St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-20
worn by the ladies were estimated to
be worth 81, 100000.
Squibs.

gOrra !" said one OF the Paddles, III tile
haythens haven't got a tunnel clane
through from Chinee, bad luck to thin !"
San Francisco Ne,cs Letter.
A full font of Japanese type com
prises $4,000 characters, and when a
cOmpOsitOr gets twenty-five or thirty
wrong letters in a word, and the proof
reader overlooks them, they are scarce
ly ever noticed by the reader. The
printers case is distributed all around
the big room, and when he is at work,
running from one box to the other, he
looks like an American baseball player
making home run.-NOrristOw Her.
aid.
A Western editor complains of the
extravaganza displayed in the modern
baby carriage-an not without good
and sufficient reason. The modern baby
carriage costs all the way up to 500.
We saved our parents at least $25 by
being born over twenty years ago.
NOrristOaon Herald. ........ .-......
The following correspondence ex-
plains itself: 'Dear Mrs. Jones-please
let me have dozen tomatoes if you
can-Sallie Smith, "Dear Mrs. Smith
we are not going to can; we propose
to pickle = Hannah s."-Keokuk
Constitution.
A travelling tree peddler sold some
extraordinary kind of gOOseberries to a
farmer. Next year when the peddler
that his goOseberry bushes bore cuI-
peddler; "that kind always produces
currants the first year."
A member of fashionable uptown
congregation in New York city called
at a music store and inquired "Have
you the notes of piece called the Song
of Solomon'?" adding, "Our pastor re-
ferred to it yesterday morning as an
exquisite gem, and my wife would like
to learn to play it."-Tribune.
The average boy is not afraid of
work. He will labor hard six hours to
make a peach-stOne ring, the value OF
which is not over ten cents a bushel !;
and will carry trunks 10 hours day
fol- a minstrel troupe, for an admission
ticket worth 25 cents. If the same
boys mother asks him to perform an
errand occupying fifteen minutes time,
he growls and growls, and threatens to
run away from home and become a
pirate.-NorriSto,U Herald.
This summer party of Harvard stu
dents were footing it along the Rhine
and found by inquiring, after a long
days tramp, they had five miles more
to do before they should reach the viii
lage where they wished to spend the
night. Five miles is long distance
after walking all day, and so the trav-
elers thought and said as they rested
by the roadside. An itinerant band
passed that way, brass band, not
GilmOre's,-and a German-American
congress was held congresses are the
fashion this summer,) and it was agreed
for a consideration the band should
play for the Harvard boys the rest of
the journey. Away went the band at
quickstep, and the cOrtege following,
and as they passed through hamlets
and villages the Germans looked and
wondered, and to this day they are
probably wondering who those four dis
tinguished, dusty young men could
have been who marched through their
village escorted by sixteen men playing
on brass instruments. .....
Three hundred apes have attacked a
village in India and elected the inhabi-
tants. These horny-handed sons of
toll only want leader.-Nea0 York
Commercial advertiser.
When Mr.. Thomas hears the squeak
of young porker he remarks, kindly
"a good voice, but needs cultivation
we'll fix all that."-NeU York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
Now this is the way of the world
The Minnesota papers say: president
Hayes will attend the state fair" And
then, under display head, they take
half a column to announce, with over
flowing enthusiasm, that "Rarus, the
king of the turf" will also be there
Why, in those elder days, to be Roman
was greater than king, but now to bC
king of the turf is greater than to be
president. Well did Henry Clay ex.
claim: 81 had rather be Rarus than bt
president" He said right, but then tC
be right is about as Rarus anything we
know Burlington Ha,okeye.
The two Messrs. S., father and son
distinguished lawyers of Boston ar,
noted for quick temper and quick wit
They rarely meet without an amicabl,
passage-at-arms. Last week young S
was making a call at the paternal man
sion, when a cur of his fathers attacket
him, and received kick which sen
him bowling down the staircase. Tn,
noise brought out the old man from hi
lair, and the following colloquy ensued
S. Senior-"W did you kick my do
for ?" S. Junior-''He bit me-"
Senior-"He didn't bite you" S. Junio
81 didn't kick him."
A writer mentions the fact that sit i
the general custom not to use napkin
at luncheon in England" If John BuI
thinks he is ahead of Uncle Sam in sue
matters of etiquette he is sadly mis-
taken. Tramps in this country us
neither napkins nor forks at eithe
breakfast, dinner or luncheon. But w
don't deem it worth Dragging about
NOrristO,Un Herald. .IY4-.. ...
A wag in New York seeing a ma
drive tack into card, through tn
letter t in the word "Boston,n excitedl
exclaimed: ''Why, what are you about
don't you know that laying tar on tt
IN Boston once raised laundering mu.
there ~
ne ouner uly DOy OF thirteen, VIII
looked very innocent and child-like {
lie repOsed under shade tree on Beac
street, reused up when joined by al
other lad of his own age and confiden
ly inquired "Well, did you make oil
servashuns p 81 did, was the repl,
, "And we kin hook the apples and n,
: git ketched, kin we 2" "You wait
minute,p commanded the other, as |
} held an old shingle up to the light I
enable him to read the followin
/ ''notes" in pencil: "Went down /
front of house saw old woman wit