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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
Giving up the World.

We hear much about giving up the
world for Christ, and we may have felt
that it was hard. But this thought
came to me one day {: When we are in
room full of people, and find deal
friend, we may converse with him until
we forget the presence of others. We
have lost what was going on, but dc
we regret itq No, for the looks and
words of that friend are more to us than
all the surrounding company.
So when Christ is dear to our hearts
he Outshines the world, and we car
joyfully say with Paul, 81 count al
things but loss for the excellency Of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
God Ready to Forgive Sin.

To the Lord our God belong mercies
and forgivenesses. Dan. 9: 9.
The Lord, The Lord God, merciful
and gracious, long-suffering, and abun-
dant in goodness and truth, keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgressiOn and sin. Elk. 34:7.
AS far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our trangressiOns
from us. Ps. I03: IL.
He will abundantly pardon. Is. SIS: z.
/ will pardon all their iniquities,
whereby they have sinned. Jer. 80: 8.
/ will forgive their iniquity, and will
remember their sin no more. Jer. 81: "a
Their sins and their iniquities will
remember no more. Heb. 8: 10.
L, even !, am he that blotteth out
thy transgressions, for mine own sake
and will not remember thy sins. Is
43: IS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
WALL PAPER.
Facts for Advertisers and Business
5i- Men.


That advertising in the columns of the Caledo.
rai is the cheapest and best way to reach the peo
pie of St. Johnsbury and vicinity, we offer the
following:
1. Advertisements set in bold attractive
type, and are printed so they can be read
2. The Catedonian is favorite local paper is
read by all the household and goes into nearly ev-
cry family, as the following figures show:
8. There are 524 copies taken regularly in this
town. Taking he common estimate of five read.
ers to each paper and it will be seen the Oaledo-
,pian has over 26O0 constant readers in St. Johns
bury.
4. While circular or handful may be at once
thrown aside destroyed, local paper is usually
preserved for days and weeks, and is frequently
referred to, thus increasing the chances of seeing
an advertisement many fold
5. As we carefully exclude Objectionable and
disguised advertisements, and intend to print only
those of legitimate and respectable business par
ties who use our columns have the advantage OF
good company,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

OLD WAGONS.-As general thing,
a new wagon is very much preferred to
an old one. A very old one is some
times during the first year after its pur-
chase a great deal more expensive than
II new one. Better pay $S5 for a new
one which will run five or ten years
without costing cent for repairs than
to pay $40 for an old one which il will
take ten dollars year, and cause a
great amount of Inconvenience, and the
loss of much valuable time to keep in
order; and which by the time the new
one would need its first and inexpensive
repairs will be utterly worn out and
useless. Better run in debt little for
a new one than to buy such an old one
as that. Indeed, very old wagons are
generally expensive property. No re-
lance can be placed upon them. They
break down when mostly needed for
use, and it is an almost constant ex-
pense to keep them going at all. l
lived in the house with a man who re-
pairs farm wagons, and / must say that
it is astonishing how often they break
down. When one part is mended SO as
to be strong and durable, something
else is sure to give way. l have some
times thought that before | would pay
out as much as some men do in the
fruitless effort to keep old wagons in
repairs, would make them into fire
wood, and either hire or buy something
which would prove more substantial
Working Farmer
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
A Word to Sunday School Teachers.

