St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-03

considered some of the best remedies
were to teach in the family, the churel
and the Sabbath School. End, Pro
testations from the pulpit and press
3rd, By drawing in the non or no-churel
element into Sabbath service.
The Jewish Fair seems to be succeed
ing beyond expectation, notwithstand
ing the opposition of several of thu
officers of the leading synagOgues. L
is held in the Mechanic Exhibition build
ing.
At the 228th meeting of the Society
of Art held at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, President Rogers
reported on the peculiarities OF granite
formation. During the late fire, thu
heat rounded off the corners of the
granite blocks; the corners received
the heat reflected from both surfaces
rounding it; the reason why the dis
Indignation takes place, that the quartz
of these rocks contain minute cavities
full of water, and exfOliatien follows
the great pressure exerted by heat; anC
as we find salt in these cavities, we
know sea-water existed before rocks
In the State of New Hampshire you
find liquifed carbonic acid which il
very expansive. Mr.. Bond of North
bOro', Mass, reported Il new process fol
obtaining cream from milk by sub
stituting centrifugal force, you can ac-
complish in Is minutes, what required
from sc to 10 and IL hOuls by the old
way of gravitation. The process is best
carried on at Il temperature OF 62 de-
grees so as to churn the cream at once.
The milk is cooled by spray of water,
by fans on the outside of the reservoir
the only motion the centrifugal one.
Prof. Hudson of this city, better
known by his edition of Shakespeare's
works, gave a lecture last Saturday
morning in Pilgrim Hall, before the
School of Oratory. 1t was very criti-
cal, scholarly lecture on English Litera-
ture and Art, beginning with the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. He gave quite a
sketch of the lives and writings of
nearly fifty different authors; COM
mencIng with the immortal Shakes
peare, who is unparalleled, he reviewed
in very brief manner many of the
standard authors sometimes he sum-
med up their characters by few add
jectives applied to their names, us Sir
Walter Scott, ''great, ""amiable; :" Shell
ley, "tOo imaginative" "tOo little terra
tirma;" Byron, great talents" ''nO
practical side"-same trouble with most
poets !; Napoleon LIST, 'enough brains
to supply half of France ''and enough
to make as many fallen angels" He
closed with IL grand eulogy on the poet
Wordsworth. The poet Coleridge was
one of his best friends he early recog-
nized the beauty of simplicity in his
writings; his communings with nature
in boyhood were afterwards crystalized
in his poems. Tintern Abbey was one
of the finest productions in the English
language. Within five years his wan
ing reputation has revived and his
works were gaining slowly but surely
and would rank next to Shakespeare he
thought in future years. Books now
lack originality; nineteen-twentIeths of
them ale mere echoes they are not APP
preciated unless considerably diluted,
which is fortunate for authors of an in
teriOr rank. Wordsworth's character
as IA whole was the best
most fully rounded character
taken us a poet and in practical life
for genius is apt to be cratic great
talents are often allied to great faults
or failings. Il.