St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Fact and Fancy.

That ''fish-storyn of Jonah in the
whales belly needn't have staggered
the the new convert in the story, ac-
cOrding to the latest naturalist. He
affirms that the throat of the whale is
large, and is provided with a bag or i'll
testine, so considerable in size, that
whales frequently take into it two of
their young Ones when weak, and es-
pecially during tempest. AS this re-
ceptacle is furnished with two vents, it
is claimed that Jonah could have lived
there comfortably, and, with reason
able amount of furniture, for many
years, provided he could obtain food
and drink.
Dead dogs are really an odd kind of
merchandise; yet there is firm in San
Francisco which purchases at so cents
each, the dogs slaughtered at the city
pound. The skins are removed and
sold to the tanners, the hair is disposed
of to the plasterers, and then the car
casses are thrown into a great boiler,
and there kept until the bones are sep
arated from the flesh, and these are sold
to the sugar retiners. The grease that
rises to the surface is made into cod
liver oil-at least so it is stated.
The receipts of internal revenue for
the fiscal year ending the Both of June,
will reach $119,O00,O00. Last year they
were $I17, 100000. The increase of
$2,000,000 is largely owing to the break
up of Illicit distilling and to the more
vigorous collection of the whisky tax.
A striped bass weighing eighty
pounds, was caught in the Connecticut
river near Middletown, day or two
ago.
Three young gentlemen planned a
burlesque serenade to three young ladies
in Raleigh, N. c., last week. One had
violin, another a bass viOl, and an
other banjo, and each instrument had
a single string. Entering the front
yard at midnight they screened them
selves from sight beneath the foliage OF
magnolia trees and opened the sera-
made. Now the young ladies had a
facetious father with noisy shotgun.
Sliding noiselessly from his bed, he
took out the shot from a shell cartridge
and aiming his gun at the magnolia,
fired. He confidently expected a STAN
pede, but he was disappointed. The
overture was not broken off; the players
scraped and picked each on his own
string, and a voice cried out, ''Shoot
lower, old coon" "Now, girls, I'll try
the hose pipe" said the facetious father
and soon there was less music in the
air.
The tramp nuisance has reached such
hight that threats of lynching are now
common in various localities. At Pleas
antville, where Miss Deering was lately
attacked, the feeling against vagabonds
is very strong, and a very small cir
cumstance might result in extrajudiciaI
violence which would be lamentable
A great many vagabOnds are said to be
in the vicinity OF Marlboro, N. Y, os-
tensibly to engage in berry-picking
and some of these are suspected of three
several attempts to burn the farmhouse
of N. S. Topping. In one of these a
child was badly burned. Two burgla-
ries have also been committed, and also
there has been an attempt to violate a
respectable married woman. In the
townships of Mischief and Marion, In
diana, a vigilance committee has been
organized for the execution of summary
justice upon band of desperadOes who
have long been the terror of that
vicinage.
There are 100000 of Jews in the
world, scattered through all civilized
lands. They excel all people in the art
of being despised. No others have been
such benefacters of the human race nc
others have been so treated as despica-
BILE miscreants. For 1000 years have
they been cast out from among men
despised and hated, oppressed and
downtrodden, yet never have they been
crushed by their sad experiences OF
their sufferings.
Twenty-seven boxes of Confederate
archieves left at Union, s. c., by Jeffer-
son Davis, were recently destroyed by
fire. The Federal troops were pressing
Mr.. Davis SO hard during his retreat
southwark that he was compelled to
leave the archieves with Col. Young al
Union. The latter had carefully pre-
served them, and was about to send
them to the Southern Historical Society
at Richmond, when they were de-
stroyed.
Peter Harvey was born in the town
of Barnet, in this state, in 1910. When
eighteen months old his father died
and he was early thrown upon the
world to seek his own fortune. He soor
went to Boston and engaged i'm busines,