And now word in regard to prefer
ences and partialities. All show OF
these should be most carefully guarded
against. If IL child more lovely in per-
son comes to your class, do not smile
more sweetly upon her, or more loving
ly pass your hand caressingly over her
soft. shining curls. Do not kiss her to
the exclusion of the little, plain, sensi-
tive face, whose eyes are watching you,
and whose full heart is perhaps yearn-
ing for the same fond show of regard
that you perhaps uncOnsciously are
Withholding from her to bestOw on one
whom nature has more highly favored,
but who, already satiated with caresses,
will esteem yours lightly. 1t is natural
to admire the beautiful but the teach
er may find beauty in the heart of
that little plain one, far superior to that
outward beauty that only attracts the
eye. Again, if one comes dressed in
all the elegances a mothers fondest,
may say vainest, art can supply, do not
make room for him or her by your side,
while the little one with coarse dress
and shoes is perhaps crowded to the
seat farthest from you. She may have
learned to love your pleasant voice /;
the touch of your hand upon hers may
seem almost magical as it sends thrill
of love to her heart and your lessons
may have sunk deeper in her heart
than in that of any other in the class.
Do not while her timid, searching, yet
trustful eyes are looking into yours, let
her see aught there to remind her that
she is poor, or that her dress is not as
gay and stylish as that of others. She
has enough at home and elsewhere to
remind her of poverty. Let all hei1as-
sociatiOns in the Sunday-school be
pleasant. l have known little girl
to leave her Sunday school and go to
another not as convenient, taking with |
her her little brothers and sisters, be-
cause another little one in the same
class refused to sit beside her because
she wore IL sun bonnet and coarse shoes. |
Not only watch yourselves, teachers,
in this regard, but watch the little ones
under your care, lest they wound one
S. Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
sfnr the children.
How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling.

l have no doubt that when you have
been at the seaside you have often no
ticed the limpets which stick so hard to
the rocks. There they stick, however
the waves may beat against them, and
they stick hard, tOO-harder than the
strongest cement could fasten them.
Have you ever tried to pull one of these
limpets from its place If you have not
| can assure you that you or might
pull and pull away without moving it Il
quarter of an inch. The same power
that enables the limpet to hold on so
firmly to the rock enables the fly, by
means of those little hairs, to trot about
upside down for in principle the swell
ed out ends of the hairs act in precisely
the same manner as the body of the lin
pet.
With little trouble we can make,
out of simple materials, a very good i'm
itatiOn of one of these hairs, sufficiently
large to see how they act First we
must get bit of the kind of leather
that is used for the sOles of boots. 1t
must he about the size of silver dollar,
and also of the same shape. We must
then fasten to it yard of string, by
means of hole pricked in the middle
of the leather, knot at the end of the
string, preventing it from coming away.
This knot should be so hammered
against the hole that no air can get
through the opening, or our experiment
will fail. Now, with this simple con-
trivance we shall, if we have made it
properly, be able to lift stones of sever
al pounds weight. But before we try
to do so we must take care that the
leather at the end of the string has been
soaked some hours in water to make il
soft and pliable. We will now take
hold of the free end of the string, and
drop the leather upon the stone we wish
to raise. On gently pulling the string
we shall find that the leather has taken
such firm sucking hold upon the stone
that we can carry it from place to place {;
we shall also find that it requires some
force to separate them.
The reason why the leather "sucker.n
as it is called, acts in this way is be-
cause, when we pull the string we raise
up the centre of the leather, and make
little tent-shaped hollow space there
between the sucker and the stone. The
air cannot get into the little chamber
thus formed, for the soft, wet leather
fits closely to the stone all around if.
But the air tries with might and main
to force its way in, and it presses so
closely upon the sucker that it actually
sticks it all the firmer to the stone. The
force that is exerted upon the sucker is
called atmospheric pressure, and is ex-
actly the same power which keeps the
llmpet on the rock and the fiy's foot on
the ceiling.-Littte Folks Magazine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
Oysters! Oysters !!
MATTHEW'S & PETTENGILL,

On and after Sept 18th we shall be prepared to
fill all orders for Providence River and Virgin
la Oysters. To those wanting Oysters for our
in season to send in your orders Saturday morning
few of the reasons why it is better to order your
oysters of us:
First-You will get solid meats, and fresher oys-
ters. Second-They come on ice and are kept on
ice until you get them. Third-Having bought
oysters for the last IL years of one House. and
made that one of specialties think we are bet
ter prepared to tell a good oyster, and know how
to keep them So
MATTHEW'S & PETTENGILL, i.l
St. Johnsbury vt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

