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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13
The Sea-Serpent Explained.

A correspondent writes to Nature as
follows: "On Monday, August 5th, a
number of geologists crossed in the
Folkestone boat to Boulogne to study
the interesting formations of that neigh
borhOod, and, when about three OF four
miles from the French coast, one of
these gentlemen suddenly exclaimed,
Look at that extraordinary object pass
ing across the bow of the steamer,
about mile or a mile and half in ad-
vance of usp On tuning in this di-
rection there was seen an immense
serpent, apparently about furlong in
length, rushing furiously along at the
rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hour
it was blackish in front and paler be-
hind its elongated body was fairly on
the surface of the water, and it pro-
gressed with an undulating or quiver-
ing motion: mirum erGt spectacular
sane. Of course many suppositions
were Immediately started to account
for this extraordinary phenomenon, but
they quickly changed and settled into
the fixed idea that the object before
them be nothing less than the great
sea-serpent himself.
"The writer fortunately had with him
one of Bakers best opera glasses, and,
after a few moments use of this little
instrument, the wonder was satisfac-
torily resolved. The first half of the
monster was dark and glittering, and
the remainder OF fainter hue, gradually
fading toward the tail. The glass did
not determine the matter until the ex-
treme end was reached, and then it was
seen to consist of q mass of birds in
rapid motion /; those that were strong
on the wing were able to keep we'll up
with the leaders, and so make the head
| appear thicker and darker by their
numbers, while those that had not such
power of fight were compelled to settle
into places nearer and nearer the tail.
Doubtless these birds were shags (Peli-
canus cristdtuS) returning to their homes
for the night from the distant waters
in which they had been fishing DUR
ing the day perchance it may be
wrong to assert positively as to the
variety of bird, but inasmuch as the
writer has often seen shags Oh the Cor
nish coast in smaller mum bers returning
in single or double file to their roosting
places, and since it is stated in works
of natural history that they have been
noticed occasionally flying in this pc
culiar manner to the number of Il thou
sand or more, it does not appear all
unwarranted liberty in supposing that
they really were Pelicani cristati.
''It is to be feared some of the geolo-
gical gentlemen still doubt the inter
pretation of the Iorgnette, preferring
the fond deceit of large and unk knOwn
serpent; but as in this case individual
birds lscores of them) were distinctly
seen Tapping their wings, the writer
has thought it his duty to report the
circumstance to you that your readers
who voyage across the seas may keep
their opera glasses in their pockets and
verify for themselves, on the first OPP
portunity, this Interpretation of the
great sea-serpent."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13
What the Fall River Mill Operatives
Read

