt> and purposes Il dead man. aud
ale commencing Ia ''hcdgc" a littl, on
their "larular prophecies. Some weeks
~" then regular report was, "MI. Van
drrhiIr can hardly last through the
night" After ten daN> or 50 of this
they kindly consented /" rcpIicvr the
"ld gentleman tor - week nr more.
and NOW the learned brothers graNrl>
announce that the patient NAV live
t"I months 81 even Years. hut that he
has got /" =" At last. Now. it strikes
IN impartial observer that the auNiou,
family might get ~ much information
he glad /" stand around and "plcdict'
At Il couple "t dollars a day. instead of
paving these. owls in hruldclnth from
one I" two Thousand per cent. above
market rates Ton NeIN much the same
kiud at work. Not but what the pa
item" l. NrrN old and feeble and liahl.
T." die at amy moment, but when that is
gong Ia Ice. the doctors don't know any
more than do.
During all this time that Mr. V has
been confined To his hnuS,. the new
papers have reported his condition. sui
rnunding>. and conversation 50 far a.
they could 10y amy means obtain it. with
umtiIin" zeal. wing the enforced
m"n"t"nN of these reports 10y reprinting
all sorts of probable aud Improbable
anecdotes of his life. The Comnodnrt
himself to whom. one would think. al
this obituary Favored attention might
he unplraSantlN suggestive. takes it al
III good part. and even shows consider.
. tnlt interest III 'ht pnbllc >ollcliudt'
The crowd of reporters and visitors thai
throng his doors do not seem to trnubI.
him in the least. He directs their uueS
tinn> to he answered and sometime,
sends down to them his own opinion ~
his condition.
What with her fresh water and sal
water troubles. the city has been having
hard time for tw" weeks. The CTotol