One of the rich men of Memphis took
light when the fever broke out, leaving
his home in charge of a white and a
colored woman The white woman got
sick, and he wrote to the colored wo-
man as follows: "Seud the white woman
to the hospital. Don't use any of the
sweet milk; don't use any of the eggs
or chickens, but help yourself outside"
That last expression undoubtedly means
go to the Towards or the relief commit
tee. The Avalanche promises to ''make
it hot" for the fellow one of these DAYS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
Concord Land Sale

The resident and nonresident proprieto,. d,
town of Concord, are hereby notified tbst ~ Ns
assessed by said town within the two veaT S 'al1
part unpaid on the following described r"af VI
in said town to wit: The homestead nre eHi t'l,
Frank A. Perkins, also lot number eleven nlij'
sixth range fourth division now owned by T u he
G. Rowel; also the homestead premises T If S Sa.
u. wallace also the premises occupied by M.
Martina CODlelgh as homestead formerly occr ny
by Henry w. Hudson; and so much of ssid raa
tate will be sold at public auction at the e w. y
Concord House in said town ON the IstL Jo " =
October next, at one O'Clock in the afterro oaS
shall be requisite to discharge said taxes VII +
Dated at Concord this oath day of Sent A n 10-,
4s-oo A. X. QUIMBY, First Const,b.. &c
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

A blOated capitalist and Wall street
shark, Harrison by name, holds $780,
QUO worth of mortgages on Illinois prop
erty. His agent recently told him that
between hard times and poor crops the
farmers would have difficulty in making
their payments, whereupon the leecher-
Gus Harrison instructed him to reduce
by ten per cent. all depts of interest
due and to accrue, and to return ten
per cent. to the men who had met their
payments.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

1t is better that men should soon
make up their minds to be forgotten,
and look about them, or within the m,
for some higher motive in what they do,
than the appreciation of men, which is
fame; namely, their duty; that they
should be constantly and quietly at
work, each in his sphere, regardless of
effects, and leaving their fame to fake
care of itself Fame comes
only when deserved, and then is as in
evitable as destiny, for it is destiny
LOnQfeELOW.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
PATENTS.

r.. H. E ID d Y.
No. 76 State Street, opposite Kilby Street Boston
Secures patents in the United States also in
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished BY
Temitting one dollar. Assignments recorded at
Washington. No agency IN The United States pos
sesses superior facilities for obtaining Patents or
Geertdinilg the patenta5ility of intentions R. ii.
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents
TESTIMONIALS.
Il regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom have had
Official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents
Inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent of
hce."-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of
Patents" Va
Boston, October 49, 1876
X ID: EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir you procured for
me, in 1910. my first patent. Since then Won have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents reissues and extensions
N have occasionally employed the best agencies in
still give yo1 almost the whole of my business in
your line and advise others to employ YOU "
So Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER
Boston, Jan. l. 1s7s.-1y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

tations, we will add that early fall is
the proper time to put ont currant cut
tings. AS soon as leaves begin to drop,
cut shoots into sections about six inches
in length and stick them where wanted,
at an angle of As degs., with the top
bud about even with the ground surface.
They will form roots before cold wealth
er sets in, and make strong plants the
next season. Cuttings of the goose
berry win succeed famously treated in
the same Manner i94
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
c. A. SNOW G. CO.,
pposite Patent Office, washington n r.
Burlington and LamoiIIe Railroad.