The young people of the mills gener-
ally read the story papers, published
(most of them) in New York city, and
devoted to iDteIminably "continued''
narratives, of which there are ALWAYS
three or four in process of publication
in each paper. l have read some of
these stories. They have usually no
very distinct educational quality or ten
dency, good or bad. They are simply
storles,-vapid, silly, turgid, and in
coherent. AS the rObber-heroes are
mostly grand looking fellows, and all
the ladies have white hands and splen-
did attire, it may be that some of the
readers find hard work more distasteful
because of their acquaintance with the
gorgeous idlers and thieves, who, in
these hctlons, are always so much more
fortunate than the people who are hon
est and industrious. But usually, as /
am convinced by much observation,
the only effect of this kind of reading
is that 1t serves Ito pass away the
tlme," y supplying a kind of enter
tainment, stimulus or opiate for the
mind, and that these people resort to
it and feel necessity for it in much
the same way that others feel they must
have whisky or opium. The reading
is narcotic, but it is less pernicious
than those just named.
Many hundreds of the older opera
tives, especially foreigners, of two or
three natiOnalities. were reading a pa
per which is devoted to the liberation
of the working people of America. Its
principal literary attraction at this time
is very long serial story of the over
throw of the republic in 1880. This is
written as if the events which form the
subject of the narratives had already
occurred. 1t introduces Gen. Grant as
dictator, and describes elaborately the
character and effects of the terrible
despotism which he establishes, in that
year, upon the ruins of popular govern
ment. He ''suppresses Congress" seizes
New York city at the head of an armed
force and by the assistance of the capi-
talists or '1money power of the ceun-
try, and is about to make himself
emperor, when the working people rise
in arms, under the direction of a name
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Doesn't want to leave it. Wouldn't
work in kitchen or factory. Can here
lie abed till noon. Is by nature shift
less, slovenly, hater of regularity, a
lover of husks. Cares naught for you r
opinion or mine or society's or the
worlds. Lives in Sailor Town always
lived in it; never gets farther than the
Bowery. Never desires to get farther
Doubtful if ever she was on Broadway
or Fifth avenue in her life. Catherine
street furnishes her wardrobe. Doubt
full if she knows the existence of the
Herald, Times, Tribune, World, or of
Samuel Tilden or Roscoe Conkling OF
Tennyson. The worlds famed ones are
blanks to her. Never heard of them.
Such is fame. Catch her working on
vests and pantaloons from daylight till
dark at SIS per week. Society doesn't
offer her premium to get creditable
livelihood. It's rather the reverse.
Not that she breaches this. Doesn't
formulate her ideas in words. But she
practices. What's respectability to
herr She wasn't brought up with such
notions. Reform her7 Can the sloth
be reformed into a gazelle? There's
the whole argument in a nutshell. She's
legitimate production of generations, a
bit of fungi grown in damp and nox-
lous cavern. Set her up in pure air and
sunlight? You'd kill her. The gulf
twlxt her and you is too wide to be
brldged over in one or even two gener-
ations. Had she a father7 Had she a
mother7 Of course. But she probably
pever had the chance to study her gen.
ealogical tree. Has she sisteIs7 Or
Brothers Very likely. But the fam
lily increased in a most unconventional
and irregular fashion. Paternity was a
matter of circumstance. Depraved to-
tally. Hardly fair to call it by that
uame. Was born so. What's in her
was in her from the beginning, and
even before. just as the propensitieS
of tigers and rattlesnakes are born in
them. Still they are perfect of their
kind. So is she. But she's not a dove;
not even o soiled dove. Never was
one, beware how you put her in a cage
of doves under correction. For she is
unsafe. Naturally, of course.
In the den of syrup and soda You
need not long wait the arrival of SLOW
enly, shirt-sleeved, slouchy, low-brow- :
ed man. That's the man of the house.
Keeps order. Keeps it vi ct armis. Is
as pleasant as bulldog socially. Toll
crates no loungers, nor prying curiosity.
If You can't explain yourself, he can.
He'll tell you "to take your hook and
travel" It's best to travel. He's mas
ter of the situation. Money comes fas-
ter than you think to Sailor Town.
Man of the sea, with $40 in his pocket,
puts it in circulation here in four days,
a week, possibly ten days. Hundreds
of them. Rich little placer, this, and
well worked. Unlike the gold fields,
new supplies of treasures always pour
ing in.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

ADvENT-PaddOck Village Elder L. C. g. Mrs
Mcklnstry. Pastors. Sabbath Services at 1890 a
IN. las and $50 p. Sabbath School IL III
Prayer Meetings at 1880 p. m. Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday evenings.
| BArTIsT-Railroad Street, Corner Maple Rev
| E, T. Sanford, Pastor. Preaching 1920 A. M. S
| School IL m, prayer meeting $3.50. Prayer meet
| ings Wednesday evening at 1870.
FREE BAPTIsT-Main Street Corner Prospect
Rev. q. 5. Frost, Pastor. Residence at e. L. Brig
hams, Spring ST. Sabbath services at 1890 A. NJ
and 6:3O p. NJ. sabbath School at 1900 N. Wed.
nesday evening prayer meeting at 730
CHURCH OF THE MEssIAH-( Universalist). East.
ern avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. b. NJ. Til
lotsOn, Pastor. sabbath services at las and $3.50
z. NJ. Sabbath Stnool at IL NJ. Wednesday even.
ing prayer meeting at 1880.
METHoDIsT-Central, street. Rev. E S. Locke
Pastor. Residence head of Summer Street
Sabbath services at 1O:30 A. NJ. and $50 =. NJ
Sabbath School at 1900 N. Wednesday evening
meeting ut 1880.
NoRrH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Main street. corner
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1880 A. NJ. and $3.50 p. M. Sabbath b
at 1880
SoUTH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES street. Rev.
Edward T. Fairbanks, Pastor. Sabbath services
at 1880 A. M. and $50 p. NJ. Sabbath School at
l2;OO M. wednesday evening meeting at 7:30
ST. ANDREw's-( (EpiscOpal,l Main street, Rev.
1880 a. m, and p. m. Holy days and Fridays at
a. IN. Wednesdays at 1880 y. M. Sunday School
at $3.50 p. m.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Cherry Street RevJ A.
BOissonnault Parish Priest. Mass and 10 A. m ,
VespcIs and BenedictiOn at p. m. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. m
and p. m At Lyndonville same day at 1890 a. m
REFORMED PREsBYTERIAN-Avenue Hall. Rail
road street. W. K. Laird, supply. Preaching at
lO;So a. m and 300 p. m. Sunday School at 300.
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How to Select a Husband.

