St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-02-01

| MOraI-Parents, Provoke not your
Children to Wrath. When the Hunger
is in the Patience is Out.
A warning to women who do worsted
work is furnished by Mrs. Damon of
Bristol, who came near dying the other
day from inhaling the arsenide of cop
per, with which some green wOrsted
was cOlOred.
An evidence of MOody's influence is
seen in the receipt the other day by a
Hartford firm of $50, which the writer
said was the principal and interest of a
sum of which he had wronged him As
years before.
Frank Millet of East Bridgewater,
the young man who was with GhOurkO's
army in the Balkans, writes home that
on entering redOubt just captured
from the Turks the first rifle he picked
up was stamped "TautOn, Mass" and
the next providence, R. l."
Somebody observant of the ways of
juvenile masculinity remarks that
''when boy does something funny,
and you laugh at it he will invariably
keep doing it twenty or thirty times
more, till you have to knock him down
with something.
How delightful it is, when you are
trying to give your undivided attention
to the music at il concert, to have a
woman behind you vigorously plying
her fan, sending series of shudders
down your spine, and sowing the seeds
OfpneumOnia.
Pliny states that the coffin in use a
mOng the Romans was generally of
stone. In some cases it was made of
Il certain stone from district in Troas
which had, or was believed to have, the
peculiar faculty of destroying all the
body, the teeth excepted, in forty days.
Hence the name ''sarcOphagus," which
literally means tiesh-eater.
The Russian Mennonites in Manitoba
are not proving us good citizens us was
anticipated. They have little regard
for the property of others, and when
this is complained of they band tOgeth-
er and resist the cOnstables.
The largest man-of-war in the world
is now being built ut Castellamare, tia
ly, and is to be called the "ltalia." Its
length is 800 feet, breadth of beam &c,
displacement $4,000 tons, and the weight
of its unarmored hull 5000 tons. Its
bottom is strengthened by bulkheads,
which form 53 water-tight compart-
ments thus making it proof against de-
struction by torpedoes.
Walter S. Harley, the duelst killed
at Savannah, Ga, the other day, was
the second of the family to die in this
manner. A singular story is told of the
family. The father, Col. Harley, was
ii very passionate man, and at one time,
to punish Il female slave ut whom he
had become angry, he sold all her chill
dren. In her grief she cursed him and
predicted that his children would come
to il bad and disgracetul end. Thomas
Harley, the other son, died in duel in
Texas at the close of the war;
Let every vagrant who seeks the
shelter of the town lookup be made to
feel the full weight of existing law.
LaZiness alone is the cause of the
tramp evil, and enforced labor alone
will in any efficient degree counteract
that cause. Set them at wOrk.-B0Ston
Aduertiser.
Cornelius O'COnnell, James Doran,
John Smith and Henry Smith. state
prison birds at Charlestown, Mass, con-
fined in the attic over the chapel on ac-
count of the crowded state of the cells,
bored their way early yesterday morn
ing through door into the store-room,
helped themselves to citizens clothes,
cut hole through the ceiling and,
reaching the belfry let themselves down
with Il rope to a lower roof, from which
they escaped. Assistant Waterman
Townsend has been discharged for
carelessness in allowing their escape.
70 A new series of Esopian phloso-
ply has been started in the New York
World. Here is fragment: "An Oys-
ter, being compelled by sudden De-
cline to close its Shells, hypothecated its
Customers Securities and departed with
the Proceeds. The Starfish, being ap-
pointed Receiver, was by the court al
lowed the Oyster as his Fees, and told
Reporter that he was working Day
and Night at the Books aud thought
that ultimately the Creditors might
count upon receiving Dividend of the
Shells. MOral-The Way of the In
weston is Hard"
The picturesque Californian revels in
the smallest kind of side show. A
house was recently moved from one end
of Napa to the other, portion of the
frame being sawn off and left behind for
the family to occupy temporarily.
Across the exposed front of this shell
were stretched several sheets, and be-
hind the curtain the family lived, moved
and had their domestic being. When
the lamp was lighted, and the family
sat down to supper, Il crowd gathered
on the sidewalk and remained there
until there was darkness within. 1t
was most interesting series of shadow
pictures. The potatoes as they passed
into the mouths looked on the screen
like pumpkins pitchforked into hay
mows, and the spoons and forks were
enlarged so as to represent baseball
clubs and shillelahs. The sons and
daughters of toll finished their supper
and went to bed, utterly unconscious
that they had been illustrating Brob-
dingnag for the benefit of their neigh
bOrs.
A little girl said to her mamma.
"Mamma, have you heard of the man
that got shOtg" "No, child how did
he get shot ?" asked mamma, "Oh.n
said the young precious, che bought
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