Commencing january 9th, 1878, trains will
run as follows:
.. GOING EAST.
MIXED leaves Burlington at TOO a. H. arrives at
Cambridge Junction at 1905 a. M
MAIL leaves Burlington at 452 p. m, arrives at
Cambridge Junction at GAS p. M. connecting
with Express train for St. Johnsbury and ali
Eastern points, arriving in st. Johnsbury at
1000 p. m.
GOING WEST.
MIXED leaves Cambridge Junction at 7:5O a. m
connecting with Mail train from Swanton and
intermediate points, arriving at Burlington at
1920 a. m.
MAIL leaves Cambridge Junction at 1910 D. m.
connecting with train from Newport St Johns.
bury, and all Eastern points, leaving St Johns
bury at $3.50 a. m, arrives at Burlington at
$40 p. m.
MORNING AND EVENING TRAINS make close connec
ton at Burlington and Essex Junction with
Central Vermont trains North and South.
ALL TRAINS arrive at and leave the Central Yer.
mont Depots in Burlington and Essex Junction.
Tickets for sale at all stations, and by II. N Dru-
ry. Ticket Agent. Burlington, vt.
ID. C. LINSLEY.
M e. SPRAGUE, General Manager.
Gen. Fr't and Pas'r Agt.
Burlington, VT. Jan. 10, 1878. 16tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
r. e. RICHARDSON.
Dealer in the
New Process and Michigan Flour,
Corn and Corn Meal, Shorts, Fine Feed,
Timothy and Clover Seeds,
WIHo0nS q cRocERIEs

have several kinds of Coarse and Dairy SALT
and a small assortment of DRY GOODS.
do not boast of extraordinary low prices. nor O
superior quality of goods. All ask is for those il
need of goods in my line to call and examine price
and quality of goods. @ -l7;l Dbl
Portland Street.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

He who follows Christ, follows one
from whom light streams upon all the
road before us, showing all its turnings
and windings, and enabling us to walk
safely, surely, and cheerfully to the
the end; and that end is heaven.-
PdUsOn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

Prof. Budd gives this advice as to
currants: "For the benefit of those
who wish to extend their cnrrant plan
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04

Russian officers have taken soundinps
in the Siberian lake Baikal, which show
depth of $500 feet, with southwark
sinking indicating d probable depth Of
IL 100 feet, whereas the deepest sound,
ing in the Mediterranean is only 6474
feet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
FOR SALE, 80 ACRE FARM

In Claremont N. H., good buildings kesns
cows, and horse the year round Nice lot of trP,|
wood and timber for home USE This il a harry
Ft,Ilce, only $1,000. $500 down long time on bais9
Nice strong soil. Apply at once to
j. =. HASKINS. Real Estate Broke,
Lebanon N II RovL,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
Ggtafes.

HELEN HOLINESS ESTATE -~ -,,Dl
1.-the subscribers, having been
the Hon. Probate Court for the APPOINTED h
donna, commissioners to receive e %s.hd Of Oil.
lust all alicia claims rs and R demands of all per.oS
in said district deceased, representa- Rytg,i'
the term of six months from the 3Ist dsoven an,
1873, being allowed by said Conf V tay Of Arg
itors of said deceased, to exhibit and 10 The cfFi
respective claims before us Give no S Ro,e tle
will attend to the duties of our aDvd that \.
the dwelling house of Abram fT5TSial@at Al
Ryegate, in said district, on tbs y @thil n
October and ND 2sfh day of February a s q
VIM. McLA UGHLNP~
1880 Q. A. WHITEHITT 'Fni
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
FOR SALE,

A number of good Driving Horses, add su4s,
work; and some good secondhand Carriags. ,rs,
and covered also some twO-seated Canine, i'm
sell to suit the times JERRY DPFTr "~
st. Johnsbury, July II, 1878. Er
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08

General Fedor Radetzky, the COM
mander of the Russian troops at the
Shipka Pass, was born in 1920 from a
noble family of the province of Xazan.
and passed almost all his life among
the hardships and dangers of the border
warfare III the Caucasus. He has
taken prominent part IN more than
$50 battles and skirmishes and possesses
three st. George crOsses-a distinction
very rarely met with in the Russian AZ
my. He has moreover during his long
military career won the universal res
pect of subordinates and comrades by
the cordially of his manners and the
high moral standard of his Character.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08
Fencing,