1t has been profoundly remarked,
that the true way of telling toadstool
from mushroom is to eat it. If YOU
die, it was toadstool, if you live, it
was mushroom. A similar method is
employed in the selection of husbands :
marry him, if he kills you he was a bad
husband; if he makes you happy, he is
a good one. There is really no other
criterion. As DR.. Samuel johnson re-
marked, the proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof. Some young men
that seem unexceptionable indeed very
desirable, when they are single, are
perfectly horIid as soon as they get
married. All the latent brute there is
I'D the heart comes out as soon as a
sensitive and delicate being seeks her
happiness in his companionship. The
honeymoon lasts a very short time the
receptions and the round of parties are
soon over; then the two sit down to
make home happy. If she has married
society man, he will soon begin to
get bored, he will yawn and 90 to sleep
on the sofa. Then he will take his hat
and go down to the club and see the
boys, and, perhaps, not come home till
morning. If she has married man en-
crossed in business he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He NAV be
sickly man that she must nurse, and
Il morose man that she must seek to
cheer, drunken man that she fears. a
fool whom she soon learns to despise. a
vulgar man for whom she must apollo
gize-in short, there are thousands of
ways of being bad husbands, and very
few ways of being good ones. Aud the
worst of tits, that the poor silly women
are apt to admire in single men the
very traits that make bad husbands.
and look with contempt or ridicule up-
on those quiet virtues which make home
happy. Men with very little personal
beauty or style often make the wife
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13
business 9irsetorp.
Name, Business and Location of the lead
ina Business Houses in st. JOhnSbury.

Agricultural Tools and Hardware.
HASKELL & SONS Hoyt's Block, R. R. st
ApOthecaries.
Z. c. BINGHAM, No. 5, Bank Block, Main St.
Attorneys at Law.
NJ. MONTGOMERY, Jewett's Building R. R. st.
ELISHA MAY. over Hall & Fletchers Store.
GELDEN 81 IDE, No. CaledOnian Blk, up stairs
Books and Stationery.
HOWARD Il ROWELL, Caledonian Blk. Main St
Book Binders.
g. NJ. STONE & CO., Agt's, Monument Square.
Blanks--Legal and Business.
c. NJ. STONE & Co, Monument Square.
Bakers and COnfectiOners.
CROSS & BRADLEY Main Street.
Clothing for Men ana Boys.
i. 81 T. FAIRBANKS g. CO., Fairbanks Village.
CrOckery, Glass and Stone Ware.
l.. & I. FAIRBANKS & CO., Fairbanks'V Village.
Carpeting, Paper-Hangings, Window-shades
E. & T. FAIRBANKS q CO., Fairbanks Village.
Dentists.
J. L. PERKINS, CaledOnian Block, Main Street.
Dry Goods, and Ladies' Fancy Goods.
.. II. HALE, Avenue Block r. r. Street.
L. & T. FAIRBANKS & CO., Fairbanks Village.
Furniture and Caskets.
HALL Il SWITSER Main Street.
g. A. CALDERWOOD, L. D. o. F. Block
File Manufacturer.
st. Johnsbury File Works, opp Passenger Depot
Groceries and House Keeping Goods.
+. a /. FAIRBANKS 81 Co, Fairbanks Village.
Insurance, (Life.)
T.. e. SARGENT, (lEma,) Railroad Street.
Photographs.
A. CLIFFORD, CaledOnian Block Main Street
Printers and Publishers.
.. NJ. STONE 81 Co, CaledOnian Block, Main St.
Paddock Iron Works.
DANL THOMPSON, Proprietor, Paddock Village
Stoves and Tin Ware.
n. Z. a d. Q. WOODRUFF Railroad Street
II. COWDERY Eastern Avenue
Watches, Jewelry and Toys.
HOWARD s, ROWELL Caledonian Blk Main St
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-13

