St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Gleanings.


Father Scully of Cambridge forbids
any young woman wearing Changed
hair to enter his church.
1t is said that Carlyle neither read:
nor writes, but lies on a sofa and longs
for death. He will be 80 in December
The Cologne Cathedral is at last fin
ished. The first stone was laid 63C
years ago, and the last one on Satur-
day.
A Louisville (Ky,) man who was
badly bitten by licensed dog has
sued the city for $4,000 damages.
A French woman's millinery bill,
now before Paris court: "Garters
tiounced with point lace, $40; garters
with horses hoofs in diamonds, S1400
garters cassadeuses, S53."
The Elmira Free Press conveys the
shocking intelligence that girl in
Rockford, Me-, had her corset torn from
her by stroke of lightning, but re-
ceived no injury herself. The young
man, however, was killed.
Professor Swing is quoted as saying
that the lank bodies and sorrowful
faces of the Western farmers come
from too much work, too little sleep
and too little good food.
The Emperor of Austria is not in
good health ; he is very pale and coughs
a great deal, and his physician says
that the precarious state of his chest
requires the greatest care.
The last sewer explosion in London
has shaken peoples nerves considera-
bly,. "LOndon has discovered" says
the Daily Telegraph, 'that it is under
mined in every direction by network
of pipes filled with gas which, when
mixed in certain well-known proper
ton with air, becomes at once terribly
explosive; that this net work is divided
off according to the districts served by
the different gas companies into special
sections, and that each section is liable,
from single act of carelessness at any
point within its area, to be suddenly
involved in a common ruin.
Niagara Falls hackmen, the most ex-
tortiOnate of their kind, are greatly en-
ragged because the Canada Southern
road has put on transfer coaches which
take passengers and baggage to any
point on the Canada side for 25 cents
and to the American side for so cents,
tolls included. The hackmen have
charged 81 with tolls and many other
extras and are besieging the Clifton
(Ont.) council to revoke the license of
the transfer busses.
Queen Victoria is the only person
living who officially participated in her
coronation AZ years ago.
A French sculptor named Emile
Jeannin finds that celluloid is admira-
bly, adapted for stereotyping.
Two eggs of the great aux were sold
in Edinburgh the other day for e1O0
and 102 guineas respectively.
Nearly every town has a dsad-beat,
who thirsts for good reading cheap and
this is one of the ways he obtains it he
secures the address of large mum ber of
papers, and a few postal cards; he then
sends for sample copy of your paper,
fully satisfied it will suit his family, and
he will become a lifelong subscriber.
Now, some publishers are fools enough
to forward the copy, paying the post
age, thus allowing the poor miser, for a
postal card, to secure a whole weeks
reading.-Burlington Clipper.
The daily income of the Car is but
the mere trit1e of $4,000. That of
the Sultan is still less-only $4,000.
The Emperor of Austria gets $4,000.
The Emperor of Germany, $500; the
King of Italy, $6400; the King of Bel
GUM, S643.
Among the reports received from the
school committee of the various towns
in the State, by Mr.. Luce, we Gull the
following gem: "a report of the schools
and our Scools for the Past year has bin
A Com pleat Success and Pupils never
Lurnt Better. we have had E1prence
teechears. And our money has Bin all
Expended, one DeestIeact running A
Little Over.n
The highest mountain on earth, so
far as we know, is no longer Mount
Everest in the Himalaya, measuring
9,OO2, feet, but Mount Hercules in the
centre OF New Guinea, which measures
81, ,76S feet. 1t was discovered by Cap
tain j. A. Lawson, who mounted it to
height of 25,3I4 feet, when he had to
return, the air being too rare.
"Col." Ralph Rollins, a confidence
man, died in the Pennsylvania peniten-
tiary a week ago, and word was sent
his first wife. She said she wanted
nothing more of him or his, and his
body went to the Potter's field. Since
then $4,000 worth of diamonds have
been found in the handle of Rollins's
shaving brush, and his wife has at once
put in claim for them, which is dis
puted by a poor creature who was
faithful to the last.
An aged lady in New York, with a
tendency toward insanity, read some
thing i'll newspaper recently about
| Gen. Hancock having once had some-
thing to do with the hanging of a
woman, and became possessed with a
constant fear that if Hancock was elect
ed he would Immediately seek her out
and hang her in order to get her prop
erty. So intent was this fear that she
committed suicide Wednesday by lying
down and drowning in shallow pond
near her house.
Mr.. Charles D. Keep of the Wall
Street Daily News New York; has of
fered a prize of $1,000 for any one who
will fast forty days or more under his
immediate supervision. He has re-
ceived applications from five candi-
dates, and the lists are now closed.
The last applicant contends that he
can fast thirty days without food or
water and twenty days more with wa
ter only. DR.. Hammond has highly
recommended this man, and will, it is
said, give the exhibition his personal
attention. A hall will be hired about
September ], and it is not proposed to
charge any admission. The money
will be paid to the man who fasts the
longest. Mr.. Keep says that he hopes
to get fifty days of amusementC) out