According to United States statis-
tics, worm or Virginia fence costs nine
ty-iye cents, p0st-and-rail one dollar
and thirty-tiye cents, board fence one
dollar and twenty-siX cents, and stone
wall two dollars and thirty-four cents
per rod. This estimate is based upon
boards at sixteen dollars per thousand
and rails at iifty-siX dollars. From the
same source it would seem that of our
fences siXty-seven per cent are of the
kind known as worm or snake fence,
seventeen per cent of post-and-rail,
twelve per cent of board, and only four
per cent of permanent stone wall. The
returns embrace 156 ST ,S21 rods Of
fence, inclosing l6,37i,6il acres, at a
cost of Sis, S34, 494, or at the rate of
nine hundred aud fifty-fve rods to each
one hundred acres. The annual ex-
pense of repairs and interest upon the
investment is Sl9S, S06.1S2. The inter-
est-0earlng national debt, the cost of
our fences and the value of the live
stock of the nation, all figure up to
about the same amount. Each dollars
worth of live stock requires one dollars
worth of fence 10 keep it in order. That
twenty-five per cent of this fencing is
needless and may be dispensed with. is
undoubted. How much of the remain
der would be rendered needless bv a
properly connected system of paSturing
and soiling, it is hard to say.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08
Another Real Estate Claim,

Another claim riyaling the Gaines
claims in New Orleans has sprung up
in the courts. The new claim is like
that of its aged predecessor in being the
suit of New Jersey widow for equity
N real estate, Mrs. Miller, the claim
ent, asking the courts to give her pos
session of $4,000 acres in West Viz
ginia and in Kentucky adjoining. The
claim is based on government title,
and involves a portion of the site of the
city of Lexington, KY, also rich coal
and iron property, the value Of the
whole being estimated at $4,000, 900.
The plaintiff claims to be a lineal
descendant of Martha Washington.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08

In the olden time domestics employed
in Philadelphia wore the cOarsest kind
of garments, and usually gave the most
implicit obedience to the orders of
their master Or mistress. Consequent
iy a great sensation was occasioned
among the guests at a gay party during
the progress of the minuet, when after
repeated rings of a bell by the lady of
the house without any response, a door
suddenly opened and female domestic
in shrill voice informed her mistress:
The more you ring the more Won't
come" This was a decidedly excep-
tional case; but as she wouldn't come,
she had to go.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08

Water is not only an important con
stituent of food but is the carrier of food
into and through the systems of human
beings and animals. 1t forms more
than two-thirds of the whole ANIMAL
body, and is contained in all kinds OF
solid food as well as in the beverages
The following items of vegetable food
contain, for every 100 pounds of sub
stance, water in weights as follows:
Fresh oat meal 5 pounds, Indian meal
IA pounds, wheat flour IA, barley meal
IA, peas II, rice Is, bread 40, potatoes
70, grapes 50, parsnips 81, beet root 81.
apples So, carrots 80, cabbages SO, onions
81 and lettuce So.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08

There is Better Way to Enjoy Life
Than to quietly suffer the miseries re-
sulting from Dyspepsia. If you are dis
tressed with Headache, Nervousness,
Low Spirits, Wakefulness, Palpitation
of the Heart, Costiveness, Liver Com
plant, Pain in the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Heartburn, ETC., seek that
comforting relief that always comes from
using Parker's Ginger Tonic, and you
will be astonished at your renewed capa
city to enjoy life when freed from pain
and suffering. Protect also your little
ones from Cholera Infantum, and your
self and family from sudden attacks of
Collie, Cramps, Dyssentery or Cholera
Morbus, by keeping this superb correc-
tive and invigorant always at hand.
Buy S1.00 bottle from your druggists
JONES & SCHALLERN, or sample bottle
at ID cents, and test its merits.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08

The famous French surgeon Velpeau,
Ike Louis XVI, was an amateur lock-
smith, and took an infinite pride in his
work. One day after performing an
exquisitely delicate operation, as heand
Magne, the no less famous oculist. were
leaving the patients sitting-roosn to-
gether, Velpeau said: Here are five
doors opening into this room. Which
one of them leads out?" Upon my
word, / don't know" said Magne.-
This one, of course; don't you see the
lock is on this side?" replied Velpeau,
and strutted forth, prouder of his dis
play of knowledge than he had been of
the success of his operation.