KILLED BY DRINKING CIDER.-A Gu
riOus case that has just come to light at
Northbridge, Mass, of the death of two
persons and the expected death of two
others, all in one family, from the eff
fects of cider drinking, will reinforce
the arguments of those who condemn
the practice. AS near as can be made
out, the father, aged sixty, the mother,
fifty-six, and two sons, thirty-fve and
thirty-One, have drunk since last fall
between forty and fifty barrels of cider.
The mother was taken with fits six
weeks ago yesterday, and died the next
Thursday. The youngest son was tax
en- with fits three weeks ago and died
on Thursday, and last Thursday the
oldest son was taken with fits like the
others, and on Friday night his physi-
clans gave him up. The father is also
in very bad condition, ''sees snakes"
nearly every night, and frequently gets
up in the night and runs about the
house crying fire" at the top of his
voice, doubtless suffering greatly. No
cause but the cider drinking can be
found.--SprinQtfeld Republican.
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VOLUME 42---NUMBER 2l85.

happy sometimes quite the re-
verse. The number of ways of being a
bad husband is almost as great as the
number of ways of being ugly. No one
can tell from the demeanor of a single
man what sort of husband he will be-
Meantime she must marry somebody.
Eat it: if you die it was sort of toad
stool, if you live it was a sort of mush-
room.-Bat. EUery Saturday.
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.

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North Danville. Arrive $50 a H. Close go a
m.
West Concord and East st. Johnsbury Arrive
800 m. Close 40 D III.
CHAS. p. CARPENTER, I'd, P. M
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Greensboro 1872 Walden LOO, Danville I.21, St.
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st. Johnsbury Gas West Concord l0.1s, Miles Pond
1885, East Concord lilo, arrive Lunenburg, l1.30
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The New York herald., 1879-02-25
GILMORE'S GARDEN.

The third night of the carnival season at Gilmore's
Garden last evening attracted far pleasanter crowd
of people than were present on Saturday evening.
The hall far from being full. as the floor by
no means crowded with dancers at any part of the
evening. and the broad promenade around the pleas
ant dividing line of evergreens only barely full.
There special programme Of dancing but at
infrequent intervals during the evening small
placard displayed in the centre of tho with
the inscription, Waltz" 'Galop' or "Quadrille,"
and the dancers were guided thereby. hilarious
spirit prevailed after the evening was fairly nangu
rated, and free and easy atmosphere noticeable.
Toward ten o'clock dancing fairly began and from
that time till midnight there lack of fun for
those who joined III the sport. Az feature of the
concert strictly SO called Levy played solos on his
wonderful cornct and received full need of applause.
The music by Mr.. Gilmore's orchestra mostly danc-
ing music, was near perfection New York often
hears.
Very few persons were present in masks or fancy
costumes that ii it had not been for these few
very fewit could not have been called masquerade
concert at all. Here and there. however were gro
tesque figures, two of them being labelled, lest any
should mistake the idea of their disguise. Helen's
Babes they called themselves, and few lvelier chill
dren have been seen in public.
The New York herald., 1879-02-25
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

JOHANNESBURG, Pa Feb. a. 1879.
While shifting the mail train south. at this station.
this afternoon. containing about twenty five
passengers left the track from some unknown cause
and fell over an embankment about six feet
high turning its side. Fifteen
eighteen persons were injured among whom
werc Hiram Dixler, of Fayetteville, leg
broken: Rev. DR.. Stewart. Of Newburg, N. ",
arm broken Frank Scheibe. wife and son, of Scot
land, Franklin county Pa, seriously injured; Miss
Miles. Grccncastc, Pa. shoulder bruised; Samuel
Prathcr, Grccncaste. Pa, injured about the head,
not scriously two children of Colonel Jos.
DAWSON, OF Grccncastle. Pa, slightly injured;
Bishop Glassbrenner and Rev. Dulgcr of United Bap
tst church. considerably bruised but not seriously.
Several others received cuts and bruises, but were
able to proceed to their destinations The officers of
the company and the citizens have given every atten-
ton to the wounded and all are wei cared for.